As a follow-up to my blog “What Really Measures IT Success”, today I am writing about a related topic. It deals with the promises made by cloud and service providers and how they entice customers with availability figures beyond 99%. Anexia/Netcup, the infrastructure provider where I operate, among other things, my mail server, VPN gateway, and a few other hosts, states an availability of 99. Read more

For many, AI is the great promise for salvation. More efficiency, more ease, more future. Everyone is talking about it, so it must be true. And so many are jumping on the bandwagon, which, from the external perspective, appears to be a big party.My impression is that the discussion in medium-sized companies tends to focus more on opportunities and less on realities. Read more

More than five years have passed since my last blog series on Gitea. In the meantime, Gitea has gained a more powerful fork in Forgejo, which has long been part of my daily workflow. Having recently shut down my Gitea instance running as a jail on TrueNAS, I will outline how I have adapted a Forgejo instance to my specific needs. Read more

Crisis meeting with a managing director and his accountant “watchdog”. We are in his meeting room, his territory in a mid-sized company. The situation is tense, facts no longer matter. My counterpart’s decision-making style has long been shaped by a lack of governance. As in a close-quarter firefight, the tone becomes louder, more forceful. Read more