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JUN 22, 2026 REGULATORY

Sovereign cloud is a procurement decision, not a region setting.

By Sebastiaan van Parijs / Founder

EU region selection is the first answer most teams reach for. It is rarely the right one. The right questions sit above region selection.

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JUN 18, 2026 PLATFORM ENGINEERING

Pick the driver before you pick the dashboard.

By Maikel Vlasman / Developer Experience Architect

Forty signals on one screen, no driver. Insights and control are downstream of the driver. Pick the driver first.

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MAY 28, 2026 AI ENABLEMENT

LLM production readiness for EU enterprise teams.

By Sebastiaan van Parijs / Founder

Most LLM pilots succeed. Most LLM production deployments fail. The difference lives in four layers pilots never test.

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MAY 21, 2026 FINOPS

Tagging debt compounds. Start with the policy, not the tags.

By Danny Zak / Cloud Solution Specialist

Every untagged resource today costs three times to fix. Teams that enforce at creation spend three seconds. Teams that tag retroactively spend hours.

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MAY 14, 2026 PLATFORM ENGINEERING

Internal developer platform: build, buy, or assemble.

By Maikel Vlasman / Developer Experience Architect

Most teams asking whether to build or buy an IDP are asking too early. There is a prior question that determines the answer.

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MAY 07, 2026 FINOPS

Kubernetes cost visibility is an engineering problem.

By Danny Zak / Cloud Solution Specialist

Your cluster runs at 68% CPU. The FinOps review says €180,000 a month. Neither number tells you which team owns which slice.

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