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9 posts tagged with "Infrastructure"

Articles about building, operating, and evolving technical systems and networks.

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Qwen3.8-27B: a frontier-class model you can actually own

· 15 min read
Christian Rieger
The Architect of Innovation & Automation

On 14 August 2026 Alibaba published the open weights for Qwen3.8-27B under Apache 2.0. 27 billion parameters, natively multimodal, 262K context out of the box. That is a model good enough for daily work and small enough to run on a single machine you own, which is a combination we have not had before.

Multifactor Authentication – Annoying or Essential?

· 4 min read
Manuel Weber
Customer Strategist & Enabler

Almost every modern website today offers some form of Multifactor Authentication (MFA): whether it’s a TAN code via SMS, a time-based one-time password (TOTP) from Google Authenticator, or a digital signature as we know it from banking apps.

The goal is always the same: extra security when logging in. But why is a password alone no longer enough?

Why YAML is not the Solution for Infrastructure as Code

· 4 min read
Manuel Weber
Customer Strategist & Enabler

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has become an indispensable part of modern IT infrastructures. Tools like Ansible, Kubernetes is a system for managing containerized applications – automated, scalable, and fault-tolerant. Learn more →, and CloudFormation often rely on YAML – a format that initially impresses with its readability.

Nushell next generation shell

· 8 min read
Christian Rieger
The Architect of Innovation & Automation

Since the dawn of time, Linux is the operating system almost every professional server infrastructure runs on – independent of what language your software is written in. Learn more →/unix shells are mostly posix compatible. While being widely used, posix compatible shells share the same limitations and bad design decisions. Posix shell scripting can lead to unexpected errors and systemfailures if not executed correctly.