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2026 - CW 03 - The one that really kicked of the year 2026
This was the first complete work week of 2026 for me. Last week we had our (from within the OSBA ECO:DIGIT Team) green coding workshop with the BMKUKN and University of applied science of Bremerhaven.
Listening this week
The latest episode of the Oxide and Friends, Engineering Rigor in deh LLM Age podcast discusses the use of LLMs in software engineering / software development. And aside from all the hype and loads of bullshit around that topic, one can’t deny that there are relevant use-cases and scenarios. This episode highlights that and very much resonated with me. Definitly worthwhile listening. Their predictions episode with the 1, 3 and 6 year predictions is also worthwhile.
Podcast-listening wise this week the Software Engineering Radio episode on Modern CLIs with Eric Schaefer was also worth listening too.
SCS in the D-Stack
On Friday, January 16th, a fairly big news items (relating to my work) became public: The first summary of the consultation for the D-Stack was published: Gesamtbild and in the section of Managed Services und Cloud it states:
There are currently no specific standards for managed services. However, it is specified that
[…]
Standards from the German Administration Cloud (“Deutsche Verwaltungscloud” == DVC), OpenStack, and Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) must be complied with.
We’ll see how much this means in reality, however I much rather have SCS being referenced here than not. Obiviously we bring a lot to the table and combined with the input of others this can be leveraged to a really good next level. I’d really like to see how we can jointly work on bringing the “Detailstandards der DVC” with the SCS-Standards closer together. Especially if one looks at the DS 44, DS54 and DS 54 one sees how they complement the SCS Standards for KaaS.
FOSDEM upcoming
The schedule for the Building Europe’s Public Digital Infrastructure devroom is nicely filled with lots of interesting talks. We (the SCS Community) are organizing this jointly with the ZenDiS. As every year, I’m really looking forward to FOSDEM. Afterwards I will be heading to Ghent for CfgMgmgtCamp.
Currently reading
I finally started reading the much appraised “Thinking Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman. Had this on my list for ages. Around christmas I started listening to the audio version of “Empires of AI” by Karen Hao. Am about half way trough and so far it has been interesting.