Huge source of technical debt

Darryl K. Taft quotes David Mytton, CEO of Arcjet, in »No Code Is Dead« for thenewstack.io I expect GenAI to make building these apps a lot faster and easier, but it’s still going to make a technical mess. Vibe coding internal apps is going to be a huge source of technical debt in the coming years! In the public sector, Low-Code and No-Code are often hailed as a panacea for the growing need to automate in order to help offset demographic change. But this approach is already outdated. The article shows why No-Code is already obsolete and what challenges lie ahead. ...

July 13, 2025 · 1 min · 118 words

Own digital sovereignty

The European Commission wants to gradually shift its cloud services from Microsoft Azure to European providers like OVH Cloud to bolster its digital sovereignty. Details are in the article, unfortunately behind a paywall. Commission eyes ditching Microsoft Azure for France’s OVHcloud over digital sovereignty fears The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...

June 19, 2025 · 1 min · 62 words

Open Nitrate Model

Penpot has recently attracted a lot of attention, especially in the open-source community. Rather than relying on the common open-core model, an eigenständiges Geschäftsmodell was developed for the open-source application: the so-called Open Nitrate Model. At first glance the concept looks like a mix of open-core and free-code approaches, though the exact distinction and how it works aren’t entirely clear to me yet. ...

December 19, 2024 · 1 min · 80 words