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How we think about infrastructure, platforms, and European cloud independence.

Pillar Article

Towards European Cloud Independence

The US CLOUD Act gives American authorities legal access to any data held by US companies, regardless of where that data is stored. Here's what that means — and what to do about it.

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Infrastructure Strategy
|10 min read

Your Platform Team Is a Bottleneck — Here's How to Fix It

Product wants to ship faster. Your platform team of three is firefighting. You can't hire senior Kubernetes people. Here's how to unblock without tripling headcount.

European Sovereignty
|12 min read

Building the Business Case for European Cloud Independence

Your board is asking about the CLOUD Act. Your CFO wants cloud costs down. Here's how to build the business case that gets both done — with a framework, numbers, and a one-page board summary.

Platform Engineering
|14 min read

Kubernetes Networking Deep Dive: CNI, Service Mesh, and When You Need What

Cilium vs Calico. Service mesh vs no service mesh. eBPF vs sidecar proxies. The real architectural tradeoffs — not the vendor pitch.

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