Clarifying CRA compliance in Cloud Native Eddie Knight and Michael Lieberman did a great job at making regulatory topics interesting and tangible; they spoke about the upcoming EU Cyber Resilience Act, which will come into effect over the next 2-3 years and applies to so-called 'product with digital elements'. Starting 2027, vendors/manufacturers of these products … Continue reading Fourth day at Kubecon London 2025
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Machine Learning Engineer at Mercedes-Benz Group AG
Third day at kubecon London 2025
Keynotes Hans Kristian Flaatten and Audun Fauchald Strand from Norway treated us to some great insights from their journey in providing a central kubernetes platform for the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration, starting back in 2018. After maturing this platform and succeeding in supporting a great number of application teams, they stepped up to deliver … Continue reading Third day at kubecon London 2025
Second day at kubecon London 2025
I've had a great second day at KubeCon (first proper day after yesterday's co-located events), and thought I'd share some of the impressions. Keynotes The day started with an impressive sets of keynotes in an even more impressively-sized auditorium. There are around 12,500 people attending KubeCon Europe this year, and it felt like most of … Continue reading Second day at kubecon London 2025
Kubecon 2025: first impressions
I'll be attending KubeCon 2025 in London this week, and made the resolution to write down some of the impressions. Tuesday, co-located events The first day of KubeCon was about the co-located events (see schedule), and this 'slow' kickoff was already a blast. I attend mostly the one-day ArgoCon, but switched a bit back and … Continue reading Kubecon 2025: first impressions
New role as AI engineer for Alan
I'm thrilled to say that I'm returning to Comma Soft to work on our enterprise AI chat solution 'Alan'. It's a pleasure to reunite with old friends and colleagues which I value immensely, and also to meet so many new and inspiring people. The tech stack at Alan aligns superbly with my background and my … Continue reading New role as AI engineer for Alan
Cookiecutter for FastAPI Projects
I've recently done a lot of reading and experimenting with different FastAPI features, and decided to document that in a cookiecutter recipe for future references. The idea is to use this to bootstrap future FastAPI projects instead of copying bits and pieces from the documentation and from past projects. Currently, this support examples for e.g. … Continue reading Cookiecutter for FastAPI Projects
On learning rust
I've been approached by a couple of people on whether it's sensible to dive into rust, and what strategy they should pursue to learn the language. The FAQ below is based on my impression after a couple of months, and I'm sure it'll be subject to change as that journey continues Q: As a Python … Continue reading On learning rust
Computed fields in pydantic
I noticed that I haven't written anything in about a year, so I figured it would be nice to document some smaller things that I've learned recently. In order to parse a configuration file, I recently needed to compute fields in a pydantic.BaseModel so that the information was accessible not only via the property, but … Continue reading Computed fields in pydantic
New position as data scientist
I'm beyond thrilled that I'm starting a new position as a data science consultant at the Comma Soft AG in Bonn on November 1st. It's been a long process to decide on my next step, and I think this new team and the exciting position offer a unique opportunity to apply and extend my skill … Continue reading New position as data scientist
New paper on large-scale CIB from Planck
We've recently wrapped up our paper on new maps of the cosmic infrared background (CIB) maps, based on data from the Planck satellite. The analysis uses data from the HI4PI Survey to build a model of the foreground dust and hence clean the total intensity maps from that component, leaving on the CIB behind. Left: … Continue reading New paper on large-scale CIB from Planck
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