Weekly Backlog Week 37/2026
**100 billion dollars for an AI company. 18 million euros less for the IT of a capital city. Priorities are indeed a fascinating thing.**
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Weekly Backlog Week 36/2026
Sometimes you only realize how dependent you are when something fails. Or is sold. Or suddenly someone else wants access to your data.
Weekly Backlog Week 35/2026
German companies increasingly view their reliance on US technology as a risk. However, many do not take any action.
Weekly Backlog Week 34/2026
**40 minutes.** That's apparently how long it took for a compromised access to turn into a supply chain attack affecting thousands of organizations. Meanwhile, in Europe, we're still debating how much digital sovereignty is actually embedded in an infrastructure that can hardly function without US tech.
Weekly Backlog Week 33/2026
This week in the Weekly Backlog: OpenAI prefers to wait for better market conditions, Bavaria continues to transfer millions to Microsoft despite open-source enthusiasm, and European companies suddenly discover their love for 'America First'—as long as their factory happens to be in Tennessee.
Weekly Backlog Week 31/2026
This edition primarily focuses on digital sovereignty—from both a technical and political perspective.
Weekly Backlog Week 30/2026
Hugging Face operates the world's largest directory for open-source AI models. Millions of developers and companies use the platform daily.
Weekly Backlog Week 29/2026
This week had it all: open databases, open GitHub repositories, open questions about data protection – and a surprisingly large number of organizations suddenly discovering that digital dependencies might not be such a good idea after all.
Weekly Backlog Week 28/2026
This week, it becomes clearer than ever that digital sovereignty is no longer an abstract debate. While a US Supreme Court ruling once again questions the stability of transatlantic data agreements and highlights European companies' dependency on US clouds, concrete alternatives are emerging.
Weekly Backlog Week 27/2026
This week is about much more than just Cloud and AI: The EU is targeting AWS and Azure, Palantir is once again sparking discussions, and the USA is making it clear that technological supremacy has long been a part of geopolitics. We also take a look at Open Source as a beacon of hope for Europe's digital future and, as usual, gather exciting short news and recommendations.
Weekly Backlog Week 26/2026
While outside the asphalt is slowly turning into lava, the tech industry is once again discussing the truly important questions: How sovereign is Europe's cloud? Do we need our own hyperscalers? And why is everything getting more expensive – including computing power?
Weekly Backlog Week 25/2026
This week, I repeatedly asked myself whether we in IT are actually solving problems or just swapping the names of the problems.
Weekly Backlog Week 24/2026
### The best time to think about digital sovereignty was ten years ago. The second best is after the next Microsoft audit.
Weekly Backlog Week 23/2026
Control over data. Control over infrastructure. Control over standards. And the uncomfortable realization that while many organizations talk about digital sovereignty, they still view their key dependencies as inevitable.
Weekly Backlog Week 22/2026
This week, Europe's tech debate feels like a reality check after ten years of cloud marketing.
Weekly Backlog Week 21/2026
I increasingly feel that Europe confuses digital sovereignty with infrastructure folklore.
Weekly Backlog Week 20/2026
Europe has been discussing digital sovereignty for about as long as companies have been "briefly testing" Kubernetes clusters in production.
Weekly Backlog Week 19/2026
The German Armed Forces reject Palantir because software is no longer just software. Microsoft begins embedding AI visibly into commit histories, quietly altering one of the most important conventions of open source. Europe is once again discussing digital taxes, despite being deeply entrenched in the very platforms it seeks to limit.
Weekly Backlog Week 18/2026
This issue can also be read as follows: Software is no longer just a tool – it is power infrastructure.
Weekly Backlog Week 17/2026
We talk about **digital sovereignty** – and simultaneously realize how deeply we are still entangled in dependencies. Whether it's messengers, cloud, or infrastructure: control is lacking exactly where it would be critical.
Weekly Backlog Week 16/2026
The same pattern everywhere: Things that were "good enough" for a long time suddenly become real problems. Dependencies that were ignored become political. Security that was postponed becomes urgent. And tools that just worked reveal themselves as quite complex power factors.
Weekly Backlog Week 15/2026
Not public, not officially decisive – but close enough to touch the processes that should actually be independent.
Weekly Backlog Week 14/2026
AI is suddenly not just innovation, but a cost issue. Digital sovereignty is not just a strategy, but a contradiction within one's own operations. And Open Source is not an ideology, but a question of convenience.
Weekly Backlog Week 13/2026
While Germany suddenly wants to build data centers on an industrial scale, Europe continues to debate what "sovereignty" actually means – and the USA casually shows us how quickly security standards can soften when dependencies become too large.