Weekly Backlog Week 12/2026
This week in the backlog: AWS delivers certificates instead of answers, Germany discusses AI investigations, and Europe once again realizes that it has everything—except consistency.
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Weekly Backlog Week 11/2026
[Schleswig-Holstein. The real North.](https://www.linkedin.com/company/schleswig-holstein-der-echte-norden/) is kicking Microsoft out of administration. [Nextcloud](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nextcloud-gmbh/) suddenly becomes a serious workplace tool in the c't practical test. The [Schwarz Group](https://www.linkedin.com/company/schwarzgruppe/) is building a European cloud with hyperscaler ambitions. Meanwhile, Europe is discussing developing its own social platforms.
Weekly Backlog Week 10/2026
This issue focuses on a topic often wrapped in technical jargon: **digital sovereignty**.
Weekly Backlog Week 09/2026
This week had it all: operating systems wanting to take screenshots of everything. Management platforms without clear architecture. Municipalities with their own sovereignty scores. Corporations swapping US cloud for US cloud—and calling it "independence."
Weekly Backlog Week 8/2026
If you've noticed: The Weekly Backlog looks a bit different. Now even more personal, colorful, louder, and with much more recognition value. Content-wise, everything remains the same: Cloud, power, security, open source, politics. Just served fresher.
Weekly Backlog Week 7/2026
This week has shown one thing above all: **Digital sovereignty is not a strategy paper, but everyday work.**
Weekly Backlog Week 6/2026
2026 is often marketed as a *transition year*. Transition to what remains mostly unclear. In practice, 2026 is more the year when excuses no longer work. Regulation no longer comes as a PDF but as a feature requirement. Security is no longer an IT issue but a boardroom matter. And digital sovereignty? Continues to be preached – while new dependencies are being cemented in parallel.
Weekly Backlog Week 5/2026
This week marks a shift. Away from the question of *whether* digital dependencies are problematic, towards the question of *how long Europe can afford them*. Whether in Strasbourg, Bern, or Berlin: It is becoming clear everywhere that Cloud, software, and digital infrastructure are no longer neutral tools, but **instruments of power**. Those who control them set the rules. Those who use them live with the consequences.
Weekly Backlog Week 4/2026
This week feels like a reality check for everyone who thought digital sovereignty was just a grant program with a pretty cover. Cloud is power politics. Software is foreign policy. And dependency is not an operational accident, but a strategic decision. While hyperscalers rebrand 'sovereignty,' presidents threaten tariffs, and CEOs openly talk about killing, one thing is clear: Europe's comfort zone is over. Welcome to the year when tech becomes definitively geopolitical.
Weekly Backlog Week 3/2026
Digital sovereignty is often invoked as long as it remains **abstract**. As a target image. As a vision. As a strategy paper. However, as soon as it demands **concrete decisions**—different providers, different contracts, different responsibilities—it becomes uncomfortable. This week, it becomes very clear **who truly means sovereignty** and **who merely manages it**.
Weekly Backlog Week 2/2026
Week 2 feels like a déjà vu on repeat. Critical security vulnerabilities, political dependencies, cloud lock-ins – all known, all documented, yet everything continues as before. While conferences on ***digital sovereignty*** are held, productive systems remain unpatched online. While reliance is placed on "proven platforms," prices and dependencies rise. And while authorities often point to responsibility, it surprisingly often ends exactly at their own jurisdiction.
Weekly Backlog Week 53/2025
December 31, 2025. While many tech year-in-reviews pretend everything was a feature release, these last days of the year deliver an uncomfortably clear message: We don't have a knowledge problem. We have an execution problem.
Weekly Backlog Week 52/2025
Christmas Eve is traditionally the moment when you convince yourself that nothing critical will happen this year. The pagers are silent, the deployment windows are closed, and somewhere a "fix after the holidays" is hastily noted in a ticket.
Weekly Backlog Week 51/2025
Anyone who still claims this week that security, resilience, or digital sovereignty are mere implementation details hasn't been paying attention. Or didn't want to. The topics in this issue have nothing to do with zero-days or "highly complex attacks." They are about **valid credentials**, **deliberate political decisions**, and **structural convenience**.
Weekly Backlog Week 50/2025
There are weeks when tech not only makes headlines but causes tectonic shifts. Open Source is losing crucial pillars, hyperscalers are making their dependencies truly expensive for the first time, critical infrastructure repeatedly shows cracks – and while Europe is waking up to security policy, Washington openly uses technology as a geopolitical leverage. In short: The coming years will be less about tools and more about power dynamics.
Weekly Backlog Week 49/2025
Europe has been discussing digital sovereignty for over a decade. One might assume that the debate is now conducted at a certain altitude: sober, realistic, strategic. Yet instead of a vision, we are witnessing a poor reboot of old discussions.
Weekly Backlog Week 48/2025
This week, Europe once again loudly proclaimed 'Digital Sovereignty!'—only to often do the opposite in practice. Austria delivers, Germany holds conferences, Bavaria capitulates to Microsoft, and the EU tries to simplify regulation while opening new gray areas in critical spots. Meanwhile, a U.S. sanctions case shows how quickly a European judge can be digitally disempowered. None of this is coincidental. It reflects the state of a region that preaches sovereignty but still fails to make decisive choices. It's high time to clear the fog.
Weekly Backlog Week 47/2025
Welcome to a week where Europe once again demonstrates how to 1) sell rights, 2) neglect infrastructure, 3) dilute laws, and 4) still believe in being digitally sovereign. Meanwhile: Kubernetes abandons a central component of its ecosystem, the German government suddenly discovers billions in the sofa, and Cloudflare decides to briefly shut down the internet.
Weekly Backlog Week 46/2025
Digital sovereignty used to be a tech topic. In 2025, it's power politics: Whoever controls GPUs, clouds, and networks controls value creation. This week: Pinocchio PR in the Valley, Bavaria hands out loyalty points at Microsoft, the Louvre time travels with Windows 2000, and Munich declares AI training not a legal vacuum. Europe, find a plan, not a label.
Weekly Backlog Week 45/2025
This week, digital sovereignty took center stage in multiple arenas—from administration to research and justice. While Microsoft's DNS issues knocked out half the infrastructure, the Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs celebrated its TYPO3 success as a symbol of state emancipation. The DFG is pulling data from US clouds, the International Criminal Court is replacing Microsoft with OpenDesk, and the industry is calling 'Stop the clock' to buy time on the AI Act.
Weekly Backlog Week 44/2025
Germany, your servers. In the same week that a small community in Baden-Württemberg digitally collapses and the federal login system goes offline, Europe debates "digital sovereignty"—while Microsoft simultaneously learns who is actually in the office and who is just pretending to be.
Weekly Backlog 43/2025
This week demonstrated how interconnected the modern world is—technically, economically, and politically. A DDoS attack on the federal procurement portal halted public tenders, an attack on F5 opened a window into the engine room of global network security, and AWS once again showed that "Multi-AZ" is not a backup plan.
Weekly Backlog Week 42/2025
This week was a fever dream. From Localmind to Aleph Alpha, from SonicWall to GitHub – the same pattern everywhere: big promises, thin architecture, and a deep misunderstanding of what control really means. If we continue to believe that security is created through marketing, and if US companies continue to believe that trust is a subscription model - then 2025 will be a year of disenchantment.
Weekly Backlog 41/2025
**Digital Identity, Sovereign Administrations, and the Unbreakable Inertia of German Digitalization**