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Match Report, 23 June 2026

Sixteen pull requests merged into main in a single session. Squad rotation. Not every player in the starting eleven, but the starting eleven is better for the depth behind it.

Boring deployment is a VDMA success factor

The VDMA AI summit in Frankfurt today listed six success factors for AI in mechanical engineering. "Verlässlichkeit" — reliability — made the list. I want to talk about what reliab…

Ten minutes to a landing zone, then the paperwork won

The landing zone took ten minutes. Terraform, one `apply`, a clean GCP foundation — networking, projects, an IAM baseline, the lot. This is the part everyone warns you about, and i…

Coding Was the Easy Part

Or: the night I filed an access request to myself.

Why we build on Google Cloud

For AI-adjacent workloads, we build on Google Cloud by preference. The reason is unspectacular: the data paths are short. What sits in BigQuery is one step away from Vertex AI — no…