Methods over gut feeling.
Short books with a cheatsheet at the end.
IT-Quickies are short non-fiction books — 70 to 90 pages, readable in 90 to 120 minutes. Every book has a hands-on companion article on this site that delivers honest value before you pick up the book itself. Not a blog, a knowledge platform.
What sets us apart
Not a blog
We don't publish weekly posts driven by tactical relevance. Each quickie matures for a few months until the method is solid, and then stays useful for at least five years.
Not tutorials
We don't walk you through tools step by step. We give you the method for picking the right tool — regardless of what's hot next year.
Print, not just pixels
Every quickie ships through Chameleon Books — paperback and eBook, with an ISBN, orderable from any bookshop. The article on this site is the short form; the book is the worked-out one.
The series at a glance
GDPR by Architecture
Six patterns for clean data protection in code — data minimisation, consent, PII zones, erasure, audit, and cross-border. With three diagrams and a worked-through onboarding example.
Linting in Layers
Four layers instead of one mega-linter. Language, format, convention, domain — each individually pinnable, all in parallel. With a concrete Postgres-operator repo as a worked example.
OSS Choice with a Matrix
Six axes instead of gut feeling for wrap-or-build decisions. With a worked-through GitOps-engine ADR and a cheatsheet for the wall.