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Open-Source adoption and platform architecture

When do you wrap, when do you build? How do you pin versions without drowning in maintenance? How do you stop the companion layer from quietly becoming in-house build work? This track is carried by Mira Halbach, platform engineer, Berlin.

OSS Choice by Matrix

Six axes for honest wrap-or-build decisions. Includes a worked-through ADR and a cheatsheet to pin on the wall.

Author: Mira Halbach · Release autumn 2025 · Read the article

CI/CD tooling and build pipelines

Linting without MegaLinter, image pinning without regret, CI templates for the mid-market. This track is carried by Jonas Veit, DevOps engineer, Hamburg.

Linting in Layers

Four layers instead of one mega-linter. Language → format → convention → domain, each individually pinnable. With a worked-through Postgres-operator repo.

Author: Jonas Veit · Published May 2022 · Read the article

DevSecOps and EU sovereignty

GDPR in concrete terms, identity without in-house builds, vulnerability triage. This track is carried by Anouk Schierl, security engineer, Munich.

GDPR by Architecture

Six patterns for clean data protection in code: data minimization, consent, PII zones, erasure, audit, and cross-border discipline. With three diagrams and a worked-through onboarding example.

Author: Anouk Schierl · Published November 2019 · Read the article