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In our blog, we take a look behind the scenes, share our knowledge in posts on technological topics and allow visitors to find out more about us and our culture.

What is ArgoCD? And why it can be compared to a thermostat

Classic CI/CD pipelines quickly reach their limits with Kubernetes: deployment transparency is lacking, manual interventions remain possible and cause discrepancies between Git and the cluster. How can these problems be solved?

Welcome to the Kubernetes Hotel: How Container Orchestration Really Works

Anyone navigating the IT world today cannot escape one particular term: Kubernetes. But when developers start talking about Pods, Nodes, Cilium, and GitOps, outsiders often tune out. Which is a shame, because the underlying concept is brilliant and can be best explained using a state-of-the-art, fully automated bungalow hotel.

The 'World Trip' Experiment Succeeded – Why Putting the World at the Fingertips of Top Talent Pays Off

When Marie told us about her plans to travel the world last year, we as a company found ourselves at a classic crossroads: Let a valued and well-integrated employee go—or venture down a completely new path together?

AI in Platform Engineering Day-To-Day Work - A Field Report

AI in my platform engineering day-to-day work hadn't really convinced me yet: hallucinations like non-existent configuration keys or invented features threw a wrench in my plans more than once. A one-day workshop changed my mind. Now I'll tell you what simple tricks you can use to upgrade your AI skills in your platform engineering daily life.

Kafka OAuth 2 Authorization with Strimzi and Keycloak - Part 2

With OAuth authentication in place, the next step is enforcing fine-grained access control. In this second part we configure the KeycloakAuthorizer on the Kafka broker and set up Keycloak's Authorization Services — scopes, resources, policies, and permissions — to achieve multi-tenant topic isolation.

Kafka OAuth 2 Authentication with Strimzi and Keycloak - Part 1

In multi-tenant Kafka environments, managing credentials and identities at scale requires more than static passwords. This first part of our two-part series covers setting up OAuth 2 authentication on a Strimzi-managed Kafka cluster using Keycloak - from broker listener configuration to provisioning tenant clients and verifying token-based authentication.

acend is part of tim&koko

It has been known since last year that acend is now part of tim&koko and [Puzzle](https://www.puzzle.ch/) ist. acend GmbH is owned 50% by each of the two companies. This acquisition allows the existing acend brand to continue and ideally complements the portfolio of tim&koko and Puzzle. With acend, we are expanding our offering with a strong focus on hands-on IT training and creating a continuous chain from consulting to engineering and through to training.

What is KubeVirt? Run Virtual Machines on Kubernetes like containers

Running containers on Kubernetes is now the standard - but many organizations still depend on critical workloads that live inside virtual machines. Rewriting or replacing them isn’t always realistic. KubeVirt bridges this gap, extending Kubernetes so you can run and manage virtual machines just like containers - with the same APIs, tools, and automation you already use.

Annual Review 2025

The year is coming to an end. It’s time to pause for a moment. 2025 was a year full of movement, change, intense conversations, realignments, wonderful encounters and, of course, the occasional celebration. A year that challenged us and strengthened us at the same time.

Strimzi 0.49.0 introduces new stable v1 API version of Strimzi CRDs

After more than 8 years of Strimzi releases the newest release 0.49.0 of the Strimzi Operator introduces the v1 API version. It's just a matter of time when Strimzi 1.0.0 will be released.

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