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Interview Series: Joshua Hartmann on Managed Services & AI

Interview Series: Joshua Hartmann on Managed Services & AI

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Every story begins with people who make a difference. In our interview series, it is precisely these people who have their say: NWS employees who share their experiences, ideas and insights with us. We want to know what drives them and what we can all learn from them. We continue our interview series with Joshua Hartmann, Systems Engineer. What is your role at NETWAYS Managed Services, and what are your responsibilities? I work on the SaaS team at NETWAYS Managed Services, where I’m...

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Virtual Private Cloud: A Secure Network in the Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud: A Secure Network in the Cloud

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Every request you send in an app, every backup that runs overnight, every API call between two microservices: Behind all of this is a network that reliably and securely moves data from point A to point B. Although this network is invisible in the cloud, it determines...

Assessing Cloud Readiness: Your Practical Checklist

Assessing Cloud Readiness: Your Practical Checklist

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Many companies opt for the cloud, provision their first resources, and then realize a few weeks later that the application isn’t scaling as hoped, the team is overwhelmed by operations, and no one really feels accountable. The problem rarely lies with the technology....

GitOps in Practice: GitOps with ArgoCD and Flux

GitOps in Practice: GitOps with ArgoCD and Flux

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GitOps with ArgoCD and Flux has established itself as the standard approach to continuous delivery on Kubernetes. At NWS, for example, we use ArgoCD to operate the NETWAYS Cloud. Both tools are CNCF Graduated projects, but they follow different philosophies. The...

Cloud Storage: Block, File, and Object Storage Explained

Cloud Storage: Block, File, and Object Storage Explained

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You want to store something in the cloud, and suddenly you’re faced with three terms that all seem to mean the same thing: block storage, file storage, and object storage. It might sound like splitting hairs, but this decision will ultimately determine whether your...

Observability & Monitoring in Modern Cloud Environments

Observability & Monitoring in Modern Cloud Environments

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Your deployment runs smoothly, everything in the dashboard is green, and yet the first users are already reporting slow load times. Welcome to the day-to-day reality of modern cloud environments. Whereas in the past a single server was either up or down, today you...

Managed Cloud Services: What Are They?

Managed Cloud Services: What Are They?

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If you run an application in the cloud, you usually only see a small part of it: your dashboard, your deployments, and maybe a few charts. What you don’t see is what really makes a managed cloud service stand out. For example, monitoring systems that run around the...

Pod Security Standards in Kubernetes

Pod Security Standards in Kubernetes

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It has been over five years since Pod Security Policies (PSP) in Kubernetes were replaced by the newer Pod Security Standards (PSS). One of the main reasons for this major change was to simplify management - and yet, even today, Pod Security Standards are still far...

Kubernetes Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

Kubernetes Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

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Kubernetes is now the standard for modern container orchestration. Companies benefit from scalability, automation, and a high degree of flexibility. But it is precisely this complexity that often leads to common operational errors. Many of these problems aren’t caused...

GDPR & cloud: what is really important

GDPR & cloud: what is really important

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The use of cloud technologies has long since become the standard in today's world. At the same time, however, the responsibility to protect personal data is growing. This is precisely where the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into play. It defines...

Backup & recovery in the cloud

Backup & recovery in the cloud

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The easiest way to get started: the cloud as secure data storage with minimal effort. For many companies, getting started in the cloud initially seems complex: migrations, new architectures, changed processes. However, there is one area that deliberately sets itself...

The most important terms explained in the cloud glossary

The most important terms explained in the cloud glossary

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Cloud computing forms the basis of modern IT infrastructures. You will come across countless technical terms, especially when getting started - from API to disaster recovery to virtual machines. In this comprehensive cloud glossary, I explain the most important terms...