Sovereign Meetings with NextCloud and Multi-Cloud Kubernetes
It’s the end of May and summer is slowly picking up. If the temperatures are already making you sweat, your IT infrastructure shouldn’t add to that. That’s why this issue brings you news about our sovereign NextCloud and Multi-Cloud Kubernetes for maximum control over your data.
Of course, the usual blog articles and news from around the web are included as well.
Enjoy the read!
News
Sovereign Meetings with NextCloud High Performance Backend
This month we’ve revamped our NextCloud offering to give you not only privacy-compliant management of your documents and data, but also the ability to hold meetings on a sovereign platform based in Germany.
Our colleague Joshua has summarized the changes to our NextCloud offering - including the new capabilities of the NextCloud High Performance Backend - on our blog. Worth a read!
Blog
Multi-Cloud Kubernetes Clusters with Claudie
In some situations it can make sense to spread your IT infrastructure across multiple cloud providers - for example to leverage provider-specific products or to meet regulatory requirements.
If you want to implement such a scenario with Kubernetes, Claudie might be just the thing for you. In our latest blog post, in cooperation with Berops, we show you how to set up and manage a Kubernetes cluster across multiple cloud providers using Claudie.
Events
Grab Your Last-Minute Ticket for TechRiders Summit 2026
In mid-June we’ll be exhibiting at TechRiders Summit 2026 in Düsseldorf. With this newsletter you have one more chance to secure a free ticket and join over 2,000 visitors, follow more than 100 sessions, and network with the community.
Use our ticket code NETWAYS-FREE to get your summit ticket for free, saving you €349!
We also have a few VIP tickets to give away, so if you’d like to attend TechRiders Summit as our guest, get in touch before they’re all gone.
Reading Corner
This month’s reading list is mostly made up of best practices around cloud and application development, plus the often-forgotten insight that sometimes less really is more.
- Kleon refreshed his knowledge on common pitfalls when working with Kubernetes:
7 Common Kubernetes Pitfalls (and How I Learned to Avoid Them) - Achim is making peace with the idea that sometimes “Nothing” is what’s missing:
“Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work - Dominik is trying to use more AI to develop more slowly:
Using AI to write better code more slowly - Daniel looked at an Adobe case study around OpenTelemetry - here too the focus was on simplicity:
Inside Adobe’s OpenTelemetry pipeline: simplicity at scale - Justin feels validated in his principle of properly configuring deployments in Kubernetes:
GOMEMLIMIT is a gamechanger for high-memory applications
CLI Quick Win
xargs - When Pipes Don’t Work
Many commands don’t read their arguments from stdin - rm, mkdir, cp and friends expect filenames passed directly, not piped in. This is exactly where xargs steps in: it reads from stdin and turns the input into command-line arguments.
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Until next month,
Daniel & the NWS-Team
