The IT Blog (locked.de)
The IT Blog (locked.de)
Franz Graf
I'm blogging about IT and Technology in general. Also I publish all kinds of "how to-solutions" that took me a while to figure out - and I hope that it might help other's as well
Latest Posts
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is frequently marketed as a simple solution for grounding AI responses in real-world data. It sounds straightforward & easy: connect a vector database to a language model, pipe in your data, DONE! But...
Mistral AI has published Mistral 3, the latest version of their open-weight language model. The models are available under the Apache 2.0 license and, according to their benchmarks, outperform DeepSeek’s recent models in several key...
Readers of this blog know that I’ve been hosting my music albums in #Navidrome since this year. And I admit: I really enjoy it. I just read “Musikstreaming – Mein Weg weg von Abos und Algorithmen” and I resonate with a lot that’s been...
For years, I relied on Microsoft’s OneDrive — not for the Office 365 suite, but for its 1TB of cloud storage. It served me well for offsite backups and seamless syncing between my computers and phone. I even used the Personal Vault...
Chris Zielecki from Sturmsucht.de has written a good blog post about the Fediverse. Luckily not focused on technology but on users and needs. Few may know, but there is currently a network on the rise that brings back what made the...
If you’ve followed my blog, youknow that I’m trying to get rid of BigTech services — without sacrificing convenience (too much). Over the year I’ve replaced quite some services, but what I underestimated a bit was OneDrive. At first I...
If you’ve ever wondered how to take control of your digital life without immediately diving into the deep end of server racks and command-line chaos, I want to recommend Laura Hargreaves’ latest post, “Self-Hosting for Everyone”. This...
Do you feel that you are too dependent on Big Tech and overwhelmed by the number of services you use? Are you afraid of the amount of work it takes to get out? – I totally feel you! But the best is to just start. Start with one service...
I just read Martin Fowler’s blogpost and foreword to Frictionless by Andrew Harmel-Law. The book’s core idea is simple but powerful: How do we make developers truly efficient? Not by adding more processes, tools, or meetings, but by...
Recently I had the opportunity to test the new Google AI-Video generator powered by Veo 3(.1). The demo was truley impressive and scary at the same time! And then we were able to test it ourselves … While others created cool videos, I...
In Data Analytics, there’s one phrase I hear over and over—so often it’s become a reflex: “We need clean data before we can do anything.” And honestly, over the years I became really annoyed by the sentence. Don’t get me wrong: “Shit in,...
I just read an article on InfoWorld, that Microsoft rolls out Agent 365 ‘control plane’ for AI agents. The description sounds quite well what an enterprise needs in terms of compliance and security:
On October 20th, quite some parts of AWS went down (AWS Outage Analysis: October 20, 2025, What caused the AWS outage – and why did it make the internet fall apart?). I don’t follow thouse outages very intensly, but the last such outage...
When people talk about Generative AI, the focus is usually on: But what I am missing a lot in those conversations are: If there’s a user interface: And the elephant in the room:
For years, whenever someone asked me what I do, I described my projects and activities, like “I worked on a cloud migration, reduced technical debt, refactored systems to be cloud-native, designed environments for scalability, cost...