Stefan Besling

“Efficiency and transformation are really changing the way we are working.” That’s how Helmut Schuller, Managing Director at @SCHULLER & Company GmbH, summed up the momentum we’re seeing across industries. As one of our long-standing partners, he joined us at #AVEVAWeek 2025 to share how joint projects with AVEVA are helping customers modernize operations and unlock new potential. 🤝 Hear more about how strong partnerships drive real-world innovation—with measurable impact.

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I’m excited to share that I’ve been invited to speak at this year’s workshop of the German Interest Group in Operating Systems (https://lnkd.in/d2WGUQM3), hosted by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf on 26/27 February. In my talk, “Using AI to Fight GenAI Fraud at Scale,” I’ll explore how generative AI is reshaping the fraud landscape — from synthetic identity creation to industrial-scale deepfake attacks — and what it takes to defend against it effectively. Beyond detection models, I’ll dive into the engineering side: what enterprise-ready, cloud-native architectures must look like to handle millions of verifications per day, process billions of events per month, and scale dynamically while maintaining reliability and observability. Looking forward to discussing the intersection of AI and large-scale systems with the operating systems community.

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🔹 You’re experienced in software development and want to get started with Catena-X? 🔹 Dataspace OS was built with developers and system architects like you in mind. Instead of navigating complex specs and architecture documents, you can start integrating right away. What’s included: - A complete EDC-based runtime (Eclipse Dataspace Components connector – the mandatory standard for secure, policy-controlled data exchange in Catena-X) - BPN integration (Business Partner Numbers – your unique identifier within the Catena-X ecosystem) - Secure data exchange workflows - Clear REST APIs, system logs, and powerful admin tools - Integration with Identity Wallet via EDC, supporting DIDs, Verifiable Credentials, and OAuth2-based credential verification - A library of pre-developed extensions to help you add features fast – no need to start from scratch If you're technical but new to Catena-X, Dataspace OS is your shortcut. No reverse engineering. No delays. Just everything you need to start. 💡 Explore more: https://lnkd.in/edvTYsiN

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With the help of Rocket Software, private health insurer SDK - Süddeutsche Krankenversicherung a. G. was able to modernize its #mainframe infrastructure to improve analytics and decision-making. As a result, SDK achieved 99.9% uptime, 50% faster project completion, and 75% reduced training time. Watch how Rocket® Data Replicate and Sync (RDRS) transformed their operations, and learn more here: https://brnw.ch/21wWg8e

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TYPO3 CMS Migration framework In 2025 I worked on a big migration and upgrade project. It was a website based on TYPO3 CMS, that needed a major technical overhaul. During the upgrade process I migrated over 100 content elements from DCE to Content Blocks and Container. On the TYPO3camp Hamburg 2025 I presented my approach to a handful of people. Some of them approach me afterwards asking about a similar migration for Flux based content elements. Matthias Krappitz put in some effort and found 4 companies including his own to sponsor the development of the Flux to Content Blocks migration. The result is not only a Flux to Content Blocks migration. It is an extensible migration framework for content element migration. The core uses Content Type Providers, that provide normalized configuration and data of the source content elements, Content Type Builders, that build the configuration for the target content type and Record Data Migrators, that take the source data and return the data structure for the new content type. Based on the structure it is possible to migrate from one content element strategy to another. It would even be possible to migrate plugins or core content elements with this, if someone built content type providers for that. Currently there are extension with Content Type Providers for DCE and Flux available, as well as Content Type Builders for Content Blocks and Container: * https://lnkd.in/eg-pirJD: Migrator core * https://lnkd.in/ezGYBXnw: DCE Content Type Provider * https://lnkd.in/eRkUDCPx: Flux Content Type Provider * https://lnkd.in/etgSH_qZ: Content Blocks Content Type Builder * https://lnkd.in/etiDADVs: Container Content Type Builder If you think this could be relevant for you, please start with reading the documentation (README) of the migrator core, as it describes the core concepts and components. If any questions arise please message me here on LinkedIn or send me an email to thorben@webcoast.dk. This the first version, which still needs some testing. So if you're interested, please give it a try an provide feedback. A big thank you goes to aemka, Apart Design Studio, Homepage Helden GmbH and Henrik Ziegenhain for sponsoring the development. Another thank you goes to Nikita Hovratov (https://lnkd.in/efiDk59H) for his work on Content Blocks and b13 GmbH for their container extension. #typo3 #cms #dce #flux #contentblocks #container #sponsor #community #opensource

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Productization of custom specific SW solutions to maximize revenue is a challenge for any SW development company. 1. The ERP tool used does not allow flexible handling of services, also because of revenue recognition, hence productization is the path to go. 2. Instead of addressing the shortage of subject matter experts able to design, specify and deliver custom specific solutions, productization along with data sheets and full product. Isn't it that Customization and Productization are mutually exclusive? Please also read the comments, they are worth it.

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Most industrial pricing still runs on a calendar. Once a year, teams disappear into spreadsheets. Prices go up. Or don't. And for the next 12 months, everyone lives with the consequences. But markets don't wait! That's why we built MP ONE. MP ONE is not another pricing tool. It's a continuous system that connects what's happening in your market, the decisions you make, and the results you actually get. Three engines. One loop: Intelligence > see what's really changing Decision > act with structure and traceability Performance > know what it delivered Because pricing shouldn't be an annual exercise. It should be a performance discipline. We believe this shift will define the next decade of aftermarket growth. Take a look: https://lnkd.in/dquHgb4m #MPONE #PricingPerformance #Manufacturing #Aftermarket

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At my company we are currently experimenting 🧪 a lot to use AI for coding in more autonomous ways 🤖. With Cline we are achieving quite remarkable results so far and a lot of coworkers are astonished by the possibilities 🤯. In my opinion the AI space is such a fast paced environment that the most valuable learnings are different techniques, how to effectively use LLMs in the Coding lifecycle. And not get hung up over one tool over another. For example: - ⛓️‍💥 Breaking down bigger problems into smaller chunks, ideally cut vertically - 📸 Using state or context checkpoints to avoid repetitive common groundwork - ❓Make the model ask questions about the task to get deeper understandings apart from the visible context ... That list is not ordered and it's just a bunch of things that I use for my work. The hard part is having the whole company communicate about all the new learnings effectively so that these techniques are known to everyone! Your thoughts?

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𝗔 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗹 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺 ⸻ I recently saw a hotel quietly solve a scaling problem… and most people didn’t even notice. ⸻ I was staying at a cozy mountain resort. Cold weather, beautiful views, and a restaurant with a big outdoor terrace. But since it was still winter, everyone was eating inside. Which meant one thing. Breakfast rush. Timing was 7–10 AM. Reality? Almost everyone showed up around 9–10. You can guess what that looks like. Crowded tables. Slow service. People waiting around. But this place felt… surprisingly smooth. ⸻ Later I realized why. Before check-in, they had sent a simple message: “Please choose your preferred breakfast slot.” • 7–8 • 8–9 • 9–10 We picked 8–9. And the next morning, without thinking twice… we showed up exactly then. No one forced us. But we still followed it. ⸻ There was one more subtle detail. Small notes around the restaurant: “If you’re planning to come between 9–10, please expect some delay.” Not a warning. Just setting expectations. ⸻ And that’s when it clicked. They didn’t try to increase capacity. They shaped behavior. They didn’t scale the system. They scaled human behavior. • Spread demand before peak • Let users self-regulate • Made delays feel acceptable All without adding complexity. ⸻ This is system design in real life. We often jump to scaling: More servers. More infra. More cost. But sometimes the better question is: Can I influence the load before it hits the system? ⸻ Because the best systems don’t just handle traffic. They influence it. #SystemDesign #Scalability #Engineering #DistributedSystems #ProductThinking

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Another podcast from Gehtsoft USA LLC CEO Ivan Gekht on working in high-stakes situations where clarity is limited but decisions cannot wait. The discussion touches on something many leaders face: conflicting requirements, pressure to move fast, and incomplete information. Instead of trying to satisfy everything at once, the focus is on reducing scope to what truly affects the outcome. TRIZ/TIPS are used not as a theory for its own sake, but as structured ways to analyze contradictions and treat them as design problems rather than obstacles. The best part of TRIZ/TIPS is that when requirements appear to conflict, that tension often signals where innovation is possible. The task is not to compromise blindly, but to understand the system well enough to redesign it. If you are interested in exploring how approaches like Amplio or TRIZ can help identify bottlenecks and uncover innovation opportunities in your business, I am open to a conversation. #cto #ctox #triz #tips #amplio #toc #gehtsoft

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Lessons from 10 years of Platform Engineering with Kris Buytaert. The principles aren't new, but the key to successful self-service still comes down to communication. Great retrospective! #PlatformEngineering #DevOpsCon #DevOps #munich

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🚀 Rolling out collaboration devices at scale can be a real challenge: ➡️ How do you provision consistently across locations? ➡️ How do you keep firmware and policies aligned? ➡️ How do you manage devices proactively instead of firefighting That’s exactly where Poly Lens comes in. From onboarding (PIN, DHCP, Lens App) to provisioning and management, Lens gives IT teams the visibility and control they need. I’ve summarized the key features, licensing models, and onboarding options in my latest blog post. 👉 Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/e4pkyfQc #PolyLens #MicrosoftTeamsRooms #HPPoly #DeviceManagement #UC #AskUwe #FragUwe #TechBytes Mark Cupid Kai Schwerdtner Marcel Ecke Matthias Schomborg Steffen Baier Dominique Perret Dr. Fritjof Lemân Adriano De Vivo Kristijan Kocijan Jan Zoetemelk Sascha Spuehler Armin Kuhn Sascha Fredrich Jonathan Clark Jens Schneider Vincent Dal Kevin Plechinger Bennet Bretschneider Ragnar Heil Franziska Scholz Anton Luft Lars Berlau Arik Jung Lucas Wald Robbi Teichfischer Tomas Kriz Piotr Mazurek Giuseppe (Joey) Basirico Michael Ott Thomas Rösgen Thomas Birkner 🎧🎼 Michael Reischer Florian Hoffknecht Zack SAIDI Giangi Galeazzi Rolf Deck

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I recently met the owner of an IT company in Austria to discuss AI transformation, for customers as well as within the organization. The intent was right. The urgency was real. But as the conversation went on, it became clear that speed alone wasn’t the problem. In a few areas, personal preferences and familiar ways of thinking were quietly shaping what was being expected from AI, now supported by new technology. A few simple questions changed the direction of the discussion. Not by slowing things down, but by helping both of us see things more clearly. What made the real difference wasn’t a framework or a roadmap. It was the willingness to listen. And that leaves an uncomfortable question: are we transforming the Organization… or just moving faster in the same direction as before? #Leadership #Transformation #Mindset #Listening #AITransformation #LeadershipDevelopment #ChangeManagement

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A year ago, one tweet changed a word. The word changed an industry. The industry is changing what it means to build. Andrej Karpathy coined "vibe coding" in February 2025 — describe what you want, accept the AI's output, just trust it. By year's end it was Collins Dictionary's Word of the Year. By February 2026, Karpathy had already declared it passé and rebranded it "agentic engineering." That conceptual arc — from throwaway weekend project to funded startup to orchestrated agent workflow in twelve months — is the subject of Episode 9 of the Emergent Podcast. Nick Baguley and I pull back the curtain on our actual workflows, wrestle with the empirical puzzles (the METR study found experienced developers are 19% slower on mature codebases using AI — and yet here we are, unable to sleep because we have too many ideas and not enough hours), and follow the thread all the way down to where it lands: when code becomes free and ephemeral, the scarce resource isn't implementation. It's judgment. It's the systems-level thinking that knows what should be built, for whom, and why. We end up, as this podcast tends to, somewhere we didn't entirely expect — at David Chalmers' hard problem of consciousness and the argument that alignment, at every scale, requires something irreducibly more than an objective function. The Age of Inflection keeps accelerating. Episode 9 is our attempt to stay oriented inside it. https://lnkd.in/g4Nt5Pqk #AI #VibeCoding #AgenticEngineering #FutureOfWork #EmergentPodcast

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Want to integrate systems without turning your architecture into a spaghetti mess? “𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗗𝗗” is a hands-on workshop where 🐝Karol Skrzymowski and Philipp Kostyra show how to use Domain-Driven Design to design integrations that actually match business domains - not just “connect system A to B”. You’ll work through real scenarios and leave with practical skills:  • trade-off analysis of integration options,  • focusing on key quality attributes (time-to-market, extensibility, composability),  • justifying architectural decisions with business reasoning,  • choosing the right ecosystem style: 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁-𝘁𝗼-𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁, 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁-𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻, 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆, 𝗔𝗣𝗜-𝗹𝗲𝗱. Expect interactive exercises, discussion, and patterns you can take straight into real projects. #PolishDreamin26 #Architecture #Integration #DDD #DomainDrivenDesign #EAI #APILed #EventDriven #EDA #Microservices #SystemsDesign #SolutionArchitecture #Tradeoffs #TechWorkshop #TrailblazerCommunity #SalesforceCommunity #Wroclaw #TechConference

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Social data in the cloud — is it possible? Yes. ✅ Binect GmbH delivers a secure output management solution for AOK Niedersachsen on the T Cloud Public. Processing over 20 million documents per year, AOKN needed a scalable and compliant alternative to its on-prem setup. With German-based operations, strong certifications (incl. BSI C5 Type 2) and approval for handling social data under §35 SGB I, T Cloud Public was the right fit. The result: greater reliability, faster issue resolution, improved UX, and clear cost benefits. Today, Binect runs its SaaS solutions for 40+ customers in the T Cloud Public. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dJ3iBi7d #TSystems #TCloud #CloudComputing

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if you think #Rust is still a niche programming language only for hobbiest, you need to catch up on the news. Ubuntu is replacing the `sudo` implementation with a Rust version. You cannot go more mainstream and security critical than this!

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How CID GmbH drives digital innovation with Kubernetes automation. 🚀 Standardizing infrastructure is the first step toward true scalability. At #CDS25, we spoke with Rouven Loerch, General Manager at CID GmbH, about their cloud-native journey. In this interview, Rouven breaks down how CID is using Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform (KKP) to: ✅ Modernize Infrastructure: Moving from legacy setups to agile, cloud-native systems. ✅ Standardize Operations: Managing multiple environments with a unified approach. ✅ Accelerate Delivery: Freeing up teams to focus on innovation rather than cluster maintenance. If you are a tech leader looking to streamline your cloud strategy, this is a must-watch. 📺 Watch the full interview: https://hubs.li/Q03VbDGv0 #Kubernetes #DigitalTransformation #CloudNative #Leadership #CID #Kubermatic #Automation

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