https://guanchen.nl/atom.xml 2026-08-21T00:00:00.000Z Short articles from Guanchen. astrojs-atom Erwin Kramer https://guanchen.nl/ https://guanchen.nl/articles/systems-that-listen/ 2026-08-21T00:00:00.000Z 2026-08-21T00:00:00.000Z

A view of future systems through data spaces and autonomous operations: intent meets boundaries, action meets feedback, and learning changes what happens next.

https://guanchen.nl/articles/managed-freedom/ 2026-08-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-08-15T00:00:00.000Z

How to choose a European cloud foundation that manages infrastructure without taking over the architecture.

https://guanchen.nl/articles/workflows-that-remember/ 2026-08-14T00:00:00.000Z 2026-08-14T00:00:00.000Z

Choosing a sovereign workflow engine for the rare processes that truly need durable memory, visible recovery, and code-first control.

https://guanchen.nl/articles/gateway-systems/ 2026-08-13T00:00:00.000Z 2026-08-13T00:00:00.000Z

How to think about gateways as traffic boundaries, not only API management products, and where Kubernetes Gateway API changes the model.

https://guanchen.nl/articles/the-api-front-door/ 2026-08-13T00:00:00.000Z 2026-08-13T00:00:00.000Z

Choosing an API portal that keeps discovery useful, definitions protected, and gateway choices separate.

https://guanchen.nl/articles/lightweight-queueing/ 2026-08-13T00:00:00.000Z 2026-08-13T00:00:00.000Z

How to choose queueing that keeps work durable, visible, and close to the system before reaching for a broker or managed messaging platform.

https://guanchen.nl/articles/eventing-with-cloudevents/ 2026-08-13T00:00:00.000Z 2026-08-13T00:00:00.000Z

Why CloudEvents gives event-driven systems a shared shape across brokers, services, clouds, integrations, and teams.

https://guanchen.nl/articles/service-discovery/ 2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z

Why portals still matter, and why open discovery formats like APIs.json may define their next phase.

https://guanchen.nl/articles/observability-by-signal/ 2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z

How logging evolved from text files into OpenTelemetry, and why portable signals are the future of understanding systems.

https://guanchen.nl/articles/federated-api-security/ 2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z

Why secure APIs need identity, trust, and authorization that can move across organizational boundaries.

https://guanchen.nl/articles/queueing-matters/ 2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z

How queues shaped technology, why they matter for decoupling, and where queueing is headed next.

https://guanchen.nl/articles/the-shape-of-traffic/ 2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z

Why the way traffic flows into systems says so much about control, resilience, and the future of technology.

https://guanchen.nl/articles/decoupled-by-design/ 2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z

What the Bank API reference project suggests about independence, trust, and the future of technology design.

https://guanchen.nl/articles/open-source-sovereignty/ 2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z

Why organizations need control over their software, data, and operating model in an unstable world.

https://guanchen.nl/articles/openapi-first-mcp/ 2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z 2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z

A contract-first argument for generating MCP servers from OpenAPI instead of rebuilding integration logic by hand.