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Hi, I'm Marc. A Software Craftsman from Switzerland with 30+ years of experience. This is where I share insights from building software and exploring the cloud.

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Apr 5, 2026

AI-Assisted Software Product Development — A Practical Field Report

Practical insights from building a SaaS product almost entirely with AI assistance — from specs and refinement to coding, security reviews, and operations debugging. Plus thoughts on what this means for our industry.

Apr 3, 2026

Integrating Machine Learning — A Software Engineer's Guide

What software engineers need to know about collaborating with data scientists, integrating ML models into production, and the offline vs. online divide.

Oct 8, 2023

Tech stack for hosting small apps on Azure for free

I’m sometimes doing web apps for hobby/personal projects which I like to host online just very low cost or for free. I have the following set-up in mind for ...

Feb 1, 2023

Monitor a pod's container resources in GCP

Recently, we switched to GKE (Google Kubernetes Cluster) “autopilot” with the whole cluster. Autopilot is a feature where Google will manage the required VM’...

Apr 1, 2021

Scale and fix a Azure Service Fabric cluster

After having not quite an easy time fixing our production server-cluster manually I like to write a few things down so maybe other or my future self will fin...

Sep 1, 2020

Order Azure Log Analytics result columns

When doing a Kusto query in Azure Log Analytics the result set (Grid) gets rebuild every single time a query is executed. The default order of the columns is...

Jun 21, 2020

Track SQL data with Azure alerts and dashboard charts

I’m trying already for quite some time to track the result of some SQL query in my Azure Dashboard and even better: trigger Azure Alerts when some condition ...

Apr 5, 2020

Query SQL database using a Azure Logicapp

My goal was to define a LogicApp what can be called via HTTP request, query a SQL database with a select count query and return the result as text on the HTT...