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AI Risk Assessment Template: Section by Section for the EU AI Act
An AI risk assessment template is a structured document for recording what an AI system does, how the EU AI Act classifies it, which harms it could cause, how…
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ISO 42001 vs EU AI Act: How the Standard and the Law Fit Together
ISO 42001 and the EU AI Act fit together as a management system and a law.
Fredrik Karlsson
Group COO & CISO
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EU AI Act Gap Analysis: A Step-by-Step Readiness Assessment
An EU AI Act gap analysis compares how your organisation builds, buys and uses AI today with the obligations of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 that apply to you…
Fredrik Karlsson·9 min
AI Vendor Due Diligence Checklist: Questions, Red Flags, Clauses
AI vendor due diligence is the set of checks you run before buying or renewing an AI product: who the vendor is under the EU AI Act , which model sits…
Fredrik Karlsson·What Are the Latest Insights?
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AI Inventory: How to Build an AI System Register for the EU AI Act
An AI inventory, in governance terms, is a register of every AI system your organisation develops, buys or uses, with an owner, purpose, data, risk tier…
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AI Acceptable Use Policy Template: What to Include in 2026
An AI acceptable use policy (AUP) sets the rules for how employees may use AI tools at work: which tools are approved, what data must never be entered, how…
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Embracing AI and ML in 2026: a four-step adoption framework for enterprises
The gap I see most often in 2026 is not between organisations that "believe in AI" and those that do not — almost every leadership team I work with now…
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Platform engineering in 2026: from DevOps fatigue to internal developer platforms
The most common conversation we are having with engineering leaders in 2026 starts the same way: "We adopted DevOps in 2018.
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Snowflake Architecture Layers: How Storage, Compute, and Cloud Services Actually Separate
Snowflake's data warehouse architecture separates three layers: a database storage layer (immutable micro-partitions in cloud object storage), a compute layer…
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Snowflake Cost Optimization: Credit-Burn Patterns and the Six Levers That Actually Work
Snowflake cost optimization works on six levers: warehouse sizing, auto-suspend timing, query rewrite for full-table scans, selective materialized views…
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Azure Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS): Architecture, RPO/RTO, and What It Actually Costs
Azure Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is a managed offering layered on Azure Site Recovery (ASR), Azure Backup , and a tested operational runbook.
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AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) Explained: Funding, Phases, and What Actually Gets Approved
The AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) is Amazon's structured migration framework: a three-phase methodology — Assess, Mobilize, Migrate Modernize…
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IoT Asset Tracking ROI: Building a Business Case for Connected Inventory
Companies spend, on average, $110 per asset per year to track their inventory, equipment, and vehicles—a figure drawn from IoT Analytics' 2025 IoT Asset…
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Continuous Integration: Modern Patterns and Common Pitfalls
Why Continuous Integration Still Gets Misunderstood Continuous Integration (CI) is one of the most widely adopted practices in modern software engineering, yet…
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Compliance Risk Assessment: A Practical B2B Guide
Regulatory exposure is not a theoretical concern. GDPR fines in the EU have exceeded €4 billion in aggregate since enforcement began.
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ArgoCD vs Flux: GitOps Comparison for Kubernetes Teams
GitOps has moved from a conference buzzword to a production requirement for any organisation running Kubernetes at scale.
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Argo CD Rollouts: Canary, Blue-Green & Progressive Delivery
Kubernetes' built-in Deployment resource offers rolling updates, but it provides no mechanism to limit blast radius, gate promotion on real-time metrics…
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Cloud Operations: How to Master Guide: Complete Guide 2026
Modern business relies heavily on cloud technology, making efficient cloud operations indispensable for success.
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ArgoCD Helm Charts Installation for Multi-Cluster Kubernetes
Why Multi-Cluster ArgoCD Matters for Enterprise Kubernetes As Kubernetes adoption matures, single-cluster GitOps pipelines quickly become a bottleneck.…
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ArgoCD ApplicationSet Multi-Cluster Deployments Explained
Why Multi-Cluster Deployments Break Traditional GitOps Most teams start their GitOps journey with a single ArgoCD Application resource pointing at one cluster.…
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ArgoCD App of Apps Pattern: Scale Multi-Cluster GitOps
Why the App of Apps Pattern Exists As Kubernetes adoption matures inside an organisation, the number of workloads an operations team must manage grows…
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AI, Manufacturing, DevOps, and Managed Services. 17+ years across Manufacturing, E-commerce, Retail, NBFC & Banking
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AI, DevOps, Security, and Cloud Solutioning. 12+ years leading enterprise cloud transformation across Scandinavia
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