Methods over gut feeling.
Short books with a cheatsheet at the end.
IT-Quickies are short non-fiction books (70-90 pages, readable in 90-120 minutes) on one clearly bounded IT topic each. Every book comes with a hands-on companion article that delivers honest value before you ever pick up the book itself. Not a blog — a knowledge platform.
What sets us apart
Not a blog
We don't publish weekly posts on whatever's trending. Each quickie matures for a few months until the method is solid, and then stays useful for at least five years.
Not tutorials
We don't walk you through tools step by step. We give you the method for picking the right tool — regardless of what's hot next year.
Print, not just pixels
Every quickie ships as a paperback through epubli in Berlin — paperback, eBook, available through any bookshop. The article on this site is the short form; the book is the worked-out one.
The series at a glance
GDPR by Architecture
Six patterns for clean data protection in code — data minimization, consent, PII zones, erasure, audit, cross-border. With three diagrams and a worked-through onboarding example.
Linting in Layers
Four layers instead of one mega-linter. Language → format → convention → domain, each individually pinnable. With a worked-through Postgres-operator repo.
OSS Choice by Matrix
Six axes instead of gut feeling for wrap-or-build decisions. With a worked-through GitOps-engine ADR and a cheatsheet for the wall.