Your data, your rules - a DataBaas walkthrough
Welcome back to the Wolk monthly newsletter!
Wolk just turned three. In small company years, that’s basically ancient! We reflected on the journey that brought us here and celebrated the occasion with the people that made it possible.
If you are reading this, thank you for being part of the story. Here’s to what comes next!
This month, I brought you:
a DataBaas - the European data platform walkthrough
Open vacancy: looking for a DevOps / Platform Engineer
Wolk turned 3, here is how we celebrated
and other interesting reads
Lets dive in!
Anna
The US Cloud Act enables authorities to retrieve data from US-based providers regardless of where that is stored, putting your stack at significant risk. Just recently, Microsoft publicly admitted it cannot guarantee data sovereignty for its EU customers. That says it all.
But we are working on a solution: our team is currently developing DataBaas, a complete data & AI platform built on open-source tooling and running on the European infrastructure of your choice: Scaleway, Hetzner, or your own preference.
Cas recently recoded an in-depth walkthrough video showing the main features of the platform. Check it out.
Do you want to see it live? Schedule a demo here
We are looking for and experienced DevOps/Platform Engineer to join our team!
This person will play a big role in further developing and distributing our new product and European Dataplatform, DataBaas (www.databaas.eu).
Requirements:
located in the Netherlands
passionate about using technology for positive change
4+ years of experience in a DevOps or platform engineering role
hands-on experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and/or ArgoCD
familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (OpenTofu, Terraform, or similar)
Let us know if you know anyone and share this with your network!
For more information and to apply, visit our website
To mark three years of Wolk, we organized Spring Drinks at our office
The event was exactly what we had hope for: introductions that sparked conversations and reminiscing about the early days with pictures we all agreed to forget.
None of it would have happened without the people in that room (and some who could not make it). The customers who took a chance on us early, the family who pushed us forward and the team that keeps showing up every day.
Thank you for being part of the journey!
Team picks:
Track performance degradations in Claude Code with a live dashboard using MarginLabs’s tracker
Taalas: what if you skipped the GPU entirely and just baked the LLM straight into the chip?
De Volkskrant Elke Dag: Break free from dependence on Big Tech