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Nicolas Fränkel is a technologist focusing on cloud-native technologies, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and system observability. His focus revolves around creating technical content, delivering talks, and engaging with developer communities to promote the adoption of modern software practices. With a strong background in software, he has worked extensively with the JVM, applying his expertise across various industries. In addition to his technical work, he is the author of several books and regularly shares insights through his blog and open-source contributions.

✍️ Most recent blog posts

World geography gotchas (2026-09-13)

Years ago, a colleague of mine told me about two pockets of foreign land surrounded by Switzerland: Campione d’Italia and Büsingen am Hochrhein, respectively Italy and Germany. Both are enclaves of their respective country in Swiss territory: An enclave is a part of the territory of a state that is enclosed within the territory of another state. To distinguish the parts of a state entirely enclosed in a single other state, they are called true enclaves.[…​]

Build an AI Agent (From Scratch) (2026-09-06)

Facts 10 chapters$29.29 (at the time of this writing)315 pages Chapters Building your first LLM agentWhat is an AI agent?[…​]

AI-assisted genealogy (2026-08-30)

My son recently came to me to brag about using AI to find our ancestors. While the results were correct, I didn’t learn anything new, as it stopped at my grandparents. I was never very interested in my genealogy, but I decided to see if AI would be a good tool for this. TL;DR: Yes, it is, and even more than that. In a little less than one month, I managed to gather more than 600 individuals and get back 12 generations in some branches.[…​]

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Practical introduction to OpenTelemetry tracing

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  1. opentelemetry-tracing opentelemetry-tracing Public

    Demo for end-to-end tracing via OpenTelemetry

    Kotlin 80 26

  2. morevaadin/More-Vaadin morevaadin/More-Vaadin Public

    Sample projects of articles on morevaadin.com

    Java 78 99

  3. kaadin kaadin Public

    Kotlin DSL for Vaadin

    Kotlin 43 12