Magic Baseline · The Trilogy
Not a manual for the next configuration. A book for the decision before it.
For the moment when “it works” is no longer an answer.
Magic Baseline · The Trilogy
A compact book for the moment before change.
The complete trilogy in one compact edition — designed to stay within reach.
- English edition not currently scheduled
- Understanding · Trust · Responsibility
- German original available in paperback and hardcover
For people responsible for inherited and evolving systems.
Administrators, engineers, architects and technical decision-makers who need to know not only what works — but why.
The moment the book begins.
An exception should be removed — but no one remembers why it exists.
A new product is proposed — before anyone can name the capability that is actually missing.
A colleague leaves — and part of the system’s understanding leaves with them.
Change reveals whether only the state is known — or the context is understood.
If that made you think of a real system, you already know the book’s starting point.
Volume I — Understanding
Why was it built this way?
History, experience, lost knowledge and the value of an understandable starting point.
Volume II — Trust
What is our digital trust based on?
DNSSEC, RPKI, IPv6, encryption, SPF, DKIM and DMARC as parts of a verifiable trust foundation.
Volume III — Responsibility
What must we understand and take responsibility for ourselves?
Identities, keys, platforms, dependencies, data, resilience, knowledge and conscious change.
“Information describes a state. Knowledge explains the context behind it.”
Magic Baseline · Volume I
What should be different after reading it.
Not your system. The way you look at it.
Before changes
What must be understood and preserved?
When trusting
What is that trust based on — and how can it be verified?
During handovers
Not just inventory. Reasons, dependencies and decisions too.
The book does not make decisions for you. It is meant to help you make them on a foundation you understand.
Perhaps you read it yourself. Perhaps it ends up on a colleague's desk.
For the admin who is losing heart.
Sometimes advice is not what is needed. A quiet starting point is.
You do not have to solve everything at once. Start with what you can understand.
English edition not currently scheduled.
An English edition is not currently scheduled. Any future plans will be announced here.
German original
The German paperback and hardcover editions were published on 27 October 2026. View both editions in the BoD bookshop.
A book for a real system already on your mind.
If you kept thinking about the same exception, migration, handover or dependency while reading, that is not incidental. Magic Baseline was written for exactly that moment.