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📢 Event Update | AWS Infrastructure Essentials ☁️

Our AWS Infrastructure Essentials session has been rescheduled!

📅 New Date: 8 November 2026
🕖 Time: 7:00 PM onwards
💻 Venue: Online

🎤 Session by Shamika Shehan
Associate Architect at Kaya
Kubestronaut & AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Join us to learn AWS fundamentals and build a strong foundation in cloud computing. 🚀

Thank you for your understanding. We look forward to seeing you there!

#AWSSBGUSJ #AWSCloud #CloudComputing #EventUpdate

Join us on November 9-10, 2026 in Frankfurt, Germany, where industry leaders, technology innovators, and decision-makers will come...

In the digital age, AI always on, and data centers never off. As rack power moves toward 600 kW and cooling accounts for up to 40% of total energy consumption, the data center industry faces an unprecedented challenge: delivering uninterrupted, efficient operations for the explosive growth of Generative AI. Traditional air cooling is reaching its limits, regulatory frameworks across Europe demand greater sustainability, and ultra-high-density computing is reshaping every aspect of data center design—this is where the future of thermal management is forged.

Join us on November 9-10, 2026 in Frankfurt, Germany, at the Europe Data Center Cooling and Thermal Management Forum – where industry leaders, technology innovators, and decision-makers come together to shape the next generation of resilient, efficient, and scalable cooling solutions for the AI era.

��25+ expert speakers–real conversations, real case studies

��20+ deep-dive sessions across 2 days

��200+ attendees across the value chain

��10+ hours of dedicated networking with decision-makers

Our agenda spans the entire thermal ecosystem–from chip-level emulation and liquid cooling architectures to site selection, waste heat recovery, and grid constraints. What you will learn:

1, Scale Liquid Cooling–From Direct‑to‑Chip and immersion to hybrid architectures–real-world deployment strategies.

2, Optimize PUE & WUE–Practical approaches to reduce energy and water usage while meeting tightening EU regulations (EnEFG, 42nd BImSchV).

3, Retrofit for AI Workloads–How to upgrade legacy air‑cooled facilities for high‑density GPU computing using CFD and modular designs.

4, Unlock Waste Heat Revenue–Integrate data center heat recovery into urban energy systems–turning a cost into a profit center.

5, Prepare for Next‑Gen Chips–Thermal challenges of 1800W‑2000W class processors and how to design“liquid‑first”infrastructure.

6, Navigate Grid & Water Constraints–Site selection, power availability, and resilience planning for extreme weather and capacity expansion.

This forum gathers a high-level audience across the ecosystem. Already confirmed delegates include:

AtlasEdge, Data4, Vantage Data Centers, Green Mountain, Telehouse, Maincubes, Mainova WebHouse, GreenScale, Kevlinx, nLighten, STACK Infrastructure, Yondr, Portus Data Centers, Apple ApS, Daikin, Danfoss, ebm-papst, HYDAC, Rittal, Wilo, Siemens, ABB, Eaton, Nidec, Atlas Copco, Sensata Technologies, Vaisala, Endress+Hauser, Shell, Molex, Johnson Controls, INWATEC GmbH & Co. KG, DYNACAST, Yokogawa, Nalco Danmark ApS, API Heat Transfer, Grundfos GmbH, E+E Elektronik Deutschland GmbH, Watson Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, DBI Plastics Group A/S, Salute

…and many more. Full list available on the event website.

For more information and registration, contact the organizing team or visit the official event website.

Website link: https://www.ecv-events.com/EDCCTMF2026?cci=33

Email****:**** marketing@ecvinternational.com

This session explores how to leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) to establish and manage a MongoDB database for storing, processing, and analysing Internet of Things (IoT) sensor feeds. Participants will learn how to collect real-time sensor data, transmit it securely through AWS IoT Core, and integrate it with MongoDB Atlas for scalable database management. The session will demonstrate how AWS services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, and Amazon CloudWatch can support data ingestion, automated processing, storage, monitoring, and system reliability.
Through a practical, step-by-step workflow, participants will explore how to structure sensor readings, manage timestamps, track equipment performance, and prepare IoT data for dashboards, predictive maintenance, operational reporting, and decision-making. The session is relevant to engineers, developers, data professionals, and IoT innovators seeking to build secure, scalable, and cost-effective data management solutions for applications such as industrial machinery, petroleum pumps, smart agriculture, energy systems, and environmental monitoring.

• AWS setup: Configure the cloud infrastructure required to receive IoT sensor feeds.
• MongoDB integration: Connect AWS services to MongoDB Atlas for storing structured and semi-structured sensor data.
• Real-time data pipelines: Collect, validate, transform, and store readings from connected devices.
• Security and monitoring: Apply access controls, secure connections, logging, and performance monitoring.
• Data-driven insights: Prepare sensor data for analytics, visualisation, predictive maintenance, and operational reporting.

Сьогодні всі створюють агентів, але як насправді отримати від них максимум користі в різних департаментах вашої організації?
AWS Agent Registry пропонує централізований єдиний хаб для зберігання та спільного використання ваших агентів, MCP-серверів та інших ресурсів, прокладаючи шлях до по-справжньому агентної організації.
Дізнайтеся, як ваша компанія може скористатися найновішими технологіями AWS і вивести свої агентні архітектури на абсолютно новий рівень.

Мова: Українська
Тривалість: 45 хвилин (30 хв доповідь + 15 хв демо)
Бескоштовно, онлайн

DevOps na Praia is excited to announce our November 2026 Meetup!

📍 Location: VML Office - Ed. Transparente, Matosinhos - Porto
📅 Date: November 9, 2026
⏰ Time: 18:30
👉 Note: This is an in-person meetup.

Agenda & Talks:
🎤 19:00 - "Stateless OpenClaw with Redis Agent File System"
Speaker: Raphael de Lio
Abstract: For my first engagement as a Forward Deployed Engineer, I built disposable OpenClaw environments on Kubernetes. In this session, I explain how Redis Agent File System separates persistent user workspaces from temporary compute.
🎤 19:45 - "An ALMOST Practical Guide for k8s Multi-cluster Apps."
Speaker: Daniel Requena
Abstract: When a critical API runs on a single Kubernetes cluster, one bad day for that cluster becomes a bad day for the whole product.
This talk walks through our journey toward running applications simultaneously across multiple clusters — the incident that made the case for it, and the resilience goals that drove the effort.
The goal is to share valuable lessons learned across multiple areas — observability, traffic management, the deploy process, and more — so attendees can take them back and apply them in their own environments.
🍕 20:30 - Networking, Food & Drinks

Join us at VML offices in Porto to connect with the community, share ideas, and network with AWS and DevOps enthusiasts!
Interested in speaking at a future DevOps na Praia or supporting the community through sponsorship?
Send us a message here or email devopsnapraia@gmail.com

💬 Stay tuned for updates here or on our LinkedIn — and don't hesitate to reach out. We'd love to hear from you! See you there!

** Link da transmissão: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM9CGh8fPKk

Acompanhe este novo evento ONLINE e GRATUITO no Canal .NET e fique por dentro de diversas dicas e truques extremamente úteis no dia a dia com Kubernetes, ferramentas auxiliares, projetos open source, Inteligëncia Artificial, integração com serviços em nuvem (incluindo o suporte a Azure), escalabilidade, segurança em containers e muito mais!

Palestrantes:
* Diego Moreira Matos (Microsoft MVP)
* Renato Groffe (Microsoft MVP, Docker Captain, Grafana Champion, APIsec U Ambassador, MTAC)
* Bruno Brito (Microsoft MVP, Docker Captain)
* Angelo Belchior (Microsoft MVP, APIsec U Ambassador)

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Discover how Amazon Web Services (AWS) can be integrated with Salesforce to build an intelligent, automated Customer Relationship Management (CRM) ecosystem that streamlines business operations and enhances customer experiences. This session will explore how AWS cloud services, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and event-driven automation can extend Salesforce capabilities, creating a centralized online hub where businesses of all sizes can track customer data, manage sales leads, automate marketing campaigns, and deliver responsive customer support.
Participants will explore how services such as Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon S3, and Amazon SageMaker AI can support secure data integration, automated workflows, AI-powered customer insights, personalized marketing, and intelligent customer service. The session will also demonstrate how AWS can help synchronize customer information, trigger follow-up actions, generate customer engagement insights, and enable AI-powered assistance while maintaining appropriate data security and access controls.
By combining Salesforce’s CRM capabilities with AWS’s scalable cloud infrastructure, organizations can reduce repetitive administrative tasks, improve sales pipeline visibility, strengthen customer relationships, and make data-driven decisions. The session will provide practical insights into designing a flexible, scalable, and cost-effective CRM automation solution that supports business growth, operational efficiency, and a consistent customer experience across sales, marketing, and customer support.

After a break, we're bringing the DevOps Amsterdam community together again.

Join us on November 10 at ING Cedar in Amsterdam for an evening of food, drinks, conversations, and three talks exploring some of the challenges shaping DevOps and platform engineering today.

And there's another reason we're excited to get the community together again: we're working towards DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2027. We'll have more to share about that soon. 👀

For this meetup, we'll go from AI-assisted incident investigation, through 23 real-world ways of using an AI agent in a platform engineering team, to the lessons learned from organizations building their own internal developer platforms.

Whether you're working in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, cloud, operations, software engineering, or just curious about where all of this is heading, we'd love to see you there.

Food and drinks will be provided, and there'll be plenty of time to catch up with old friends and meet new ones.

Agenda
17:30 – 18:30 | Doors open, food & drinks
18:30 – 18:35 | Welcome
18:35 – 19:05 | Building AIOps with an Ironman Mindset – Nikhil Gupta
19:05 – 19:35 | 23 Ways to Use an AI Agent in a Platform Engineering Team at RTL NL – Anna Kosek & Myroslava Tarcha
19:35 – 20:05 | 7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform – Michael Coté
20:05 – 21:00 | Drinks, networking & socializing
21:00 | End

Building AIOps with an Ironman Mindset by Nikhil Gupta

The Ironman triathlon is about endurance, disciplined preparation and controlled transitions. Flow and reliability are no different.
When an incident starts, responders need to understand customer impact, identify affected dependencies and decide what is safe to do next. But the evidence they need is often scattered across dashboards, deployment records, service catalogs, runbooks and other knowledge sources. Under pressure, responders have to reconstruct that operational context.
In this talk, Nikhil Gupta explores an AIOps design that continuously prepares this context and makes it available when it's needed.
Using a payment-service incident as an example, he'll explore investigations triggered by confirmed customer impact versus those triggered by an earlier anomaly. We'll see how an AI agent can choose read-only tools, collect evidence and propose verification steps while keeping the human responder responsible for operational decisions.

What you'll take away

• How to identify context gaps that force responders to reconnect evidence manually during incidents
• How to separate deterministic context preparation from probabilistic AI reasoning and human decisions
• How to bound agent investigations using read-only access, tool-call budgets, stop conditions and evidence trails
• Ways to evaluate AI-assisted investigations using diagnosis accuracy, responder rejection, time to first validated fact and lead time before confirmed impact

About Nikhil Gupta
Nikhil is a Product & Engineering Leader with passion for AI and Platform Engineering and is based in Amsterdam. Nikhil has experienced first hand how Platform Engineering and DevOps transformations play out in organizations of very different scale, from 20+ teams to 2000+ teams. Nikhil is leading the AIOps and Observability Engineering teams at ING. Nikhil like to write about Leadership, Platform Engineering, Observability and AI. You can follow him on LinkedIn and on Medium.com

🤖 23 Ways to Use an AI Agent in a Platform Engineering Team at RTL NL by Anna Kosek and Myroslava Tarcha

At RTL Netherlands, the team built Thanos, an AI agent that started life as a Slack chatbot and evolved into a platform engineering agent with more than 20 capabilities.

It reviews pull requests on Azure DevOps and GitHub, queries Grafana using natural language, generates architecture diagrams, manages work items and release notes, analyses build failures and supports automated incident root-cause analysis.

But the most interesting lesson isn't simply what the AI can do.
It's the human-in-the-loop patterns, identity-aware operations and trust model that made engineers actually want to use it.

In this fast-paced session, Anna Kosek will take us through 23 real-world use cases, complete with practical examples, honest failures and patterns you can take back to your own engineering teams.
No infinity stones required. Just a Kubernetes cluster and an open mind. 😉

About Anna Kosek
Engineering Manager Cloud & Data Platform at RTL Nederland.

🏗️ 7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform by
Michael Coté

Building your own internal developer platform can look attractive. But when you build it, you also own it. Suddenly, you're in the business of developing and maintaining a product alongside your actual business.

Drawing on 10 years of platform engineering case studies from large organizations, Michael Coté will walk us through seven common risks of building your own platform:

Expansive scopes. Underestimating cost. Project mindsets. Death by customization. Skills. Security and compliance. Resume-driven development.

More importantly, he'll look at what organizations can do differently, including:

• Discovering the full scope of platform engineering across organizational silos
• Calculating costs and performance end-to-end
• Evaluating build-versus-buy decisions for internal developer platforms
• Creating a platform engineering strategy and staffing plan
• Applying product management thinking to platform engineering

Learn from organizations that have already encountered these problems so, hopefully, you don't have to repeat them yourself.

About Michael Coté
Michael Coté studies how large organizations improve the way they build software to run and grow their businesses. He's been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, worked in corporate strategy and M&A, and was previously a programmer.
He's also the author of Changing Mindsets, Monolithic Transformation and The Business Bottleneck, and co-hosts podcasts including Software Defined Talk and Software Defined Interviews.

🎯 The Problem: Someone overwrote the production report. Again. No one knows what changed. There's no way to roll back. Manual deployments at 11 PM on Friday - because that's when "no one is using the system."
💡 This Evening: We'll bring professional DevOps to Fabric. Git integration, deployment pipelines, variable libraries - the practices that make BI enterprise-ready.
⏱️ Save yourself: The 3 AM "we broke production" calls. Proper CI/CD means confident deployments, every time.
What you'll learn:
🏷️ Sensitivity Labels - Data classification and protection, and WHY labels flow with the data, not the container (data stays protected when copied)
🔐 Microsoft Purview - Unified governance across Azure and Fabric, and WHY Purview is the governance control plane (one place for all policies)
📂 Git Integration - Source control for Fabric items, and WHY Git enables collaboration and rollback (version history for everything!)
🚀 Deployment Pipelines - Dev → Test → Prod promotion, and WHY pipelines beat manual deployments (one click, no errors)
📋 Variable Libraries - Environment-specific configurations, and WHY hardcoded values kill maintainability (connection strings, paths)
DevOps Flow: Developer → Git Commit → PR Review → Merge → Deployment Pipeline → DEV → TEST → PROD (each with its own Variables)
Who should attend: Developers adopting DevOps for BI, Platform teams building CI/CD, Security teams implementing governance
Agenda:

• 18:30 - Welcome & Networking
• 18:45 - Sensitivity Labels & Purview
• 19:05 - Git Integration Demo
• 19:25 - Deployment Pipelines
• 19:40 - Variable Libraries & Best Practices
• 19:55 - Q&A and Discussion
• 20:00 - Networking

Cloud conference in Milan, Italy

Arrancamos los talleres prácticos del AWS Student Builder Group 🚀

📅 Miércoles 11 nov, 14:00
📍 Campus de Colmenarejo (y Online)

En una hora creas tu primera función en Python, la conviertes en una API que puedes llamar y ves como se ejecuta. No hace falta saber nada de cloud: trae el portátil y te enseñamos.

Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/sfi-ryep-knk

Join us for the next Grafana & Friends Meetup, hosted by FDJ UNITED
📕 Agenda
17:00 - 17:25: Drop-in, food/drink-grabbing and mingle
17:25 - 17:30: Introductions
17:30 - 18:00: Observability at FDJ UNITED: Using Grafana as a Single Pane of Glass, Rodrigo Hernandez and Barun Mandal
18:00 - 18:20: Mingle
18:20 - 18:50: One Front Door for All Your Telemetry, Israel Ochoa
18:50 - 20:00: Mingle

1️⃣ Observability at FDJ UNITED: Using Grafana as a Single Pane of Glass

In this session, SREs from FDJ’s Infrastructure organisation will talk about the challenges, successes and failures of using OSS as the Backbone of Observability in a highly regulated industry.
The session will cover:

• Thanos: The metrics source of truth
• Tempo: Baby steps into the world of tracing
• Loki: A bittersweet story
• GitSync: Dashboards as code, by popular demand
• Graphia: FDJ UNITED’s approach to enabling Grafana MCP for AI observability
• On-premises observability: Custom tenant management and RBAC

About the Speakers

Rodrigo works in FDJ UNITED’s Online Betting and Casino Business Unit and has more than 20 years of experience in observability. He is currently the SRE Technical Lead for the Infrastructure department, where he builds highly available observability systems and promotes best practices for collecting, processing and visualising data across the organisation. Rodrigo is also a long-time advocate of open-source technologies.

Barun is a Site Reliability Engineer at FDJ UNITED with more than 14 years of experience across capacity engineering, performance engineering and SRE. He is passionate about building scalable and performant solutions using open-source technologies and exploring creative ways to make the most of existing tools and features.
Outside work, Barun is a hobby painter, football fanatic and space enthusiast who tracks solar activity, auroras and satellite passes from his home lab—while keeping up with his lively three-year-old.

2️⃣ One Front Door for All Your Telemetry

Grafana Alloy, OpenTelemetry, and an open-source stack.
Correlated metrics, logs & traces. 100% open source.

👾 Israel Ochoa — About Me
"16 years of watching systems burn. I have dashboards for that." 🔥
Hey, I'm Israel — Senior Observability Architect at Grafana Labs , based in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪.
Yes, I'm Mexican 🌮. Yes, I live in Sweden. No, I don't regret it. (The meatballs are surprisingly good with habanero salsa.)
My Grafana teammates call me the "Warden of the North" 🏰 — I work from Stockholm, so geographically they're not wrong.
I've embraced it fully. There's a throne. It has a Grafana dashboard. 📊
I genuinely believe good dashboards save lives, better alerts and incident management are the difference between "we caught it before users noticed" and "we found out from X/Reddit", runbooks are love letters to your future self and customer service is everything... you're a customer yourself.

📍Location
FDJ United Office: Regeringsgatan 25, 111 53 Stockholm
Located in: Gallerian | https://maps.app.goo.gl/b5zcvpGVhvavWN3u6

Food
There will be vegan/vegetarian food and beverages at the event; if you have any allergies or other food preferences, please let us know at least a week before the event!

Photo and video
We may take photos and record videos during the event. If you prefer not to be captured on camera, please let the photographer know when you arrive.
If you feel sick, stay at home.

Registration !!!!!
Please register before the deadline. It is required to be able to sort your access to the building, so you can have a smooth experience.

We are looking forward to seeing you 🎉

Let's get together for another meetup of the AWS User Group Munich just before AWS re:Invent!

I'm excited to announce our host for this evening:
We're visiting Scalable Capital at their offices and they thankfully also sponsor food and drinks for us!

PLEASE BRING A VALID ID WITH YOU FOR OFFICE SECURITY!

AGENDA:
18:00 - Doors open, networking, drinks, food

18:30 - Markus Ostertag (AWS Hero): Recent AWS announcements

19:20 - Meysam Farazmand (Scalable Capital): From 1 to 90 Accounts: A Scalable Landing Zone Journey

20:10 - Max Simon (Scalable Capital): On the path to agentic software factory: Introducing Cloud Agents in a bank

21:00 - More drinks, more networking
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If you have an office or co-working space where we can meet (100-150 people), want to sponsor drinks/food or have a (lightning) talk you want to present - please let us know!
Everyone who participates in an AWS UG Munich event must adhere to the Code of Conduct

Bei Kaltgetränken und leckerem Essen wollen wir über Kubernetes, Containern, GitOps, und die Kuberneteslandschaft im Allgemeinen quatschen und uns austauschen. Bei schönem Wetter ist der Biergarten im Brauhaus besonders schön. 😁

Bei SoCraMOBs hat sich ein kurzes Lean Coffee Format bewährt, um sicherzugehen, dass alle relevanten Themen Beachtung finden. Wir werden das Format kurz vorstellen und bei Interesse eine kurze Session veranstalten.

Falls das mit der Reservierung nicht klappt, updaten wir hier über einen neuen Standort.

Oft ist der Tisch reserviert auf Rau, ansonsten versuche ich hier zu kommentieren 👌

Cloud Native Lisbon, DevOps Lisbon and GDG Lisbon, all in one room.

For edition #29 we’re joining forces with two of Lisbon’s tech communities for a special KCD Warmup night, hosted by Richemont at their Lisbon offices. With Web Summit in town that same week, it’s also our side event for everyone who’d rather talk platforms than pitch decks. We have three talks on what changes for engineering teams once AI is part of the workflow: measuring delivery, giving agents a memory that holds up, and reviewing code nobody typed by hand.

And yes, it’s also a warm-up for KCD Porto × DevOpsDays Portugal, on 19–20 November at Super Bock Arena - WE ARE GOING TO RAFFLE ONE TICKET!

📍 Venue: Richemont, Lisbon
📅 Date: November 11, 2026
⏰ Doors open: 18:30

🗓 Agenda

18:30 · Check-in & Networking

19:00 · Welcome & Intros

19:10 · Transforming Our Ways of Working with DevOps - 🎤 Alexandre Rose, DevOps Platform Manager @ Richemont

Richemont is the group behind some of the world’s best-known luxury Maisons, and a DevOps platform serves that whole business. Alexandre starts with what Richemont is and how the platform supports it day to day. Then he covers what was missing: metrics, DORA and real application context.
He closes with how the team is building its Accelerate platform with AI inside the framework they already run, without starting over.

19:40 · From Context Pushing to Context Pulling: Scaling Agent Memory, Resolving Conflicts, and Eliminating Token Bloat - 🎤 Jeff Andrade, Staff Engineer @ The Retail Performance Company

Most agent setups push context into the prompt and pay for it in tokens, drift and conflicting state. Jeff looks at the opposite approach, where agents pull the context they need, when they need it.
He introduces EpochDB, a high-performance, state-aware memory engine for AI agents with atomic state management and lossless long-term recall. He also shows how it helps agent memory scale, resolve conflicts and stay lean on tokens.

20:10 · Platform Engineering When AI Writes the Code - 🎤 Guilherme Silva, Engineering Manager @ synvert xgeeks | KCD Porto Invited Speaker

AI made writing code cheap, but shipping it safely didn’t get any cheaper. Teams using coding agents open far more pull requests, reviews slow down, and more bugs reach production.
Guilherme argues that the fix belongs in the platform, and that asking humans to review harder won’t solve it. His platform has error messages agents can act on, disposable sandboxes, least-privilege access, review routed by risk, and a trace of every agent action. This is a preview of his KCD Porto talk.

20:40 · Catering, drinks & networking 🍽️🍻

🤝 Sponsors: Richemont · synvert xgeeks
🌐 Community Partners: DevOps Lisbon · GDG Lisbon

A big thank you to Richemont for hosting and for the catering, to synvert xgeeks for the ongoing support, and to DevOps Lisbon and GDG Lisbon for teaming up with us. 🙌

See you on November 11th!

DevOps Lisbon, Cloud Native Lisbon and GDG Lisbon, all in one room.

For this edition, we’re joining forces with two of Lisbon’s tech communities for a special KCD Warmup night, hosted by Richemont at their Lisbon offices. With Web Summit in town that same week, it’s also our side event for everyone who’d rather talk platforms than pitch decks. We have three talks on what changes for engineering teams once AI is part of the workflow: measuring delivery, giving agents a memory that holds up, and reviewing code nobody typed by hand.

And yes, it’s a warm-up for KCD Porto × DevOpsDays Portugal, on 19–20 November at Super Bock Arena - WE WILL RAFFLE A TICKET!

📍 Venue: Richemont, Lisbon
📅 Date: November 11, 2026
⏰ Doors open: 18:30

🗓 Agenda

18:30 · Check-in & Networking

19:00 · Welcome & Intros

19:10 · Transforming Our Ways of Working with DevOps
🎤 Alexandre Rose, DevOps Platform Manager @ Richemont

Richemont is the group behind some of the world’s best-known luxury Maisons, and a DevOps platform serves that whole business. Alexandre starts with what Richemont is and how the platform supports it day to day. Then he covers what was missing: metrics, DORA and real application context.
He closes with how the team is building its Accelerate platform with AI inside the framework they already run, without starting over.

19:40 · From Context Pushing to Context Pulling: Scaling Agent Memory, Resolving Conflicts, and Eliminating Token Bloat
🎤 Jeff Andrade, Staff Engineer @ The Retail Performance Company

Most agent setups push context into the prompt and pay for it in tokens, drift and conflicting state. Jeff looks at the opposite approach, where agents pull the context they need, when they need it.
He introduces EpochDB, a high-performance, state-aware memory engine for AI agents with atomic state management and lossless long-term recall. He also shows how it helps agent memory scale, resolve conflicts and stay lean on tokens.

20:10 · Platform Engineering When AI Writes the Code
🎤 Guilherme Silva, Engineering Manager @ synvert xgeeks | KCD Porto Invited Speaker

AI made writing code cheap, but shipping it safely didn’t get any cheaper. Teams using coding agents open far more pull requests, reviews slow down, and more bugs reach production.
Guilherme argues that the fix belongs in the platform, and that asking humans to review harder won’t solve it. His platform has error messages agents can act on, disposable sandboxes, least-privilege access, review routed by risk, and a trace of every agent action. This is a preview of his KCD Porto talk.

20:40 · Catering, drinks & networking 🍽️🍻

🤝 Sponsors: Richemont · synvert xgeeks
🌐 Community Partners: Cloud Native Lisbon · GDG Lisbon

A big thank you to Richemont for hosting and for the catering, to synvert xgeeks for the ongoing support, and to Cloud Native Lisbon and GDG Lisbon for teaming up with us. 🙌

Bring your questions, bring your crew. See you on November 11th!

Our SRE Meetup is back after SRECon, this time Google is hosting the event, places limited so make sure to keep your RSVP up to date, and that your profile shows your full first and last name.

Talks

Tracking Down Noisy Neighbours
John Looney, Crusoe

TBD
Google engineering

Cloud conference in Doetinchem, Netherlands

DevOps conference in Munich, Germany

🇪🇹 OpenInfra User Group Ethiopia — Community Launch & Open Infrastructure Meetup
We are excited to invite you to the first meetup of the OpenInfra User Group Ethiopia!
This meetup brings together people in Ethiopia who are interested in open infrastructure — whether you are already using OpenInfra technologies, learning about them, working in cloud or infrastructure, researching new technologies, or simply curious about the possibilities.
Our goal is to build an active and inclusive community where people can learn, share knowledge, build solutions, collaborate, and contribute to the broader OpenInfra ecosystem.

During this first community meetup, we will:
🔹 Introduce the OpenInfra User Group Ethiopia and its connection to the global OpenInfra community
🔹 Get to know people interested in open infrastructure and hear about their backgrounds and experiences
🔹 Explore which OpenInfra technologies people are interested in
🔹 Discuss what participants are currently using, learning, or exploring
🔹 Understand what people would like to learn through the community
🔹 Discuss the types of activities participants would value, including technical talks, workshops, hands-on activities, demonstrations, discussions, networking, and knowledge-sharing sessions
🔹 Explore how the community can create value for engineers, developers, architects, students, researchers, technology professionals, entrepreneurs, organizations, and other technology enthusiasts
🔹 Hear ideas for future community activities and collaboration
🔹 Discover opportunities for people who would like to contribute as speakers, volunteers, or community organizers

0–10 min — Welcome & Introduction
• Welcome participants
• Introduction to OpenInfra User Group Ethiopia
• Our connection with the global OpenInfra community
• What we hope to build together
10–25 min — Getting to Know Each Other
Participants briefly introduce themselves:
• Name
• Professional or educational background
• Interest in infrastructure/OpenInfra
• What brought them to the meetup
25–60 min — Community Discussion
We will explore questions such as:
• What OpenInfra technologies are you interested in?
• What are you currently using or learning?
• What would you like to learn?
• What challenges are you facing in your infrastructure journey?
• What types of events would you attend?
• What would make this community valuable to you?
• What topics or activities should we explore together?
60–80 min — Community Ideas & Opportunities
We will discuss:
• Future technical sessions
• Workshops and hands-on labs
• Demonstrations
• Knowledge-sharing sessions
• Community projects
• Collaboration opportunities
• Speakers and contributors
• Partnerships with organizations, universities, and other technology communities
85–90 min — Next Steps
• Summarize key ideas from the discussion
• Share upcoming plans
• Discuss the next community activity
• Invite people interested in contributing to stay connected

Our community is interested in open infrastructure technologies and related areas, including:
OpenStack • Ceph • OVN & Open Networking • Bare Metal • Kubernetes • AI Infrastructure • Private & Hybrid Cloud • Cloud-Native Technologies • Edge Computing • Software-Defined Infrastructure

Everyone interested in open infrastructure is welcome.
You don't need to be an OpenInfra expert.
Whether you are an experienced infrastructure professional, engineer, developer, architect, student, researcher, entrepreneur, technology enthusiast, or simply curious about open infrastructure, we'd love to have you join us.

Your experience, questions, ideas, challenges, interests, or simply your curiosity.
Most importantly, come ready to meet others and help shape the future of the community.
Let's build the OpenInfra community in Ethiopia together.
🌱 Learn. Build. Share. Collaborate.
🇪🇹 OpenInfra User Group Ethiopia

This meetup is a special AWS Community Builder Edition - all speakers are active AWS Community Builders! You will also get a short introduction to the program, and tips on how to apply.

Huge thanks to tonight's sponsor Capra for both venue, food and refreshments!

Location is Torggata 2 (6th floor), entrance "Torggata 2-4-6"

Agenda:

• 1630: Doors open, snack and networking
• 1715: Welcome, latest news, AWS Community Builders program intro
  1730: Amazon Bedrock for creative Christmas Elf ideas
• 1740: Amazon’s Strands Decider 2B or typesafe's Jev
• 1820: AI took my job as a developer (but I got promoted to architect and project manager)
• 1830: BREAK
• 1845: I didn't know AWS Lambda could do that!
• 1900: Big stack, small cost

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AWS Community Builders program intro + Amazon Bedrock for creative Christmas Elf ideas
Håkon will give a quick introduction to what the AWS Community Builders Program is about, benefits, speaking opportunities and how to apply to become one. He will also share a practical example on how being engaged in this program can result in speaking slots at AWS Summits and AWS re:Invent.
Speaker: Håkon Eriksen Drange (AWS Community Builder and User Group leader, Principal Cloud Architect at Sopra Steria)

Amazon’s Strands Decider 2B or typesafe's Jev
Amazon Web Services released an open source decision model inspired by TypeSafe’s Jev, a short talk to compare these two models.
Speaker: Meraj Kashi (AWS Community Builder, Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at Norsk Tipping)

AI took my job as a developer
How building a serverless app on AWS with AI and spec-driven development reignited my passion for building, and gave my home projects a future.
Speaker: Lars Magelssen (AWS Community Builder, Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at Sopra Steria)

I didn't know AWS Lambda could do that!
Think you know AWS Lambda? A lot has changed since its launch in 2014. Strap in for a quick tour of noteworthy launches, with a closer look at the recently announced AWS Lambda Web Functions and MicroVMs, and when you might want to use them.
Speaker: Erlend Ekern (AWS Community Builder, Cloud Architect at Capra Consulting)

Big stack, small cost.
Running one of Norway's largest (niche) web forums on AWS with a non-profit budget.
Speaker: Thomas van Tran (AWS Community Builder, Senior Cloud Architect at Sopra Steria)

Do you want to propose a future talk, or host an event? If yes then send one of the organizers a message! (via Meetup or LinkedIn)

It's that time of year again! As has become an annual tradition, inQdo is hosting the AWS User Group NL pre:Invent meetup. Join us for an evening of inspiring talks, networking, and getting hyped for AWS re:Invent. Whether you're heading to Las Vegas this year or following along from home, this is the perfect warm-up to get you up to speed on the latest AWS innovations and connect with fellow cloud enthusiasts.

Time: 17:30 (doors open)
Location: inQdo, Coltbaan 1-19, Nieuwegein
Public Transport: Tram / Bus
Parking: Free on-site parking

AGENDA
17:30 – 18:00 Walk-in & Networking — Drinks and food
18:00 – 18:10 Welcome & Introduction — Host welcome by Laurens van Gunst
18:10 – 18:35 Talk 1 — AI Operations Agent (Quincy Romero)
18:35 – 19:00 Talk 2 — From EC2 to a fully operational, self-healing Kubernetes cluster (Dave Kuppers & Bas Hartman)
19:00 – 19:15 Break — Food & drinks
19:15 – 19:40 Talk 3 — Poor Man's Provisioned Concurrency (Ben Buitendijk)
19:40 – 20:05 Talk 4 — Lambda Durable Functions in Go (Jair Josafath)
20:05 – 20:15 Closing, Drinks & Networking

We'd like to invite you to our seventh installation for the Cloud Native Vienna MeetUps in 2026!

Again we'll have two deep-dive talks and time to network and chat with friends in the Viennese Cloud Native community.

A big thank you to Gepardec IT Services for hosting us and providing food and drinks!

Agenda:

• 17:30: Doors Open & Networking
• 17:55: Welcome from the Organizers
• 18:00: Talk 1: Constantin Winkler (Gepardec IT Services)
  KI für Infrastruktur / GitOps / OpenBao
• 18:45: Break & Refreshments
• 19:00: Talk 2: Siegfried Stumpfer (WhizUs)
  Building a GitLab CI Platform: Lessons From Our Beta
• 19:45: Open Networking

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Constantin Winkler (Gepardec IT Services)
KI für Infrastruktur / GitOps / OpenBao

How AI helps build Infrastructure as Code with GitOps principles and test it automatically, using the secret management system OpenBao as an example.

Siegfried Stumpfer (WhizUs)
Building a GitLab CI Platform: Lessons From Our Beta

What actually happens on Kubernetes when your pipeline runs? I'll cover the GitLab CI basics, how the runner works on k8s and what our beta taught us about root users, security, performance and the humans using it.

We’re excited to invite you to our next AWS User Group meetup on November 12, starting at 6:00 PM. This time we will meet at Unite.

• What Makes a Good AI Landing Zone — and How to Build One on AWS ( Steffen Mazanek)

I will talk about typical requirements incl. model availability, governance, budget management, IAM and security, and popular open source tools such as LiteLLM and OpenWebUI, with Amazon Bedrock as the swiss army knife for model access.

• Cheap Text-to-Speech: AWS Polly vs. the alternatives (Hauke Ahrend)

The Human API: An Evening of Debugging How Your Team Talks

Thursday 12 November | 6pm–9pm | AND Digital, Birmingham

You can build infrastructure, automate deployments and troubleshoot Kubernetes at 2am.
But how good are you at explaining an idea, handling an awkward conversation, speaking in front of a room or simply connecting with someone you’ve never met before?

On 12 November, Steve Wade is taking over DevOps Society Birmingham for the evening.

No panel. No conveyor belt of speakers. One keynote, one interactive talk and one hands-on workshop designed to get engineers away from their laptops and actually talking.

Want to get better at communicating, presenting and thinking on your feet? Register and join us.

Meet Steve Wade

Steve is the Founder of Platform Fix, a Kubernetes Ambassador for DevOps Society and someone who has spent the last 15 years working in production infrastructure.
He started working with Kubernetes back at v1.2. He's a former Flux maintainer and Istio contributor. He has trained more than 6,000 engineers on cloud-native tooling worldwide and has spoken at conferences including KubeCon and DevOps Pro Europe.
This will be Steve's 68th talk, but this one is going to be a little different.
Rather than spending three hours sitting down listening to slides, you'll be getting involved.

Why are we doing this?

Technical teams spend huge amounts of time improving tooling, infrastructure and processes. Communication often gets nowhere near the same attention. Yet it's involved in almost everything engineers do.
Explaining an architectural decision. Giving feedback. Running a stand-up. Challenging an idea. Presenting to leadership. Asking for a promotion. Speaking to someone you've never met at a meetup.
Being technically strong matters. Being able to communicate what you know can make that technical ability considerably more useful.
And no, you don't need to be a natural public speaker.

In fact, if the thought of getting on stage makes you uncomfortable, this evening was pretty much designed for you.

Ready to give it a go?

Register for the event and come along on 12 November.

What happens on the night

Act 1: AI, DevOps and Kubernetes: What's Next?
Steve kicks things off with a short 15-minute keynote looking at what's actually changing across Kubernetes, AI and platform engineering.
No hour-long predictions about how AI is going to replace everybody.
Just Steve's view after more than a decade working in the cloud-native ecosystem.

Act 2: The Human API
Then we get into the main talk.
Why can engineers communicate perfectly with computers in multiple languages but struggle to explain something to the person sitting next to them?
This won't just be Steve talking at you.
You'll meet people around you, try different ways of starting conversations and learn practical techniques you can use in meetings, stand-ups, interviews, presentations and everyday work.
You'll also learn a much better question than the usual:
"So... what do you do?"

Act 3: Owning the Stage

This is where things get interesting.
The final hour is a hands-on workshop on confidence and presenting.
In small groups, you'll answer unexpected questions out loud. You'll use a simple structure you can reuse at work.
We finish with PowerPoint Karaoke. A few volunteers present a deck they've never seen while the slides keep moving. Everyone else enjoys the chaos.
There are no grades, no judges and no expectation that you'll suddenly become a TED speaker.
It's simply an opportunity to practise something most engineers rarely get the chance to practise.

You'll leave with

You'll get practical communication techniques you can use at work, practice presenting in front of a small group, a better understanding of what's happening across AI and cloud-native engineering, and Steve's Communication Playbook to take away afterwards.
More importantly, you'll spend the evening with other people working across DevOps, cloud, SRE and platform engineering in Birmingham.

So even if PowerPoint Karaoke isn't your lifelong ambition, there will be plenty of people worth meeting.

Who should come?

This event is aimed at DevOps engineers, SREs, platform engineers, cloud engineers, developers, engineering leaders and anyone working in technology who wants to become better at communicating what they know.

Especially if you've ever:
Sent a Slack message that landed completely differently from how you intended.

Had a great technical idea but struggled to get people behind it.
Avoided presenting because you hate speaking in front of people.
Watched somebody less technical communicate their way into opportunities you wanted.

Or found writing Terraform considerably easier than asking for a pay rise.
You'll fit right in.

Event details
Thursday 12 November 2026
6pm–9pm
AND Digital
The Foundry
6 Brindley Place
Birmingham
B1 2JB

Come on your own, come with your team or send it to someone who'd enjoy it.

A quick note about emails

When you register, Steve will also email attendees before and after the event. You'll get the session materials, his Communication Playbook and a short follow-up series.
One email in that series mentions his consultancy, Platform Fix.
One click unsubscribes you from Steve's emails. Nothing from DevOps Society changes.

Huge thanks to AND Digital for hosting us, and providing the food & drinks!

Register now
This isn't an event where you're expected to sit quietly at the back for three hours. You'll meet people, get involved, learn something useful and probably end up doing something slightly outside your comfort zone.

Hit Register and join us in Birmingham.

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Executar aplicações costumava significar servidores configurados manualmente, divergências entre ambientes e surpresas do tipo "no staging funciona".

O Cloud Native Experience (CNE) da Liferay muda isso: uma abordagem baseada em GitOps para implantar e operar o Liferay no Kubernetes, construída sobre projetos consolidados da CNCF — reprodutível, com autorrecuperação (self-healing) e controle de versão.
Esta palestra mostra o CNE de ponta a ponta: o que ele é, os problemas que resolve e o que significa para os desenvolvedores no dia a dia.

Desde a reconciliação do GitOps mantendo seu cluster sincronizado, passando pela observabilidade integrada, até a execução da mesma stack a partir de uma configuração genérica do Kubernetes até versões sob medida para AWS e GCP — com código real: valores do Helm, o boilerplate do GitOps e uma visão ao vivo do ArgoCD e do Envoy (projetos da CNCF) em ação.

Você sairá sabendo como o CNE torna sua jornada, desde o commit até o Liferay em execução, mais curta, segura e sem dramas.

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