Cloud & DevOps Events in Europe

🔥 Zapraszamy na SysOps/DevOps Wrocław MeetUp #27 🔥
📅 06.05.2026 godz. 18:00
💬 Sesja Q&A po każdej prelekcji
🎤 Prowadząca: Paulina Mojsak
🧭 Wrocław, biuro Grape Up, ul. Jaworska 11-13, budynek A, piętro I

Harmonogram:
👨‍🏫 18:00 Networking
👨‍🏫 18:15 Prelekcja #1: „Databricks w Azure: od sandboxa do security review” - Bartłomiej Dylik
👨‍🏫 19:20 Prelekcja #2: “Server Side Agents” - Adam Witkowski
👨‍🏫 20:15 Networking i pizza!

📌Pamiętajcie, aby zapisać się też do wrocławskiej grupy lokalnej
https://www.meetup.com/sysopswro/

📌Nagrania z poprzednich MeetUpów znajdziecie na YouTubie https://www.youtube.com/@SysOpsDevOpsPolska

Partnerzy:
✅ MDDV http://www.mddv.pl/
✅ Grape Up https://grapeup.com/

Prelekcja #1: „Databricks w Azure: od sandboxa do security review” - Bartłomiej Dylik

Powołanie usługi Azure Databricks zajmuje kwadrans. Dostosowanie jej do wymagań enterprise i zrozumienie, jak dokładnie działa infrastruktura pod spodem - znacznie więcej. W tej prezentacji wspólnie przejdziemy drogę od “szybkiego deploya na sandboxie” do świadomie zaprojektowanej architektury Databricks, która obroni się podczas security review. Na bazie własnych doświadczeń Bartek pokaże specyfikę networkingu Databricks, możliwości bezpiecznej integracji z naszą siecią prywatną oraz sposoby zapewnienia komunikacji ze światem zewnętrznym. W skrócie: wszystko, co warto wiedzieć, wdrażając Databricks w organizacji.

Bartłomiej Dylik - Azure Cloud Architect w ramach Cloud Center of Excellence w Husqvarna Group. Odpowiedzialny za rozwijanie platformy chmurowej obsługującej setki subskrypcji, współpracując z zespołami security, big data oraz aplikacyjnymi. Wcześniej związany z consultingiem, gdzie specjalizował się w projektach dla sektora finansowego. Na co dzień projektuje środowiska, które muszą przeżyć zderzenie z rzeczywistością enterprise.

Prelekcja #2: “Server Side Agents” - Adam Witkowski

Część pracy dewelopera może zostać przekazana maszynom. I nie chodzi tu o Copilota, ale o agentów Gen AI, którzy odciążają programistów od najbardziej wymagających obowiązków, takich jak: pokrywanie milionów linii kodu testami jednostkowymi w jeden dzień, tworzenie user stories na podstawie obszernych dokumentów biznesowych, masowe poprawki kodu w oparciu o analizę statyczną, dokumentowanie kodu, w tym podsumowania modułów, pakietów itp. Zobaczycie, jak agenty pomagają w analizie milionów plików logów pod kątem wydajności i bezpieczeństwa, gromadzeniu informacji o setkach serwerów w celu ich wycofania z użycia oraz tworzeniu początkowych iteracji nowych funkcjonalności na podstawie user stories. Wszystko to jest wykonywane przez agentów bezpiecznie, bez użycia Internetu i bez wysokich wymagań sprzętowych.

Adam Witkowski - ma ponad 20-letnie doświadczenie w IT. Ukończył studia magisterskie z informatyki na Wydziale Matematyki, ze specjalizacją w sieciach neuronowych. Jego kariera prowadziła go przez Genuę, Pragę, Amsterdam i Polskę, gdzie pracował głównie dla banków detalicznych i inwestycyjnych. Od 2019 roku pełni funkcję Architekta Oprogramowania w Capgemini w sektorze usług finansowych. Przez ostatnie dwa lata skupił się na projektowaniu i rozwoju Agentów Gen AI w Javie dla zastosowań w inżynierii oprogramowania, pracując głównie z prywatnie hostowaną sztuczną inteligencją, aby spełnić rygorystyczne wymagania bezpieczeństwa sektora finansowego.

Regulamin SO/DO MeetUpów stacjonarnych: https://bit.ly/RegulaminSODO

Welcome to our May event. We're delighted to welcome Elena Lape, Founder, Holopin and Rupam Jha, Senior DevOps Engineer, as well as Areg Hovakimyan, Senior DevOps Engineer.

Elena takes an affectionate but honest look at the wonderfully chaotic reality of working with AWS, a platform that can do almost anything, but rarely in just one obvious way.

Rupam answers the question every fast-moving team faces: how do you stay secure, compliant, and audit-ready on AWS without creating bottlenecks for builders?

Areg provides an overview of Amazon EKS, while highlighting what truly makes a difference in production.

A big thank you to our sponsors Cloudscaler, Rayo & The Scale Factory

Programme:
18:00: Arrival, registration
18:15: Talks start
20:00: Networking with food and a drink provided by the generosity of our sponsors.

Talk 1:
AWS: An Experience with Elena Lape

Those of us who care a lot about developer experience would certainly agree: AWS is, undeniably, an experience.

This session explores the quirks, overlaps, and “wait, why?” moments that make AWS both impressive and deeply relatable. Expect an affectionate look at the strange reality of using a platform that can do everything except explain itself briefly.

Elena is founder and Head of Engineering at Holopin, where she leads a platform used by 150,000+ software engineers worldwide. Before Holopin, she worked across several Silicon Valley scaleups building Kubernetes integrations, developer tooling, and cloud infrastructure, and has been building on AWS since 2016. Elena is deeply focused on developer experience. She spent part of her early career at GitHub, remains active in hackathon communities, and today serves on the W3C Advisory Board.

Talk 2:
Learn how to turn AWS security and compliance policies into automated, scalable, and auditable practices — without slowing down innovation with Rupam Jha

Many organisations struggle to enforce security and compliance consistently across AWS environments while scaling their workloads.

In this session, I’ll walk through practical strategies to secure AWS accounts, implement automated compliance controls, and simplify audits. Using real-world examples and best practices, attendees will leave with actionable techniques to protect data, streamline operations, and maintain regulatory readiness in the cloud.

Rupam is a Senior DevOps and Platform Engineer who enjoys building AWS platforms that are scalable, secure, and easy for teams to use. Her focus is on creating cloud-native environments with tools like AWS, Kubernetes, EKS, Terraform, and Vault, helping engineering teams ship faster and more confidently through automation, standardisation, and strong platform foundations.

A big part of what she does is reducing complexity for developers by building self-service infrastructure, improving delivery pipelines, and making platforms more reliable, observable, and cost-effective. She cares about security by design and operational excellence, and she believes infrastructure should feel like a product - something dependable, well-designed, and built to help teams move quickly without adding unnecessary risk.

Lightning Talk:
EKS in Production: What Actually Changed After Adoption

Areg is a Senior DevOps Engineer and will talk about Amazon EKS. Amazon EKS offers many capabilities to simplify Kubernetes operations, but in practice, not all of them deliver the same value.

In this 15 minute talk, Areg will provide a quick overview of key EKS capabilities, highlight 2-3 that truly make a difference in production, and explore common areas where teams tend to overcomplicate their platforms.

Do you have a story to share?
If you are interested in speaking at one of our events, please check out our call for papers here.

We are advocates for greater inclusion & diversity in UK Tech and are especially keen to receive talk submissions from people in underrepresented groups. If you are interested in speaking at a future meetup but would like to discuss what to expect or need assistance, please contact our Inclusion & Diversity Lead Natalie Gray - graynataliej@gmail.com or DM her @natjgray

Check out our website for more information about our community. Remember to follow us @AWSUserGroupUK and on LinkedIn for the latest updates, and you can find videos of our past meetups here.

Hi folks!

Welcome to our May Cloud Native London meetup! Join us to hear from our three great speakers and network with your fellow techies over pizza and drinks, or alternatively chat and following along on Youtube or LinkedIn!

6:00 Pizza and drinks
6:30 Welcome
6:45 The End of Handoffs: Build, Run, Own in One Flow (Alberto Pose, Pulumi)
7:15 You Can’t Patch Fast Enough: What AI-Driven Attacks Mean (Idan Elor, Oligo Security)
7:45 Break
8:00 From Zero to HyperPod: Distributed Model Training on AWS (Anton Nazaruk, Cloud Combinator)
8:30 Wrap up

See you there!

Cheryl (@oicheryl)

The End of Handoffs: Build, Run, Own in One Flow (Alberto Pose, Pulumi)
AI is changing the shape of team structures. A similar shift to the one that brought dev and ops together into DevOps is now happening as product must also meet the accountability bar.
At the same time, tooling has not caught up with "throwing it to Claude/Codex". Engineers are confronted with a choice: trust code and actions they do not fully understand, or... move too slowly.
Are these problems fundamentally new, or are there lessons we can draw from the past to adapt and think about what comes next?

Alberto Pose is a software engineer with a soft spot for developer tooling and infrastructure. He is currently part of the team managing the CI/CD pipelines for Pulumi's open source projects. Before this, he spent nearly ten years at Prime Video and AWS. A major highlight of his time there was helping bootstrap the living room device automation team, taking it from a small group effort to a 30 person organisation that brought full automation to millions of streaming devices worldwide.

You Can’t Patch Fast Enough: What AI-Driven Attacks Mean (Idan Elor, Oligo Security)
Anthropic’s Project Glasswing announcement put the industry on notice. AI has fundamentally changed the threat landscape and the risks facing organizations, and it’s happening faster than most security models can adapt.
AI-assisted attackers can now discover vulnerabilities, generate exploits, and launch attacks at rates never seen before, collapsing the window between disclosure and exploitation. In this environment, patching alone is no longer enough.
For cloud-native applications, where systems are dynamic and constantly evolving, this creates a new challenge: how do you stay protected when you can’t fix vulnerabilities fast enough?
This talk explores how the attacker model is shifting in the AI era, why traditional approaches are breaking down, and what it means to move from vulnerability-based security to real-time protection at runtime. We’ll cover how focusing on exploit techniques enables teams to stop attacks as they happen, including zero-days.

Idan Elor is Field CTO at Oligo Security, where he partners with large enterprises to solve complex application and cloud security challenges. He most recently served as Director of Solution Engineering & Tech-Alliances at Apiiro, where he empowered enterprises to secure their software supply chains. With over a decade of experience spanning application security, DevSecOps, and mobile security, Idan has also held leadership positions at companies like Snyk, Symantec, and HP. His unique background combines deep hands-on technical expertise. A passionate advocate for bridging the gap between security and development teams, Idan is known for his ability to translate complex security concepts into actionable strategies that organizations can actually implement.

From Zero to HyperPod: Distributed Model Training on AWS (Anton Nazaruk, Cloud Combinator)
You've got a model that works. You just need more GPUs. How hard can it be? That's where the pain starts.
GPU availability, infrastructure complexity, and cost are the three blockers that trip up even experienced teams when scaling from single-GPU training to serious distributed workloads.
This talk is a practical walkthrough of how to set up distributed model training on AWS - covering the capacity options (On-Demand, Spot, Capacity Blocks, SageMaker Training Plans), when to use each, and a repeatable infrastructure blueprint for compute, networking, storage, and observability. I'll demo provisioning a HyperPod cluster and running a distributed training job with automatic failure recovery, and share the cost levers that matter at scale.
Whether you're a platform engineer supporting ML teams or an ML engineer tired of fighting infrastructure, you'll leave with a decision framework and a blueprint you can implement.

Anton Nazaruk is CTO at Cloud Combinator, where he helps companies run GPU workloads on AWS - from early-stage startups to larger organisations doing distributed training at scale. He focuses on making ML infrastructure repeatable, resilient, and cost-efficient.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/anton-nazaruk

Check out https://www.oicheryl.com/cloudnativelondon if you're interested in speaking or sponsoring.

Klaus Bucka-Lassen: An agile advisor and consultant with 25+ years experience with helping organizations streamline their agile processes.

Lars Kruse: A Continuous Delivery and DevOps evangelist and consultant with 25+ years experience with helping organizations streamline their SDLC processes.

For 25 years we've been preaching the basic principles of Agile and DevOps to teams, colleagues and clients. Both Agile and DevOps have been declared DEAD many times. But now it's apparently un-dead (pun intended🤷‍♂️), as Agentic AI matures by the hour — a whole new breed of code contributors are entering the stage.

And they get EXACTLY what it's about: Agentic AI may just be the the best Agile and most DevOpsy team mates one could dream of.

What could possibly go wrong now?

You are hereby invited to a short intro (roughly 30 mins, expect slightly provocative and opinionated content — something that old men are still way better at than AI) followed by a facilitated lean coffee discussion on an apocaloptimistic perspective on:

"What the heck is going on in Agile and DevOps Right Now"

The venue is a bar 🍻 - so do not expect anything other than lively discussions with peers.

We're kicked out of the Workbar at 19:00 by the latest, but if the sentiment is right we may continue on to somewhere else and grab a bite after.

- Cheers!

Join us for an Apache Kafka® meetup on Thursday, May 7th from 6:00pm at matecoIT and hosted by Cymo!

📍Venue:
matecoIT
Mannebeekstraat 4 8790 Waregem

🗓 Agenda:

• 5:30pm: Doors open
• 6:00pm - 6:30pm: Yennick Trevels, Full-stack Data Engineer @ DigitalBuff
• 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Andreas Evers, CTO @ KOR
• 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Geert Pante, Owner Hi10 & Product Engineer @ matecoIT
• 7:30pm - 8:30pm: Additional Q&A & Networking

💡Speaker One:
Yennick Trevels, Full-stack Data Engineer, DigitalBuff

Title of Talk:
How Things Work - Inside Kafka Streams

Abstract:
In this session, we’ll dissect Kafka Streams, one of the major streaming frameworks within the Kafka ecosystem. We’ll uncover how it achieves high performance, high availability, and scalability — characteristics found in many distributed systems. You’ll come away with reusable patterns that apply across distributed systems, a sharper lens for comparing frameworks, and a clearer view of the strengths and weaknesses of a streaming framework.

💡 Speaker Two:
Andreas Evers, CTO @ KOR

Title of Talk: TBA

Abstract:

Bio:

💡 Speaker Three:
Geert Pante, Owner Hi10 & Product Engineer @ matecoIT

Title of Talk:
Do’s and Don’ts of Kafka Streams

Abstract:
Kafka Streams promises a rich toolbox: declarative processing, distributed Interactive Queries, and a clean developer experience.

Yet the moment you dive in head‑first, you quickly discover there are patterns to embrace, ... and pitfalls to avoid.

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DISCLAIMER
We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 18.
If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! community@confluent.io

[GDN] 22. Meetup Microsoft Azure User Group Poland w Gdańsku

Zapraszamy na 22. spotkanie trójmiejskiej społeczności Azure! Tym razem skupiamy się na migracji infrastruktury z onprem do Azure w praktyce. Spotykamy się w gościnnych progach Dynatrace DevOne Hub, aby wymienić się wiedzą i doświadczeniami.

ℹ️ KLUCZOWE INFORMACJE

• Data: 7 maja 2026
• Godzina: 18:00
• Lokalizacja: Dynatrace DevOne Hub, al. Grunwaldzka 411, Gdańsk
• Język: Sesje w j. polskim (tytuł sesji Michała pozostaje oryginalny).
• Rejestracja: Prosimy o podanie pełnego imienia i nazwiska przy zapisach (wymóg ochrony budynku).

🎤 AGENDA

• 18:00 – 18:10 Powitanie i wstęp - Paweł Siwek (Dynatrace)
• 18:10 – 19:00 Wdrożenie usług M365 i Azure dla SMB - Praktyczne podejście
  Sebastian Stybel , IT Systems Administrator / System Engineer | MCT
• 19:00 – 19:15 networking
• 19:15 – 20:00 VMware w świecie Azure – AVS, Arc czy Azure Local?
  Paweł Smorczewski, Elitmind, Cloud Architect
• 20:05 – 20:35 To nigdy nie jest lift and shift
  Piotr Tybulewicz, Senior Solutions Architect at C&F
• 20:35 - 21:00 🍕 Pizza & Networking

📝 O SESJACH

1. Wdrożenie usług M365 i Azure dla SMB - Praktyczne podejście
   Prelegent: Sebastian Stybel, IT Systems Administrator / System Engineer | MCT

Abstrakt:
Czy małe przedsiębiorstwa mogą zoptymalizować koszty utrzymania swojej infrastruktury w organizacji poprzez prawie całkowite pozbycie się jej z firmy?
Podczas tej sesji zaprezentuję praktyczny przykład migracji małego integratora IT, który zredukował swoją infrastrukturę On-Prem do minimum wykorzystując usługi M365, Intune, Azure.
Przyjrzymy się kosztom utrzymania takiego środowiska, bezpieczeństwu jakie ono daje oraz zastanowimy się nad ewentualnymi zagrożeniami takiego podejścia.

2. VMware w świecie Azure – AVS, Arc czy Azure Local?
Prelegent: Paweł Smorczewski, Elitmind, Cloud Architect

Abstrakt:
Masz środowisko VMware i zastanawiasz się, co dalej? Migracja, modernizacja, a może hybryda? W tej sesji przejdziemy przez realne opcje dostępne w ekosystemie Azure – od Azure VMware Solution, przez Azure Arc, aż po scenariusze z Azure Local.

3. To nigdy nie jest lift and shift
Piotr Tybulewicz, Senior Solutions Architect at C&F

Abstrakt:
Czyli o typowych problemach, z którymi się zderzyliśmy przy migracjach. Spoiler: migracja kodu często nie jest najbardziej pracochłonna częścią.

👋 Do zobaczenia na miejscu!

🔥 Zapraszamy na SysOps/DevOps Poznań MeetUp #28 🔥
📅 07.05.2026 godz. 18:00
💬 Sesja Q&A po każdej prelekcji
🎤 Prowadząca: Paulina Mojsak
🧭 Poznań, biuro Inetum, ul. Baraniaka 88B, budynek C, 4. piętro

Harmonogram:
👨‍🏫 18:00 Networking
👨‍🏫 18:15 Prelekcja #1: “DataOps i koszty: operacyjne wyzwania danych” - Adam Zuzo
👨‍🏫 19:20 Lightning Talk: “Google Cloud Platform pod maską: techniczna analiza usług kontenerowych” - Piotr Jakubowski
👨‍🏫 19:40 Prelekcja #2: “Problem "jajka i kury" w automatyzacji” - Damian Majewski
👨‍🏫 20:30 Networking i pizza!

📌Pamiętajcie, aby zapisać się też do grupy lokalnej - tutaj Poznań
https://www.meetup.com/sysopspoz/

📌Nagrania z poprzednich MeetUpów znajdziecie na YouTubie https://www.youtube.com/@SysOpsDevOpsPolska

Partnerzy:
✅ MDDV http://www.mddv.pl/
✅ Inetum https://www.inetum.com/en/poland

Patronat medialny:
✅ Tekknological https://tekknological.pl

Prelekcja #1: “DataOps i koszty: operacyjne wyzwania danych” - Adam Zuzo

W tej prezentacji skupimy się na praktycznych aspektach zarządzania danymi w chmurze z perspektywy DataOps - przede wszystkim na kosztach i ich optymalizacji. Adam pokaże, gdzie najczęściej „uciekają” pieniądze w systemach opartych o AWS i jak podejmować decyzje architektoniczne, które mają realny wpływ na rachunek. Zaczniemy od S3: lifecycle rules, partycjonowanie, formaty plików i kompresja - czyli rzeczy, które potrafią zrobić ogromną różnicę w kosztach. Porozmawiamy również o Apache Icebergu. Potem przejdziemy do compute: Athena (i dlaczego partycjonowanie ma znaczenie), zastanowimy się, kiedy warto rozważyć inne narzędzie, jak sensownie skalować EMR + Sparka oraz gdzie sprawdza się EMR Serverless i batchowe podejście. Całość spięta będzie praktycznym podejściem do budowania systemów danych, które są nie tylko skalowalne, ale przede wszystkim kosztowo efektywne.

Adam Zuzo - Data Engineer, który na co dzień buduje i rozwija rozwiązania oparte na danych w środowisku chmurowym (głównie AWS). Pracuje z szerokim spektrum danych - od zbiorów liczących setki tysięcy wierszy po miliardy rekordów w skali Big Data. Jeden z liderów poznańskiej grupy AWS, aktywnie zaangażowany w rozwój lokalnego środowiska technologicznego.

Lightning Talk: “Google Cloud Platform pod maską: techniczna analiza usług kontenerowych” - Piotr Jakubowski

Podczas tej prelekcji zajrzymy „pod maskę” usług takich jak Cloud Run oraz Container-Optimized OS. Skoncentrujemy się na konkretnych wyzwaniach konfiguracyjnych, omawiając bezpieczne wystawianie usług przez load balancery z użyciem Identity-Aware Proxy, a także kwestie integracji z Google Cloud Storage (Buckets) oraz Secret Managerem.

Piotr Jakubowski - aktualnie Senior Cloud Engineer w Żabka Future. Swoją technologiczną podróż zaczynał głęboko w terminalu jako Linux Engineer, co zrobiło z niego fanatyka Linuksa, automatyzacji i monitoringu. Ostatnio jego techniczne zainteresowania ewoluowały też w stronę rozwiązań DevOps, które wdraża w środowiskach chmurowych, choć w razie potrzeby chętnie wraca też do środowisk on-premises. Prywatnie pasjonat Smart Home - integruje wszystko, co ma procesor, kibic piłki nożnej oraz miłośnik muzyki rockowej i dobrego kina science-fiction.

Prelekcja #2: “Problem "jajka i kury" w automatyzacji” - Damian Majewski

Jak zautomatyzować wdrożenie systemu, jeśli do uruchomienia automatyzacji potrzebujesz… działającego systemu? Jak taki proces można ułatwić albo... utrudnić? Prędzej czy później każdy zderza się z tym klasycznym problemem „jajka i kury”. Podczas prelekcji Damian pokaże w praktyce, jak rozwiązać ten paradoks na przykładzie budowania infrastruktury w modelu out-of-the-box deployment przy zachowaniu żelaznej zasady "automation-first". Dowiecie się, jak zapanować nad współpracą wielu zespołów we wspólnym repozytorium oraz jak ewoluuje warsztat pracy osoby, która deleguje zadania wirtualnym agentom. Zapraszamy na spacer przez pole minowe, po którym sami ocenicie, czy do zbudowania produktu klasy enterprise nadal wystarczy laptop i czy można się czegoś pożytecznego nauczyć od halucynującego modelu.

Damian Majewski - w branży IT od ponad 15 lat. Przeszedł przez różne stanowiska - od wsparcia użytkowników, przez administrację systemami do inżyniera platformy, by dziś dumnie nosić tytuł specjalisty od spraw nudnych i beznadziejnych. Wyznawca zasady "automation-first". Pasjonat zdrowego stylu życia.

Regulamin SO/DO MeetUpów stacjonarnych: https://bit.ly/RegulaminSODO

REGISTRO OBLIGATORIO EN:
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📢📢 Ya tenemos fecha para el próximo evento!
Será por la tarde el próximo 7 de Mayo entre las 18:30pm - 20:30 pm en las oficinas de SUSE en Paseo de la Castellana 77, 28046 Madrid y como siempre: 2 charlas técnicas y tiempo de networking 🍻 🍕

Jose Antonio Garvayo:

• Confidential Computing with CoCo and Kata: Confidential computing es una tendencia destinada a proporcionar entornos de alta seguridad para la protección de los datos en uso; aunque existen muchas tecnologías que pueden utilizarse para ello, CNCF Confidential Containers y Kata son proyectos de la CNCF que permiten integrar la computación confidencial con Kubernetes para la orquestación. En esta charla presentaremos el concepto y los casos de uso de la Confidential computing, así como la forma en que se puede implementar mediante los proyectos CNCF CoCo y Kata.

Gustavo Varela Raggio:

• ¿De verdad necesitas un hipervisor tradicional?: En esta sesión veremos cómo llevar máquinas virtuales al mundo cloud-native usando KubeVirt y cómo Harvester ofrece una forma sencilla de desplegar esta arquitectura en entornos reales.
  Revisaremos las novedades de Harvester 1.8 y cerraremos con una demo práctica para aterrizar los conceptos.

Ya están abiertos los registros para apuntaros si queréis asistir presencial.
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Wir laden dich herzlich zum nächsten Azure Cloud Native Meetup - am Donnerstrag, 07. Mai ab 18:30 ein.
Egal wie dein Kenntnisstand ist, jeder ist herzlich Willkommen und kann etwas zu unseren Diskussionen beitragen. Wir freuen uns auf dich.

AGENDA
1️⃣ Terraform-Module als Governance? Fünf Anti-Patterns aus einer Enterprise-Azure-Plattform
🗣️ David O'Brien
➡️ Terraform-Module werden in vielen Azure-Umgebungen genutzt, um Governance und Standards durchzusetzen. Die Idee dahinter ist einfach: Wenn alle Ressourcen über Module bereitgestellt werden, lassen sich Guardrails zentral implementieren.

In großen Enterprise-Umgebungen funktioniert das jedoch oft anders als gedacht.
In diesem Vortrag zeige ich fünf typische Anti-Patterns, die entstehen, wenn Terraform-Module zur Durchsetzung von Governance eingesetzt werden: von wachsenden Modulbibliotheken über Plattform-Abhängigkeiten bis hin zu Governance-Logik, die eigentlich von der Plattform selbst kommen sollte.
Anhand realer Erfahrungen aus einer sehr großen Azure-Umgebung diskutieren wir, warum dieser Ansatz langfristig an seine Grenzen stößt und welche Rolle Plattformmechanismen wie Policies und Guardrails stattdessen spielen sollten.
Der Talk ist bewusst meinungsstark und soll eine Diskussion anstoßen:
Was gehört wirklich in Terraform und was sollte die Plattform selbst übernehmen?

📌 Wo: adesso Mobile Solutions; Agrippinawerft 26, 50678 Köln
📅 Wann: 07.05.2026 18:30 Uhr
🥤 Für Getränke und Essen ist vor Ort gesorgt.

Hello, fellow DevOps enthusiasts 🤓

On May 7th, we'll meet again for a couple of insightful talks, hosted by Dynatrace!

📍Location: Avda Diagonal 211 - 14th floor, Torre Glòries, Barcelona | https://maps.app.goo.gl/22q31ECkaW7BzDMD8
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📅 Agenda

• 18:30 - 18:40 Welcome from the hosts
• 18:45 - 19:30 "The microservices kool-aid and what that means for SREs"
• 19:30 - 20:15 "Observability in the AI-Native DevOps Age"
• 20:15 - 21:00 Networking & Snacks

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🎤 Talks & Speakers

• Title: "The microservices kool-aid and what that means for SREs"
• Speaker: Csaba Almási - Staff Platform Engineer at Neonomics.
• Duration: 30-45 mins
• Abstract: For years, the industry has treated microservices as the default architecture for any scaling project, but for SREs, this "Kool-Aid" often comes with a bitter aftertaste. This session moves past the hype to examine the true operational tax of service proliferation, specifically focusing on how fragmented architectures drive up observability costs and create silent performance bottlenecks through network overhead and resource contention. We will dive deep into the technical signals that reveal a "distributed monolith"—a system that shares the complexity of microservices but retains the rigid coupling of a legacy app—and provide a rubric for identifying when an architecture has become more of a liability than an asset.
  Beyond the theory, we’ll explore practical guidelines for determining when to actually decompose a monolith and, perhaps more importantly, when to move in the opposite direction. Using real-world examples from the field, we will walk through the architecture and design decisions behind both successful service extractions and strategic consolidations of over-engineered distributed systems. You’ll walk away with a framework for balancing technical depth with operational sanity, ensuring your architecture evolves based on performance data rather than industry trends.
• About: Csaba Almási is a Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Neonomics, where he focuses on building reliable platforms and maximizing the business impact of observability. With extensive experience in SRE and distributed systems, he specializes in bridging the gap between technical architecture and operational efficiency in the fintech sector.

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• Title: "Observability in the AI-Native DevOps Age"
• Speaker: Andreas (Andi) Grabner - CNCF Ambassador, Book Co-Author, and Fellow DevRel at Dynatrace
• Duration: 30-45 mins
• Abstract: AI is here to stay!
  The question is: How to make it an efficient DevOps partner for the human to build, test and operate software?
  The answer is simple: Just like humans, the AI can use observability to understand and optimize the impact of generated and deployed code and configuration.
  In this talk you learn the path through three important lessons on how observability as you know it is changing to become useful for the Human and the AI as we enter the AI-Native Age.
  1. The Observability Primer: “What’s different in observing an app, an AI or a workflow?"
  2. The AI Delivery Lifecycle: “How can my AI becomes better with observability?”
  3. Cost and Impact: “How can we speed up while staying within budget?”
  You will walk away and know how to best apply open standards like OpenTelemetry and OpenLLMetry to get insights and optimize your own usage of AI. Whether its for coding, automation or to provide it as a business feature!
• About: Andreas Grabner has 20+ years of experience as a software developer, tester, and architect, and is an advocate for high-performing cloud-scale applications. He is a CNCF ambassador, a contributor to the CNCF project keptn, a Co-Author of Platform Engineering for Architects, and a Fellow DevRel at Dynatrace.
  Andreas is also a regular contributor to the DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Cloud Native communities and a frequent speaker at technology conferences.
  In his spare time, you can most likely find him on one of the salsa dancefloors of the world!

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🔑 Important Access Note
Our host requires the attendees to provide their ID to grant us access to their offices. Do not forget to fill in the "NIF - NIE - Passport" field when registering, and do not forget to bring your ID!

Welcome to our first Birmingham meetup of 2026, hosted and sponsored by AND Digital in Brindley Place!

Details below:
Location: The Foundry, 6 Brindley Pl, Birmingham, B1 2JB.
Time: Doors open at 6PM
Drinks, Pizza, talks, and networking.

We’re excited to invite you to our 6th DevOps Society Meetup of 2026, proudly sponsored by AND Digital.
This event has two technical talks, which can be a fit for anybody. There will be some really technical bits in both talks, but also some high-level bits too, with two really exciting speakers lined up for this one in Jim and Toli.

Format of the Meetup:
6:00pm – 6:30pm — Networking on arrival, with food and drinks provided by AND Digital.
6:30pm – 7:10pm — First speaker + Q&A
7:10pm – 7:20pm — Break for refreshments and networking
7:20pm – 8:00pm — Second speaker + Q&A
8:00pm onwards — More networking at the venue, then at a nearby pub.
Timings can vary slightly depending on Q&A.

SPEAKER #1 - Jim Hanmer - Principal Solutions Architect @ AWS

Bio
Jim Hanmer is a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, where he advises startup CTOs on cloud and AI architecture. A builder at heart and distributed systems practitioner for over 25 years, he collaborates closely with AWS service teams to translate hard-won engineering lessons into practical guidance for teams building at any scale.

Talk Title:

Behind the Curtain: Lessons from Building the World's Largest Distributed Systems at Amazon
For 20 years, Amazon's engineers have shaped the design principles behind some of the world's largest distributed systems. This talk distils the lessons that matter most.
We'll explore the design principles that tackle the hardest challenges in distributed computing, including cell-based architectures, regional redundancy, static stability, and targeted fallback strategies. We'll also look at why operational observability and thorough instrumentation aren't optional extras, but survival skills when you're running systems at scale.
Whether you're building for millions of users or dozens, you'll leave with principles you can apply to your own systems.

SPEAKER #2 - Apostolis (Toli) Apostolidis - Lead Architect @ Flipdish & Datadog Ambassador

Bio:

Toli is a Software Engineering Practitioner who believes that learning and working together are catalysts for high-performing software-first teams who care about how their software serves their customers.
Toli's career began in the field of maths and physics, which led him into the world of software engineering, where he spent his formative first few years learning the craft while writing algorithms for solving large-scale "travelling-sales-person" problems across the globe. He has since worked with Brent from The Phoenix Project for a B2B energy company, the initial core team at cinch to build the fastest-growing unicorn in UK startup history, while he is currently helping Flipdish build the next generation of restaurant tech.

Throughout this journey, Toli fell in love with DevOps, Observability and Team Topologies, while he discovered a new passion for serverless, event-driven socio-technical architectural paradigms and product thinking.

Talk title:

Pay for What You Use, Use What You Pay For: Frugal Architecture with Datadog Cloud Costs

Description:
We've all seen that Slack message. Someone senior forwards the monthly cloud bill with a single line: "Can someone take a look at this? Why has it spiked so much?" Nobody knows. Even worse, nobody owns it. And that's exactly the issue.
At Flipdish, we fixed that by bringing cloud and SaaS cost data into Datadog: the same tool our engineers already use for logs, metrics and traces. Now spend wasn't a finance report. It was a dashboard any engineer could pull up, attribute to a service, and act on like any other signal.
In this talk, I'll share what we found when we actually looked, how we embed cost awareness into architecture reviews and incident response, and why AI workloads are making this discipline urgent, where a single runaway prompt can spike your bill overnight in a way no latency alert would catch. If you can alert on a p99 spike, you can alert on a cost spike. Same signal. Different dimension.

Please register now to book your spot!

Location - The Foundry, 6 Brindley Pl, Birmingham, B1 2JB.
Sponsors - AND Digital.

SREday: In-Person Event on SRE, DevOps & Cloud in BARCELONA
Conference focused on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, and cloud infrastructure, bringing together engineers, platform teams, and leaders to share real-world experience building, scaling, and operating reliable production systems.
🫆CFP
🎟 Free Entrance

AWS Community Day Türkiye is one of the world's biggest community-driven AWS events, and it's happening for the 7th time in the heart of Istanbul!
Our official website and all details regarding speakers & sponsors are available at aws.cloudturkey.io

Read ticket details carefully before you purchase.
Visit the tickets tab for details: AWS Community Day 2026 Tickets
Contact us if you have any questions at info@cloudturkey.io

Hosted by Smartly.io
Joint event with DevOps Finland - register only in one group! https://www.meetup.com/devops-finland/

Agenda
17:00 Doors open
17:30 Welcome / Cloud Native Helsinki & DevOps Finland & Smartly
17:45 Secured AWS access from baremetal Kubernetes / Nilanjan Roy, Ruiyang Ding, Erik Karsten @ Smartly
18:30 *** break ***
18:45 Running and Scaling the vLLM inference server optimally on Kubernetes / Esko Vähämäki, CTO and Co-founder @ ConfidentialMind
19:30 Free discussion
20:30 Doors close

Secured AWS access from baremetal Kubernetes
From long-lived secrets to identity: giving Kubernetes workloads AWS access the boring, safe way.
A cross-team collaboration by DevOps Engineers at Smartly.

Running and Scaling the vLLM inference server optimally on Kubernetes
Details coming up soon.
I’m a seasoned technology entrepreneur and software architect. Over the past six years, I’ve helped launch and grow venture-funded startups—including Surrogate.tv and ConfidentialMind—to transform ambitious ideas into successful products. At ConfidentialMind, I’ve led the development of Kubernetes-based system for generative AI, leveraging open-source technologies to drive innovation and scalability. I believe that actively contributing to open-source community and sharing best practices fuels both individual growth and the broader tech community, enabling us all to build more robust and impactful solutions.

Join DevOps Finland Slack and other channels: https://www.devopsfinland.org/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kcd-helsinki/

NOTE: The event will be live-streamed on the Cloud Native Nordics YouTube.

NOTE: Signing up for the event gets you a seat at the onsite event.

NOTE: Pictures might be taken during the event and be published to this meetup page. Also there will be a livestream during the event which picks up audio from the space. If you do not want to be included in any pictures, please let the organizers know.

Welcome to AWS User Group Tampere's May 2026 meetup. The event is kindly hosted and sponsored by Gofore.

Food and drinks are be provided by Gofore and the sauna is available for use after the program ends.

** Agenda **

17:00 - Doors open and food is served

17:30 - Program starts

• Welcome and Upcoming Events – User group crew
• Host Company Welcome – Gofore
• Working on a Open Source AWS CDK Project – Lessons Learned - Jari Voutilainen, Technical Project Manager (Gofore)
• From Fragile to Flexible: Migrating to AWS Account Factory for Terraform - Ari Luokkala & Markus Toivakka - SOK
  (More details of the session and presenters below.)

Afterwards – Possibility to use the sauna facilities (bring your own bathing suit + towel) or just hang around in the Meetup space.

From Fragile to Flexible: Migrating to AWS Account Factory for Terraform
Managing hundreds of AWS accounts is no small task—especially when the tooling behind it is brittle and officially unsupported. In this session, you’ll hear how SOK AWS Platform team is migrating from an aging deployment platform to AWS Account Factory for Terraform (AFT), the modern, officially supported way to manage AWS accounts at scale.

Session will cover the journey of importing existing accounts from CloudFormation into Terraform, lessons learned along the way, and how AFT helps to improve consistency, automation, and long-term maintainability. You'll walk away with practical insights into AFT, migration patterns, and pitfalls to avoid.

Ari Luokkala
Ari is a Principal Cloud Engineer at SOK, based in Helsinki. He works in the SOK AWS Platform team, where they focus on platform development and collaborate closely with development teams.
He’s passionate about cloud technology, driven by curiosity, and a strong believer in continuous learning. Outside of work, you'll most often find him enjoying sports or fishing.

Markus Toivakka
Markus is a hands-on Cloud Architect at the SOK AWS Platform Team. Once a strong advocate of CloudFormation over Terraform (those days are gone), he since has gathered plenty of experience from managing multi-account AWS environments that he’s excited to share.

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Gear – If you want to use the sauna, please bring your own bathing suit and towel.

Meetup – The meetup takes place at Gofore's Tampere office. There will be someone to greet you at the door when the event start and a sign with a phone number for latecomers.

Language – As always, we'll have the event in English to cater to a larger audience.

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As the event space can only host a limited number of meetup-goers, please remember to update your RSVP in case you can't make it to the event.

Hosted by Smartly.io
Sponsored by incidentist.io
Joint event with Kubernetes Finland - register only in one group! https://www.meetup.com/kubernetes-finland/

Agenda
17:00 Doors open
17:30 Welcome / DevOps Finland & Smartly
17:45 Secured AWS access from baremetal Kubernetes / Nilanjan Roy, Ruiyang Ding, Erik Karsten @ Smartly
18:30 *** break ***
18:45 Running and Scaling the vLLM inference server optimally on Kubernetes / Esko Vähämäki, CTO and Co-founder @ ConfidentialMind
19:30 Free discussion
20:30 Doors close

Secured AWS access from baremetal Kubernetes

From long-lived secrets to identity: giving Kubernetes workloads AWS access the boring, safe way.

A cross-team collaboration by DevOps Engineers at Smartly.

Running and Scaling the vLLM inference server optimally on Kubernetes

Details coming up soon.

I’m a seasoned technology entrepreneur and software architect. Over the past six years, I’ve helped launch and grow venture-funded startups—including Surrogate.tv and ConfidentialMind—to transform ambitious ideas into successful products. At ConfidentialMind, I’ve led the development of Kubernetes-based system for generative AI, leveraging open-source technologies to drive innovation and scalability. I believe that actively contributing to open-source community and sharing best practices fuels both individual growth and the broader tech community, enabling us all to build more robust and impactful solutions.

Streaming: coming up
Join our Slack and other channels: https://www.devopsfinland.org/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/102919614

Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2026 dürfen wir euch zu einem weiteren Cloud Native Meetup in Bern begrüssen. Es erwarten uns bei der Adnovum in Bern zwei spannende Talks!

16:30 – Türöffnung
17:00 – Begrüssung
17:05 - Orchestrating enterprise infrastructure from a single Cloud Native Control Plane (Angelo Gargiulo, Cyrill Näf, Bank Julius Bär)
Join us as we share Bank Julius Bär's transformative automation journey that began in 2018, when manually deploying a single application environment took weeks. We'll trace our evolution from basic server deployment automation to our current distributed cloud-native control plane known as Fleet Commander.
Our automation journey began by introducing VMware vRealize Automation for server deployments, expanding to databases, container platforms, and other services published on our "IT Shop" portal. As demand increased, our centralized team became a bottleneck, and our hybrid cloud strategy required a new approach.
We implemented a distributed responsibility model where technical teams manage their own automation within architectural guardrails. However, limitations in state management and infrastructure-as-code capabilities led us to develop Fleet Commander—a cloud-native control plane for both on-premise and public cloud environments.
This session explores how we're using Kubernetes and Crossplane to build a scalable automation framework with GitOps-first infrastructure provisioning. We'll cover the architecture patterns that enable unified automation interfaces through a Kubernetes-like API while supporting diverse infrastructure requirements and day 1/day 2 operations.
Audience Takeaways:
• Architecture patterns for building distributed automation systems on Kubernetes
• Approaches to scaling automation capabilities using Crossplane
• Strategies for implementing GitOps workflows in automation platforms
• Methods for creating unified automation interfaces across different infrastructure domains
• Real-world insights from our evolution to a distributed automation model
• Technical implementation of a cloud-native control plane for hybrid environments
17:45 – Pause
17:55 - Adnovum Managed Services on Azure - Our Road to Implementation (Daniel Hogg, Vitor Bernardo, Adnovum)
This session walks through Adnovum's path towards implementing managed services on Azure. We review the strategic goals that shaped our approach, the technical and organizational challenges we encountered along the way, and the key insights we gained through the process.
As a closing perspective, we explore how this initiative connects to the broader topic of digital sovereignty—and what that means in the Swiss context.
18:35 - Apéro

Wir freuen uns riesig, euch wieder bei uns zu begrüssen und gemeinsam in den Feierabend zu starten. Bis bald!
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📅 Date: Tuesday, May 12th
🕕 Time: 18:00 – 20:30
📍 Location: bsport office – Passatge de Tasso, 8, Barcelona

We’re excited to announce a new AWS User Group Barcelona meetup, hosted by bsport, where we’ll explore real-world architectures and scaling strategies on AWS.
This session will focus on practical implementations, featuring live demos and insights from engineers working in production environments.

Speaker: Alan Longuet (Staff SRE)
Discover how bsport deploys frontend applications using React and NX, leveraging AWS CloudFront and S3 to achieve scalable, global delivery.
We’ll also dive into how this approach is a key building block in their journey toward GitOps for frontend.
Expect a demo and real-world lessons learned.

Speakers: Ayoub Bentires Alj (Engineering Manager SRE) & Maxime Vernhet (SRE)
A deep dive into how bsport scaled ElastiCache (Redis) in production.

Join us for an evening of hands-on learning, real-world architectures, and great community vibes in Barcelona 🚀

Zapraszam na kolejne spotkanie Krakowskiej Microsoft Azure User Group Poland w 2026 roku! 12 maja (wtorek) o godzinie 18:00!

Zapewnimy solidną dawkę wiedzy, ale nasze spotkanie to przede wszystkim miejsce dla społeczności, przyjazna atmosfera, możliwość wymiany doświadczeń i nawiązywania nowych kontaktów przy pysznych przekąskach i orzeźwiających napojach! Każdy związany z Azure jest tu mile widziany! Rozwój, Integracja i Wiedza!
Event w języku polskim

❗ Zapisy przez MeetUp❗

🔗 Partnerem Majowego wydarzenia jest Medius!
💼 Medius jest liderem w obszarze tzw. spend management i pomaga klientom automatyzować zarządzanie wydatkami oraz fakturami — od ich rejestracji aż po płatność. Rozwijamy własny produkt, który kompleksowo wspiera globalne marki, a z naszych rozwiązań korzystają setki klientów na całym świecie.
Założony w Szwecji w 2001 roku, Medius ewoluował z lokalnego startupu w globalnego lidera, posiadającego biura m.in. w USA, Wielkiej Brytanii, Tunezji, Szwecji oraz Polsce. W naszym krakowskim oddziale znajdują się m.in. zespoły R&D, DevOps, Customer Success, HR oraz IT. Jest nas już ponad 150 osób i cały czas się rozwijamy!
Technologie, które wykorzystujemy to .NET, Microsoft Azure, React, TypeScript oraz Azure DevOps. Coraz szerzej wykorzystujemy także rozwiązania oparte o AI i ML w naszych produktach.
Najważniejsi w naszej organizacji są jednak ludzie — oprócz pracy spędzamy wspólnie czas podczas imprez, planszówek czy szwedzkiej fiki ☕

🔎 Miejsce spotkania: biuro Medius, ul. Stanisława Żółkiewskiego 17b, 31-539 Kraków

Agenda:
⏰ 17:45 - 18:00, Rejestracja
⏰ 18:00 - 18:20, "Cloud Welcome" - Dominik Skowron
⏰ 18:20 - 19:10, "From Pipelines to AI-driven DevOps" - Robert Ciałowicz
⏰ 19:10 - 19:20, Przerwa
⏰ 19:20 - 20:10, "Usługi Azure w środowiskach deweloperskich" - Paweł Chylak
⏰ 20:10 - 21:00, Zakończenie, Networking i Przekąski

Do Zobaczenia!

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Robert Ciałowicz - Azure Cloud Engineer / DevOps w Medius
Dowiedz się, jak wykorzystać AI w praktyce w świecie DevOps — od analizy błędów w pipeline’ach i wyników testów, przez podejmowanie decyzji, aż po pierwsze scenariusze „self-healing”. Na przykładach opartych o Azure pokażę, jak budować inteligentne workflow, które nie tylko raportują problemy, ale potrafią sugerować działania, a nawet częściowo je wykonywać.
Fan automatyzacji – od CI/CD i IaC po rozwiązania oparte o AI. W Medius kojarzony jako człowiek od „nie da się” i zadań specjalnych. Na co dzień tworzy pipeline’y, IaC i pomaga zespołom wdrażać AI, próbując przekonać do niego nawet najbardziej opornych (z różnym skutkiem).

Paweł Chylak - Cloud Solutions Architect | Cloud and DevOps Engineer | Azure | AWS | DevOps
Podczas tej sesji pokażę, jak w praktyce szybko i efektywnie tworzyć środowiska dla aplikacji rozwijanych przez zespoły deweloperskie z wykorzystaniem usług platformy Azure.
Sesja będzie miała charakter praktycznego demo – krok po kroku przejdziemy przez proces tworzenia środowiska, pokazując dobre praktyki DevOps, podejście Infrastructure as Code oraz sposoby na zapewnienie bezpieczeństwa i powtarzalności wdrożeń. Uczestnicy zobaczą, jak w krótkim czasie przygotować kompletne środowisko aplikacyjne, ograniczając ręczną konfigurację i przyspieszając pracę zespołu.

KubeCon just wrapped and the AWS summit will be right around the corner. What's better than an event that combines both?!

Join us for a relaxed evening of good conversation, familiar faces, and a couple of sharp talks from speakers who were just on stage. Whether you're still buzzing from KubeCon or gearing up for the AWS summit, this is the perfect way to bridge the gap.

On the agenda:
We'll line up two talks (roughly 20 minutes each) from speakers spanning both events — fresh perspectives, real-world insights, and plenty to talk about over drinks afterward.

The format:

• Walk in, grab a drink, say hi
• Two talks back to back (~40 min total)
• Open floor: food, drinks, and good people

Food and drinks will be on us. Vegetarian options will be made available.

This one is intentionally low-key: no packed agenda, no rush. Just a chill chance to connect and learn more about tech you like from real people.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Dear Community,

Another month with an interesting talk right before Hamburg Summit, and we would like to hear your thoughts for the rest of the year and after. Will be pleased to have you with us on the evening! We have limited seats - 50 only - first come first served!
Our dearest thanks to Lightspeed for hosting us on the evening!

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18:30 - Warming up and networking chat
18:45 - Intro by AWS UG Berlin
19:00 - 19:40 - Elias Abud // Delegated Access Management at Scale with AWS IAM Identity Center

This talk presents a delegation architecture that enables project owners and security stakeholders to manage their own users, groups, accounts, and permission sets while maintaining central governance. The solution introduces a unified API layer that can operate across multiple Identity Center instances and enforces organizational policies and quotas. It also applies the Backpressure Pattern to control request rates and protect Identity Center from overload.
Participants will learn how to implement delegated identity management at scale while balancing autonomy for teams with centralized security oversight.

19:40 - 20:00 - Networking break with food, snacks and drinks

20:00 - 20:40 - AWS User Group - Ask Me Anything

We would like to dedicate the time and stage to you, our dearest community members to ask your questions, share your thoughts and ideas, provide feedback. This can be technical, or community related. Everyone is welcome, and we aim to address your input in the upcoming AWS Summit and more.

20:40 - 20:45 - Closing & Final Remarks

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Very Important: Only 50 seats are available for this event. If you want to make sure you can attend:
Register yourself with your "full name" here at meetup.com
Arrive on time - seats are first come, first served.

As soon as there are seats available, you are welcome to join with your registration. In case there are no more seats available, we won't be able to let you join us this time. We thank you very much for your understanding!

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Additional Information

This event is wheelchair friendly. Help us spread the word, and invite your friends & colleagues! If you're attending with wheelchair and need assistance, please mail us: organisers@berlinawsug.de for further details.

Would you like to host AWS UG Berlin events at your company? Register here
Would you like to speak at AWS UG Berlin sessions? Submit your talk here

Hello and welcome to the May Yorkshire Azure User Group event!

For those that are new to our community, we are a diverse technical community hosting events across South Yorkshire on a monthly basis with some of the best minds in the industry. Everyone is welcome regardless of technical background, so feel free to join us for the evening - if you have any questions, just reach out to one of the organisers!

This month's event is hosted by our good friends over at Axiologik
in Leeds - the venue is a 5 minutes' walk from Leeds station. As usual food and drink will be provided.

Session #1 - Why Understanding Hardware Topology for Resource Allocation? By Femi Osho.

Delivered by Femi Osho, an open source enthusiast, this talk will have a look at why having an understanding of the hardware topology a workload is running on is important for efficient resource allocation.

Session #2 - TBC.

As always, we are grateful for all our speakers & sponsors for helping us keep this community alive - if you'd like to sponsor or speak at event yourself, please reach out to one of the committee members on LinkedIn.

~ The Yorkshire Azure User Group committee

Most telemetry is held together with string literals and good intentions. This talk shows how OpenTelemetry Weaver lets you treat your .NET application's telemetry like a proper engineering artifact — with schemas, codegen, validation, and live checks against what your app actually emits.

We'll cover:

• Defining a semantic convention registry as a single source of truth for your telemetry and the open standards
• Generating type-safe .NET code from that registry so you stop hand-typing attribute strings
• Validating your registry with policy checks in CI
• Using Weaver's Live Check to compare your running app's telemetry against your schema and catch drift before it breaks your alerts

Venue
This meeting is at Spektrix, 196 Deansgate.

Near to the Blacks store, and right next door to Pieminister, see building photo in the event gallery.

There will be someone in the foyer who will sign you in and then tell you how to find the venue.

This is a free event - there is no charge for a ticket or for the refreshments.

This event is in the form of a talk so you don't need to bring a laptop.

We often get enough RSVP's for there to be a waiting list; the list has always cleared by the early part of the week of the talk, but this relies on you releasing your ticket if you can no longer attend. Please remember to do this if your plans change.

Please ensure we have an email address that you do look at, so we can let you know of any last minute changes; and please use your full name on the site as it's the only way we, or the fire service, can account for you in the case of an evacuation/emergency/fire etc.

Catering will be provided (pizza and drinks). If you have any special dietary requirements please let us know via the event chat.

If you would need assistance to leave the building in the event of an evacuation then please let us know via the event chat.

Note for recruitment professionals - we don't exclude recruiters from our meetings but we would ask you to contact Rick Garner for a brief chat before you start attending.

Schedule
Doors open from 18:00
Intro and welcome 18:40
Speaker 18:50 (with a break at some point)
Wrap-up & prize raffle 20.45
Close ~21:00
(Don't feel bad if you have to leave early for a train/bus/lift home - no one will be offended)

We then adjourn to a local bar for a drink and a natter - this bit is optional but everyone is welcome to join us!

🔥Free tickets: https://azurecongress.pl/

Join the Azure Congress 2026 conference

The conference is held stationary in Warsaw.
The second edition launches on May 13, 2026, at BEC space at ul. Emilii Plater 53 (on the 23rd floor) in the center of Warsaw. It is aimed at IT professionals who want to find their way around the world of the latest technologies, tools, and businesses.

Tickets to the conferences are free. Registration is required.

The conference is intended only for people currently working in the IT industry.

🔥Free tickets: https://azurecongress.pl/

Roy Kim will demo a Personal Health Agent hosted in AKS that is supported by a technology stack of Microsoft AI Foundry hosted LLMs, Azure Kubernetes, AKS KAITO add-on, phi-4 LLM, Azure SQL DB, Streamlit Chat UI and Python.
Roy will cover scenarios of storing health profiles and photos of meals and infer macronutrients and store in an Azure SQL DB for long-term agent memory. Then ask questions to the agent about past health history, historical calorie deficits, health goal tracking for weight loss, and much more.
Thee application architecture covers Microsoft Agent Framework orchestration, Streamlit front end, durable memory design, and model selection across cloud and AKS in-cluster backends with KAITO LLM hosted models such as phi 3.5 vision.

Contact: Sam Nasr (snasr@nistechnologies.com)

Cost: Free (open to the public)

We're a group of folks brought together by our shared love of community, coffee, software development and operations (DevOps) in NYC.

Come on by, have a seat, enjoy a nice (hot|cold) cup of (coffee|tea), and chat with some fellow early-risers about the things that we're passionate about: dev+ops, human+ops, leadership, automation, metrics, infrastructure as code, and all the other things that make what we do so fascinating.

We use the lean coffee process (https://www.meetup.com/nyc-kanban/pages/19274429/Running_a_Lean_Coffee) to help facilitate discussion among DevOps enthusiasts, DevOps Engineers, and those interested in learning more about the topic. Everyone is welcome!

Please note that we strictly follow the CoffeeOps Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct (http://bit.ly/2G1fVYI).

Inspired by #CoffeeOps, started in San Francisco by the amazing Jennifer Davis (@sigje).

🔥 Zapraszamy na SysOps/DevOps Warszawa MeetUp #85 🔥
📅 14.05.2026 godz. 18:00
💬 Sesja Q&A po każdej prelekcji
🎤 Prowadząca: Monika Haszcz
🧭 Warszawa, siedziba PZU, Rondo Ignacego Daszyńskiego 4

Harmonogram:
👨‍🏫 18:00 Networking
👨‍🏫 18:15 Prelekcja #1: “Bezpieczeństwo w Kubernetes: zarządzanie siecią i sekretami’ - Jakub Jastrzębski, Paweł Zimny
👨‍🏫 19:20 Prelekcja #2: “WAF - The Thin Line Between Secure and Down” - Michał Komendera
👨‍🏫 20:15 Networking i pizza!

Uwaga! Na wydarzenie obowiązują zapisy - sprawdź regulamin! Weź też ze sobą dokument tożsamości - będzie potrzebny na recepcji.

📌Pamiętajcie, żeby zapisać się też do warszawskiej grupy lokalnej:
https://www.meetup.com/pl-pl/sysopswarszawa/

📌Nagrania z poprzednich MeetUpów znajdziecie na YouTubie
https://www.youtube.com/@SysOpsDevOpsPolska

Partnerzy:
✅ MDDV https://www.mddv.pl/
✅ PZU https://www.pzu.pl/silniwit
✅ Monday.com https://monday.com/lang/pl
✅ Air Space Intelligence https://www.airspace-intelligence.com
✅ Nord Security https://bit.ly/4jyaqnR
✅ Surfshark https://surfshark.com/career

Prelekcja #1: “Bezpieczeństwo w Kubernetes: zarządzanie siecią i sekretami” - Jakub Jastrzębski, Paweł Zimny

Odkąd dbanie o bezpieczeństwo cyfrowe stało się powszechne w projektach IT, zarządzanie danymi wrażliwymi stało się kluczowym elementem ochrony systemów.. Obecnie istnieje wiele narzędzi, które to umożliwiają. Jednym z nich jest Azure KeyVault. W tej prelekcji Jakub i Paweł opowiedzą o tym, w jaki sposób można używać Azure KeyVaulta do zarządzania całym cyklem życia sekretów kubernetesowych, korzystając z narzędzia AKV2K8S. Następnie przejdą do Gateway API i pokażą, jak zmienia on sposób zarządzania ruchem sieciowym, zastępując klasyczne mechanizmy oparte o Ingress. Całość zostanie oparta na realnym scenariuszu produkcyjnym, uzupełnionym o krótkie demo, które pokaże, jak w praktyce budować bezpieczne i nowoczesne środowiska Kubernetes.

Jakub Jastrzębski - DevOps Specialist w dziale Digital& w PwC. Pracował w wielu projektach z różnych sektorów gospodarczych (w tym publiczny, finansowy, telekomunikacyjny), zdobywając doświadczenie w pracy z różnymi klientami oraz technologiami. Obecnie najczęściej pracuje na infrastrukturze w chmurze Azure, wykorzystując azure'ową dystrybucję Kuberentesa, czyli Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Skupia się na praktycznym wykorzystaniu technologii cloud i DevOps w rozwiązywaniu realnych problemów biznesowych oraz poprawie bezpieczeństwa i niezawodności systemów.

Paweł Zimny - Lead DevOps Engineer realizujący międzynarodowe projekty IT w ramach globalnej sieci PwC. Od ponad 11 lat działa w branży, a obecnie pełni wiodącą rolę w obszarze DevOps, gdzie odpowiada za kluczowe decyzje technologiczne oraz wyznaczanie kierunku rozwoju rozwiązań i wdrożeń. Swoją karierę rozwijał jako programista .NET, administrator systemów i team leader. Jest absolwentem informatyki na Uniwersytecie Gdańskim oraz autorem książki poświęconej roli consultingu IT w transformacji organizacji.

Prelekcja #2: “WAF - The Thin Line Between Secure and Down” - Michał Komendera

Web Application Firewall często bywa postrzegany jako prosty w konfiguracji komponent, skuteczny w zabezpieczeniu aplikacji webowych przed znanymi atakami, a nawet zagrożeniami zero-day. Niestety, rozwiązanie to jest delikatne, przez co granica między skuteczną ochroną a przypadkowym ograniczeniem dostępu dla wszystkich użytkowników jest bardzo cienka. Podczas prelekcji Michał omówi podejścia architektoniczne do integracji wielośrodowiskowych aplikacji webowych z rozwiązaniami klasy WAF, wskaże operacyjne pułapki związane z zarządzaniem własnymi, jak i gotowymi zestawami reguł, a także przyjrzy się technikom stosowanym przez atakujących do omijania zabezpieczeń gwarantowanych przez WAFy.

Michał Komendera - pasjonat cyberbezpieczeństwa z wieloletnim doświadczeniem w obszarze technik ofensywnych i inżynierii bezpieczeństwa. Łączy perspektywę atakującego z praktycznym podejściem do budowania odpornych systemów, co przekłada się na głębokie zrozumienie tego, jak rzeczywiste zagrożenia wpływają na środowiska produkcyjne. Na co dzień pracuje jako Security Architect w Nord Security, gdzie aktywnie uczestniczy w procesach SSDLC i wspiera zespoły w budowaniu bezpiecznych produktów.

Regulamin SO/DO MeetUpów stacjonarnych: https://bit.ly/RegulaminSODO

We have returned! We got busy, blinked, and then a year passed.
We missed you! You missed us! What a time to be alive! Anyway...

I'm excited to announce our return to our first home Squarespace, on May 14th, where they will be treating us to two new talks, and some Pizza!

- Deployment orchestration with Auto Rollbacks using Argo - Sean Ryan
- Reliable On-Demand Cloud Environments for Microservice Development - Ronan Watkins

To facilitate building security we will be closing signups on May 12th. Please sign up before then to avoid disappointment.

We are always on the look out for more speakers! If you've an idea, please reach out! And now that I mention it, the CFP for SRECon just opened, we can be your gateway to the next stage!
Check it here: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon26emea/call-for-participation

Finally you can find us on the the Irish Tech Community Slack in the channel #SRE. Sign up here.

See you there!
T.