!!! NEW LOCATION !!! Change of location, the event will take place in co.up in Adalbertstraße 8, 10999 Berlin.

Have you ever wondered what Cloud Native is? Are you tired of hearing about Kubernetes and not knowing what it does? Would you like to learn more about different areas of Cloud Native? If you have ever considered a career in the cloud, this event is a perfect place for you to start. This growing industry is offering a lot of jobs and you'll get a chance to find out how to participate even without previous experience.

✍️ Event description This meetup is hosted by Empowered in Tech together with the Kubernetes and Cloud Native meetup. Our mission for this event is to make Cloud Native more accessible and invite more people to consider it as a career possibility. We will introduce the basics of Cloud Native. Explaining and introducing basic terms and concepts. Then we'll move onto a panel discussion where we want to share and discuss stories of people who are currently employed in the area and related and motivate all of you to consider Cloud Native as a career choice.

1. Talk: Observability 101 The talk will explore the fundamentals of observability and its three essential pillars: logs, metrics, and traces. By the end of this session, attendees will have a solid understanding of how these pillars work together to provide insights into system behavior and performance.In addition, the talk will highlight exciting developments in the Cloud Native ecosystem, with a focus on open-source solutions like OpenTelemetry, which is redefining how we instrument and analyze applications.Designed to be beginner-friendly, this session requires no prior knowledge, making it accessible to anyone eager to learn the basics of observability. Interaction and discussions are encouraged throughout the session, providing an engaging and collaborative learning environment for all participants.

🏢 Location We are kindly hosted by coworking space co.up and pizzas will be provided by our sponsor Snowflake.

⏰ Agenda 18:00 Doors open, we'll mingle and have some snacks 18:30 Intro and welcome from your hosts 18:40 Talk by Nele: Observability 101 19:00 Break 19:30 Panel Discussion: Transition your career to cloud native 20:30 Time for Networking

🗣 Speaker Nele Uhlemann Nele Uhlemann is a Developer Advocate at Fiberplane. Her passion is enabling collaboration among multiple stakeholders in building and running Software. Switching sides from application development to infrastructure topics, she understands the challenges of enabling knowledge sharing to run systems more efficiently. She advocates for Open Source technologies as she believes those are catalysts for organizations to build flexible solutions.

🪑 Panelists

Sinny Kumari Sinny is an Engineering Manager at Red Hat for the dnf team. Prior to that she has been a Software Engineer for \~11.5 years at Red Hat, having worked on developing and maintaining one of the core operators of OpenShift. She is an Open Source enthusiast and has contributed to Fedora and KDE projects.

Jessica Greene Jessica Greene is a self/community taught developer, previously working in the film industry as well as a stint as a specialty coffee roaster. She joined Ecosia.org in 2018 to put her digital skills towards a better planet where she works as Senior ML engineer focused on seeing where ML and generative AI can improve our search experience. When not writing code to help users make online activities climate action, she co leads her local PyLadies chapter Berlin, as well as being a board member of the Python Software Verband (PySV) and member of the PSF conduct working group. She is the 2024 winner of the PyLadies award and was awarded the Python Software foundation community service award.

Gloria Doci Gloria is a software engineer at Snowflake, a cloud data platform. She works on building the core components that enable low-latency data streaming, with an emphasis on scalability and cloud-native design.

Sandra Ahlgrimm Sandra is a Cloud Developer Advocate focusing on Java in Microservice Architectures and Containers on the Azure platform. She helps in the Docker and Kubernetes community whenever she can. She is organizing the JUG Berlin/Brandenburg and the Berlin Docker Meetup. Sandra has a strong background in software development. She holds an M.Sc. in Media and Computer Science from Berlin University of Applied Sciences. During her studies she worked in several Start Ups and Companies of Axel Springers where she gained expertise in setting up hybrid infrastructures, devops culture and process automation. Sandra is a huge fan of event driven architectures with real time requirements.

👋 About Us Stay in touch with the community! Join our Slack: https://bit.ly/EmpoweredInTechSlack We are a local community in Berlin dedicated to empowering FLINTA (women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans and agender) people to excel in their tech journey. Our events offer study groups, technical workshops, hackathons, networking events, panel discussions, lightning talks, and social events.

💗 Code of Conduct We are dedicated to providing a safe and welcoming experience for everyone who participates in our events. Our events aim to empower diverse women and we welcome everyone who identifies as a woman or another underrepresented group in tech or an ally. We follow the Berlin Code of Conduct for our events: https://berlincodeofconduct.org/

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