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AWS User Group Berlin Session - January 2026
2026-01-13 · 17:30
Dear Community, as we step into the year ahead, we’re full of excitement for what’s to come and can’t wait to welcome you to our first session of the year at our new home, NLND Berlin. Check out the details below, and we look forward to having all of you with us! 18:30 - Warming up and networking chat 18:45 - Intro by AWS UG Berlin & NLND 19:00 - 19:45 - Dr. Andreas E. Wagner // Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for An AI-powered Future As leaders create an AI-powered future, they need to integrate their cognitive intelligence with their emotional intelligence to build adaptable, resilient, and innovative organizations. These leaders have deep empathy for customers and foster a culture of creativity and psychological safety among their employees. They need to be data-driven but also authentically human. This session will help leaders understand the EPIC attributes needed to drive successful outcomes in the new human+AI era. Andreas is an experienced Business Coach. He has held senior management functions in sales, services, business development, and marketing. Through his experience at AWS, Ericsson, Huawei, Hitachi, Fujitsu, and Ingram, Andreas has gained a very good insight in several industries and diverse cultural leadership contexts. 19:45 - 20:05 - Network break with snacks & drinks 20:05 - 20:50 - Enrico Kern // Beyond AWS: The Case for OpenStack and Data Sovereignty Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on the evolving cloud landscape in Europe, where growing data sovereignty requirements and regulatory compliance are reshaping enterprise cloud strategies beyond traditional AWS/Public-Cloud-only approaches. Drawing from real-world experience managing enterprise-scale AWS deployments, we'll explore how organizations are increasingly evaluating OpenStack (or other alternative solutions) not just as a complement to Public Clouds and Hyperscalers, but potentially as a strategic alternative that offers complete control over data location, processing, and governance while maintaining enterprise-grade scalability. Learn how the European push for digital sovereignty and emerging data residency laws, is creating new opportunities for hybrid architectures using hybrid approaches, and in some cases, complete migration paths to sovereign cloud solutions. This session addresses the broader industry shift toward data independence in Europe, with open dialogue about balancing innovation, compliance, and strategic autonomy in your cloud decisions. Enrico has worked for more than 20 years as a System Engineer around ever evolving ecosystems, maintained a $500,000/month AWS infrastructure and 4 large On-Prem Datacenters with AWS DirectConnect as CIO for an AdTech company for multiple years. He implemented Public Cloud Infrastructure for Large Entities with 2000+ employees for AWS, Azure & GCP. He currently runs a company specialized in OpenStack, helping large companies and government entities to deploy, run and maintain OpenStack/SCS environments and implementing K8SaaS. 20:50 - 21:00 - Closing Announcements & Networking =================================================== Very Important: There is no "waitlist" for our regular sessions. However, there are limited seats available. 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 serve. 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! =================================================== 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: [email protected] 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 |
AWS User Group Berlin Session - January 2026
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The S in SRE is for...Sustainable! + Pub Quiz
2026-01-13 · 17:00
Hello everyone! Come and join us for our first meetup of 2026 at AWS, Mr.Treublaan 7 on the 4th floor, 1097 DP Amsterdam, where we dive into the topic of sustainability with the featured talks from Nati Cohen and Nourolhoda Alemi followed by an SRE themed pub quiz🥳 Agenda 18:00 Doors open, food and socialising 19:00 Opening by SRE NL Meetup Host 19:05 ARM Migration Made Practical by Nati Cohen (AWS) 19:35 Building a Greener Digital Landscape: Core Principles of Sustainable IT by Nourolhoda Alemi (ING) 20:10 Pub Quiz, Networking & Drinks 21:00 End Abstracts: ARM Migration Made Practical by Nati Cohen ARM processors are shaking up the cloud by delivering faster performance, lower costs, and greener computing. But with all these benefits, why do so many teams still hesitate to make the leap? This session makes ARM migration practical: we’ll clarify the architecture, identify easy-to-migrate workloads, and share proven steps for evaluation and transition. Learn why real-world testing matters, discover essential tools, and build multi-arch containers without increasing CI time. Whether you’re starting a new project or updating legacy apps, get actionable insights for a smooth, successful migration. Nati is a Solutions Architect with AWS. He delights in helping customers simplify complex systems, teaching them about the inner workings of cloud services and debugging annoying technical oddities. When he is not at his computer he is soldering electronic kits, tinkering with smaller computers and drumming on a Taiko. Building a Greener Digital Landscape: Core Principles of Sustainable IT by Nourolhoda Alemi This talk delves into the foundational concepts of Green IT alongside ING’s best practices, offering a comprehensive perspective on how technology can drive both innovation and sustainability. Join me to explore: • The challenges of assessing sustainability in IT systems • Strategic approaches to reduce digital environmental footprints • Principles of sustainable software design and development • Best practices of sustainable IT within ING organization Whether you're an IT leader, developer, or tech enthusiast, this talk will provide you with practical insights to align your digital strategies with sustainability goals. Let’s think green—and build a cleaner digital world. Nourolhoda is an Engineering Manager within the Cash & Payments domain at ING. With 13 years of solid experience in Backend Engineering and an academic background in Artificial Intelligence, she is passionate about integrating Green IT best practices into infrastructure, codebases, and architectural design. Beyond her professional expertise, she is a watercolor artist as well. Privacy notice(s):
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Google NY Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Tech Talks, 16 Dec 2025
2025-12-16 · 23:00
Google SRE NYC proudly announces our last Google SRE NYC Tech Talk for 2025. This event is co-sponsored by sentry.io. Thank you Sentry for your partnership! Let's farewell 2025 with three amazing interactive short talks on Site Reliability and DevOps topics! As always the event will include an opportunity to mingle with the speakers and attendees over some light snacks and beverages after the talks. The Meetup will take place on Tuesday, 16th of December 2025 at 6:00 PM at our Chelsea Markets office in NYC. The doors will open at 5:30 pm. Pls RSVP only if you're able to attend in-person, there will be no live streaming. When RSVP'ing to this event, please enter your full name exactly as it appears on your government issued ID. You will be required to present your ID at check in. Agenda: Paul Jaffre - Senior Developer Experience Engineer\, sentry.io One Trace to Rule Them All: Unifying Sentry Errors with OpenTelemetry tracing SREs face the challenge of operating reliable observability infrastructure while avoiding vendor lock-in from proprietary APM (Application Performance Monitoring) solutions. OpenTelemetry has become the standard for instrumenting applications, allowing teams to collect traces, metrics, and logs. But raw telemetry data isn't enough. SREs need tools to visualize, debug, and respond to production incidents quickly. Sentry now supports OTLP, enabling teams to send OpenTelemetry data directly to Sentry for analysis. This talk covers how Sentry's OTLP support works in practice: connecting frontend and backend traces across services, correlating logs with distributed traces, and using tools to identify slow queries and performance bottlenecks. We'll discuss the practical benefits for SREs, like faster incident resolution, better cross-team debugging, and the flexibility to change observability backends without re-instrumenting code. Paul’s background spans engineering, product management, UX design, and open source. He has a soft spot for dev tools and loses sleep over making things easy to understand and use. Paul has a dynamic professional background, from strategy to stability. His time at Krossover Intelligence established a strong foundation by blending Product Management with hands-on development, and he later focused on core reliability at MakerBot, where he implemented automated end-to-end testing and drove performance improvements. He then extended this expertise in stability and scale at Cypress.io, where he served as a Developer Experience Engineer, focusing on improving workflow, contribution, and usability for their widely adopted open-source community. Thiara Ortiz - Cloud Gaming SRE Manager\, Netflix Managing Black Box Systems SREs often face ambiguity when managing black box systems (LLMs, Games, Poorly Understood Dependencies). We will discuss how Netflix monitors service health as black boxes using multiple measurement techniques to understand system behavior, aligning with the need for robust observability tools. These strategies are crucial for system reliability and user experience. By proactively identifying and resolving issues, we ensure smoother playback experience and maintain user trust, even as the platform continues to evolve and gain maturity. The principles shared within this talk can be expanded to other applications such as AI reliability in data quality and model deployments. Thiara has worked at some of the largest internet companies in the world, Meta and Netflix. During her time at Meta, Thiara found a passion for distributed systems and bringing new hardware into production. Always curious to explore new solutions to complex problems, Thiara developed Fleet Scanner, internally known as Lemonaid, to perform memory, compute, and storage benchmarks on each Meta server in production. This service runs on over 5 million servers and continues to be utilized at Meta. Since Meta, Thiara has been working at Netflix as a Senior CDN Reliability engineer, and now, Cloud Gaming SRE Manager. When incidents occur and Netflix's systems do not behave as expected, Thiara can be found working and engaging the necessary teams to remediate these issues. Andrew Espira - Platform and Site Reliability Engineer\, Founding Engineer kustode ML-Powered Predictive SRE: Using Behavioral Signals to Prevent Cluster Inefficiencies Before They Impact Production SREs managing ML clusters often discover resource inefficiencies and queue bottlenecks only after they've impacted production services. This talk presents a machine learning approach to predict these issues before they occur, transforming SRE from reactive firefighting to proactive system optimization. We demonstrate how to build predictive models using production cluster traces that identify two critical failure modes: (1) GPU under-utilization relative to requested resources, and (2) abnormal queue wait times that indicate impending service degradation. The SRE practitioners will learn how to extract early warning indicators from standard cluster logs, build ML models that provide actionable confidence scores for operational decisions, and take practical steps to integrate predictive analytics into existing SRE toolchains to achieve 50%+ reduction in resource waste and queue-related incidents This talk bridges the gap between traditional SRE observability and modern predictive analytics, showing how teams can evolve from reactive monitoring to intelligent, forward-looking reliability engineering" Andrew has over 8 years of experience architecting and maintaining large-scale distributed systems. He is the Founding Engineer of Kustode (kustode.com), where he develops cutting-edge reliability and observability solutions for modern infrastructure in the Insurance and health care solutions space. Currently pursuing graduate studies in Data Science at Saint Peter's University, he specializes in the intersection of reliability engineering and artificial intelligence. His research focuses on applying machine learning to operational challenges, with publications in peer-reviewed venues including ScienceDirect. He's passionate about making complex systems more predictable and maintainable through data-driven approaches. When not optimizing cluster performance or building the next generation of observability tools, Andrew enjoys contributing to open-source projects and mentoring early-career engineers in the SRE community. Our Tech Talks series are for professional development and networking: no recruiters, sales or press please! Google is committed to providing a harassment-free and inclusive conference experience for everyone, and all participants must follow our Event Community Guidelines. The event will be photographed and video recorded. Event space is limited! A reservation is required to attend. Reserve your spot today and share the event details with your SRE/DevOps friends 🙂 |
Google NY Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Tech Talks, 16 Dec 2025
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Cloud Native + AI Winter edition!
2025-12-15 · 16:30
Introduction: Welcome to the last meetup of the year! This time we have again a great international name all the way from Denmark, Kaspar is a veteran of the Cloud Native community and an inspiration to many. Agenda: 🤝17:30-18:10 Walk-in 👀 18:10-18:15 Welcome from Dash0 🎤 8:15-18:45 1st Talk: "Breaking Free with Open Standards: OpenTelemetry and Perses for Observability" by Kasper Borg Nissen, Principal Developer Advocate at Dash0 🍕18:45-18:55 Break & food 🎤18:55-19:40 2nd talk: "Lessons learn creating Walrus (High Performance kafka alternative written in Rust)" by Daksh R, 🍻20:30 - 21:30 Networking & drinks (open for impromptu lighting talk) 📌21:30 End 1st Talk: Title: Breaking Free with Open Standards: OpenTelemetry and Perses for Observability Description: Observability is the backbone of modern cloud-native applications, but many organizations find themselves locked into proprietary tools with rising costs, rigid ecosystems, and limited flexibility. In this talk, we’ll explore how open observability standards like OpenTelemetry for instrumentation and Perses for monitoring-as-code are transforming the landscape by enabling vendor-neutral, scalable, and future-proof observability stacks. We’ll start with an introduction to OpenTelemetry, covering how to get started, instrument applications, and provide developer-friendly abstractions for seamless auto-instrumentation. From there, we’ll dive into Perses, a CNCF Sandbox project that brings open, declarative, and portable dashboards to observability. By building on these open standards, organizations gain the freedom to mix and match storage, visualization, and analytics tools without being tied to a single vendor. Join this session to learn how OpenTelemetry and Perses can help you scale observability, stay in control of your data, and ensure developers get the insights they need exactly when they need them. Bio: Kasper is a CNCF Ambassador, former KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Co-Chair, Golden Kubestronaut, KCD Organizer, and CNCG Group Organizer. He co-founded Cloud Native Nordics to unite meetups across the region. As a Principal Developer Advocate at Dash0, he helps make observability easy for developers by advocating for better tooling, best practices, and seamless integrations. 2nd Talk: Title: Lessons learn creating Walrus (High Performance kafka alternative written in Rust)" by Daksh R, Description: Bio: Photography/Video consent: We will be taking photos and videos during the event and will use these photos and videos for social media and promotional materials. By coming to the meet-up, you give us your consent to take photos and videos of you. Code of Conduct: All members are required to agree with the Berlin Code of Conduct. Directions: The meetup will take place at Mindstone Amsterdam offices in Singel. Parking is limited, but the venue is easily accessible by public transport or by bike. Important notes:
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Databricks Cost Optimization | Data Engineering Meetup | Berlin, Dec 9th
2025-12-09 · 17:30
We're celebrating 1 year applydata Meetups in Berlin! 🎉 Let’s kick things off for our last Meetup in 2025, this time focusing on Databricks Cost Optimization and featuring an interactive data engineering quiz. Join us on December 9th in Berlin and bring all your questions & curiosity! Kaan Ara: "Databricks Cost Optimization: A Multi-Layered Strategy for Performance and Efficiency"**Kaan Ara, Senior Cloud Engineer at Diconium, about his talk: "Databricks cost optimization requires a multi-layered strategy that focuses on three pillars: efficient Compute, optimized Storage, and strict Governance. Efficiency is driven by leveraging technologies like Photon and Serverless SQL, while storage is optimized using Delta Lake features such as Z-ordering and aggressive vacuuming. Strict governance, enforced through cluster policies and auto-termination, ensures these technical gains translate into consistent budget predictability without sacrificing performance." Who's the data expert in the room? Interactive data pub quizAfter the keynote, it’s your turn: we’ll fire up a quiz in pub-style. There’s no prep needed – everyone is welcome to join, no matter if you're a data engineering expert or a data newbie! What to expect:
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More on the -> applydata data engineering meetup page. Our goal is to form a local data-loving community, so join us and let's talk data together! --- At the event, sound, image and video recordings are created and published for documentation purposes as well as for the presentation of the event in publicly accessible media, on websites and blogs and for presentation on social media. By participating the event, the participant implicitly consents to the aforementioned photo and/or video recordings. Find more information on data protection here. |
Databricks Cost Optimization | Data Engineering Meetup | Berlin, Dec 9th
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Please sign up here to get the confirmation Do you really need to spin up dozens of near-prod environments to support your developers? Spoiler: you don't. Most teams spin up isolated development environments for each developer which are expensive, hard to maintain, and often not even faithful to production. In this webinar, we'll show you how mirrord lets every developer safely treat your shared staging environment as their own, directly from their local machine. No more sky-high infra bills. No more surprise bugs in prod. Join us to learn how you can:
After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance. A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event. Speaker: Arsh Sharma - Senior DevRel @ MetalBear Arsh is a Senior DevRel Engineer at MetalBear and a CNCF Ambassador. He has previously been awarded the Kubernetes Contributor Award. He loves tinkering with new projects in the cloud ecosystem and writing about his learnings. He has worked in the platform engineering space during the last three years and was part of the open-source Kubernetes team at VMware prior to that. He has also contributed to CNCF projects such as cert-manager and Kyverno. Arsh has written blogs and delivered talks on various topics in the cloud ecosystem. |
One environment to rule them all: How mirrord eliminates dev environment chaos
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Please sign up here to get the confirmation Do you really need to spin up dozens of near-prod environments to support your developers? Spoiler: you don't. Most teams spin up isolated development environments for each developer which are expensive, hard to maintain, and often not even faithful to production. In this webinar, we'll show you how mirrord lets every developer safely treat your shared staging environment as their own, directly from their local machine. No more sky-high infra bills. No more surprise bugs in prod. Join us to learn how you can:
After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance. A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event. Speaker: Arsh Sharma - Senior DevRel @ MetalBear Arsh is a Senior DevRel Engineer at MetalBear and a CNCF Ambassador. He has previously been awarded the Kubernetes Contributor Award. He loves tinkering with new projects in the cloud ecosystem and writing about his learnings. He has worked in the platform engineering space during the last three years and was part of the open-source Kubernetes team at VMware prior to that. He has also contributed to CNCF projects such as cert-manager and Kyverno. Arsh has written blogs and delivered talks on various topics in the cloud ecosystem. |
One environment to rule them all: How mirrord eliminates dev environment chaos
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DevFest Berlin 2025
2025-11-22 · 09:00
🚨 Call for Papers is Now Closed! 🚨 Check out the schedule on https://devfest-berlin-2025.sessionize.com/ DevFest is the world’s largest community-driven tech conference, organized by Google Developer Groups worldwide. It’s your chance to share your expertise, connect with fellow developers, and explore the latest in developer tools, tech trends, and innovation. 🗓️ Date: November 22, 2025 📍 Location: CODE University of Applied Sciences, Neukölln, Berlin 🧠 Organized by: Flutter Berlin, GDG Berlin, GDG Berlin Android (Berlindroid), GDG Berlin Cloud, GDG Berlin Golang, Kotlin User Group Berlin, and Women Techmakers Berlin. 📢 Submit your talk now: 👉 Call for Papers 🌐Official Website: 👉 devfest.berlin 📩Join Early bird WaitList: 👉 RSVP / Waiting List ⚠️ Note: Registration will open soon! The RSVP button currently shows “Sold Out” — don’t worry, that’s temporary. Stay tuned and join the waiting list to be the first to know when tickets go live. Join the waitlist for early bird Let’s build, learn, and connect at #DevFestBerlin 2025! 💥 |
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Bridging the AI–Data Gap: Collect, Curate, Serve
2025-11-02 · 19:31
Summary In this episode of the Data Engineering Podcast Omri Lifshitz (CTO) and Ido Bronstein (CEO) of Upriver talk about the growing gap between AI's demand for high-quality data and organizations' current data practices. They discuss why AI accelerates both the supply and demand sides of data, highlighting that the bottleneck lies in the "middle layer" of curation, semantics, and serving. Omri and Ido outline a three-part framework for making data usable by LLMs and agents: collect, curate, serve, and share challenges of scaling from POCs to production, including compounding error rates and reliability concerns. They also explore organizational shifts, patterns for managing context windows, pragmatic views on schema choices, and Upriver's approach to building autonomous data workflows using determinism and LLMs at the right boundaries. The conversation concludes with a look ahead to AI-first data platforms where engineers supervise business semantics while automation stitches technical details end-to-end. Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data managementData teams everywhere face the same problem: they're forcing ML models, streaming data, and real-time processing through orchestration tools built for simple ETL. The result? Inflexible infrastructure that can't adapt to different workloads. That's why Cash App and Cisco rely on Prefect. Cash App's fraud detection team got what they needed - flexible compute options, isolated environments for custom packages, and seamless data exchange between workflows. Each model runs on the right infrastructure, whether that's high-memory machines or distributed compute. Orchestration is the foundation that determines whether your data team ships or struggles. ETL, ML model training, AI Engineering, Streaming - Prefect runs it all from ingestion to activation in one platform. Whoop and 1Password also trust Prefect for their data operations. If these industry leaders use Prefect for critical workflows, see what it can do for you at dataengineeringpodcast.com/prefect.Data migrations are brutal. They drag on for months—sometimes years—burning through resources and crushing team morale. Datafold's AI-powered Migration Agent changes all that. Their unique combination of AI code translation and automated data validation has helped companies complete migrations up to 10 times faster than manual approaches. And they're so confident in their solution, they'll actually guarantee your timeline in writing. Ready to turn your year-long migration into weeks? Visit dataengineeringpodcast.com/datafold today for the details.Composable data infrastructure is great, until you spend all of your time gluing it together. Bruin is an open source framework, driven from the command line, that makes integration a breeze. Write Python and SQL to handle the business logic, and let Bruin handle the heavy lifting of data movement, lineage tracking, data quality monitoring, and governance enforcement. Bruin allows you to build end-to-end data workflows using AI, has connectors for hundreds of platforms, and helps data teams deliver faster. Teams that use Bruin need less engineering effort to process data and benefit from a fully integrated data platform. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/bruin today to get started. And for dbt Cloud customers, they'll give you $1,000 credit to migrate to Bruin Cloud.Your host is Tobias Macey and today I'm interviewing Omri Lifshitz and Ido Bronstein about the challenges of keeping up with the demand for data when supporting AI systemsInterview IntroductionHow did you get involved in the area of data management?We're here to talk about "The Growing Gap Between Data & AI". From your perspective, what is this gap, and why do you think it's widening so rapidly right now?How does this gap relate to the founding story of Upriver? What problems were you and your co-founders experiencing that led you to build this?The core premise of new AI tools, from RAG pipelines to LLM agents, is that they are only as good as the data they're given. How does this "garbage in, garbage out" problem change when the "in" is not a static file but a complex, high-velocity, and constantly changing data pipeline?Upriver is described as an "intelligent agent system" and an "autonomous data engineer." This is a fascinating "AI to solve for AI" approach. Can you describe this agent-based architecture and how it specifically works to bridge that data-AI gap?Your website mentions a "Data Context Layer" that turns "tribal knowledge" into a "machine-usable mode." This sounds critical for AI. How do you capture that context, and how does it make data "AI-ready" in a way that a traditional data catalog or quality tool doesn't?What are the most innovative or unexpected ways you've seen companies trying to make their data "AI-ready"? And where are the biggest points of failure you observe?What has been the most challenging or unexpected lesson you've learned while building an AI system (Upriver) that is designed to fix the data foundation for other AI systems?When is an autonomous, agent-based approach not the right solution for a team's data quality problems? What organizational or technical maturity is required to even start closing this data-AI gap?What do you have planned for the future of Upriver? And looking more broadly, how do you see this gap between data and AI evolving over the next few years?Contact Info Ido - LinkedInOmri - LinkedInParting Question From your perspective, what is the biggest gap in the tooling or technology for data management today?Closing Announcements Thank you for listening! Don't forget to check out our other shows. Podcast.init covers the Python language, its community, and the innovative ways it is being used. The AI Engineering Podcast is your guide to the fast-moving world of building AI systems.Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the mailing list, and read the show notes.If you've learned something or tried out a project from the show then tell us about it! Email [email protected] with your story.Links UpriverRAG == Retrieval Augmented GenerationAI Engineering Podcast EpisodeAI AgentContext WindowModel Finetuning)The intro and outro music is from The Hug by The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA |
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PyData Cluj-Napoca: Meetup #29
2025-10-28 · 16:00
🍁 PyData Autumn Gathering — October 28 🍂 As the leaves turn and the air grows crisp, join us for a day of data, discovery, and community at PyData Cluj-Napoca! This autumn edition brings together data enthusiasts, analysts, and machine learning practitioners to explore the latest tools and techniques in Python’s data ecosystem. Expect engaging talks, hands-on sessions, and lively discussions on topics ranging from pandas and PySpark to modern AI workflows. Whether you’re refining your data engineering skills or diving into new machine learning approaches, this event is your chance to learn, connect, and be inspired. Let’s celebrate the season of change — and innovation — together. 🍂 Don't forget to bring good vibes and warmth for a social and informative evening! We'll have goodies for hanging out, courtesy of Global Logic. 🍕🥤🌇 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Introduction to the Unified Namespace (UNS) architecture" by Pócs Géza A presentation and demo session demonstrating the use of MQTT brokers and broker bridging to create a single source of truth across distributed systems—from edge devices to cloud analytics platforms. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Unifying Data and AI: How to Deliver More Value with the Databricks Lakehouse Platform" by Mircea Chira Discover how to build end-to-end data and AI solutions on a single, collaborative platform. In this session, we'll walk through the Databricks Lakehouse, showing you how to move seamlessly from raw data ingestion to a production-ready machine learning model. You'll see how core components like Delta Lake, the pandas API on Spark, and MLflow work together to eliminate data silos and simplify your workflow. This talk is for Python data professionals who want to spend less time managing tools and more time delivering value. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NumFOCUS Code of Conduct https://numfocus.org/code-of-conduct |
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AWS User Group Berlin Session - October 2025
2025-10-14 · 16:30
Dear Community, Another month with two great speakers gladly joining us. Besides we kept our promise! The AWS DevTools Hero from Cologne joins us with his remarkable talk presented at Summit Hamburg. This month is also special, because the event is self-hosted. You read it right! We have our own place now and we organise this month event ourselves. More details below, we look forward meeting you all in our new home, NLND Berlin! =================================================== 18:30 - Warming up and networking chat 18:45 - Intro by AWS UG Berlin 19:00 - 19:30 - Christian Bonzelet // From Glass-To-Glass: Building Live Streaming Solutions with AWS Elemental Services You want to build the next Twitch? You are sure it should run on AWS but you don’t know how to start? Or maybe you're just curious about how streaming giants deliver smooth video experiences to millions of viewers? This session is for you! Building video streaming solutions used to be a complex journey requiring deep expertise in protocols, codecs, and infrastructure management. But I've got good news: video processing has evolved into a commodity from complex infrastructure to composable cloud services. Let me guide you on how to build a professional livestreaming solution on AWS. From raw camera ingest to engaging viewer experience, you will discover how AWS Elemental services can be pieced together like building blocks to create powerful streaming solutions. After this session, you will be all set to turn your streaming ideas into reality. Now, go stream! 19:30 - 20:00 - Lukas Müller // Beyond the Code: How We Build PartyRock at AWS PartyRock enables anyone to build and share AI-powered apps without writing code - but how do you build such a product at AWS? I'll pull back the curtain on PartyRock's architecture, and spoiler: it's less complex than you might expect. We run completely serverless with a surprisingly straightforward stack. But simple doesn't mean easy - I'll share technical lessons learned that you'll want to consider for your own GenAI services. Then we'll tackle the real challenge: users understand chat interfaces, but PartyRock is something different. How do you explain to non-technical users that they can create AI apps by connecting components instead of having conversations? You'll leave with practical architectural patterns, technical gotchas to avoid, and insights about the often-overlooked challenge of making GenAI genuinely accessible beyond just chat interfaces. 20:00 - 20:20 - Networking break with food, snacks and drinks 20:20 - 21:00 - Common Q&A held by Christian & Lukas =================================================== Very Important: There is no "waitlist" for our regular sessions. However, there are limited seats available. 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 serve. 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! =================================================== 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: [email protected] 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 |
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AI needs platform engineers
2025-10-02 · 17:00
The Generative AI boom has led to an explosion of tools, artifacts, libraries, and models - all of which now need to be managed, updated, secured, and scaled. Platform engineering has a huge role to play here: let’s talk about it. Organizations around the world are suddenly trying to figure out how to use, secure, deploy, and scale a new artifact - genAI models - alongside new and existing cloud platforms. In her role at Broadcom, Tasha Drew led a team adding AI platform capabilities to VMware Cloud Foundation. Join Tasha as she discusses the challenges platform teams can help with in this rapidly moving and growing ecosystem, and open source tools and platforms teams can use to meet those challenges. After a 45-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance. A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event. Speaker: Tasha Drew - Director of Product Engineering, AI @ Broadcom Tasha Drew is Senior Director at Broadcom, leading the AI and Advanced Services team in the CTO’s office. She focuses on integrating AI into VMware Cloud Foundation, improving developer productivity, and advancing private AI solutions. Tasha is also active in the open-source community, especially in Kubernetes. |
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AI needs platform engineers
2025-10-02 · 17:00
The Generative AI boom has led to an explosion of tools, artifacts, libraries, and models - all of which now need to be managed, updated, secured, and scaled. Platform engineering has a huge role to play here: let’s talk about it. Organizations around the world are suddenly trying to figure out how to use, secure, deploy, and scale a new artifact - genAI models - alongside new and existing cloud platforms. In her role at Broadcom, Tasha Drew led a team adding AI platform capabilities to VMware Cloud Foundation. Join Tasha as she discusses the challenges platform teams can help with in this rapidly moving and growing ecosystem, and open source tools and platforms teams can use to meet those challenges. After a 45-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance. A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event. Speaker: Tasha Drew - Director of Product Engineering, AI @ Broadcom Tasha Drew is Senior Director at Broadcom, leading the AI and Advanced Services team in the CTO’s office. She focuses on integrating AI into VMware Cloud Foundation, improving developer productivity, and advancing private AI solutions. Tasha is also active in the open-source community, especially in Kubernetes. |
AI needs platform engineers
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Dear data-loving community, we can't wait to present to you our new Meetup event: This time, it will be a collaboration with RisingWave, a platform for real-time streaming data management and analysis. Yingjun Wu, Founder and CEO at RisingWave Labs, will share his experience in a techy talk, as well as Behnaz Derakhshani, who works as a Specialist Data Engineer at Diconium's data department. Additionally, we're going to welcome external guest speaker Erik Schmiegelow, CEO at Hivemind Technologies. Exciting line-up, right? :D Join us on September 16th in Berlin and bring all your questions! Here are the topics you can expect: Yingjun Wu: Achieving Sub‑100 ms Real‑Time Stream Processing with an S3‑Native Architecture Stream processing systems have traditionally relied on local storage engines such as RocksDB to achieve low latency. While effective in single-node setups, this model doesn't scale well in the cloud, where elasticity and separation of compute and storage are essential. In this talk, we'll explore how RisingWave rethinks the architecture by building directly on top of S3 while still delivering sub-100 ms latency. At the core is Hummock, a log-structured state engine designed for object storage. Hummock organizes state into a three-tier hierarchy: in-memory cache for the hottest keys, disk cache managed by Foyer for warm data, and S3 as the persistent cold tier. This approach ensures queries never directly hit S3, avoiding its variable performance. We'll also examine how remote compaction offloads heavy maintenance tasks from query nodes, eliminating interference between user queries and background operations. Combined with fine-grained caching policies and eviction strategies, this architecture enables both consistent query performance and cloud-native elasticity. Attendees will walk away with a deeper understanding of how to design streaming systems that balance durability, scalability, and low latency in an S3-based environment. Behnaz Derakhshani: From Raw Data to Trusted Assets: A Practical Walkthrough with AWS services and Collibra Expect a hands-on journey of Behnaz showing how modern data lake tools and governance platforms connect the dots, making your data discoverable, governed, and productized for real-world use. Erik Schmiegelow: Effective Agentic GenAI in Data Streaming Successful genAI projects strike the balance between impact, accuracy, and cost. In this talk, Erik will cover how to create agentic data applications effectively, choosing when and how to integrate them in data streams and keep response quality issues and costs in check. What you can expect:
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Our goal is to form a local data-loving community, so join us and let's talk data together! -> Our event page, where you can also contact us if you want to present in the future at our Meetup: Data Engineering MeetUp Berlin - applydata --- At the event, sound, image and video recordings are created and published for documentation purposes as well as for the presentation of the event in publicly accessible media, on websites and blogs and for presentation on social media. By participating the event, the participant implicitly consents to the aforementioned photo and/or video recordings. Find more information on data protection here. |
Data Builders’ Evening: Architecture, Engineering & Beyond | Berlin, Sep. 16th
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We're in for a treat! The first of two events in september, to pick back up after a summer break. To start September off, we have 2 talks from Snowflake Engineering, which is a treat since they are traveling across Europe to meet LSUG in London. Max Heimel \| Taking a Peek Under the Hood of Snowflake's Query Performance FeaturesOne of Snowflake's core architectural advantages is its ability to deliver high-performance analytics without sacrificing elasticity. Central to this is our separation of compute and storage: data lives in cloud storage, accessible by any compute node on demand, while transactional consistency is maintained through a centralized metadata service. This separation enables near-instant spin-up of compute resources, but it also means that reading data comes at a cost. To keep queries fast and efficient, we need to be smart about what data we bring onto the node and what we skip. That's where Snowflake's metadata system comes in: each micro-partition is richly annotated with statistics and summaries that let our engine quickly prune away irrelevant data before scanning even begins. In this talk, we'll take you on a deep dive into how Snowflake organizes data internally, how we use metadata to make intelligent pruning decisions, and how you can take advantage of features like clustering and search optimization to speed up your own workloads. Marco Slot \| Postgres vs. Unistore: When to use whichSnowflake recently announced the acquisition of Crunchy Data and the Snowflake Postgres managed service. With that, Snowflake now offers two operational database products: Unistore and Postgres. This talk will go into architectural differences between Postgres and Unistore, and discuss the application characteristics that determine whether you should use one or the other. We'll also look at example scenarios for hybrid- and operational workloads and how they map into Unistore and Postgres. |
LSUG | Meet the Snowflake Engineering team|Under the hood Query Performance & Sn
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AWS Women's User Group Berlin: June Event - Technical Workshop
2025-06-18 · 16:00
Upscale Your AWS Skills: A Workshop for Every Experience Level The AWS Women's User Group Berlin is excited to announce our upcoming event on Wednesday, June 18th, in collaboration with Netlight. This special meetup aims to create an inclusive space for women and FLINTA* in the tech industry to learn, network and work on gaining new skills together. Event Details Date: Wednesday, June 18th, 2025 Time: 18:00-21:00 Location: Netlight Consulting , Invalidenstraße 117, 10115 Berlin What to expect
Who Should Attend? The event welcomes women and FLINTA* in tech, whether you're:
Workshop details Put your architect hat on! During this interactive session, you'll dive into real AWS architecture challenges alongside peers in a supportive environment. Choose from various technical scenarios and collaborate to design solutions that leverage AWS services effectively. Several challenge tracks will be available, so whether you're just starting out or have experience with AWS you'll walk away with valuable insights and practical skills you can apply immediately. Speakers & Facilitators Inspirational Talk – 18:40 Friederike Land Cloud & DevOps Consultant @ Netlight Frieda brings extensive experience in service-oriented and event-driven architectures, AWS cloud computing, and design thinking. In her role at Netlight, she combines her technical expertise with a strong commitment to fostering a more inclusive tech industry. In her talk, she will share reflections from her career journey, explore the value of diverse perspectives in the tech field, and highlight what it means to lead innovation as a woman in cloud computing and DevOps. Technical Workshop – 19:00 Prepare for an engaging, hands-on session where you'll work collaboratively in small groups to tackle real-world AWS architecture challenges. You can choose from a variety of scenarios that align with your interests and experience level. Whether you are new to AWS or already using it in your daily work, this session is designed to be welcoming, practical, and interactive. Workshop Facilitators:
Media Consent We inform all attendees that photographs and videos will be taken during the meetup and will only be used by the event organizers for documentation and promotional purposes. Please let the organizers know if you do not want to be in the pictures/videos. Thank you very much for your cooperation! ** The AWS Women’s User Group is the very first official women-centric AWS User Group in DACH and EMEA. This group serves as a secure and supportive platform for women who want to share their AWS knowledge, passion for cloud computing and advance their careers through targeted learning opportunities. We extend a warm invitation to FLINTA* individuals who are interested in being part of our User Group. Code of Conduct: At the AWS Women's User Group in Berlin, we have a strong and unequivocal code of conduct in place to create a safe and empowering environment for all. |
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First Usergroup Meeting: Launch Edition
2025-06-12 · 17:00
🌈 You're Invited: The Inaugural Meetup of the LGBTQIA+ Usergroup 🌈 📍 Hosted at the Snowflake Office We are excited to welcome you to the very first in-person meetup of the newly formed LGBTQIA+ usergroup! This inaugural event is more than just a gathering — it’s the start of something powerful: a space where LGBTQIA+ individuals and allies can connect, share experiences, and build lasting community. Hosted at the Snowflake office, the evening will center around the themes of belonging, support, and empowerment, with a mix of talks, discussions, entertainment, and plenty of opportunities to connect. ✨ Event Highlights & Agenda: 🕕 18:00 – 19:00 | User Group Launch Snowflake Welcome User Group Welcome: Ana & Isabella will introduce the vision for the user group and how you can be part of it. Talk: Building Inclusive Communities at the Workplace (20 mins): Ana will share her experience building inclusive community at workplace focusing on inclusive practices and the power of community with an expanded emphasis on belonging. Interactive Roundtable: Join Rafael, Dan & Isabella in a dynamic session to share ideas, find common ground, and spark synergy in how we can support each other and grow this community. Just Like Us session by the UK charity. 🎭 19:00 – 19:45 | Entertainment & Prize Raffle Draw Let’s turn up the joy! Enjoy a fabulous performance by a Drag King & Queen, followed by a prize raffle draw with surprises in store. 🍹 19:45 – 20:30 | Networking Drinks Continue the conversation over drinks and light refreshments. Connect with fellow attendees in a relaxed, welcoming environment. 🎤 20:30 | Event Wrap-Up We’ll close the evening with final thoughts and gratitude, and share what’s next for the user group. Agenda 06:00 PM: Welcome Snowflake and Usergroup Leaders Welcome 6:10 PM: Talk Building Inclusive Community At Workplace 6:30 PM: Round Table Get to know each other & find synergies for supporting community 6:45 PM: Talk Just Like Us 7:00 PM: Entertainment Entertainment & Prize Raffle Draw - Drag King & Queen 7:45 PM: Networking drinks 8:30 PM: Wrap-Up Speakers Anastasiia Stefanska - TUI (Data Analyst, Snowflake Champion) Anastasiia has 10 years of cloud technology and data analytics expertise through working at Google, Salesforce, PwC as well as multiple startups. Currently working for TUI, one of the world's leading global tourism platform companies. Anastasiia is passionate about communities & enablement. In her free time, she is an eager jogger, swimmer and traveler. Isabella Renzetti - Independent Consultant (Data Analytics Consultant, Trainer & Coach) Panelists Rafael Massei - Snowflake (Regional Head of Developer Marketing - EMEA) Isabella Renzetti - Independent Consultant (Data Analytics Consultant, Trainer & Coach) Dan Cox - Snowflake (Global Client Lead) Hosted By Anastasiia Stefanska, Data Analyst I have 10 years of cloud technology and data analytics expertise through working at Google, Salesforce, PwC as well as multiple startups. Currently working for TUI, one of the world's leading global tourism platform companies. I am passionate about communities & enablement. In her free time, she is an eager jogger, swimmer and traveler. Isabella Renzetti, Data Analytics Consultant, Trainer & Coach I have +10 years of data analytics expertise gained through working with consultancy companies and startups. Since 2023, I’ve been part of the Snowflake Data Superhero program. I’m currently working as a freelance data analytics consultant and trainer, and I’m passionate about coaching and empowering women in the tech industry Snowflake User GroupsComplete your event RSVP here: https://usergroups.snowflake.com/events/details/snowflake-lgbtqia-presents-first-usergroup-meeting-launch-edition/. |
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AWS User Group Berlin Event - June 2025
2025-06-10 · 16:30
Dear Community, After a gathering of a nice welcome to the sunny days ahead, we are back with our regular sessions - presented to you at its best! June will be an exciting month. This time AWS Summit taking place in Hamburg, we will be pleased to meet you in the aftermath of it, enjoy an evening with great conversations and learnings as always! The event is hosted by bonial - we look forward seeing you all with us! =================================================== 18:30 - Warming up and networking chat 18:45 - Intro by AWS UG Berlin 19:00 - 19:40 - Yevhen Poloziukov // Cloud-Savvy PM: How AWS Knowledge Elevates Project Management In today’s cloud-driven world, project managers don’t need to write infrastructure code—but understanding AWS principles can make all the difference. In this session, Yevhen will share how building cloud fluency through certification and leveraging AI tools like ChatGPT has helped him manage risks, improve collaboration with tech teams, and deliver better outcomes. This talk offers practical insights for non-technical professionals who want to lead smarter in cloud projects without becoming DevOps experts. 19:40 - 20:00 - Network break with snacks & drinks 20:00 - 20:40 - AWS User Group AMA - Summit Special AWS Summit is a full-day regional conference organised by AWS, bringing the community together for technical presentations, workshops, and networking opportunities. We expect some announcements and insights worth sharing, and discuss with you at every level. This is also an opportunity for our members to "Ask Me Anything" - from beginner level to expert level, join us, grab the microphone, and share your questions and thoughts! 20:40 - 21:00 - Closing Announcements & Networking =================================================== Very Important: There is no "waitlist" for our regular sessions. However, there are limited seats available. If you want to make sure you can attend:
⚠️ In case there are no more seats available, we won't be able to let you join us. Please arrive the event on time, to make sure you can attend ⚠️ We thank you very much for your understanding! =================================================== 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: [email protected] 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 |
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Data engineering meetup | Snowflake, dbt, Dagster | May 22, Berlin
2025-05-22 · 16:30
Let’s kick things off for another meetup, this time focusing on building a scalable, decentralized data platform and business intelligence. Join us for an engaging Meetup on May 22nd in Berlin - bring all your questions! Lessons from the Cloud: Building a Scalable, Decentralized Data Platform with Snowflake, dbt & S3 Fahad Hassan, data engineering team lead at Ratepay, will share practical patterns and lessons learned while designing a multi-warehouse data platform across analytics, risk, and finance — including decisions to simplify modeling, decentralize ownership, and optimize cost and governance in Snowflake. He’ll also highlight challenges faced with legacy systems and how Ratepay tackled them using dbt and clean lake structures. Business Intelligence in practice: Dagster & DBT Enabling the business to make informed decisions based on data requires a lot of developer work. From integrating external partner services to building data models, you need to make sure the data is fresh and can be relied upon to see the full scope of the problem. Emilija Dankevičiūtė, a data engineer from diconium data, will present an architecture that uses Dagster and dbt to build a central data processing platform. What to expect:
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More on the -> applydata data engineering meetup page. Our goal is to form a local data-loving community, so join us and let's talk data together! --- At the event, sound, image and video recordings are created and published for documentation purposes as well as for the presentation of the event in publicly accessible media, on websites and blogs and for presentation on social media. By participating the event, the participant implicitly consents to the aforementioned photo and/or video recordings. Find more information on data protection here. |
Data engineering meetup | Snowflake, dbt, Dagster | May 22, Berlin
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Atlassian Community + Customer Led Conference
2025-05-15 · 13:00
Our "CLC" event is back this year, bringing together community members, customers, and speakers from near and far! Join us for an afternoon and evening packed with expert insights, real-world customer stories, and exciting updates from Team '25. Whether you're a long-time Atlassian user or a first-time attendee, you won't want to miss the opportunity to network, learn, and engage with the Atlassian community. Here's what's in store: ✨ A powerhouse panel and Atlassian talk recapping the biggest announcements from Team '25, and what they really mean for customers, vendors, and users 🎤 Real-world stories from customers like Flix (FlixBus, FlixTrain) and Trivago 🧠 Expert insights from leading Marketplace Partners 🤝 Plenty of time to mingle, network, and enjoy great food, drinks, and swag! Event details: 📅 Date: Thursday, May 15, 2025 🕒 Time: 3:00 PM – 10:00 PM CEST 📍 Location: GLS Campus Berlin, Kastanienallee 82, 10435 Berlin ➡️ RSVP Today: RSVP Link Agenda:
We hope to see you there! Astrid, Fredi, Hubert & Kathryn Atlassian Community Champions (Berlin-Brandenburg) |
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