The Luca Berton Blog
1844+ expert articles on AI, Kubernetes, Ansible, Platform Engineering, and cloud infrastructure — practical, hands-on guides and industry insights from Luca Berton, AI & Cloud Advisor. Explore tutorials, deep dives, and the latest from every topic.
AdvancedJS Amsterdam 2024: SolidStart and Angular
AdvancedJS Amsterdam, 16th edition: a SolidStart demo, Minko Gechev on web frameworks at Google, and lightning talks on the TypeScript compiler API and Zod.
Agents in Production at AI House and HOPE 2025
One day in Amsterdam: a platform maturity model at HCS company's HOPE 2025, then Just Eat Takeaway's CTO on cultural lag at Agents in Production, AI House.
21 min read
AI Tinkerers Amsterdam 2024: Groq, Fiberplane and Nebius
Two AI Tinkerers Amsterdam demo nights from autumn 2024: Fiberplane's AI API testing, Groq-powered apps, an AI-native React compiler and Nebius AI Studio.
10 min read
AI4Devs 2025 Amsterdam: Spring AI, Iceberg and Strands
AI4Devs Amsterdam, September 2025: Josh Long built a RAG assistant with Spring AI, Pratik Patel queried Iceberg with LLMs, then Koog and Strands Agents.
10 min read
Amsterdam AI and Dev Meetups, Autumn 2025: A Roundup
Twelve smaller Amsterdam tech events from autumn 2025: LangChain, ClimateHack, AI House coding sessions, Apidays, SREday, OpenJDK and sustainable UX.
12 min read
Amsterdam GenAI Meetups, Summer 2024: LangWatch to Bedrock
Two Amsterdam GenAI meetups from summer 2024: LangWatch, STRUCK and Pandria at Mindstone, then AWS Bedrock, Cloutive and Datadog LLM Observability.
10 min read
Amsterdam JUG at ABN AMRO: JMH and Microbenchmarks
Pet projects, ABN AMRO's open source secret scanner RESC, and François Martin proving which HTML unescape library is fastest with JMH. Plus Arch9 by day.
14 min read
Ansible Automates London 2023: Lightspeed and EDA
My notes from Ansible Automates London 2023 at CodeNode: the ROI keynote, a live Lightspeed demo, Event-Driven Ansible rulebooks, Builder 3.0 and mesh.
16 min read
Ansible London, November 2024: Lockdown, goss and Hetzner
Notes from the November 2024 Ansible London meetup: Ansible-Lockdown and goss for compliance, Hetzner Cloud IaC, and a Dell RAG talk.
6 min read
Azure Meetup Utrecht 2024: Verified Modules and Private DNS
Rabobank's Azure platform team on Template Specs, Azure Verified Modules and template tests, then Mark Scholman (CA8) on Private DNS in landing zones.
8 min read
Carbon-Aware HPC with KEDA: Sustainability Meetup 2024
A July 2024 Amsterdam sustainability meetup: Sailfish-HPC on Kubernetes with KEDA, carbon-aware space shifting, and cutting Azure emissions.
6 min read
ClickHouse Open House Amsterdam 2025: Picnic and Langfuse
ClickHouse Open House Amsterdam 2025: the 30 PB keynote, lightweight updates, ClickStack, Picnic's Grafana row policies and Langfuse's move off Postgres.
21 min read
Cybersec Netherlands 2025: CYRA and the Regulatory Wave
Cybersec Netherlands and Data Expo 2025 at Jaarbeurs Utrecht: FME's regulatory wave, the CCV's CYRA growth model for IT and OT, DIVD and the expo floor.
8 min read
Data Sovereignty and Rust: Robin Everaars at Rust AI
Robin Everaars (HoistIT) at Rust AI Europe in Amsterdam: 10 of 27 Dutch mental-healthcare record systems point to a US cloud, and what Rust ownership adds.
12 min read
Databricks Data + AI World Tour Amsterdam 2024
A stage on the Ajax pitch and a hands-on Get Started with Databricks for Data Engineering class: compute, Delta Lake, Workflows, DLT and Unity Catalog.
5 min read
Datadog User Group Amsterdam 2025: Spec-Driven Development
Datadog User Group Amsterdam, September 2025: Brent McLean on platforms you inherit, then Gunnar Grosch of AWS on moving from vibe coding to specs in Kiro.
11 min read
Dutch Cloud Native & AI: Spegel and Dash0 Meetups 2025
Philip Laine on Spegel, the stateless P2P image mirror, then Dash0's December meetup: Kasper Borg Nissen on OpenTelemetry and a Rust Kafka alternative.
15 min read
Dutch Cloud Native at ASML: Kubewarden, Argo CD, GitOps
ASML's Kubewarden guardrails across 26 Rancher clusters, Octopus Deploy on scaling Argo CD, then the 2025 State of GitOps report over breakfast.
11 min read
Elastic Meetup and ElasticON Amsterdam 2024: BBQ and int8
Two Elastic days in Amsterdam, November 2024: Steve Kearns on int8 and BBQ, Kaufland's search upgrade lessons, Devoteam on ECE, then ElasticON.
12 min read
ElasticON Amsterdam 2025: Forge the Future Recap
ElasticON Amsterdam 2025 at the Beurs van Berlage: the agenda, AWS and Google Cloud sessions, TVH's observability road, and A-CORN filtered vector search.
11 min read
GitLab Epic Tour Amsterdam 2025 at the Heineken Experience
GitLab Epic Tour Amsterdam 2025: security and compliance facts, Booking.com's SaaS migration, AWS on agentic coding and the GitLab Duo Agent Platform.
11 min read
Google Cloud User Group Amsterdam: bunq and ML6 Guardrails
Google Cloud User Group Amsterdam at ML6, September 2024: bunq on explainable fraud detection with synthetic fraud data, and ML6 on LLM guardrails.
9 min read
Grafana & Friends Amsterdam 2025: Kafka in Grafana
Grafana & Friends Amsterdam, 24 September 2025: community plugins, plugin signature levels and a live demo of the Kafka data source plugin in Grafana Explore.
7 min read
Grafana Tempo, OpenTelemetry and Backstage: Meetup 2024
Notes from Grafana & Friends Amsterdam on 3 July 2024: a Tempo and OpenTelemetry migration tracked with Backstage, plus Grafana's move to Scenes.
6 min read