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ClickHouse Full-Text Search: Text Index and Tokenizers
ClickHouse full-text search with the text index: granules, tokenizers, hasToken and hasAnyTokens, EXPLAIN indexes = 1, and measured results on 20M log lines.
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Cloudflare Founders & Developers Meetup Amsterdam 2025
Cloudflare's February 2025 meetup in Amsterdam: Workers resources, why software is 1000x slower than hardware, and the case for lean engineering.
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MLOps in Practice: Data Union Amsterdam Panel 2025
Data Union Amsterdam's MLOps panel: Adyen, Picnic, Ahold Delhaize and Schiphol on MLOps teams, platform blueprints and the Schiphol AI techstack.
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DevWorld Conference 2025 Amsterdam: A Throwback
A throwback to DevWorld 2025 at RAI Amsterdam: modelling side effects as effects, Event Sourcing vs Transaction Script, the AI track and the evening.
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Dutch Kubernetes Meetup at Palo Alto Networks Amsterdam
Dutch Kubernetes/Cloud Native Meetup at Palo Alto Networks Amsterdam: securing the container lifecycle with Prisma Cloud, then AI for attack and defence.
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Entra ID Access Packages and PIM for Least-Privilege Azure
Replace standing Azure admin rights with Entra ID access packages approved by the Product Owner and just-in-time PIM, automated with Terraform and Graph.
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etcd Monitoring in Kubernetes: Prometheus Metrics & Alerts
etcd monitoring with Prometheus: the disk, leader, proposal, DB size and gRPC metrics that matter, PromQL for each, alert rules and what to do when they fire.
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Nick Miller (Cursor) at AI House: Advanced Workflows
Nick Miller of Cursor at AI House Amsterdam on dynamic context discovery, long-running cloud agents, hooks, debug mode, skills, subagents and plugins.
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Fix a Slow PostgreSQL Query Without Changing the SQL
Fix a slow PostgreSQL query you can't rewrite: find it with pg_stat_statements, read EXPLAIN, then add expression, partial or hash indexes and verify them.
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FOSDEM 2025 Brussels: The Devroom Talks I Saw
Three FOSDEM 2025 devroom talks from the ULB campus: Linux on RISC-V in H.1309, Podcasting 2.0 transcripts, and zero-knowledge queries over credentials.
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FOSDEM 2026: The Devroom Talks I Saw
Seven FOSDEM 2026 talks from the ULB campus: Fedora on RISC-V, ClickHouse, open source funding, FreeSewing, Linux power saving and pre-silicon upstreaming.
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The Future of Product #3: AI Product Meetup Amsterdam
The Future of Product #3 in Amsterdam: Miro on everyone as a builder, miyagami's AI product lifecycle and Orq.ai's single vs multi-agent eval results.
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Google ADK SRE Agent: Tools, MCP and A2A in Python
Build an SRE helper agent with Google ADK 2.11: Python function tools, an MCP toolset, human approval for writes, A2A exposure and a locked-down deployment.
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Benchmark vLLM with GuideLLM Against Latency SLOs
Benchmark vLLM with GuideLLM: install it, pick a load profile, read TTFT, ITL and p95 results, turn them into SLO decisions and run it as a Kubernetes Job.
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Guido Laout (OVHcloud) at KubeCon EU 2026: Sovereignty
OVHcloud's Guido Laout on why European digital sovereignty keeps heating up, managed services and Kubernetes, and exit plans, at KubeCon EU 2026.
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kro and Config Connector at a Xebia Meetup in Amsterdam
Notes from a February 2026 evening at Xebia in Amsterdam: kro ResourceGraphDefinitions over Config Connector, then an infrastructure self-service agent.
7 min readkro Tutorial: Build a Platform API with an RGD
A hands-on kro tutorial: install kro with Helm, write a ResourceGraphDefinition with CEL, readyWhen and includeWhen, and ship a typed platform API.
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KubeCon EU 2026 Co-located Day: Talks and Slides
The talks I sat in on at KubeCon Europe 2026's co-located day: golden paths, zero-day prep, backend-first IDPs, OpenTelemetry and a $10,000 Argo CD mistake.
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Kubernetes PodDisruptionBudget: PDBs You Can Actually Trust
What a Kubernetes PodDisruptionBudget really guarantees, how the rounding works, why crashlooping pods block drains, and how to audit every PDB you have.
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Kyverno and VPA: Policy-Driven Kubernetes Cost Optimization
Use Kyverno and VPA to give every Deployment and StatefulSet a recommendation-only VPA, then find and clean up PDBs that block drains. Tested on Kyverno 1.19.
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LLM End-to-End Testing with Playwright: Crawl to Verify
Build LLM end-to-end testing with Playwright: crawl the app, let a model plan scenarios, run them in parallel, triage failures, keep hard assertions.
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LLM Regression Testing in CI with promptfoo
LLM regression testing with promptfoo: a golden dataset, JSON Schema, latency and cost checks, an LLM-as-judge tone rubric, and a CI job that fails the PR.
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Local LLM with Ollama: AnythingLLM, Open WebUI and RAG
Run a local LLM with Ollama, pick a model that fits your laptop, add AnythingLLM or Open WebUI, do RAG over a PDF and decide when fine-tuning is worth it.
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OpenClaw Builders Community at AI House Amsterdam
OpenClaw builders at AI House Amsterdam: a Copilot-to-Autopilot panel, demos on cloud apps, WhatsApp secrets and agent memory, and a Clawdbot + OTEL PR.
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