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OpenShift Commons Gathering Amsterdam 2026 in Photos
OpenShift Commons Gathering Amsterdam 2026 at Strandzuid: AI security survey numbers, LLMs in public health, etcd tuning and a Siemens road trip, in photos.
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OpAMP: Manage OpenTelemetry Collector Fleets Safely
Manage OpenTelemetry Collector fleets with OpAMP: extension vs Supervisor, the opamp-go example server, safe rollouts, OTTL redaction and TLS.
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OpenTelemetry Trace Quality: A Checklist for Large Systems
A practical OpenTelemetry trace quality checklist: context propagation, span kinds, semantic conventions, bad-pattern detection and Collector tail sampling.
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PgBouncer Connection Pooling for Traffic Spikes
Why raising max_connections is an emergency fix, how PgBouncer pool modes work, and how to size pools from worker and thread counts before the next spike.
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Platform Engineering Amsterdam Meetup, February 2025
Platform Engineering Amsterdam, February 2025: Kyverno and VPA for cost optimisation, building a platform team, and a talk from free kicks to git commits.
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PostgreSQL Meetup Amsterdam 2025: Mastodon, CNPG, Indexes
Three PostgreSQL talks in Amsterdam: scaling mastodon.world with Sidekiq and PgBouncer, CloudNativePG at the Dutch police, and partial and hash indexes.
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SRE NL at Elastic: OpenTelemetry and Your Brain's Biases
SRE NL's 'What Your Dashboards and Your Brain Won't Tell You' at Elastic Amsterdam: an OpenTelemetry demo, then the cognitive biases behind bad incidents.
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Stephen Chin (Neo4j) at GraphSummit Amsterdam: GraphRAG
My GraphSummit Amsterdam 2025 interview with Neo4j's Stephen Chin: grounding LLMs with knowledge graphs, graphs as agent memory, and GraphAcademy.
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Steve Wade (Platform Fix) at Rejekts 2026: Fewer Tools
Two hallway interviews from Cloud Native Rejekts 2026 at Miro HQ: Steve Wade on deleting platform complexity, and Rodrigo on Miro's compute platform.
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Strimzi Kafka ACLs with GitOps: Self-Service Topic Access
Strimzi Kafka ACLs as code: KafkaTopic and KafkaUser in Git, Kustomize overlays per environment, PR review, Argo CD sync and an admission policy on names.
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Tekton Triggers: One Pipeline, One Webhook for Every Repo
A tested Tekton Triggers setup: one EventListener, a GitHub interceptor with HMAC checks, CEL branch filters and one shared Pipeline for every repository.
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tox-ansible: Test Ansible Collections Across Versions
Use tox-ansible to run sanity and unit tests for an Ansible collection across ansible-core and Python versions, locally and as a GitHub Actions matrix.
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AI Beyond Chatbots: Practical Workflows for Accounting, Tax & Audit
My Clarkson Hyde Global Amsterdam 2026 keynote: practical AI agent workflows for accounting, tax, and audit teams that go well beyond chatbots.
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People I Met at AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026
The builders behind the agentic stack — speakers, panelists, and hosts I met at AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam.
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AGNTCon + MCPCon 2026: Key Takeaways
AGNTCon + MCPCon 2026 recap: 81% have agents in production, MCP hits 89% adoption, AGENTS.md at 60k repos, and the shift from demos to reliability is real.
6 min readAGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 Recap: Agents, MCP, and Production Reality
Two days at RAI Amsterdam. The agentic stack is moving from demos to production — here's what actually works when agents touch real infrastructure.
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How to NOT Lose Money on Your First App in 2026
Apple takes 30% of your App Store revenue. 4 levers — Small Business Program, grace period, trial length, cancel deals — recover 15%+ in real money.
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AGNTCon Day 2: Stateless MCP, Agent Identity, Multi-Agent
Day 2 at AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe — stateless MCP in production, agent identity, and multi-agent orchestration.
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6 Claude Code Extension Skills That Ship Real Work
Six community-built skills that turn Claude Code into a video producer, ad analyst, research agent, voice cloner, and writing partner.
9 min readAGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026: Two Days of Real Agentic AI at RAI Amsterdam
Day 1 of AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe at RAI Amsterdam: 2,000+ attendees, keynotes from MCP co-creator David Soria Parra, and agentic AI production data.
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A2A Joins the Agentic AI Foundation's Open Agentic Stack
Agent2Agent (A2A) open standard for inter-agent communication joins Agentic AI Foundation as hosted project at AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe.
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AgentCat Launches First Agent Experience (AX) Platform at AGNTCon
AgentCat launches Agent Experience (AX) platform at AGNTCon — first analytics to capture unmet demand from AI agents, with goal detection and session replay.
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AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026: All the Announcements
Complete roundup of all AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe announcements — MCPA certification, Gates Foundation, Traefik, WSO2, Grape Up, AgentCat, A2A, Envoy.
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Ask ChatGPT First: AI Assistants as the New Business Channel
Alpic AI on how MCP-powered AI assistants are becoming a new acquisition and engagement channel for brands like PGA of America, AirHelp, and Facile.it.
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