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OpenTelemetry with Elastic Meetup, Amsterdam 2025
Notes from Elastic's OpenTelemetry meetup in Amsterdam: EDOT, the OTel Operator and Kibana demo, Collibra's collector pipeline and a Kafka log design.
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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.
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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.
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AI House Amsterdam: Google on Vibe Coding with Gemini CLI
Notes from the Google coding-assistants session at AI House Amsterdam on 2 December 2025: Gemini CLI, GEMINI.md, checkpoints, Antigravity and a code migration.
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AI on the Amstel July 2025: Prosus Panel
AI on the Amstel, 23 July 2025, hosted by Prosus: a panel on DeepSeek and on what AI will look like in July 2028, as shown on the slides.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Amsterdam Meetups, Summer 2025: Java JUG and dbt
Talk notes from two July 2025 Amsterdam evenings: dbt Projects on Snowflake and dbt Fusion, then Java warm-up with Leyden and CRaC, and the Miro monolith.
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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.
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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.
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Apidays Amsterdam 2025: MCP, API Security, Terraform
Notes from Apidays Amsterdam on 6 November 2025: a MuleSoft founder fireside, an MCP lifecycle workshop, API security talks and AWS serverless with Terraform.
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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.
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Azure Heroes Amsterdam: Testing, Chaos and AI Safety
Notes from the Azure Heroes meetup in Amsterdam: Playwright, load testing, Chaos Studio, PSRule, red teaming, GitHub Models and Prompt Shields.
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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.
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CIO & CISO Inspired Summit 2024: GenAI Risk and Leadership
Notes from the CIO & CISO Inspired Summit, 21 May 2024: a fast-moving GenAI roadmap, the ADKAR model and GenAI security slides.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2025: OpenTelemetry and OpenSSF
DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2025 in photos: an OpenTelemetry adoption story, OpenSSF supply chain practices, trust-driven teams, and Identity Week Europe.
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