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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 DevOps
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 Conferences
EDGECASE 2025 Amersfoort: Talk, Booths and Interviews
EDGECASE 2025 in Amersfoort: Justin Garrison's Disney+ story and booth interviews with Chainguard, Dell, Veeam, Sysdig, Sidero, HCS and TrueFullstaq.
9 min read AI
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 AI
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 Open Source
Friends of OpenJDK at Uber: Upgrades and Supply Chain
Notes from the Friends of OpenJDK meetup at Uber Amsterdam, 11 November 2025: JVM monorepo upgrades with OpenRewrite and a live supply chain attack demo.
7 min read DevOps
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 AI
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 DevOps
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 DevOps
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 Conferences
IBC 2025 Amsterdam: S3 Vectors, AI QoE and ST 2110
IBC 2025 at RAI Amsterdam: an AWS media-search demo on S3 Vectors and OpenSearch, AI for QoS and QoE, private 5G, ST 2110 cards and creator cameras.
10 min read DevOps
Kubernetes Security Codelab at ING Amsterdam, July 2025
Hands-on Kubernetes security workshop for Java developers at ING Amsterdam: a hacked container, security context, read-only filesystems, secrets.
8 min read AI
JetBrains Demo Day 2025: The Future of Dev Tools
JetBrains and Dutch Basecamp's Demo Day in Amsterdam, December 2025: a keynote on human connection, then startup pitches from SAAScade, CodeBoarding and onky.
14 min read Conferences
KubeCon Japan 2026 Keynotes: AI Platforms at Scale
The KubeCon Japan 2026 day 1 keynotes from Yokohama: SoftBank's infinite agents, Fujitsu's GPU-centric Kubernetes, PFN multi-tenancy and Hyundai's Argo CD.
11 min read Conferences
KubeCon Japan 2026: the CNCF Briefing and Lightning Talks
From the KubeCon Japan 2026 press briefing: Japan's 950K cloud native developers, HAMi and Confidential Containers in incubation, and the IOWN partnership.
12 min read Platform Engineering
Kubernetes 10th Birthday Meetup in Amsterdam
The Dutch Kubernetes / Cloud Native meetup celebrated 10 years of Kubernetes at Datadog in Amsterdam: a timeline, a cake, and an RTL platform adoption story.
5 min read AI
LlamaIndex Data Agent Builders Meetup, Amsterdam 2025
LlamaIndex's Data Agent Builders meetup in Amsterdam, 14 July 2025: GUI-agent datasets, what makes an agent, MCP tools and an agentic OCR pipeline.
7 min read AI
MLOps Community Amsterdam, July 2025: Agents in Production
AI Agent World Tour Amsterdam, 9 July 2025: Lumina, an agent control tower, secure agent-to-agent protocols and JetBrains Koog, plus the panel on agents.
10 min read database
MongoDB Day Amsterdam 2025 and the AI House Opening
MongoDB Day Amsterdam 2025: Helvetia on Atlas, relational to document modelling, JSONB vs MongoDB, agent labs. Then the official AI House Amsterdam opening.
17 min read Automation
n8n Amsterdam: Eight Agents on TV and Guardrails
Notes from the n8n meetup in Amsterdam on 3 December 2025: a multi-agent marketing workflow shown on Dutch TV, and a Hack my Chat demo of the Guardrails node.
6 min read Automation
No-Code and AI Builders Evening in Amsterdam: Notes
Notes from a no-code and AI builders evening at StartDock Amsterdam on 3 November 2025: the Excel-users argument and a marketing automation founder's playbook.
7 min read AI
OpenSearch Meetup Amsterdam 2024: Vectors and Embeddings
OpenSearch meetup at AWS Amsterdam, Nov 2024: local LLMs and hybrid search, Bedrock, vector tuning tips, and Zeta Alpha on InPars and e5-mistral.
10 min read Platform Engineering
Platform Engineering Amsterdam Meetups, Autumn 2025
Two Platform Engineering Amsterdam evenings in 2025: maturity data, OWASP LLM pen tests, fintech resilience, event sourcing, S3 savings and KubeDNA.
25 min read AI
Patrick Debois on Coding with AI Agents at Power Platform
Notes from Patrick Debois's talk at a Microsoft Power Platform meetup on 12 December 2025: reviewing, specs, prototypes, knowledge and the manager role.
9 min read