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Red Hat Summit Connect Utrecht 2024: AI, Ansible, OpenShift
My notes from Red Hat Summit: Connect 2024 in the Netherlands: the ChRIS keynote, OpenShift Virtualization, an Ansible journey and supply chain security.
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Red Hat Summit Connect Utrecht 2025: AI and Sovereignty
Notes from Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 in the Netherlands: Dutch AI priorities, open source sovereignty, vLLM and llm-d, Intel TDX and supply chain security.
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RISC-V World Days Hanoi 2025: Five Talks in Photos
World RISC-V Days at Hanoi University of Science and Technology, 7 August 2025: DeepComputing, VNU-ITI, ExpressVPN and open hardware, in slide photos.
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CockroachDB C-SPANN vs pgvector: RoachFest Workshop
What the RoachFest London 2026 vector search and RAG workshop showed: C-SPANN vs HNSW and IVFFlat, orphaned vectors, and multi-tenant retrieval in SQL.
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Rust Meetup Amsterdam December 2024: RustRover and Biome
RustNL's December 2024 meetup at JetBrains: RustRover's borrow-checker diagnostics, Biome's Rust architecture with Rowan and GritQL, and RustWeek 2025.
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Snowflake World Tour Amsterdam 2024: Cortex and EU AI Act
Snowflake World Tour Amsterdam 2024: the Enterprise AI keynote, Cortex Analyst and Search, the EU Data Act and AI Act, Native App security and Cortex SQL.
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SRE NL Amsterdam 2025: Learning from Incidents
SRE NL at Datadog Amsterdam, October 2025: Busra Koken on why people, not systems, learn from incidents, then SRE culture and why engineers skip postmortems.
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SREday Amsterdam 2025 Q4: Observability, MCP, ClickStack
Notes from SREday Amsterdam, 7 November 2025: decoupled observability, ClickStack, platform engineering for AI, securing MCP servers and Azure automation.
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Green AI at Accenture: Sustainable IT Meetup Amsterdam 2024
Sustainable IT Netherlands at Accenture, October 2024: green code with GitHub Copilot, EcoLogits, demand shaping, and VU Amsterdam's 30 green AI tactics.
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TalosCon 2025 Amsterdam: Talos, KubeVirt and Dairy Farms
TalosCon 2025 in Amsterdam, from the slides: Talos and Omni updates, a Roche edge registry cache, KubeVirt VM migration and Cloud Native Dairy Farming.
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TechEx Europe 2024: Puppet on DORA, NIS2 and Desired State
Puppet's Confidence as Code keynote at TechEx Europe 2024 in Amsterdam: DORA, NIS2, XZ Utils, CrowdStrike, configuration drift and the Interhyp case study.
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TechEx Europe 2025: Eight Booth Interviews in Amsterdam
Eight short booth interviews from TechEx Europe 2025: Cloudflare, Redamp.io, AIminify, Ververica, Snowflake and AAEON on AI, streaming and the edge.
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TiDB, AWS and Bolt Meetup Amsterdam 2025
Two Amsterdam database evenings, late 2025: TiDB vector and full-text search, Bolt on the TiKV in-memory engine, and a tour of dirty writes, MVCC, 2PL and SSI.
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Ubuntu Summit 2024 in The Hague: AI, RISC-V and Snaps
Day 2 of Ubuntu Summit 2024 at the World Forum, The Hague: Intel's OPEA, Google's TCPX, KDE Plasma as snaps, Penpot's Rust pivot and Ubuntu Kylin AI OS.
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World Summit AI 2025 Amsterdam: Data Centres and Agents
World Summit AI 2025 at Taets, Amsterdam: Karen Hao on the Empire of AI, $3–8T data-centre capex, Groq on sovereign AI, quantum-safe crypto and agents.
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Writing a Book with AI: Pini Reznik at ING Amsterdam
Pini Reznik on hacking the authoring process with AI at an ING meetup in Amsterdam: 17 prompts, patterns, and the hallucination nightmare, from an author.
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AI_dev Europe 2025 Amsterdam: CERN, Cerebras and LanceDB
AI_dev Europe 2025 at RAI Amsterdam: CERN's MLOps platform, five Cerebras inference lessons, LanceDB's multimodal lakehouse and Neo4j graph agents.
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Forecasting the 2026 AI Agent Economy at Zoku Amsterdam
Four Amsterdam AI founders on agents in 2026: an executive pattern library, PMs owning the LLM lifecycle, the death of the prompt box and agent fleets.
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Open Source Summit Europe 2025 Amsterdam: Recap
Three days at Open Source Summit Europe and ELC 2025 in Amsterdam: agentgateway, DocumentDB, COSSA, RISC-V interviews, Zephyr testing and NIS2 vs CRA.
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Snow Day for Your Infrastructure: Are You Prepared?
No bad weather, only infrastructure that isn't prepared. My snow-day take on traffic spikes, black swans and a readiness checklist for Kubernetes teams.
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A2A Python SDK Tutorial: Server, Client and Streaming
A2A Python SDK tutorial with a2a-sdk 1.2: AgentExecutor, Agent Card, Starlette server, client, tasks, streaming, input-required, cancel and an MCP tool.
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Builders & Brews Amsterdam: Nebius x NVIDIA AI Hackathon
AAIF Community Amsterdam's Builders & Brews: Hack Edition: the hackathon rules, Token Factory, Tavily, Kilo Code and a fast agent recipe before 30 October.
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AI Native Netherlands at Elastic: Agents, MCP, Workflows
AI Native Netherlands at Elastic Amsterdam: ANWB on forecasting roadside assistance demand, then Elastic on moving from RAG to agents, MCP and workflows.
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AI Tech Summit Skopje 2026: From AI Demo to Production
My keynote at AI Tech Summit Filip Avramchev 2026 in Skopje, the sessions I photographed, and a practical checklist for taking AI from demo to production.
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