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AI Tinkerers Amsterdam February 2025: Demo Night
AI Tinkerers Amsterdam, February 2025: LLM evaluation with orq.ai, DeepSeek-R1 on Featherless.ai, Airweave's open-source sync engine, all as live demos.
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Amsterdam JUG at IKEA: Virtual Threads, ECC and Testing
Amsterdam JUG at IKEA, March 2026: Java virtual threads, elliptic curve signatures and JWS, and a system test suite for deploying on a Friday.
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SOPS with Ansible: Encrypted Vars with community.sops
Use SOPS with Ansible: age keys, a .sops.yaml with creation rules, encrypted group_vars via the community.sops vars plugin, key rotation and CI.
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ARA Records Ansible: Record Every Playbook Run
Set up ARA Records Ansible: enable the callback, record to SQLite or a shared API server, query runs with the ara CLI, label CI jobs and lock it down.
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CfgMgmtCamp 2025 in Ghent: The Talks I Saw
My notes from the CfgMgmtCamp 2025 talks in Ghent: an AI model leaderboard, Chef history, Salt internals, SOPS for Ansible secrets, ARA and tox-ansible.
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Claude Code Meetup Amsterdam 2026: Hooks, Skills, Agents
The second Claude Code meetup in Amsterdam: a policy server behind Claude Code hooks, e-commerce skills for Shopify and SFCC, and Claude Code turning one.
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Claude Code OpenTelemetry: Monitor AI Coding Agents
Send Claude Code OpenTelemetry metrics and events to a Collector, tag them by team and repo, and chart cost, tokens and edits in Prometheus and Grafana.
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Claude Code PreToolUse Hooks: Block, Redirect, Require
Four working Claude Code PreToolUse hooks: deny rm, block brand-new packages, require tests before git commit and keep file paths inside the workspace.
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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.
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