Developer Experience at tech events
21 write-ups · 21 events · 2024–2026
This page collects talks on developer experience and productivity, from Java user group evenings to BitBash, BrowserStack and DevWorld. Recurring themes include the tooling developers use every day, how documentation and testing fit into the inner loop, and how teams reduce friction without adding process.
2026
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Installing Everything by Hand Sucks: The Automation Imperative for OpenTelemetryThe pain of manual OpenTelemetry setup and why a one-click deployment experience is the key to adoption at scale.
20 Aug 2026 · BrowserStack Meetup Amsterdam · Amsterdam
BrowserStack Meetup Amsterdam: AI's Impact on QALuca attended the BrowserStack Meetup Amsterdam 2026, exploring how AI is reshaping QA — from Claude + Playwright to GenAI in quality engineering.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 Partner Day · Atlanta
Red Hat Desktop, Kaiden and Omdia Data at Summit 2026Red Hat Desktop with Kaiden on Intel Core Ultra, plus Omdia partner-day data on agentic AI adoption and digital sovereignty, from Red Hat Summit 2026.
6 May 2026 · GitHub Copilot Dev Days Amsterdam · Amsterdam
GitHub Copilot Dev Days Amsterdam: Agentic SDLC and theRecap of GitHub Copilot Dev Days Amsterdam at TrueFullstaq — live demos of Agentic SDLC, AI-assisted code reviews, incident triage, and the big question.
4 May 2026 · RustNL Meetup Amsterdam · Amsterdam
Pixi: Building a Package Manager in Rust at RustNL MeetupLive coverage of Tim de Jager and Bas Zalmstra from prefix.dev presenting Pixi — a fast, cross-platform package manager built in Rust on the conda.
19 Mar 2026 · Amsterdam Java User Group meetup at IKEA · Amsterdam
Amsterdam JUG at IKEA: Virtual Threads, ECC and TestingAmsterdam JUG at IKEA, March 2026: Java virtual threads, elliptic curve signatures and JWS, and a system test suite for deploying on a Friday.
25 Feb 2026 · Becoming a 10x Engineer in the Age of AI Devtools (LangWatch x AI Foundry) · Amsterdam
Becoming a 10x Engineer: AI Devtools Meetup AmsterdamLangWatch and AI Foundry's 10x engineer evening in Amsterdam: Claude Code workflows, OpenClaw goodies, a real AI stack and a feedback-loop takeaway.
24 Feb 2026 · An Evening with Cursor: Advanced Workflows · Amsterdam
Nick Miller (Cursor) at AI House: Advanced WorkflowsNick Miller of Cursor at AI House Amsterdam on dynamic context discovery, long-running cloud agents, hooks, debug mode, skills, subagents and plugins.
28 Jan 2026 · Build Meetup Amsterdam (Uber x EngFlow) · Amsterdam
Build Meetup Amsterdam 2026: Bazel, Buildbarn, BonanzaMy recap of the Uber x EngFlow Build Meetup in Amsterdam: Python versions in a Bazel monorepo, Bonanza from the Buildbarn creator, Maven and designers.
2025
12 Dec 2025 · Microsoft Power Platform community meetup · Amsterdam
Patrick Debois on Coding with AI Agents at Power PlatformNotes from Patrick Debois's talk at a Microsoft Power Platform meetup on 12 December 2025: reviewing, specs, prototypes, knowledge and the manager role.
9 Dec 2025 · The Future of Development Tools: Demo Day · Amsterdam
JetBrains Demo Day 2025: The Future of Dev ToolsJetBrains and Dutch Basecamp's Demo Day in Amsterdam, December 2025: a keynote on human connection, then startup pitches from SAAScade, CodeBoarding and onky.
27 Nov 2025 · GitLab Epic Tour Amsterdam · Amsterdam
GitLab Epic Tour Amsterdam 2025 at the Heineken ExperienceGitLab Epic Tour Amsterdam 2025: security and compliance facts, Booking.com's SaaS migration, AWS on agentic coding and the GitLab Duo Agent Platform.
18 Nov 2025 · Azure Heroes Amsterdam meetup · Amsterdam
Azure Heroes Amsterdam: Testing, Chaos and AI SafetyNotes from the Azure Heroes meetup in Amsterdam: Playwright, load testing, Chaos Studio, PSRule, red teaming, GitHub Models and Prompt Shields.
4 Nov 2025 · Amsterdam JUG at ABN AMRO (evening) and Arch9 by Levi9 (day) · Amsterdam
Amsterdam JUG at ABN AMRO: JMH and MicrobenchmarksPet 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.
8 Jul 2025 · Netherlands dbt Meetup (8 July 2025) and Amsterdam JUG (22 July 2025) · Amsterdam
Amsterdam Meetups, Summer 2025: Java JUG and dbtTalk 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.
19 May 2025 · DevOops #8 (with Amsterdam.dev) · Amsterdam
DevOops x Amsterdam.dev 2025: OSPOs and Code ChatDevOops x Amsterdam.dev at Datadog Amsterdam, May 2025: developer experience through OSPOs and InnerSource, then code chat with Candle and Tree-sitter.
27 Feb 2025 · DevWorld Conference 2025 · Amsterdam
DevWorld Conference 2025 Amsterdam: A ThrowbackA throwback to DevWorld 2025 at RAI Amsterdam: modelling side effects as effects, Event Sourcing vs Transaction Script, the AI track and the evening.
25 Feb 2025 · Cloudflare Founders & Developers Meetup · Amsterdam
Cloudflare Founders & Developers Meetup Amsterdam 2025Cloudflare's February 2025 meetup in Amsterdam: Workers resources, why software is 1000x slower than hardware, and the case for lean engineering.
25 Jan 2025 · BitBash 2025 · Veenendaal
BitBash 2025 Veenendaal: Quantum, IAM and Dev BoxBitBash 2025 at Info Support in Veenendaal: a Q# quantum session, Henry Been on IAM for engineering platforms, and Erwin Staal on Dev Box and ADE.
14 Jan 2025 · Picnic Tech Meetup (Developer Experience) · Amsterdam
Picnic Tech Meetup Amsterdam 2025: Measuring DevExA developer experience panel at Picnic in Amsterdam asked the room how to quantify DevEx. What people answered, and how DORA, SPACE and DevEx measure it.
2024
12 Dec 2024 · Rust Meetup Amsterdam (December 2024) · Amsterdam
Rust Meetup Amsterdam December 2024: RustRover and BiomeRustNL's December 2024 meetup at JetBrains: RustRover's borrow-checker diagnostics, Biome's Rust architecture with Rowan and GritQL, and RustWeek 2025.