Backend Engineering in Practice: Build, Break, Recover
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On 19th March 2026 at 18:00, we’re gathering again at Teads office (Dunajska cesta 5, 3rd floor, Ljubljana) for an evening dedicated purely to backend engineering
📅 Date: 19th March 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00–8:00 PM
📍 Location: Dunajska cesta 5, 1000 Ljubljana | 3rd floor (Teads office)
🎟 Admission: Free
🍕 Food and drinks: Provided after the talks
🗣️ When Things Break at Scale: Production Failure Patterns from GitLab
John Jarvis – Engineering Manager @ GitLab
What actually happens when things break in a large, high-traffic distributed system?
In this session, John walks us through real production incidents from GitLab 2025–2026 operations. We’ll look at how failures are detected, how teams respond under pressure, and how systems recover. More importantly, we’ll extract patterns — the recurring failure modes and resilience strategies that backend engineers can apply in their own systems.
If you care about reliability, observability, scaling, and learning from real outages instead of theoretical examples — this one’s for you.
🗣️ Backend in a Coffee Break
Miha Jakovac – Software Engineering Manager, Predictum Inc.
Modern backend development often means spending more time wiring infrastructure than writing actual business logic.
This talk shares the story behind Nomirun, a toolkit that rethinks how .NET backends are built and run. You’ll see how services can be created and executed in a fraction of the usual time without sacrificing modularity or cloud readiness.
We’ll cover:
- Reducing backend boilerplate to near zero
- Switching between modular monolith and microservices instantly
- Standardizing infrastructure without slowing down development
- How AI agents are accelerating backend business logic implementation
If you enjoy pragmatic tooling, cleaner architectures, and faster iteration loops — this session will resonate.
👥 Who should come?
Anyone working with or interested in backend technologies—developers, architects, students, or anyone eager to dive deeper into backend engineering. The sessions will be in English 🇬🇧.
Expect deep backend discussions, production war stories, and practical engineering takeaways, followed by relaxed networking over pizza.
See you on March 19th.