Cloud-Native & Platform Engineering Meetup October

Dear members,
we are excited to invite you on October 26th to an evening filled with insightful talks and networking opportunities at the Acronis office in Sofia. This month, we have lined up two great talks with speakers that for sure are known to you!🚀

If you are attending our meetup that means you share the same passion as we do for Cloud Native technologies, and you can share your experience with the community by filling up this form: Submit a talk!

🗓️ Date: 26th October
🕕 Time: 19:00h
📍 Location: Acronis office, NV Tower

Agenda:
19:05 - Welcome
19:10 - Pulumi: Kickstarting Your Journey to Modern Infrastructure Automation - Engin Diri, Pulumi
19:55 - Networking beyond Kubernetes with Cilium - Rastislav Szabo and Nikolay Nikolaev - Isovalent
20:30 - TCP Networking - food/beer/chat
(both talks will be in English)

Info:
Engin is a Customer Experience Architect at Pulumi and has been in the IT industry for over 15 years. He started as a Java backend developer and later migrated to the fronted development. This is where he found his passion for CI/CD, Cloud technologies, and in particular Kubernetes. Engin is a very curious person and loves learning and testing new technologies.
About the talk:
Pulumi stands as a beacon for organizations seeking to evolve their infrastructure through modern automation technologies, providing an advanced and comprehensive platform to manage cloud infrastructure efficiently. Together we delve into how Pulumi accelerates the adoption of infrastructure automation by allowing developers and platform engineers to define resources using programming languages they are already familiar with, such as Python, TypeScript, and Go. By focusing on the versatility, scalability, and reliability of Pulumi, we will illustrate how organizations can significantly reduce the time and effort spent on provisioning and managing infrastructure, mitigating risks, and enhancing overall operational efficiency.

Rastislav is a software engineer focusing on networking in the open source and cloud native areas. He currently works as a software engineer in the Traffic Engineering group at Isovalent. In the past 10 years he has been contributing to several open-source projects such as Cilium, Kubernetes, Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform, [FD.io](http://fd.io/), [Ligato.io](http://ligato.io/), [ContivVPP.io](http://contivvpp.io/) or [Sysrepo.org](http://sysrepo.org/).

Nikolay is an Engineering Manager at Isovalent's Datapath team. For more than 20 years, he has been implementing networking software ranging from hardware boxes to powerful server applications and virtualized data planes. He spent some time in the virtualization world using and contributing to the related projects KVM, QEMU, DPDK, OpenStack. In the recent years, Nikolay is contributing to the cloud-native domain in projects like Envoy, Network Service Mesh, Kuma and Cilium.

Don't miss this opportunity to gain insights from these industry experts and connect with fellow cloud-native and platform engineering enthusiasts. Whether you are an experienced professional or just starting your journey in this field, this meetup promises to be both informative and inspiring.

Refreshments and networking opportunities will be available. Be sure to RSVP and save your spot for an evening of learning and community building. We look forward to seeing you there!

Please stay tuned for more details and updates on our Meetup page.