Cloud Native Computing Meetup | September 2025

Let's meet at the September 2025 CNC meetup on Thursday, Sep 4th, 2025 at 17:00 CET.

Location:
VSHN tower, 8th floor, Neugasse 6, 8005 Zürich

Agenda:
Would you like to speak at this event? Contact us at https://cnc-meetup.ch! Guidelines:

• All sessions are held in English.
• No product or sales pitches are allowed.
• All projects showcased should be open source.
• We cannot cover travel costs but welcome speakers from other regions.
• We're seeking more diversity among our speakers: underrepresented groups are welcome!

16:30 – Door Opening
17:00 – Welcome, Intro, & Announcements
17:05 – How we used Crossplane for the things we should not have: Liene Luksika (VSHN)
17:35 – 5 minutes pause
17:40 – Session 2
18:10 – 5 minutes pause
18:15 – Session 3
18:45 – Final words, networking & apéro

How we used Crossplane for the things we should not have

Frameworks are meant to be tweaked; that is just a part of being an engineer. Even if a new cloud native, open-source framework is exactly what you are attempting to build.
This talk tells the story of what Crossplane is and what we wanted it to be. It highlights the need for the emerging Crossplane V2 and explains why it differs. It also illustrates a real-life story when bending leads to breaking, resulting in the loss of 230 production databases for a customer during maintenance. The silver lining - we kept the customer, but changed our approach.

Liene is a data scientist by training and a product owner at VSHN by passion, with experience spanning the highly regulated healthcare industry to the fluid open-source ecosystem.

The event will be recorded and made available on VSHN's YouTube channel: https://vshn.tv – subscribe to stay notified of updates.

We expect all participants to abide by VSHN's Conference Code of Conduct: https://www.vshn.ch/en/code-of-conduct/

If you would like to share your cloud-native projects at the CNC Switzerland meetup events or sponsor future events, just send us your talk suggestion here: https://cnc-meetup.ch. We look forward to hearing from you!