Cloud Native London, June 2025

Hi folks!

Welcome to our June Cloud Native London meetup! Join us to hear from our two great speakers and network with your fellow techies over pizza and drinks, or alternatively chat and following along on Youtube!

6:00 Pizza and drinks
6:30 Welcome
6:45 Building a Healthy Platform Engineering Stack with Open-Source Feature Flags (Matt Elwell, Flagsmith)
7:15 Bianca Thaker, Cockroach Labs (Talk TBC)
7:45 Wrap up

See you there!

Cheryl (@oicheryl)

Building a Healthy Platform Engineering Stack with Open-Source Feature Flags (Matt Elwell, Flagsmith)
Platform engineering offers a cure for inefficient and opaque legacy systems, but only with the right stack. This talk will cover how open-source feature flags and observability can work together to give flexibility and visibility into the SDLC and let teams improve builds and monitor results. We'll also discuss the importance of open standards in feature flagging and observability, particularly with the current rise of OpenFeature, a CNCF incubating project that follows in the footsteps of OpenTelemetry. OpenFeature adoption is growing fast among engineers and just took KubeCon by storm!

Matt is the CTO at Flagsmith. After years of agency work as a Software Engineer, Matt now spends his time building Flagsmith as the CTO, running the engineering team.

Check out https://www.oicheryl.com/cloudnativelondon if you're interested in speaking or sponsoring.