DevOps Meetup @ Enpal

Details
Join us at Bödikerstraße 25 for a yet another delightful DevOps meet-up, this time hosted by Enpal!

Agenda
18:00 Open Doors
18:25 Enpal Introduction
18:30 Talk 1 - From ClickOps to Scalable Platform by Pepijn Schoen
19:00 Food and Beer
19:30 Talk 2 - It works… but no one understands it: The hidden problem in DevOps by Dayana Mick
20:00 Networking & Drinks
21:00 Close

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Pepijn Schoen
From ClickOps to Scalable Platform
For engineers and engineering leaders, on culture and decision making.
Abstract
We ran everything in one Azure subscription. Leads and sales, installations and steering energy systems. Everyone had access. Most resources were created manually. It was unclear who owned what.
As the tech org grew from 100 to 300 people, reinventing security and scaling individually stopped working.
We'll cover how we approached platform building as gardeners rather than architects: observing what already works, replicating it, and letting rituals emerge before encoding them. We'll look at some mistakes we made along the way and what we learned from each.

Dayana Mick
It works… but no one understands it: The hidden problem in DevOps
For several years, I kept asking the same question to senior developers, staff engineers, and mentors: “What is a build?” I rarely got a clear answer. Not because people didn’t know, but because the mental model had faded somewhere between Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and “just run this command.”
At some point, I realized I could run pipelines, deploy services, and fix things just enough to move forward, but explaining what was actually happening was much harder. And I was not the only one.
This talk is about a pattern I’ve seen across every company I’ve worked at. Systems that work, but are not really understood. Teams running platform commands from memory. Platform teams becoming bottlenecks. Incidents where even experienced engineers hesitate. And situations where people rely on tools without a clear sense of what is actually happening underneath. With AI, this is only accelerating.
This is a talk for anyone who has ever copy-pasted a command, watched it work, and decided not to ask further questions. It is especially relevant for junior and mid-level engineers navigating DevOps complexity, and for teams who are trying to scale tooling without losing shared understanding.