Cloud Native Computing Rheinland - March Edition @ viadee

Hi everyone! Our next meetup will take place in the viadee offices in Cologne.
Please keep in mind that we only have space for a limited number of participants. Please only RSVP if you actually intend on joining for the event, and please cancel your RSVP again should your plans change so others can take your spot. Thanks for your cooperation!
Drinks and snacks will be provided.

Preliminary Schedule:
18:00 Beginning and Socialising
18:30 First Talk and discussion
19:15 Pizza & Drinks
19:45 Second Talk and discussion
20:30 Socialising and further discussions

Breaking Free with Open Standards: OpenTelemetry and Perses for Observability
Observability is the backbone of modern cloud-native applications, but many organizations find themselves locked into proprietary tools with rising costs, rigid ecosystems, and limited flexibility. In this talk, we’ll explore how open observability standards like OpenTelemetry for instrumentation and Perses for monitoring-as-code are transforming the landscape by enabling vendor-neutral, scalable, and future-proof observability stacks.
We’ll start with an introduction to OpenTelemetry, covering how to get started, instrument applications, and provide developer-friendly abstractions for seamless auto-instrumentation. From there, we’ll dive into Perses, a CNCF Sandbox project that brings open, declarative, and portable dashboards to observability. By building on these open standards, organizations gain the freedom to mix and match storage, visualization, and analytics tools without being tied to a single vendor.
Join this session to learn how OpenTelemetry and Perses can help you scale observability, stay in control of your data, and ensure developers get the insights they need exactly when they need them.

Kasper Borg Nissen is a CNCF Ambassador, former KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Co-Chair, Golden Kubestronaut, KCD Organizer, and CNCG Group Organizer. He co-founded Cloud Native Nordics to unite meetups across the region. As a Developer Advocate at Dash0, he helps make observability easy for developers by advocating for better tooling, best practices, and seamless integrations. Bridging observability and platform engineering, he ensures developers stay productive and gain actionable insights exactly when needed.

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Cloud Independence by Architecture: How MOBIKO Avoids Vendor Lock-In
Switching cloud providers is usually associated with outages, risk, and months of preparation. In this session, Marcel shares how MOBIKO was designed to move between AWS, Azure, and GCP without disruption & saved nearly a quarter million euros in infrastructure costs through start-up programs along the way.
He will walk through the architectural decisions and operational principles that keep MOBIKO independent from cloud providers / US companies, using infrastructure as code, automation, and cloud-agnostic deployments.

Marcel Cremer is CTO and Managing Director at MOBIKO, a Munich-based mobility startup that helps companies make employee mobility more flexible and sustainable. With more than a decade of experience across software engineering, DevOps, and product development, Marcel describes himself as a "tech generalist with a bias for simplicity." He has led teams through large-scale transformations - from monoliths to distributed systems and from scheduled releases to continuous deployment. His focus is on building reliable systems, lean processes, and a healthy engineering culture that balances speed, quality, and sustainability. When he's not optimizing delivery pipelines or discussing architecture patterns, he writes about digital transformation, developer experience, and the intersection of technology and responsibility.

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