DevOps Society London Event #2 2026
Details
Welcome to our second London meetup of 2026, where we discuss Gen AI and Kubernetes! Details below:
Location: Civo Tech Junction, First Floor, 32-37 Cowper St, London EC2A 4AW
Time: Doors open at 6PM
Drinks, snacks, talks, and networking.
We’re excited to invite you to our second in-person DevOps Society Meetup of 2026, proudly sponsored by Cast AI.
This event is focussed around Gen AI and Kubernetes, with two really exciting speakers lined up for this one in Carly and Kunal.
Format of the Meetup:
6:00pm – 6:30pm — Networking on arrival, with food and drinks provided by CastAI
6:30pm – 7:10pm — First speaker + Q&A
7:10pm – 7:20pm — Break for refreshments and networking
7:20pm – 8:00pm — Second speaker + Q&A
8:00pm onwards — More networking at the venue, then at a nearby pub.
Timings can vary slightly depending on Q&A.
We’re excited to welcome everyone to our next DevOps Society London meetup, where we’ll be diving into two incredibly relevant topics in modern infrastructure: observing GenAI applications in production and optimising Kubernetes clusters.
We’ll be joined by two brilliant speakers from the ecosystem who are working at the forefront of developer tooling and cloud infrastructure.
As always, expect a relaxed evening of technical learning, discussion, and networking with fellow engineers from across the London tech community.
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## 🎤 Speaker 1 - Carly Richmond
Developer Advocate Lead @ Elastic
### Observing AI Applications with OpenLit and OpenTelemetry
Observability is the ability to measure the current state of a system. With the rapid emergence of LLMs and GenAI applications moving into production, teams now need deeper insight into how these systems behave in real-world environments.
In this talk, Carly will explore best practices for observing production AI applications, covering how engineers can capture logs, traces, and metrics to better understand how LLMs interact within their application ecosystem.
She’ll walk through a real example of instrumenting an AI agent application written in TypeScript, using OpenLit to generate OpenTelemetry signals. The session will show the types of telemetry data teams can capture to identify usage patterns, detect errors, and troubleshoot issues commonly seen in production GenAI applications.
### About Carly
Carly Richmond is Developer Advocate Lead at Elastic, based in London. She’s a UI developer who also writes backend services, a keynote speaker, and a tech writer who is passionate about helping developers build better systems.
Outside of tech, Carly enjoys cooking, photography, drinking tea, and chasing after her young son.
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## 🎤 Speaker 2 - Kunal Kushwaha
Senior Developer Advocate @ CAST AI
### Optimizing Kubernetes and Unlocking Blockers with Container Live Migration
Kubernetes promises automation, yet most clusters run at around 10% CPU utilisation, leaving large amounts of infrastructure sitting idle.
With endless instance types, constantly shifting prices, and the complexity of modern workloads, maintaining efficient clusters can quickly become a full-time job.
In this talk, Kunal explores the real-world challenges teams face when running Kubernetes in production. He’ll cover where Kubernetes automation works well, where it falls short, and why optimisation remains difficult for many teams.
Topics include:
- Why most Kubernetes clusters are underutilised
- The realities of autoscaling in production environments
- Challenges around instance types and Spot capacity
- Common mistakes teams make with HPA and VPA
Once these challenges are laid out, Kunal introduces Container Live Migration as a way to overcome some of these long-standing blockers.
To bring the concept to life, he’ll run a live technical demo where Pods running a small video game are migrated across nodes in real time, while the audience participates. The game continues running without downtime, demonstrating how live migration can improve cluster efficiency without disrupting workloads.
Please register below to secure your spot. Spaces are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
We’re really looking forward to getting the community back together again for our first event of 2026.
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