Name: November 2025 lunch & learn with the Gerrit community X Google and GerritForge
Start: 2025-11-19T17:00:00.000Z
Location: Google Munich - Safety Engineering Center

GerritMeets is back! Join us for our post-summer GerritMeets in San Francisco — we look forward to seeing you there!

**NOTE: This event is not at the usual Sunnyvale location, triple check event details.**

Are you attending GitMerge? Why not pop up over lunchtime to learn about Gerrit and JGit as well?

**Agenda Highlights:**

**Pushing Git Repos to Warp Speed: A Deep Dive into JGit's reftable Backend**

GerritForge, Google, SAP, and the JGit community have spent years enhancing the performance of Git repositories, a necessity as AI-driven development causes an explosion in refs, blobs, and data volatility. This talk will detail Git's internal object organization and the limitations of its original design and we'll show the journey to dramatically improve Gerrit's speed, focusing on the new reftable backend.

As Gerrit's founder, Shawn Pearce, used to say "Performance is a feature", and there's plenty of performance to be found with this latest changes.

I'll also cover the techniques we used to simulate massive repository workloads, measure performance gains, and identify key breakthroughs in accelerating Git.

Speaker: Daniele Sassoli - GerritForge

**Enabling Seamless SSO in Gerrit Code Review**
As software development teams scale and adopt diverse authentication ecosystems, seamless and secure access to developer tools becomes critical. Gerrit offers multiple options to integrate with enterprise identity providers through Single Sign-On (SSO).

In this talk, we will explore how to configure SSO in Gerrit using two key plugins: the OAuth plugin, which supports a wide range of identity providers (including Google and custom OpenID Connect providers), and the GitHub plugin, which offers native integration with GitHub’s authentication.

We’ll cover real-world use cases, configuration best practices, and common pitfalls when integrating Gerrit into an existing SSO infrastructure.

Speaker: Fabio Ponciroli - GerritForge

**Where:**
Spaces Mission & 3rd
95 Third Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, 94103

**How to find us:**
Details to follow closer to the event.

Let’s keep the momentum going in 2025 with the Gerrit community! Expect insightful discussions, valuable networking, and—of course—free pizza.

Have a topic idea or want to present at the meetup? Let us know by filling out [this form](#).

*Please note that photography and recording will occur during the event. If you have concerns, let us know in advance.*

We hope to see you there!

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**BIG NEWS!**
This installment of GerritMeets is co-organised by GerritForge, Google Cloud and the [GDG - Google Developer Group - Munich](https://gdg.community.dev/gdg-munich/) and will be hosted at the **Google Munich - Safety Engineering Center** on the **19th of November 2025. Doors open: 1730 Local Time**.
Unlike other GerritMeets this will be an evening event with drinks and food kindly offered by the GDG! You won't want to miss the famous GBrau, Google's own beer for the Munich's office!

**Agenda Highlights**:
**Introduction to the Horizon Platform - 15 Min**

What does automotive engineering and Gerrit have in common? The development on Android with AAOS! Learn more about Project Horizon, how it leverages Gerrit and what other components make up this open-source, community-driven initiative to standardize automotive software development.

**Speaker: Florian Haubner, Automotive Industry Lead EMEA, Google Cloud**

**Harnessing AI's in the Gerrit Code Review process** **\- What's currently possible** \- 25 min
Explore the current state of AI integrations to enhance your Code Review experience with Gerrit. We'll dive into the current state-of-the-art solutions and practical applications, showing you what integrations are available right now to combine Gerrit with large language models (LLMs) for smarter, more efficient code reviews.

**Speaker: Daniele Sassoli - Senior Engineering Manager, Gerrit contributor and Community Manager.**
**GerritForge**

**AI-Powered Reviews with Gemini CLI and Gerrit MCP Server - 30 mins**

Move beyond the hype and see a concrete implementation of AI in your code reviews. This technical session with Danny demonstrates how to connect powerful Gemini models directly to your Gerrit workflow. Join this deep dive to explore the specific tools making this possible, starting with a primer on using the Gemini CLI for development tasks. The talk will also provide an overview of the Gerrit MCP Server and its role in bridging the gap between your code reviews and AI. A central part of the session is a live demonstration showing both tools working together to provide intelligent feedback on a code change. You'll leave with a clear understanding of the current state of AI code assistance and a practical look at the future of AI-powered engineering.

**Speaker: Danny Rosen - Senior Technical Program Manager - Google**

**Where**:
Google Munich - Safety Engineering Center

Erika-Mann-Straße 33, 80636 München, Germany

How to find us:

Have a topic idea or want to present at the meetup? Let us know by filling out this form.

Please note that photography and recording will occur during the event. If you have concerns, let us know in advance.
We hope to see you there!

November 2025 lunch & learn with the Gerrit community X Google and GerritForge

Google Munich - Safety Engineering Center

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