Behind the incident & Beyond your default stack
Details
THIS MEETUP WILL BE IN-PERSON 🕺
What to expect:
🗣️ Two or Three speakers
👥 Meet old and new friends from the community
🌯 Free food
🎉 Open-end and free drinks afterwards
✔️ Just RSVP!
Agenda:
- 17:30 - Doors open
- 18:00 - Welcome by willhaben
- 18:10 - First talk
- 18:55 - Break
- 19:05 - Second talk
- 19:50 - 🎉 Open-end
👂 Talks:
🗣️ Eva Schwarz
The life of an incident at willhaben
🗣️ Patrick Favre
Breaking Up with My Default Stack
🧑💻 Speakers:
Eva Schwarz - Software Engineer and Tribe Lead with ~15 years of experience bringing PM ideas to life, fighting bugs, facing incidents, and still being amazed by how beautiful code can be. I’ve been with willhaben for 6 years, currently supporting the mission of breaking the monolith and migrating our search engine.
Talk description:
What happens behind the scenes when the lights blink red at Austria’s largest marketplace? This talk takes you on the full journey of an incident at willhaben - from the adrenaline of the first pager alarm to the relief of the fix, and finally, the crucial post-mortem. We will explore how we turn chaos into structured response, practice a blameless culture, and use every outage as fuel to build a more resilient platform. Join us to see how we ensure that a software failure today leads to a stronger system tomorrow.
Patrick Favre - Software engineer with 15+ years of experience, starting with Java and evolving toward cloud-native architectures.
Currently a Lead Developer at Senacor Technologies, focused on building scalable systems in complex enterprise environments, with a strong interest in how cloud requirements are changing the way we choose our tech stacks.
Talk description:
As software has moved toward cloud-native and cloud-first architectures, the constraints and priorities of our systems have changed.
In this talk, I’ll explore how that shift reshaped the way I evaluate technologies - as a Java developer at heart - and why I sometimes choose alternatives to the JVM, while still seeking the strengths I value from the Java ecosystem.
Location, Food & Drinks are sponsored by willhaben 🫶
willhaben is the largest digital marketplace and one of the biggest websites in Austria with more than 4 million users per month* and more than 13 million ads in real estate, cars, jobs and marketplace (*ÖWA 2025-II). Our successful concept is based on strong regional content and a modern, clear page structure with a detailed categorization of the ads. The easy usage, the fast search results and the exclusive focus on the online advertising business ensure a clear profile of the offer and a high user acceptance.
We are true team players with a wide variety of talent, and we support each other to achieve the best results for our users and customers. Our open office space, including a large kitchen and sunny terrace ensures a very familiar working atmosphere.
There are regular joint activities such as team buildings, after work gatherings and other company events. Find out more about us: https://jobsbei.willhaben.at/
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