Karlovac Developers

Navigating the challenges of exiting hyperscalers in favor of EU cloud providers.

Are you in a toxic relationship with a major cloud provider? It’s expensive, overly complicated, but somehow... comfortable. Are you staying just because it's a known safety zone, even though the monthly bills and architectural overhead are causing constant anxiety?

It’s time for a group therapy session.

At this meetup, we are opening up the floor for an honest conversation about breaking up with big hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud) in favor of European alternatives like Hetzner. Using the metaphor of psychotherapy, we will dissect why exiting a comfortable but restrictive environment is so difficult, the real risks of staying, and what the path to infrastructure recovery actually looks like.

What's on the Agenda?

Facing the Dependency: Why do we stay with hyperscalers and how do you know when it’s time to leave?

The Developer’s Journey & Open Source Contribution: A deep dive into the builder's mindset. Eduard will share the backstage story of creating a custom solution:

• Why he decided to write a dedicated plugin instead of relying on existing workarounds.
• The tech stack used, the development process, and the actual time investment required.
• How to promote an open-source tool and the real-world feedback/impressions from active users.

Case Study: A practical look at the Hetzner Rancher nodedriver provider—a plugin designed to make provisioning and managing Kubernetes clusters on Hetzner simple, smooth, and trauma-free.

Meet Your Therapist (Speaker)