Thu, Oct 22 · 6:00 PM CEST
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Digital sovereignty is often discussed from a regulatory or strategic perspective, but it increasingly affects day-to-day engineering decisions: architecture choices, cloud dependencies, identity management, infrastructure portability, security, and operational resilience.
Put simply: when your provider changes pricing, gets acquired, or falls out of your compliance scope; how painful is your exit? That pain is measured in the IAM, storage, and orchestration choices your team makes today. Sovereignty is ultimately about open standards and keeping your options open.
The meetup connects these perspectives by exploring practical questions:
How do we design platforms that remain adaptable in a changing technology landscape?
Where does vendor independence make sense, and where does it introduce unnecessary complexity?
Which sovereignty topics are relevant for platform engineers today?
Potential Talk Topics
Vendor-independent architecture and cloud portability: designing platforms that can evolve across providers without rebuilding everythingS3-compatible storage across cloud and on-prem environments: MinIO, Ceph, and similar approachesKubernetes and Crossplane for hybrid and multi-cloud scenariosHigh availability and resilience for SMEs: practical approaches beyond hyperscaler assumptionsIAM as a sovereignty challenge: why identity is often the hardest component to migrateOpen source as a sovereignty strategy: benefits, limitations, and real-world trade-offsAI supply chain transparency: SBOMs, provenance, and emerging practices for AI componentsUnderstanding sovereignty frameworks: EUCS, BSI C5, ENISA; what matters for platform teams and what applies only to regulated environments 
