AI Generated Infrastructure - The good, the bad and the beautiful

THIS MEETUP WILL BE IN-PERSON 🕺

!!! We moved to a new office -> make sure to join us THERE 😉 !!!

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
• 18:05 - 🗣️ Thomas Rausch - Would You Deploy AI-Generated Infra to the Cloud?
• 18:45 - Break
• 19:00 - 🗣️ David Schmitt - Prevent Looming Outages with LLMs
• 19:55 - 🎉 Open-end

🧑‍💻 Speakers:

Thomas - Co-founder Principal Engineer at Localstack

Thomas is a systems engineer, technical leader, and co-founder at LocalStack, where he builds tools to make cloud infrastructure more testable, observable, and developer-friendly. He's led engineering teams from startup to scale-up, written core systems across the stack, and holds a PhD in computer science. His work spans distributed systems, open source, and creating processes that help teams ship with excellence and intention.

Thoma's session

Coding with Agentic AI is all the rage. But would you really deploy AI-generated infrastructure code straight to AWS? Sure, if you want every terraform apply to be Chaos Engineering. In this talk, we'll explore how to build a safe, fast, local-first workflow for testing Infrastructure as Code before it ever hits the cloud. Using LocalStack, we'll show how to emulate full cloud environments, troubleshoot and iterate on your IaC, perform IAM security testing, and even emulate CI/CD pipelines with the latest LocalStack release, all on your laptop. Whether you're hand-coding Terraform, CDK, Pulumi, or letting your AI agent do the heavy lifting, you'll learn how to validate, iterate, and deploy with real confidence.

David - Lead Engineer at Overmind

David is the Lead Engineer at Overmind, where he builds the next generation of support tooling for high-performing teams. He previously worked on developer and infrastructure products at Cloudsmith and Puppet

David's session

In 2023, a one-line Terraform change caused a nightmare AWS outage at Loom, logging users into the wrong accounts. This incident reveals a critical risk in cloud development: how can engineers predict the true blast radius of a change when dependencies are deeply hidden within complex services like CloudFront?
This session introduces Overmind, a tool that prevents these disasters. By automatically mapping your infrastructure's complex dependencies, Overmind uses LLMs to translate the potential impact of any code change into a plain-English risk analysis, delivered directly in your pull request. Learn how this new approach can prevent your next outage.

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Location:

SQUER Solutions (NEW OFFICE!), Althanstraße 4/3/63, 1090, Wien

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