Platform Engineering MeetUp & BBQ 🌅🍔🍻

Dear Platform Engineering Community,

Are you ready for the Summer Edition of our Platform Engineering MeetUp?!?!! WE ARE!! 🤩 Join us for an exciting evening of insights, networking, and good vibes! We’ve got 3 fantastic talks lined up, followed by a relaxed BBQ & drinks on the terrace 🌅🍔🍻 So YES, please have all your fingers crossed for some nice weather 🤞☀️

As always, all you need to do is bring you++ (please keep spreading the word of our lovely community here as much as you can!!), pack some good vibes & talking points, and come ready to connect with like-minded professionals in a fun, relaxed atmosphere.

Can't wait to see you all!! 🙂
Hosted by mogenius and Tarmac

LOCATION
Waterfront (former: Delirium Cafe Amsterdam)
Piet Heinkade 4
1019 BR Amsterdam
what3words Address: ///players.mulls.fades

HOW TO GET THERE
🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️: 13Min. walk from Centraal Station
🚋: One stop with tram no. 26 from 'Centraal Station' to 'Amsterdam, Muziekgeb. Bimhuis'
🚗 🅿️: And if you do come by car, the parking garage 'Parkeergarage IJ-oever Centrum' is close by & allows for pre-booking a spot (EUR 9,-- for evening parking from 18:00 - 1:00)

AGENDA
17.00 - 18.00 Doors Open, Welcome Snacks & Drinks

18.00 Welcome by our hosts

18.10 - 18.30 "The Evolution of Observability - from ice age to AI"
Jeroen Van Erp, Technical Advocate @ SUSE
Be prepared for a whirlwind trip through time and discover how each of the 3 pillars of Observability evolved and came together. Learn why you need each of them and a bit more to get complete insight and be ready for the next evolution in observing your applications

18.35 - 18.55 "Scaffolding the Startup - Zero to Platform Without Blocking the Build"
Kris Gillespie, Head of Platform & Security @ Silverflow

• Getting buy-in: Creating early momentum without authority
• We work for the Feature Teams
• Designing for a future others can’t see

19.00 - 19.25 "Pricing your infrastructure, how hard could it be?"
Malcolm Matalka, CTO @ Terrateam
This talk shares our journey building OpenInfraQuote, an open source tool that translates AWS pricing data into real cost estimates for Terraform code. We'll walk through what made this harder than expected, what we learned about cloud pricing models, and how teams can use these lessons to bring cost visibility into engineering conversations.

19:30 - 22.00 Get-together with BBQ & Drinks