Platform Engineering MeetUp (+ BBQ & Beers 🔥🍗🍔🥙🍻) - "The Talking Heads"

Dear Platform Engineering Community,

One thing is clear...when Brent Kastner, Kevin Boots, Benedikt Iltisberger and Renato Mefi + team all get together..... The Talking Heads are in town!! 😜

Are you ready for another iteration of our Platform Engineering MeetUp?!?!! WE ARE!! 🤩 This time prepare yourselves for a live Kubernetes hacking session alongside 3 super interesting talks on the 29th of May (doors open at 17.00 this time!)!! And please have all your fingers crossed for some nice weather 🤞☀️ as we are opening the terrace for BBQ & Beers at the Delirium Café AKA Waterfront!! 🍔🍺🍗🍟🍴🔥

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 (we MIGHT have room for some lightning talks again!!) and be ready for a night of learning, laughter, and connecting. Just come and enjoy the evening! 🙂

Cheers to another unforgettable gathering! 🎉
Hosted by mogenius and Tarmac.io

LOCATION
Delirium Café Amsterdam (soon: Waterfront)
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 Drinks & Snacks/Appetizers
18.00 Official Welcome
18.10 - 18.30 "Enterprise Data and LLMs: I promise this is not another meaningless AI talk"
Brent Kastner, CTO @ Tarmac.io

• Safe data exploration using LLMs
• The art of the possible - what's new, what's changing
• Real working infrastructure and code to demo

18.30 - 18.50 "How I learned to stop worrying and love IT controls again (by putting them into a platform)"
Kevin Boots, Senior DevOps Consultant @ DevOn

• Why automate IT controls/compliance?
• Strategies and examples of building IT controls into your dev platform, like BDD tests or reactive architectures
• Spinoffs into developer enablement + examples, embracing innersourcing

18.50 - 19.20 "Building a Platform team @Gorgias - Practical Examples"
by Gorgias Team: Renato Mefi (VP of Engineering), Moustapha Mahfoud (Data Engineer) & Abdelhakim Bendjabeur (Senior Software Engineer)

• Starting a platform from scratch, from weekly outages to adopting new paradigms
• Democratizing Data Streaming stack - from Debezium to 30 Kafka Connect use cases
• Empowering multiple teams to launch their own Analytics dashboards on top of a platform

19:20 Kubernetes Live Hacking Session (Breakout Group)
Benedikt Iltisberger, Co-Founder (Focus: Software Dev & DevOps) @ mogenius

19:20 - 22.00 Get-together with BBQ & Drinks
(Time for Lightning Talks)