Clearing the path to production

Modern engineering teams are moving fast, but many are doing it through rough terrain. Cognitive overload, fragmented tooling, and unclear ownership turn everyday development into an expedition with unnecessary risk.

# ​This meetup is about clearing the path.

​Across the talks, we’ll look at practical approaches to reducing cognitive load, standardising environments, and building platforms that accelerate teams instead of slowing them down. Topics include golden paths, reliable CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and the operational practices that keep systems stable once they’re live.

## ​Talk 1: Building a Reliable Code-to-Production Ecosystem by Lucian Dragos

​High cognitive load and inconsistent environments are like hiking with a 50 kg backpack and no map. It slows you down, kills morale, and eventually leads you off a cliff.

In this talk, Lucian Dragos walks through the real “code to production” journey using a simple lens: developers as hikers, platform teams as rangers. Through concrete, real-world scenarios, he shows where teams get lost, where things break, and why good intentions aren’t enough. (Covering unified CI/CD, IaC, and golden paths).
Lucian Dragos - Platform Engineer

## ​Talk 2: The Infrastructure-as-Go Experiment: Lessons from the trenches by Julien Bisconti

​In the modern cloud-native landscape, we have accepted a strange status quo: we build our most critical systems using a fragile patchwork of YAML, HCL, and "glue" bash scripts bundled with templating engines, domain specific languages and text files end up everywhere. While these tools are standard, they lack the fundamental safety nets of software engineering—specifically strong typing, unit testing, and compilation.

Instead of writing templates or DSLs, we built "Go packages" that
allowed engineers to manage Kubernetes and Terraform entirely through Go code, providing a "round-trip" workflow between raw manifests and type-safe code putting the developer in the driver seat. However, despite its technical elegance, Lingon (the open source project) is now archived. Beyond the code, we will discuss the "cultural gravity" of the DevOps ecosystem and the hard lessons learned about open-source adoption.
Julien Bisconti - Google Developer Expert

​Drinks and food will be provided🍕🥤

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