ReactJS Barcelona - February 2026

You thought we would skip February? NO! We're back, baby! February Meetup is here! Let's gooo! We have some amazing speakers, and pizza and beer will be available after the event.
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18:30: Welcome
Grab a beer, a snack, and a seat until everybody arrives!

18:45 Intro by Host Neciu Dan and Giorgio Polvara from Perk

19:00 The 2600€ Mistake: How we saved 90% on Cloud Costs by breaking the SSR Myth
Speaker: Danilo Velasquez, Staff Web Platform Engineer and Consultant

When our Astro/React migration reached 8,000 RPS, 100 pods couldn't prevent the crash loops. Discover how mastering Node.js internals—Cluster API, file descriptors, and strict timeouts—slashed our bill from 2,850€ to 250€ while handling 1.6B monthly views. A war story about why "frontend-only" thinking fails on the server.

19:30 400 Tech Leads. Same problems. None of them technical.
Speaker: Anemari Fiser, O’Reilly Author | Engineering Leader

After training and coaching more than 400 tech leads across companies and industries, one pattern keeps repeating: when tech leads struggle, it’s rarely a technical gap.

In this talk, Anemari Fiser shares the most common challenges tech leads bring into coaching sessions - overload, unclear expectations, ownership confusion - and assumed alignment, and why “getting better technically” almost never fixes them.
Drawing from real coaching and training examples, the talk explores where tech leads get stuck, what they think the problem is, and the small but meaningful shifts that help them move forward.

19:45: Drinks and networking!
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