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Join us for “Platform Engineering × AI: From Refactoring to Reliability,” an evening exploring how AI agents, deterministic codemods, and supervised automation are reshaping large-scale engineering workflows. Hear real-world stories of shrinking multi-year migrations into months, transforming fragile legacy code into evergreen systems, and saving hundreds of developer hours with AI-powered codemods. A meetup for engineers who want to move beyond writing code—into orchestrating intelligent systems that write and improve it. ***Agenda*** 18:00 - Gathering, food, drinks & mingling 18:30 - **From 8 Years to 6 Months: Orchestrating AI agents for Large-Scale Refactoring** \- Alon Segal & Amit Hanoch\, monday\.com 19:00 - **Saving 1000+ developer hours with codemods -** Elad Bezalel, Lemonade 19:30 - **From Legacy to Evergreen: Supervising AI Agents for Confident Coding** \- Yonatan Kra\, Vonage **Talk Abstracts** **From 8 Years to 6 Months: Orchestrating AI agents for Large-Scale Refactoring** Refactoring a massive legacy monolith is every developer’s nightmare—especially when estimates hit 8 person-years. At monday.com, attempts to rely solely on Generative AI introduced hallucinations and drift, pushing us to rethink automation entirely. In this talk, we’ll show how we cut the migration timeline to just 6 months by building a custom orchestration engine combining agentic coding with deterministic codemods (AST). You’ll see our “Research-Execute-Review” workflow in action, where a Node.js orchestrator manages autonomous agents that validate their own code through custom validators, linters, and tests before a human ever reviews a PR. We’ll share the governance patterns, oversight strategies, and orchestration framework that enabled us to eliminate years of technical debt in months—while maintaining full stability and zero production incidents. **Saving 1000+ developer hours with codemods** Moving from one major version to another in various repositories is a tough task that might take precious hours of your time. To put it delicately, I hate manual work. Facing the excruciating process ahead of me, I decided to build a tool to help me in migrating huge amounts of code from one version to another. In this session I will share the reasoning for this project, the technicalities behind it, how to use AI to generate migrations, and how to use this tool for your own benefit. **From Legacy to Evergreen: Supervising AI Agents for Confident Coding** Are you spending much of your time wrestling with untested, fragile legacy code? AI agents promise an easy escape by instantly generating and refactoring code. They even seem to offer test coverage. Yet using them unchecked results in low-quality "legacy code" that is just as painful to maintain as, well, legacy code. In this talk we will talk through a "Small Step" methodology for effectively partnering with your AI agent: we'll break down complex modules into manageable chunks, guiding the agent with precise prompts to focus on the public interface and business logic, not implementation details and even a way to automatically make sure no regressions were made during a change. You will walk away with a proven, practical framework for supervising AI-driven Coding. It will allow you to confidently transform old, undocumented systems into evergreen code with a robust test suite that prevents regressions, accelerates refactoring, and dramatically boosts development velocity. **Speaker Bios** **Alon Segal - Frontend Engineering Team Lead, [monday.com](http://monday.com)** Alon is a Frontend Engineering Team Lead at monday.com, where he leads a team in the Client Foundations group and focuses on the core systems that power the company’s web platform. A long-time frontend infrastructure enthusiast, Alon loves turning complex architectural challenges into elegant, scalable solutions. **Amit Hancoh - Tech Lead, [monday.com](http://monday.com)** Amit is a Tech Lead at monday.com focused on leveraging AI for complex engineering challenges. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and has a deep understanding of the platform, originating from his work on the core Widgets Infrastructure. Amit was part of the team that developed Morphex, a tool which utilized AI agents to split monday.com’s monolith architecture, significantly accelerating a multi-year effort into just a few months. His technical foundation was built earlier while serving as a developer in the IDF unit "Mazpen". When not improving code velocity, Amit is a dedicated coffee content creator. **Elad Bezalel - Frontend Lead, Lemonade + Web & Angular GDE** Elad is a combination of a designer and a programmer who aims to create beautiful yet comfortable web applications with the main technology he loves - Javascript. He currently leads the frontend at Lemonade, and a Web & Angular GDE. **Yonatan Kra - Software Architect, Vonage** Yonatan has been involved in some awesome projects in the academy and the industry - from C/C++ through Matlab to PHP and javascript. Former CTO at Webiks. Currently he is a Software Architect at Vonage and an egghead.io instructor.

REGISTIRATION IS VIA THIS LINK: https://luma.com/zw2rud9i Agenda: ​**18:00-18:30 -** Gathering, food and drinks **18:30-18:45 -** NLP IL & Workday : Opening words **18:45-19:15 - Daniel & Matvey (Workday) -** Same Input, Different Output? The Fight for Deterministic LLM Inference **19:15-19:45 - Maya (Solid) -** Text2SQL: Semantic Models In Action **19:45-20:15 - Idan (Decart) -** Windowed Attention - Theory to Practice

TAMI open-fa-sure (Open Night) is a great time to visit the space and get to know how things work. If you want to double check whether someone is in the space, call 03-3726660. ========== TAMI wiki: [https://telavivmakers.org](https://telavivmakers.org) TAMI main Telegram channel: [https://t.me/+0t5M0-jK9iIwZmM8](https://t.me/+0t5M0-jK9iIwZmM8)

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הצטרפו לקורס ייחודי, שבו תלמדו איך להפוך רעיונות יצירתיים למציאות, בעזרת כלים מתקדמים של בינה מלאכותית. נלמד כיצד לייצר תוכן מרתק, ליצור תמונות מדהימות, ולהפוך טקסטים לדימויים מוחשיים באמצעות הדפסה וחיתוך בלייזר. במהלך הקורס נשלב עבודה מעשית ויצירתית עם כלי בינה מלאכותית מתקדמים כמו Suno, Nano Banana, Kling AI, ChatGPT ועוד, כדי לייצר תוכן מרתק, ליצור תמונות מדהימות ולהפוך טקסטים לדימויים מוחשיים. תוצר: מודל תלת-ממד ועיצוב בחיתוך לייזר שניצור באמצעות בינה מלאכותית. תכני הקורס עלות: 450 ש"ח (400 ש"ח לתושבי יהוד-מונוסון). **שימו לב: לא מספיק להרשם במיטאפ יש להרשם גם בקישור הבא** 🔗 לפרטים והרשמה: [ https://link.makelab.org.il/creating-with-AI](https://link.makelab.org.il/creating-with-AI)

Always wanted your developers to act like DevOps engineers? Now they actually can. Join the Kuberly Hackathon by Profisea – AWS Premier Partner and GCP Partner – and learn how to build cloud-native apps with best practices, security, and automation baked in. **About Kuberly** Kuberly by Profisea is your **automated Kubernetes on AWS** – ready in minutes, with no heavy lifting. It comes with everything modern teams need: * **Built-in DevOps essentials** – CI/CD, secrets management, monitoring, and release automation out of the box. * **Smarter automation** – self-healing infrastructure, SSL certificates, DB and traffic management, and upgrades made simple. * **AI-powered assistant** – instantly troubleshoot logs, metrics, traffic, and even cloud costs. * **Cost efficiency from day one** – optimized performance without overspending. * **Continuous AWS support** – expert help when you need it.

As AI engineering moves from experiments to production, the challenge is no longer just “using an LLM” - it’s architecting real systems around agents, context, and control. In this meetup, we’ll explore how companies build reliable multi-agent flows, refactor early hacks into scalable architectures, and get AI coding agents to produce real, shippable work. We’re bringing together experts from HoneyBook, DoorLoop, and Unity to share how they design agent architectures, evolve prototypes into robust systems, and turn coding agents into productive teammates. Join us for an evening where AI engineering gets practical, hands-on, and deeply real. —---- **Agenda:** 17:30 - 18:30 - Food, drinks and mingling 18:30 - Onboarding Zen: Orchestrating Multi-Agent Flows into One Whole Experience - Idan Doron, Senior Full Stack Engineer at HoneyBook 19:00 - Refactoring the Agent: From Hardcoded Logic to Unified LangGraph & MCPs - Maor Oz, Technical Lead at DoorLoop 19:30 - AI Coding Agents: From Vibes to Production - Nir Jacob, Senior Full Stack Engineer at Unity 20:00 - More drinks and mingling! The talks will be delivered in Hebrew. —---- **// Onboarding Zen: Orchestrating Multi-Agent Flows into One Whole Experience - Idan Doron, Senior Full Stack Engineer at HoneyBook** Forcing an LLM to behave the way you intend is a never-ending challenge, and we faced this challenge in our onboarding experience. At HoneyBook, our onboarding experience uses multiple AI agents - contracts, invoices, pipeline, and an onboarding specialist - each tied to a unique UI mode. That worked well until we realized real users don’t stick to a single intent, and they move from one context to another while staying with the same agent and the same UI experience. In this talk, we’ll explore how we built a multi-agent orchestrator that keeps onboarding seamless and context-aware. We’ll share how we designed intent routing, used “think tools” that guide reasoning without extra LLM calls, created safe fallback paths, and balanced model decisions with deterministic logic. ***About the speaker:*** Idan is a Senior Full Stack Engineer at HoneyBook, driving AI initiatives from product development to company-wide task forces. One of the first to introduce AI at HoneyBook, she now focuses on agentic AI engineering. In her free time, you can find her doing functional training or baking (though not at the same time). [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/idandoron/) **// Refactoring the Agent: From Hardcoded Logic to Unified LangGraph & MCPs - Maor Oz, Technical Lead at DoorLoop** How do you evolve from a fragile, hardcoded script into a scalable agent architecture? At DoorLoop, we began with almost no AI context, stitching together limited workflows without tools. It quickly became clear that this approach could not scale. In this session, we will explore the real engineering journey of building an AI platform, tracing the evolution from early RAG experiments to fully stateful, production-grade agents. We’ll cover the steep learning curve of adopting LangChain, the early limitations of tool-less and prompt-only workflows, and the pivotal shift to the ReAct paradigm. Finally, we’ll look ahead to the future of agent scalability, focusing on how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables clean, standardized connections between agents and internal tools, unlocking a more modular, extensible, and maintainable AI architecture. ***About the speaker:*** Maor Oz is an AI Technical Lead at DoorLoop. Over the past two years, Maor was a Technical Lead focused on strengthening the company’s infrastructure and developer experience. Six months ago, he transitioned into an AI Technical Lead role, where he now leads DoorLoop’s initiative to introduce and scale multiple AI agents across the company. In his free time, you can find Maor playing various instruments, creating music and playing video games. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/maor-oz-a02129100/) **// AI Coding Agents: From Vibes to Production - Nir Jacob, Senior Full Stack Engineer at Unity** If you’ve ever found yourself in a never-ending debate with an AI where “You Are Absolutely Right!” you know the unique frustration of working with LLMs that sound certain but act chaotic. This talk digs into what’s really happening under the hood when AI tries to help you write code and why things so often go sideways. We’ll walk through real cases where good prompts went bad, bad context ballooned into messy diffs, and where the AI’s confidence outpaced its correctness. More importantly, we’ll explore practical methods to fix this with advanced context-engineering techniques, task delegation across specialized sub-agents, and patterns that dramatically reduce hallucinations and missteps. You’ll learn how to structure conversations, break down problems, and guide coding agents so they become dependable collaborators instead of unpredictable debaters. This session will show you how to turn your AI slop into vibes and finally get AI to help you write better code, faster. ***About the speaker:*** Nir Jacob is a Senior Full Stack Engineer at Unity. He has spent the past year leading the adoption of AI-powered coding tools across R&D. With deep experience in building high-quality software and a curiosity-driven mindset, he loves exploring emerging technologies, experimenting with new developer tools, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Outside of work, you’ll often find him tinkering with the latest AI assistants or testing whatever new tech lands on his desk. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nirjacob/) —---- See you soon!

\#\# Full Agenda From: Rotem Gani \| Chen Amrani \| Efi Merdler Kravitz : \[Hebrew\] **Seize the automation - Turning a One-Off Fix into Org-Wide Automation** ​Every engineering team has that moment: a repetitive, error-prone change that needs to be applied across dozens of repositories. Everyone knows it should be automated — but somehow it never is. ​ This talk tells the real story of how one such "annoying but necessary" fix evolved into a fully-fledged AI-powered automation platform used across an organization. From: Ron Klein [Hebrew] **Use Caching and Hashing to avoid Crashing** ​Sure, your framework has a cache. Your CDN has one too. But do you really know what they’re doing? ​In this session, we’ll build a tiny in-memory cache on purpose - so we can break it, fix it, and understand what real caching systems are actually solving. We’ll explore common failure modes like stale data, race conditions, invalidation pain, and the dreaded thundering herd, then level up with ETags and conditional HTTP requests. ​You’ll leave with a clearer intuition for how caching really works - and how to use it to make your backend faster, calmer, and more resilient. Kindly be informed that attendance at the meetup is on a first-come, first-served basis until capacity is reached. Although a place has been reserved for you (after click on attend button), please note that it **does not guarantee your spot.** Register via Luma -> [https://luma.com/1vzetmmg](https://luma.com/1vzetmmg) Kindly be informed that attendance at the meetup is on a first-come, first-served basis until capacity is reached. Although a place has been reserved for you (after click on attend button), please note that it **does not guarantee your spot.**

Get the **latest practical tools and techniques for building AI agents**, simple and to the point. Whether someone at your company said "WE NEED AI NOW", or you just have a startup idea, **you need to know what's the best tools for building AI agents now**, not all the deprecated stuff from last week. Join us to learn the latest and greatest from our amazing speakers, mingle, and most importantly eat some pizzas and drink a bit (or whatever tasty food we can get)! **On the agenda (the usual...):** * **18:00-18:30** \- Mingling\, pizza and drinks 🍕 * **18:30-18:45** \- Quick welcome & updates by [Ashley Majar @ Cyshel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleymajar/) * **18:45-19:00** \- Why Your AI Needs a Brain\, Not a Spreadsheet by [Rom Iluz @ MongoDB](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rom-iluz/) * **19:00-19:30** \- How We Built the \#1 Deep Research Agent by Doing Less by [Eyal Ben Barouch @ Taviliy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eyal-ben-barouch-007-1a2b3c4d5/) * **19:30-20:00** \- Awareness vs\. Memory \- How I Mix Both by [Yogev Ben-Tov @ Team0](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ybentov/) * **20:00-20:30** \- How to Work with 4 Terminals and Kickass by [Sahar Carmel @ Mixtiles](https://www.linkedin.com/in/saharcarmel/)

Date: 2026.01.07 Start: 18:00 \* **Mingling** (30 minutes) \* **Rust is the future of Linux drivers** by [Leon Vak](https://rust.org.il/people/leon-vak) Language: (Hebrew) Length: 60 min I gave a talk about Rust in the Linux kernel back in 2024. Back then, it was mostly an experiment and honestly, there was a lot of debate around it. Even though I was excited, for my daily work—writing DMA and PCIe drivers for our customers—I still stuck with C. The situation felt shaky: one day Linus would say something positive, and the next day a lead maintainer would quit because of the "non-technical nonsense." But while the headlines were messy, the developers kept working quietly and closing the gaps. Fast forward to today, the "experiment" tag is officially gone. With the new Nova driver for NVIDIA and subsystems like Binder already running in Rust on millions of devices, it is no longer a question of "if," but "when." I decided it’s the right time to take a deep dive into what we have today and see if we are finally ready to move our daily driver work from C to Rust.

**נפתח את השנה עם מיטאפ שווה במיוחד שינסה לגשר על הפערים בין עיצוב, מוצר ובינה מלאכותית.** זה לא ערב של מתודולוגיה אחת נכונה, אלא של נקודות מבט שונות, התלבטויות אמיתיות, ניסיון מהשטח, והרבה כנות לגבי איך הדברים נראים כשעובדים עם כלים חדשים, קצב גבוה וציפיות משתנות. אנחנו מזמינות אתכם לבוא לשמוע, לשאול שאלות, ולצאת עם זוויות מחשבה וכלים שאפשר לקחת ישר לעבודה. **בערב הזה נשמע על:** * איך מגשרים על הפער: ממסכים סטטים לפרוטוטייפים דינמיים * איך תפקיד המעצב משתנה כשבינה מלאכותית נכנסת עמוק לתוך התמונה * איך בונים מוצר לסטרטאפים בשלבים מוקדמים בעולם שרץ מהר מתמיד **האירוע יתקיים במשרדים של חברת סימילרווב בגבעתיים, ביום רביעי 7.1.26 בשעה 19:00 בערב** \* **19:00-19:20 מינגלינג ונשנושים!** \* עומר אבירם **Bridging the Gap: Static Screens to Live Prototypes** \* אנה סטיליאנו **מי המעצב כאן?** \* דוד בלסם **בניית מוצר לסטרטאפים בשלבים מוקדמים** האירוע ישודר לייב לפייסבוק שלנו כך שתוכלו להצטרף מרחוק אם במקרה אתם נניח במדינה אחרת וממש מתגעגעים גם. פרטים נוספים על כל הרצאה תמצאו למטה: נתראה בקרוב! מיכל \-\-\-\-\- **ועכשיו בהרחבה על ההרצאות:** \* **Bridging the Gap: Static Screens to Live Prototypes** מכירים את זה שאתם מייצרים פרוטוטייפ בפיגמה, והכל נראה טוב, אבל כשמנסים לשלב נתונים אמיתיים והתנהגות מורכבת - פתאום משהו לא עובד והכל נהיה מסורבל? בהרצאה אציג איך שימוש בכלי בינה מלאכותית כמו קרסור, מאפשרים לנו לבנות פרוטוטייפ דינמי, מבוסס נתונים אמיתיים ולוגיקות מורכבות כדי לדמות את המוצר האמיתי. נדבר על תהליכי עבודה, דוגמאות פרקטיות וטיפים, שילוב כלים חיצוניים וטכניקות המאפשרות איטרציות ובדיקת פתרונות שונים בקלות. נבין מתי כדאי להשתמש בסוגי הכלים השונים ואת המגבלות שלהם. \* **מי המעצב כאן?** כלי בינה מלאכותית הפכו לחלק בלתי נפרד מתהליך העיצוב, ויחד עם היעילות והמהירות, עלו גם שאלות חדשות: מי מקבל את ההחלטות? מי אחראי על הבחירה? ואיפה עובר הגבול בין עזרה להובלה? בהרצאה נדבר על קבלת החלטות בעיצוב בעידן של בינה מלאכותית: הרגעים שבהם הבחירות מרגישות ברורות מאליהן, איך “קול חכם” נוסף משפיע על שיקול הדעת, ולמה דווקא עכשיו חשוב לעצור ולבחון מחדש את תפקיד המעצב בתוך התהליך. \* **בניית מוצר לסטרטאפים בשלבים מוקדמים** סדנה מיוחדת על בניית מוצר לסטרטאפים בשלבים מוקדמים, אשר תועבר על ידי דוד בלסם, איש מוצר ויזם עם ניסיון בסטרטאפים כמו מליו ו-פרייטוס וממקימי קהילת ה-סיקרט פרודקט קלאב. בסדנה נדבר על בניית מוצרים שבאמת עונים על צרכים אמיתיים של הלקוחות. נבחן את תהליך בניית ה-MVP (בניית מוצר הכרחי מינימאלי), נלמד כיצד לזהות ולהבין את הכאבים האמיתיים של הלקוחות, ונציג שיטות ולידציה יעילות לפתרון. בנוסף דוד יציג איך כל העולם הזה השתנה והתקדם בזכות בינה מלאכותית ואיך הכל רץ יותר מהר.

בקורס נכיר לעומק את תוכנת העיצוב המופלאה קנבה. נלמד לעצב ולעבוד עם הגרסא החינמית של התוכנה, נכיר טריקים וטיפים לעבודה יעילה בקנבה ונגלה אפליקציות מגניבות במיוחד בתוך קנבה. מיועד למבוגרים (14+) עלות: ₪300 הנחה לתושבי יהוד. שימו לב: לא מספיק להרשם במיטאפ יש להרשם גם בקישור הבא , שם תמצאו גם פרטים נוספים [https://www.makelab.org.il/registration/canva](https://www.makelab.org.il/registration/canva)

**Important time note:** Please plan on arriving between 5:30 and 6:00 as the elevators lock after 6 and you'll need to message us and we'll need to come get you. The building address is 4450 Bridge Park The entrance is 6620 Mooney St, Suite 400 **Abstract** GitHub Copilot is rapidly changing how developers write, understand, and maintain code. Powered by generative AI and deeply integrated into modern development environments, Copilot acts as an intelligent coding assistant, helping developers move faster while maintaining quality and focus. In this session, we’ll explore what GitHub Copilot is, how it works, and where it fits into a real-world developer workflow. We’ll break down what Copilot can (and cannot) do, where it can be used, and how licensing differs for individuals and organizations. Most importantly, this talk goes beyond theory with a live, hands-on demo showcasing Copilot inside the IDE and on GitHub, demonstrating how it can assist with code generation, refactoring, learning new APIs, and accelerating day-to-day development tasks. Designed for developers, technical leads, and engineering managers, this session provides a practical introduction to AI-assisted development, highlights best practices for getting value from Copilot, and closes with guidance on how to continue learning and evolving alongside this rapidly advancing tool. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how GitHub Copilot can enhance productivity, improve developer experience, and fit into modern software teams today, not someday. **YouTube Link** TBA

## Learn Infrastructure-as-Code (the FUN Way) — Through Minecraft 🎮☁️ **Joint Meetup: Azure CBUS × Columbus HashiCorp User Group** What if learning Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code didn’t feel like a whitepaper… but more like a game? Join us for a joint Azure CBUS and Columbus HashiCorp User Group meetup where **Mark Tinderholt** \(Principal Architect\, Microsoft Azure \| HashiCorp Ambassador \| “The Azure Terraformer”\) shows how **Minecraft** can be used as a surprisingly powerful way to understand real-world Infrastructure-as-Code concepts. In this session, Mark will demonstrate how Terraform and Azure can be used to provision, configure, and manage Minecraft servers—while teaching the same patterns you’d use for production cloud infrastructure. ### What we’ll cover * Infrastructure-as-Code fundamentals using **Terraform** * Provisioning real infrastructure on **Azure** * Applying **IaC best practices** (immutability, repeatability, versioning) * How playful environments like Minecraft make complex concepts *click* * Why learning through experimentation beats click-ops every time ### Who should attend * Developers, platform engineers, and cloud engineers * Terraform users (new or experienced) * Anyone curious about Infrastructure-as-Code but tired of boring examples * Minecraft fans who want to see it used in a totally unexpected way No prior Minecraft experience required—just curiosity and a willingness to learn infrastructure the fun way. Come for the blocks, stay for the Terraform. 🧱➡️📐 Want to be a speaker? submit your talk to our Call for Presenters!!! https://sessionize.com/cbus-hug-2026/

## Learn Infrastructure-as-Code (the FUN Way) — Through Minecraft 🎮☁️ **Joint Meetup: Azure CBUS × Columbus HashiCorp User Group** What if learning Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code didn’t feel like a whitepaper… but more like a game? Join us for a joint Azure CBUS and Columbus HashiCorp User Group meetup where **Mark Tinderholt** \(Principal Architect\, Microsoft Azure \| HashiCorp Ambassador \| “The Azure Terraformer”\) shows how **Minecraft** can be used as a surprisingly powerful way to understand real-world Infrastructure-as-Code concepts. In this session, Mark will demonstrate how Terraform and Azure can be used to provision, configure, and manage Minecraft servers—while teaching the same patterns you’d use for production cloud infrastructure. ### What we’ll cover * Infrastructure-as-Code fundamentals using **Terraform** * Provisioning real infrastructure on **Azure** * Applying **IaC best practices** (immutability, repeatability, versioning) * How playful environments like Minecraft make complex concepts *click* * Why learning through experimentation beats click-ops every time ### Who should attend * Developers, platform engineers, and cloud engineers * Terraform users (new or experienced) * Anyone curious about Infrastructure-as-Code but tired of boring examples * Minecraft fans who want to see it used in a totally unexpected way No prior Minecraft experience required—just curiosity and a willingness to learn infrastructure the fun way. Come for the blocks, stay for the Terraform. 🧱➡️📐 Want to be a speaker? submit your talk to our Call for Presenters!!! https://sessionize.com/azure-cbus-2026/

SQL Server 2025 delivers a major round of improvements across performance, security, manageability, and hybrid connectivity, and this session gives you a practical, no‑nonsense tour of what matters most. We’ll cover enhancements to the core engine, query processing, storage, and availability that benefit DBAs and developers regardless of where SQL Server runs. You’ll see how SQL Server 2025 aligns with Azure SQL’s roadmap while still supporting strong on‑premises and VM‑based deployments. We’ll highlight new management, monitoring, and troubleshooting capabilities designed to simplify operations and reduce firefighting. AI‑powered features exist in this release, but the focus here is on the foundational improvements you can use immediately. Whether you’re modernizing, maintaining, or planning your next upgrade cycle, this session will help you understand what’s new and how to prepare your environment and your team.

Hey there Black Love Friends and Welcome to 2026! To start the year off right we're bringing back our monthly birthday celebrations...but over brunch! To kick us off we'll be enjoying breathtaking city views at the exquisite Goodale Station. So join us for good food, good conversation and if it's your birth month, enjoy a birthday mimosa on us. Space is limited so RSVP today

Early-bird coffee and conversation at [Java Central Café and Roaster](https://javacentral.coffee/)**!**