Cloud Native + AI Winter edition!
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Cloud Native + AI Winter edition!

15 December Online

About this event

Introduction:
Welcome to the last meetup of the year! This time we have again a great international name all the way from Denmark, Kaspar is a veteran of the Cloud Native community and an inspiration to many.

Agenda:
🤝17:30-18:10 Walk-in
👀 18:10-18:15 Welcome from Dash0
🎤 8:15-18:45 1st Talk: "Breaking Free with Open Standards: OpenTelemetry and Perses for Observability" by Kasper Borg Nissen, Principal Developer Advocate at Dash0
🍕18:45-18:55 Break & food
🎤18:55-19:40 2nd talk: "Lessons learn creating Walrus (High Performance kafka alternative written in Rust)" by Daksh R,
🍻20:30 - 21:30 Networking & drinks (open for impromptu lighting talk)
📌21:30 End

1st Talk:
Title: Breaking Free with Open Standards: OpenTelemetry and Perses for Observability
Description:
Observability is the backbone of modern cloud-native applications, but many organizations find themselves locked into proprietary tools with rising costs, rigid ecosystems, and limited flexibility. In this talk, we’ll explore how open observability standards like OpenTelemetry for instrumentation and Perses for monitoring-as-code are transforming the landscape by enabling vendor-neutral, scalable, and future-proof observability stacks. We’ll start with an introduction to OpenTelemetry, covering how to get started, instrument applications, and provide developer-friendly abstractions for seamless auto-instrumentation. From there, we’ll dive into Perses, a CNCF Sandbox project that brings open, declarative, and portable dashboards to observability. By building on these open standards, organizations gain the freedom to mix and match storage, visualization, and analytics tools without being tied to a single vendor. Join this session to learn how OpenTelemetry and Perses can help you scale observability, stay in control of your data, and ensure developers get the insights they need exactly when they need them.

Bio:
Kasper is a CNCF Ambassador, former KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Co-Chair, Golden Kubestronaut, KCD Organizer, and CNCG Group Organizer. He co-founded Cloud Native Nordics to unite meetups across the region. As a Principal Developer Advocate at Dash0, he helps make observability easy for developers by advocating for better tooling, best practices, and seamless integrations.

2nd Talk:
Title: TBD

Description:

Bio:
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Code of Conduct:
All members are required to agree with the Berlin Code of Conduct.

Directions:
The meetup will take place at Mindstone Amsterdam offices in Singel. Parking is limited, but the venue is easily accessible by public transport or by bike.

Important notes:

  • Please inform us on any allergies or dietary restrictions so we can ensure everyone enjoys the food.
  • Keep your RSVP up to date, we're counting on you to be there and share in the excitement.
  • Let's have a great evening together!

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