Hey! Just a quick reminder that our TIC meetup is happening tomorrow – June 17 🎉

📍 EDGE Grand Central Berlin
Invalidenstraße 65, right next to Berlin Central Station.
From Europe Square, take a right and walk ~200m — same side of the street. Super easy.

🕡 Arrival from 6:40 PM
🕖 Program starts at 7:00 PM

🗣 Talks:

LINSTOR Is Like Kubernetes, But for Block Devices – Andrei Kvapil (The Ænix)

Self-Hosting in the Real World – David Leimroth (Semrush)

🚪If you’re late and arrive after 7:00 PM, please use the side door — the security guard will let you in.
🎥 Check out the video to easily find your way in.

See you there!

David Leimroth talking about the hands-on reality of running Kubernetes on your own hardware. Lessons learned, tough spots, and common mistakes to avoid.

Andrei Kvapil on stage — breaking down how LINSTOR works — think Kubernetes, but for block devices. Fast, fault-tolerant, and open-source.

🆕 Just dropped: a fresh edition of the Tech Internals Conf newsletter — and it's packed with answers to your questions.

👀 Ever wondered:

- When not to use S3?

- How SeaweedFS compares to Ceph?

- Why OAuth breaks even when you're sure you did everything right?

Our latest issue features in-depth Q&As with Chris Lu (Roblox) and Warren Parad (Authress) — both straight from the stage at TIC 2025. They answered real questions from the audience on scalable storage, metadata limits, passwordless auth, and more.

👉 Read & subscribe to the newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tic-speakers-answering-your-burning-questions-internalstech-dfece/?trackingId=es3kzpZ1k8xICARsvumsKg%3D%3D

New on LinkedIn 🔥

How do you manage secrets in CI/CD without slowing delivery?
SOPS vs. HashiCorp Vault, backups, Zero Trust — what actually works in practice?
And can you run VMs on Kubernetes without breaking workflows or network connections?

These are real questions from real engineers — and the answers are packed with hard‑won, practical lessons.

👉 Read now: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tic-speakers-answering-your-burning-questions-internalstech-ahxce/

🧠 How clean is your Git history?

🚨 Could your CI/CD pipeline catch more issues before production?

The latest Behind the Mic newsletter is out on LinkedIn — featuring real-world Git workflows and smarter CI/CD strategies straight from the TIC 2025 speaker.

Whether you’re wrangling messy histories or streamlining deployments, this one's worth a read 👉https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tic-speakers-answering-your-burning-questions-internalstech-lgaie/

🚀 Building Unbreakable Cloud Storage
Failures happen — disks, nodes, even entire systems. But cloud storage must never go down.
In this session, Philipp Reisner (CEO and founder of LINBIT) breaks down how LINSTOR + DRBD work together to deliver high-availability storage — from top-level architecture to deep replication and failover mechanics.

👉 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/drbd-deep-dive-internalstech-ytpwe