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Posted on 14.5.2025
We had the pleasure of recently co-hosting an exciting evening at Foo Café in Malmö with our friends at Aiven — bringing together local developers, data engineers, and cloud professionals for a hands-on exploration of cloud-native infrastructure and real-time data systems.
Thanks to everyone who joined us! The room was full of great energy, thoughtful questions, and lively discussion — and we’re already looking forward to continuing these conversations in more cities across Europe.
If you couldn’t make it (or just want to revisit the key insights), here’s a deeper dive into the two talks that sparked the evening’s curiosity and conversation.
The first session explored how Pulumi, a modern infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platform, is changing the game for managing Kubernetes environments and cloud databases.
Rather than relying on traditional YAML-heavy workflows or separate provisioning tools, Pulumi allows teams to define and manage their infrastructure using familiar programming languages like TypeScript, Python, or Go. This makes it easier to:
Attendees saw a live example of how to declaratively spin up a production-ready environment, highlighting how Pulumi helps reduce drift, ensure repeatability, and accelerate time to deploy — especially in multi-cloud or hybrid setups.
If you want to explore by yourself what was done on the demo just take a look at: https://github.com/UpCloudLtd/pulumi-upcloud/tree/main/examples/db%2Bk8s
Next, we took a closer look at real-time data streaming in a European context, with a talk focused on using Change Data Capture (CDC) and Apache Kafka to build event-driven architectures in the cloud.
Here’s what we unpacked:
This session gave attendees practical insights into how teams can modernize data workflows — enabling near-instant syncs between systems, more responsive applications, and architecture that scales with demand.
We’re thrilled by the turnout and the thoughtful conversations that followed both talks — from dev teams looking to simplify ops, to engineers exploring new ways to scale data workflows without sacrificing control or compliance.
This Malmö stop was just the beginning. We’ll be hitting more cities soon, so stay tuned for announcements if you’d like to catch the next round live.
Until then, thank you again to everyone who joined us at Foo Café — and if you want to learn more about our work with Aiven, check out the case study here.
To get started check out our free seven day UpCloud trial and get started on Aiven!
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