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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Why pay for open source you could use for free? Aarno Aukia: because you want someone to call when something breaks at 3 a.m. on a Saturday. Zurich, 19 October, in person with Monty Widenius: luma.com/ezunwxor Full webinar: youtu.be/NBJOtNaZf_E #opensource #mariadb

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🗺️ Monty on migrations, the roadmap and the future of open source 💬 Open Q&A with the MariaDB and VSHN engineering teams 🥂 Apéro afterwards 📅 Monday, October 19th, 13:30 - 17:00 CEST 📍 VSHN Tower, Zürich 🎟️ Limited to 40 seats #MariaDB #OpenSource #Databases #Zürich #PlatformEngineering

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Seats are filling fast, so if you've been meaning to sign up, now's the time. 👉 luma.com/ezunwxor What's waiting for you: ⚡ Live demos of MaxScale failover, Enterprise Monitor and MariaDB Cloud with AI agents 🔧 What MariaDB Enterprise really adds on top of Community

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A true star of the open source community is coming to the VSHN Tower. ⭐ We're honored that Michael "Monty" Widenius, the creator of MySQL and MariaDB, is joining us in Zürich on October 19th for the Technical Roadshow MariaDB & VSHN. 🐬🦭

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

No CVE, no off switch. What stops the Istio ambient bypass: block pods running as UID 1337, drop NET_RAW, enforce mTLS. Benjamin Koltermann's fix list. From the Cloud Native Computing Switzerland meetup, 15 September 2026. Full talk: youtu.be/k-DHGADtPP8 #istio #kubernetessecurity

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Data sovereignty is built, not bought. Recap of Aarno Aukia's talk at Cloud Native Days Austria: three tests for real sovereignty, how VSHN AppCat delivers managed services where your data lives, and the slides as PDF. 👉 www.vshn.ch/en/blog/data... #DataSovereignty #Kubernetes #CNDA2026

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What does MariaDB Enterprise cost? Jonas Schwegler of MariaDB: it is licensed per vCPU. Three nodes with 8 vCPUs each make 24. Zurich, 19 October, in person with Monty Widenius: luma.com/ezunwxor Full webinar: youtu.be/NBJOtNaZf_E #mariadb #licensing #database

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Most sovereignty talk is about who can read your data. The harder question: who can switch your service off? Aarno Aukia on sanctions, license changes, retired products and phone-home fuses, and what actually reduces the risk. 👉️ www.vshn.ch/en/blog/who-... #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The creator of MySQL and MariaDB, live in Zürich. 🐬🦭 Join Monty Widenius at the VSHN Tower on October 19th for live demos, roadmap talk and open Q&A. Only 40 seats. Register here: 👉 luma.com/ezunwxor #MariaDB #OpenSource #Databases #Zürich #PlatformEngineering

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A business person discovers an AI coding agent and starts solving their own problems, and creating new ones. Christian Blättler on the result. From the Cloud Native Computing Switzerland meetup, 15 September 2026. Full talk: youtu.be/ne2UmR0rTtc #vibecoding #platformengineering

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sovereignty is not only who can read your data. It is also who can switch the service off. Aarno Aukia on the control you give away with operations. Zurich, 19 October, in person with Monty Widenius: luma.com/ezunwxor Full webinar: youtu.be/NBJOtNaZf_E #digitalsovereignty #mariadb

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Two screenshots, one hand-coded and one written by an AI agent. In Chris Bingham's internal poll at Fujitsu, about 75% could not tell which was which. From the Cloud Native Computing Switzerland meetup, 15 September 2026. Full talk: youtu.be/Xf9BVR4uzrY #ai #aicoding #cloudnative

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Istio's ambient mode drops the sidecar, and with it the user ID that kept traffic in the mesh. Benjamin Koltermann shows a pod routing around it. From the Cloud Native Computing Switzerland meetup, 15 September 2026. Full talk: youtu.be/k-DHGADtPP8 #istio #kubernetes #cloudnative

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

📅 Thursday, October 1st, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CEST 💻 Online via Zoom Register now: luma.com/zs835v7i #MariaDB #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #Switzerland #CloudNative

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

VSHN Co-Founder Aarno Aukia and MariaDB's Jonas Schwegler cover what digital sovereignty means for your data layer, and how a unified MariaDB Enterprise architecture with MaxScale zero-downtime failover and Swiss-hosted OpenShift operations gets you there without public cloud lock-in.

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This Thursday, October 1st: MariaDB + VSHN, "Navigating Open Source at Scale". Three days to go. If MariaDB runs anywhere in your stack, this one hour is worth blocking in your calendar.

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📅 Monday, October 19th, 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM CEST 📍 VSHN Tower, Neugasse 6, 8005 Zürich 🎟️ Limited to 40 seats More infos: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/meet... #MariaDB #OpenSource #Switzerland #CloudNative

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

.. like running in production. Expect live demos of MaxScale failover with Enterprise Monitor, MariaDB Cloud with AI agents, and a look at where AI is heading for databases, plus Monty himself on migrations, the roadmap, and the wider MariaDB ecosystem. Bring your questions. Stay for the Apéro.

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meet Michael "Monty" Widenius, the creator of MySQL and MariaDB, in person, at the VSHN Tower in Zürich. On October 19th, VSHN and MariaDB are hosting a technical hands-on workshop that goes past the marketing pitch: what MariaDB Enterprise actually adds on top of Community, and what that looks..

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🔹 Aarno Aukia - "Sovereignty Is More Than Data Residency: Eight Dimensions for Sustainable Digital Infrastructure" (14:35) Back to back on the Hodler Souveränität stage. We're also the Apéro Sponsor this year, so find us at the bar afterwards. 🍺

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Back at DINAcon 2026 - now with two talks 🎙️ Two VSHNeers are speaking at DINAcon this year (Nov 18, Bern): 🔹 Tobias Brunner - "Furniture, Not Lumber: What Sausages, Furniture and Airplanes Have to Do with Digital Sovereignty" (14:10)

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Everyone who registers gets a joint MariaDB & VSHN Estate Health Check, and a shot at an exclusive in-person session in Zurich with Monty Widenius. Save your spot: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/navi... #MariaDB #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #Switzerland #CloudNative

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Expect concrete answers, not just theory: zero-downtime failover with MaxScale, Swiss-hosted OpenShift operations, and native support for AI RAG and vector search, all without public cloud lock-in. 📅 October 1, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CEST 💻 Online via Zoom

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Join us on October 1st for a closer look at MariaDB and what digital sovereignty really means for your data layer. VSHN Co-Founder Aarno Aukia sits down with MariaDB's Jonas Schwegler to unpack how you keep your data layer sovereign without giving up the reliability of a managed enterprise setup.

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Cloud Native Day is in full swing and our booth is buzzing 🔥 Come find us, grab a chat about Cloud Native, Kubernetes, platform engineering and more, and say hello - we'd love to meet you! #SCND #CloudNativeDay #Bern #Gurten

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Stay ahead on cloud native, platform engineering, Kubernetes, sovereignty and open source in Switzerland. Subscribe to VSHN News, our monthly roundup. Sign up here 👉 www.vshn.ch/en/newsletter/ #PlatformEngineering #CloudNative #OpenSource #Kubernetes #DevOps #Switzerland

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Register: vshn.ch/en/blog/navigating-open-source-at-scale-why-swiss-organisations-need-a-sovereign-database-strategy/ #MariaDB #DigitalSovereignty #Switzerland

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Join VSHN's Aarno Aukia and MariaDB's Jonas Schwegler to talk digital sovereignty for your data layer: zero-downtime failover, Swiss-hosted ops, native AI/RAG support, no cloud lock-in. 📅 Thu, Oct 1 · 11:00-12:00 CEST · Online

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

MariaDB runs quietly under more of your stack than you'd think, and as Community builds go business-critical, the risks (unpatched CVEs, licensing gaps, operational friction) add up.

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nice people, great talks, good apéro - the group is now 50+ meetups and 3,000+ members strong. Talk videos coming soon on vshn.tv 📹 Next up: November 17 at Open Systems AG, Zürich. We're still looking for speakers - submit your talk at cnc-meetup.ch 🎤 #CloudNative #Kubernetes #Zurich #DevOps

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Huge thanks to our speakers: 🔒 Benjamin Koltermann (cenroq AG) - securing your Kubernetes clusters 🚣 Chris Bingham (Fujitsu) - Paddelbuch & how Kiro changed the game ☁️ Christian Blättler (zeitlos.software) - Lucity, a Swiss cloud-native alternative to Vercel/Heroku

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Recap: our September Cloud Native Computing Switzerland Meetup at the VSHNtower in Zürich yesterday was another good one 🎉

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

- whether that's comparing notes on Kubernetes day-two ops, digging into running managed services on Swiss infrastructure, or just saying hi. See you there! 👋 More info: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/back...

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Swiss Cloud Native Day is this Thursday, September 17th, up on the Gurten in Bern! 🏔️ We'll be sponsoring again this year with a booth in the Uptown area. Come by between talks, grab a coffee with us, and tell us what you're building -

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

📅 Event details: www.meetup.com/cloud-native... Know someone who'd be a great speaker? Tag them below! #CloudNative #Kubernetes #Zurich #Meetup #PlatformEngineering

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We have talk slots open and would love to hear from you - whether it's a deep dive, a lessons-learned session, or a "here's what we'd do differently" story on anything cloud native (Kubernetes, platform engineering, observability, security, you name it). 👉 Submit your talk: www.cnc-meetup.ch

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

📣 Call for Speakers: Cloud Native Computing Switzerland - November Meetup We're still looking for speakers for our next CNC Switzerland meetup on Tuesday, November 17, 3-6pm CET at Open Systems AG in Zürich!

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

how do we make digital infrastructure serve people for the long run. Come find us at the bar after the talks. Grab a drink, say hi, and let's talk digital sovereignty: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/back... 📍 Kongresszentrum Bern, November 18, 2026 #DINAcon #DigitalSustainability #DigitalSovereignty

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We're heading back to DINAcon on November 18 in Bern - and this year we're sponsoring the apéro. DINAcon is Switzerland's conference for digital sustainability, bringing together 300+ people from IT, public administration, politics and civil society around one question:

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Also: the exit question almost nobody asks - when you leave, do you get the automation, or just your data? www.vshn.ch/en/blog/buyi...

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Paying for operations by the hour? You've hired someone who loses revenue every time they automate. That's the core problem with hourly ops contracts - and why fixed-fee-per-service-level flips the incentive.

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🚀 Cloud Native Computing Meetup | Nov 17, 3pm at Open Systems AG in Zurich. Three talk slots waiting for speakers. Submit your proposal: www.cnc-meetup.ch Register on Meetup: www.meetup.com/cloud-native... #CloudNative #Kubernetes #Zürich

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We're sponsoring Swiss Cloud Native Day again: 17 September, Mount Gurten, Bern. Find us at our booth in the Uptown area, catch our sponsor talk, and stay for the party. www.vshn.ch/en/blog/back... #swisscnd #cloudnative #CloudNativeDay

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Nearly a decade. 3'000+ members. 50+ meetups. 🇨🇭 The next Cloud Native Computing Switzerland meetup: Tue, 15 September, VSHNtower Zürich. Free, apéro included, limited spots: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/more...

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Neutrality isn't a certificate. It's an architecture decision. Aarno Aukia on where dependency really gets created, and what Switzerland can do about it: 🎥 Digital Neutrality: Switzerland's Engineering Advantage www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MmV... Recorded at the SwissSoftwareFestival 2026.

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

📢 Call for speakers! Got a cloud-native, Kubernetes, or open-source project to share? We'd love to hear from you. 👉 Suggest your talk: www.cnc-meetup.ch 📅 Event: www.meetup.com/cloud-native... #CloudNative #Kubernetes #Zurich #CallForSpeakers #Meetup

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

VSHN's Liene Luksika talked regulated digital asset platforms on open infra at OSFF London 2026: stable core + agile edge, delegate ops but own your core, evolutionary migration over big bang. Slides + recording + the honest "what didn't work" part here: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/lien...

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The Public Health Authority of Frankfurt is a new global Red Hat success story - featuring VSHN 🎉 GA-Lotse, a federated open source platform for 25 health authorities in Hesse, runs as a managed service by VSHN on Red Hat OpenShift, hosted on Exoscale. www.vshn.ch/en/blog/sove...

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"Buy European" isn't enough. "Buy Swiss" isn't either. A Swiss flag on the invoice doesn't equal sovereignty. The real question: can you replace your vendor without replacing the technology underneath? Open source. Operational control. Governance over geography. www.vshn.ch/en/blog/why-...

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