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📅 Join us on June 17 in Berlin for a special in-person meetup: “LINSTOR Is Like Kubernetes, But for Block Devices & Power to the Cluster: Self-Hosting in the Real World” This free meetup is designed for cloud-native engineers, DevOps professionals, and system architects who want to go deeper into self-hosting practices and modern open-source infrastructure tools. 🧠 What to expect? 🔹 Talk 1: “LINSTOR Is Like Kubernetes, But for Block Devices” → A deep dive into LINSTOR, an open-source storage orchestrator from the maintainers of DRBD. Learn how it works, how to configure it, and how it brings Kubernetes-like control to your block storage. 🔹 Talk 2: “Power to the Cluster: Self-Hosting in the Real World” → Lessons from real-world self-hosted Kubernetes clusters: networking pitfalls, storage challenges, high-availability myths, and survival tips for on-prem ops. 🎟 Attendance is free, but seats are limited — register now https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/tech-internals-community/events/307977244/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events See you there! 🚀

Take a look at TIC 2025 — a day of good talks, real stories, and an amazing community. Thanks to everyone who made it happen.

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!

Great turnout yesterday — 36 engineers joined us for the TIC meetup. Andrei Kvapil walked us through LINSTOR (Kubernetes vibes, but for block devices), and David Leimroth shared practical lessons from running self-hosted Kubernetes in the real world. Plenty of great questions, sharp insights, and lively discussions — thanks to everyone who came and stayed to chat. See you next time!

🆕 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/

How was your summer? Hope it was a great mix of fun and getting things done — ours definitely was! 👀 The TIC team had an amazing time at WeAreDevelopers in Berlin, the BLISS Speaker Series Summer 2025 meetup, and the Founder Meet & Greet meetup! 🔥 Still buzzing from it all. Were you there too? #AI #InternetStartups #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #TechInnovation

🚀 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