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September 9, 2025
Kubernetes, Cloud Native & Platform Engineering Meetup - September

July 25, 2025
Brainfood Meetup: AI Tinkerers Munich - July 25

July 14, 2025
Brainfood Meetup: SRE MUC Summer 2025 Edition

June 18, 2025
Brainfood Meetup: Women And Code Meetup Juni

June 17, 2025
Leave behind your Skepticisms

July 12, 2024
Brainfood Talk: Platform Engineering – It's Not What You Think It Is
The newly gained popularity of Internal Developer Platforms is obvious. And the well-intentioned attempt to reduce the cognitive load we've continuously built up on engineering teams seems too promising to avoid following. But what when the platform becomes what we wanted to avoid in the first place: a bedrock that can hardly be tamed, devouring the cognitive load of tons of engineers and ultimately doomed to fail?
Then we most likely landed in the world of platform monoliths, an anti-pattern being on the rise. Leading to large blast radii, a lack of adaptability to evolution, and heavy losses in overall engineering effectiveness. In this talk, I will share strategies and methods to overcome the fallacies of building platform monoliths while creating a foundation that truly accelerates your engineering pace — leading to a rethinking of how platforms should be envisioned.

June 21, 2024
Brainfood Talk: Shifting to User-Centered SD – Embracing Continuous Discovery
In software development, familiar challenges persist: the gap between IT specialists and domain experts, the rush to rebuild older features under tight deadlines, and new systems failing to surpass their predecessors. These issues stem from a focus solely on technical implementation rather than user-centric value.
What if we approached development differently? By involving domain experts from the start, validating hypotheses about target customers, and understanding feature contexts before implementation, we could prioritize continuous learning, experimentation, and iteration. Testing features with low-cost experiments before committing to development would become standard practice.
This shift requires a fundamental change in our approach to work and progress tracking. Instead of measuring success by the number of implemented features, we should focus on measurable outcomes that contribute to sustainable impact. Continuous improvement becomes the norm, with users actively participating in product development and adopting new features.
In this talk, we explore principles of continuous discovery and their transformative effect on software development. We discuss steps to adopt a user-centric approach, emphasizing understanding the "why" behind decisions and involving domain experts. We'll illustrate how a light tower project, focused on measurable outcomes and continuous discovery, can initiate a mindset change across the organization. Join us in transforming software development into a collaborative effort to deliver value to users.

May 24, 2024
Brainfood Talk: Migration/Integration of a Legacy Data Model – Lessons learned
Many software engineers need to cope with painful affiliations with legacy systems. For the last 2.5 years, we have invested tremendous brainpower, time, and sweat into migrating and integrating an archaeological data model into a modern web platform. Today, we have managed to migrate the majority of the data and are able to use this data on our new web platform. We have learned a lot of lessons, and we think now would be the right time to share them with you.

April 12, 2024
Brainfood Talk: Decoding Compilers – Empowering Developers with Roslyn
Onboarding new developers and imposing programming patterns and guidelines can take a good amount of time from your team. Roslyn, with its rich APIs, is helping us tackle these challenges during compile time.
In this session, you will learn how to investigate Compiler APIs from Roslyn and how they assist in creating Semantic Analyzers and Code Fixers tailored for your team.

March 8, 2024
Brainfood Talk: Going Functional with Railway Oriented Programming in C#
With the latest changes to the language, C# moves toward a multi-paradigm language, enabling code to be written in an object-oriented and increasingly functional style. Besides the support of the language itself, railway-oriented programming is a concept from the active world that can also be leveraged in C#.
In our upcoming Brainfood Talk, David and Paul dive into the idea of railway-oriented programming and what it means to use this approach in big applications. They share some experience and discuss their love-hate relationship with this approach.