Tech Events by Cloud Native Computing Birmingham

Birmingham's node in CNCF's global Cloud Native Sustainability Month: two 45-minute talks on the energy and waste cost of running Kubernetes, then a community Q&A. Published topics are resource optimisation, rightsizing and autoscaling, energy monitoring and carbon estimation, GreenOps and where it meets FinOps, and efficient workload design, with lessons from production environments. Hosted by Cloud Native Birmingham at Bluetel Solutions, who sponsor the venue. Doors 6pm with food and drinks, welcome 6:30, talks at 6:45 and 7:45, Q&A 8:30, close 9:30. Free, capacity 100. Both talks are still open - the call for speakers runs to 15 November - so the line-up does not exist yet. Why go: GreenOps is mostly conference talk, and this is a room of platform engineers and SREs comparing what they actually changed in their own clusters. Best for anyone who owns a Kubernetes bill.

Cloud Native Computing Birmingham at Bluetel Solutions on service mesh in production — traffic management, observability and whether the complexity pays off.

An evening dedicated to OpenTelemetry, cloud-native observability, and real-world engineering lessons — hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Birmingham community. Multiple talks from practitioners on OTel instrumentation, distributed tracing, and monitoring in production, followed by networking, food, and drinks. Perfect for engineers, SREs, DevOps practitioners, platform teams, and anyone building observable systems.