Tech Events at Bluetel Solutions, Birmingham

The Birmingham Go community meets at Bluetel Solutions for talks and code.

A talk on building your own web analytics from server logs, rather than handing visitor data to a third-party tracker. Dave Manton walks through the technical problems of an in-house analytics system: handling high volumes of log data, processing user interactions at scale, and turning raw lines into numbers people can use. Hosted by the Birmingham .NET & MAUI user group, which meets monthly at Bluetel Solutions, 4 Temple Row, next to Snow Hill station, from 18:30. Free; RSVP on Meetup. Why go: a practical, build-it-yourself talk in a small user-group room where questions are easy to ask. Best for .NET and back-end developers, and anyone weighing privacy-friendly alternatives to off-the-shelf analytics.

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

with Freddie Dugdale (Speaker, Birmingham .NET & MAUI User Group)

.NET Aspire has had a great deal of attention in the .NET world without it always being obvious what the thing actually is or where it fits. Freddie Dugdale gives a practical tour from local development through to real systems, at Bluetel Solutions next to Snow Hill Station. Aimed at working .NET developers who have read the announcements and want to see it running against something realistic. Free, hosted by the Birmingham .NET & MAUI User Group.

The West Midlands HashiCorp User Group returns in person at Bluetel Solutions on Temple Row for an evening on platform engineering with HashiCorp's tooling — how modern platform teams actually assemble Terraform, Vault and the surrounding stack into something developers will use, rather than a product tour. Aimed at platform engineers, SREs and infrastructure leads. Free, with the usual food and conversation either side of the talks.

with Mike Irving (Microsoft MVP, Developer Technologies (.NET & Web), Independent)

Microsoft MVP Mike Irving presents "‑.NET, IoT and Hedgehogs!" - an experimental journey using C#/.NET and IoT to capture and auto-curate video of garden hedgehogs, spanning device access, cloud storage, serverless functions and a public website, plus the work to bring the code cross-platform to Linux on a Raspberry Pi. A genuine technical talk from Birmingham's .NET & MAUI developer community, with food and networking from 18:30 and the talk at 19:00. Free to attend; hosted at Bluetel Solutions by Snow Hill Station.

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.

A joint meetup from two active Birmingham communities — Global AI Birmingham and the West Midlands HashiCorp User Group — focused on the intersection of AI, security, and Infrastructure as Code. Talks from experts cover AI adoption in real-world environments, infrastructure security, and IaC best practices. Free to attend, aimed at cloud engineers, DevOps professionals, platform engineers, and AI enthusiasts.