Amsterdam — OTel Night is coming, and I’m genuinely buzzing about this edition.
Free community event — open to all!
OTel Night Amsterdam v2026.05 lands on May 20th at ING Cedar (106 Bijlmerdreef, Amsterdam) — and the lineup is something special.
We’ll hear from engineers at ING — one of Europe’s largest banks — walking us through how they run OpenTelemetry observability at production scale. Real lessons, real numbers, no vendor fluff. Plus Bernardo Garcia and Ivan Merrill from Albert Heijn bring their own production story to the table.
These are the conversations you don’t find in blog posts: the edge cases that bit them, the instrumentation choices they’d make differently today, and the patterns that actually scaled. That’s what OTel Night is about — practitioners talking to practitioners.
What an evening like this gives you:
-> Hard-won war stories from teams running OTel at enterprise scale
-> Unfiltered Q&A with engineers who’ve been in the trenches
-> Genuine networking with the observability community in the Netherlands
-> A great coffee break and drinks — hosted by ING, so yes, it’ll be good
May 20, 2026 — doors open at 6:00 PM CEST
ING Cedar, 106 Bijlmerdreef, Amsterdam
Free to attend — only 24 spots remaining out of 50
Register here: Open Community Groups
If you work in SRE, platform engineering, DevOps, or just care about making observability actually useful in your organization — this is your crowd. See you on May 20th!
-– Rodrigo Marins Piaba