DEV//CONNECT #12

Building Modern Systems

An open community meetup for developers, engineers, architects, designers, and technology enthusiasts. Join us in Colombo to talk distributed databases, cloud networking, frontend engineering, scaling microservices, and AI integrations.

DATE

September 26, 2026

TIME

9:30 AM – 5:00 PM

VENUE

Colombo, Sri Lanka

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    "10:15 - Resilient Microservices",
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// community_manifesto

Built by Developers.
For Developers.

DEV//CONNECT is a community where people working with technology come together to share what they're building, what they're learning, and what they've learned the hard way.

We skip the corporate marketing slide decks and empty vendor pitches. Our meetups focus on real architectures, live code failures, practical infrastructure challenges, and scaling software engineering values locally.

> Knowledge Sharing

> Real Engineering

> Open Discussions

> Collaboration

// value_pillars

What to Expect

Learn

Practical engineering talks detailing failure modes, systems orchestration, and performance metrics from the field.

Connect

Meet developers, QA engineers, systems designers, and founders working on high-performance solutions.

Build

Exchange tooling hacks, collaborate on open-source repositories, and brainstorm new systems implementations.

Contribute code, speak in lightning talks, or mentor other engineers to foster the local technical workspace.

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Featured Tech Talks

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10:1545 MINS

Designing Resilient Microservices

Building systems that survive failure. In this talk, we'll explore patterns such as circuit breakers, retry-backoff architectures, fallback handling, distributed consensus, and visualising system health with open-source telemetry tools.

Kasun Perera

Senior Software Engineer @ LankaCloud Systems

Distributed SystemsFailure HandlingObservability

11:3040 MINS

Understanding Kubernetes Networking

Deep dive into cluster communications. Learn about pod-to-pod networking, CNI plugins (Cilium/Calico), DNS resolution paths, service discovery mechanics, and how to debug container network drops under heavy loads.

Nimal Fernando

Platform Engineer @ Nexus Labs

NetworkingDNSService Discovery

14:0045 MINS

From Monolith to Modular Architecture

Migrating from a monolith does not always require microservices. Sarah shares practical architectural guidelines to decouple database domains, create clean modular boundaries, and build stable, scalable systems incrementally.

Sarah Jayawardena

Software Architect @ Axiom Architecture

ArchitectureRefactoringScalability

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Meet the Speakers

Meet All Speakers

Kasun Perera

Senior Software Engineer @ LankaCloud Systems

Distributed SystemsGoKubernetes

Nimal Fernando

Platform Engineer @ Nexus Labs

KubernetesDevOpseBPF

Sarah Jayawardena

Software Architect @ Axiom Architecture

Enterprise ArchitectureRefactoringScalability

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Community Members

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@aruni_dev3h ago

Just published a comprehensive guide on Kubernetes DNS troubleshooting paths!

@dilshan_k5h ago

Merged PR #48: Added custom telemetry dashboard to the open-source observability agent.

@hasini_w1d ago

Volunteered to handle lighting and speaker coordination for DEV//CONNECT #12.

@nuwan_t2d ago

Starred the DevConnect Colombo schedule-wizard repo.

Building Modern Systems