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Meetup Schedule

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09:30
General30 mins

Registration & Coffee

Pick up your digital entry pass badge, grab a cup of coffee, and meet early arrivals.

10:00
General15 mins

Opening & Welcome

Welcome to DEV//CONNECT #12. Introduction of the community organizers and opening notes on what to expect.

By Organizers
10:15
Backend45 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
Kasun Perera
Senior Software Engineer @ LankaCloud Systems
#distributed_systems#failure_handling#observability
11:00
General30 mins

Networking Break

Grab refreshments, check out the community showcase tables, and chat with other developers.

11:30
Cloud40 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
Nimal Fernando
Platform Engineer @ Nexus Labs
#networking#dns#service_discovery
12:15
General45 mins

Community Lightning Talks

Three fast-paced 10-minute talks from community members showing off open source projects, quirky bugs, or development shortcuts.

By Community Members
#open_source#lightning_talks#tools
13:00
General60 mins

Lunch & Social Hour

Lunch is provided. Catch up with friends, find potential contributors for your projects, and hang out.

14:00
Architecture45 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.

14:45
Architecture60 mins

Panel Discussion: Building Modern Systems at Scale

An open panel discussing distributed systems, developer velocity, platform engineering vs DevOps, and the challenges of scaling technology operations locally and globally. Audience Q&A welcome.

By Kasun, Nimal, Sarah (Panel)
#architecture#devops#scaling#q&a
15:45
General45 mins

Open Networking & Tea

A relaxed session to finish up conversations, collect contacts, and share final thoughts over a cup of Ceylon tea.

16:30
General30 mins

Closing Remarks

Recap of the meetup, plans for DEV//CONNECT #13, and final thank yous.

By Organizers