DevOps Meetup Belgrade — by EXANTE
May 21, 2026 · Belgrade

DevOps Meetup
Belgrade — by EXANTE

A meetup by engineers, for engineers. DevOps, Infra & Backend. Straight talk, pure practice.

Date
21 May 2026
Doors / Start
17:30 / 18:00
Format
3 talks · Q&A · Drinks
Seats
~25 only
Reserve a seat See the talks
EXANTE
// Why attend

A small evening for engineers who like to talk shop.

EXANTE is hosting a small meetup together with the Belgrade DevOps & Infrastructure community. Three talks from practitioners, live Q&A, and informal networking afterwards.

Hands-on focus
Real-world cases from engineers who work with these challenges every day.
Cozy format
~25 people — a chance to actually talk, not just listen.
Live Q&A
10 minutes after each talk — no moderation, no pre-prepared questions.
Networking
EXANTE and Acronis teams, plus the Belgrade DevOps community — all in one place.
// The talks

Three talks. Three perspectives. Pure practice.

20 minutes of talk + 10 minutes of Q&A. Slides in English, talks in Russian.

// TALK 01
Zhandos Bazarkhan
Infrastructure Engineer · EXANTE
Infrastructure Standardization: Why Consistency Matters More Than Tools

Why don't even the best tools save infrastructure from chaos? How the lack of shared standards leads to incidents, difficult onboarding, and unnecessary costs — and how standardisation makes infrastructure more predictable, manageable, and scalable. Real-world Kubernetes, Helm, and cloud infrastructure cases.

// TALK 02
Alexander Vitshas
Full Stack Engineer · Navixy
Production AI Assistants on AWS Bedrock: Expectations, Limits, and Trade-offs

Hands-on experience building a production AI assistant on AWS Bedrock. Migration from Bedrock Flow to multi-agent architecture, working with managed AI services, real limits around agents, tools, context, MCP integrations, Guardrails, throttling. No-hype reality check.

// TALK 03
Aleksandr Miklashevich
Site Reliability Engineer · Acronis
Logging as a Service at Scale: ELK, Reliability, and AI-Assisted Troubleshooting

How Acronis built an internal Logging as a Service platform on ELK, securely collecting logs from 40+ locations worldwide. Managing log quality at scale — rate limiting, disabling problematic streams, traffic spikes. Plus their AI-powered MCP troubleshooting assistant.

// Agenda

How the evening flows.

17:30
Doors open
Check-in, coffee, find a good seat.
18:00
Welcome & intro
Host: Viacheslav Oleinik, Senior Systems Engineer.
18:15
Talk 01 — Infrastructure Standardization
Zhandos Bazarkhan, EXANTE · 20 min + 10 min Q&A
18:45
Talk 02 — Production AI Assistants on Bedrock
Alexander Vitshas, Navixy · 20 min + 10 min Q&A
19:15
Break
15 min · coffee & networking
19:30
Talk 03 — Logging as a Service at Scale
Aleksandr Miklashevich, Acronis · 20 min + 10 min Q&A
19:45
Drinks & networking
Talk to speakers and the community. No agenda from here.
// Venue

Desk&More — Kod Vuka

Desk&More
Kralja Aleksandra Boulevard, 79
11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Thursday, 21 May 2026Doors 17:30 · Start 18:00
Central BelgradeNear Vukov Spomenik · easy by public transport
~25 attendeesLimited capacity. Register in advance.
// Limited seats

Join us on 21 May.

Only ~25 spots. Register in advance, bring questions, and stay for drinks.

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