Events
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Upcoming events
AWS re:Invent Pre-Keynote Breakfast
You Can’t Face AWS on an Empty Stomach. No sales, just an engineering roundtable talking about the latest in operating on AWS over breakfast.
Tuesday, Dec 2 | 7:00AM – 8:00 AM PST Mon Ami Gabi, 3655 S Las Vegas Blvd South
Duckbill & RedMonk Atomic Liquors Drinkup @ re:Invent 2025
December 3, 2025 | 7pm-midnight Atomic Liquors, Las Vegas, NVCOP203: What’s New with AWS Cost Management
Wednesday, Dec 3 | 10:30AM – 11:30 AM PST Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas EPast events
The myth of portability: why your cloud native app is married to your provider at KubeCon
This talk by Duckbill’s own Corey Quinn talk examines how cloud native applications become inadvertently locked to their cloud provider, despite our best intentions. We’ll dissect the subtle ways your “portable” application gets married to a specific cloud: from IAM systems that don’t translate, to provider-specific load balancers masquerading as standard ingress, to that innocent-looking object storage bucket your app “temporarily” writes to.
In-Memory Data Reimagined
Join Duckbill’s Corey Quinn in conversation with Dragonfly CEO and co-founder Oded Poncz for a candid deep dive into how two ex-Googlers rebuilt Redis from the ground up. They’ll unpack what’s broken in today’s in-memory data stores, why single-threaded design doesn’t cut it anymore, and how Dragonfly’s multi-threaded engine is reshaping what real-time systems can do. Expect sharp takes, honest war stories, and a look at the future of high-performance infra.
San Francisco FinOps Meetup: Cloud Cost Insights & Networking
Whether you’re dealing with unexpected cost spikes, struggling to forecast cloud expenses, or simply want to ensure you’re not overpaying, we’re here to help. Bring your questions and horrifying AWS bills to this interactive session.
For the AWS Bill is Dark and Full of Terrors
Duckbill’s Corey Quinn speaks at SRECon 2025. The title for this talk – “For the AWS Bill is Dark and Full of Terrors.”
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