Meetup
Data engineering meetup
Join us for an engaging meetup: This time focussing on Databricks Cost Optimization as well as an interactive data engineering quiz!
December 9th | Berlin
Date
December 9th, 2025
18:30 – 21:30
Location
diconium GmbH Berlin Office
Skalitzer Straße 126
10999 Berlin
Drinks & Food
A few drinks and some
Snacks are available
free of charge.
Dear data-loving community,
Let’s kick things off for our last Meetup in 2025, this time focusing on Databricks Cost Optimization as well as an interactive data engineering quiz. Join us on December 9th in Berlin and bring all your questions & curiosity!
Databricks Cost Optimization: A Multi-Layered Strategy for Performance and Efficiency
Databricks cost optimization requires a multi-layered strategy that focuses on three pillars: efficient Compute, optimized Storage, and strict Governance. Efficiency is driven by leveraging technologies like Photon and Serverless SQL, while storage is optimized using Delta Lake features such as Z-ordering and aggressive vacuuming. Strict governance, enforced through cluster policies and auto-termination, ensures these technical gains translate into consistent budget predictability without sacrificing performance.
Kaan Ara
Senior Cloud Engineer @ diconium
Data
Pub Quiz
Who’s the data expert in the room? Interactive data pub quiz
After the keynote, it’s your turn: we’ll fire up a quiz in pub-style. There’s no prep needed – everyone is welcome to join, no matter if you’re a data engineering expert or a data newbie!!
Agenda
Event admission
Welcome & Introduction
Databricks Cost Optimization: A Multi-Layered Strategy for Performance and Efficiency
Kaan Ara
5 minutes break
Interactive data engineering pub quiz
Snacks, Drinks & Networking
End
You want to give a talk at our meetup?
We are open to external speakers. So, if you’re interested in giving a short talk on a Data Engineering topic or have additional input on possible topics, feel free to reach out and leave us a message here:
What to expect:
Expert talks
Gain knowledge from industry leaders and experts who will share their experiences, strategies, and best practices in data engineering.
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Interactive Q&A
Have your pressing questions answered by the experts during dedicated Q&A sessions. Engage with a diverse group of professionals from various sectors as they discuss the benefits, challenges, and future outlook of data engineering.
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Networking opportunities
Connect with like-minded professionals and expand your network in the field of data engineering.
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Hosts
Peer Schwirtz
Director data architecture & data engineering
Prateek Narula
Director cloud engineering
Jens Wriske
Senior cloud architect
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Recap: Data engineering meetup October 2025
Both talks packed with refreshingly real takes and honest opinions. No glossy business talk, just the kind of behind-the-scenes stuff we secretly crave: tricky bottlenecks, how to actually fixed them, and also what‘s not fixed yet.
Thanks to everybody, especially Tom for talking about “What Data Scientists Actually Need from Data Engineers: A ‘Data Producer’ Perspective” and Alex for talking about an “Event-driven data streaming platform at VW Group”
Recap: data engineering meetup September 2025
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Topics
Achieving Sub-100-ms Real-Time Stream Processing with an S3-Native Architecture – with Yingjun Wu
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And the event didn’t end with the talk: for the first time, we also included an interactive part using Mentimeter, which sparked a wide range of insights and showcased the diversity of our data community. Conversations continued well into the evening, accompanied by food from the grillmaster, until it got dark outside.
We can’t wait to host the next one – stay tuned!
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Topics
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Recap: data engineering meetup December 2024
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our latest data engineering meetup! It was an incredible evening filled with insightful discussions, innovative ideas, and valuable networking.
A huge shoutout to our speakers, whose expertise and engaging presentation truly enlightened us on their real life use cases in the world of data engineering. We are so grateful for your contribution and the knowledge you shared with our community. We also want to extend our thanks to all the attendees who brought their energy, questions, and enthusiasm to the event. Your active participation is what makes our meetups so special.
Rewatch the presentations here:
Behnaz Derakhshani
The Day It All Went Down: A True Story of Challenges and Lessons from our Snowplow Pipeline Outage
Aditya Kadiwal, Reza Yazdani
Inside a real-world databricks Project: Setup, implementation, customer wins, and lessons learned
Host
This meetup is hosted by diconium.
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