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TechSummit 2025: Resilience is much more than a good firewall

Resilience isn’t just about cybersecurity or protecting systems; it’s about how organizations adapt when everything around them changes. It touches supply chains, team availability, market shifts, regulations, and even reputational challenges. This broader view shaped Leaseweb’s TechSummit 2025 in Amsterdam. Under the theme “Building Resilience at Scale,” the event highlighted resilience as a strategic necessity, not just a technical […]

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Abstractions over Scale – interview with Docker

Aanand Prasad, an engineer from Docker, spoke about Abstractions Over Scale and Docker’s open-source software suite at Leaseweb’s TechSummit in Amsterdam: We wanted to get a little more insight into how tools like these are affecting the traditional ways of scaling technology: Leaseweb: A lot of times you see a gap between the engineers who […]

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Looking back at TechSummit Amsterdam 2016

Leaseweb’s annual Amsterdam TechSummit took place on June 2 at the Pakhuis de Zwijger, an old warehouse converted to a high-tech multimedia event center. The summit was sold out with over 315 attendees who came to hear a variety of presentations from professionals focusing on this year’s theme: Designing for Scalability. Those who attended were […]

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Scaling our engineering departments (part 1)

In this blog post I’m going to cover how we are scaling our engineering department at Leaseweb: where we started, the lessons we’ve learned, and how we are hoping to move forward.

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Web Scale (Part 2)

In this 2-part mini-series, Joshua Hoffman examines some of the common issues companies face when designing for scalability. Read part 1 here. In my previous blog I looked at what I call the first three sins of web scale – pride (the refusal to use tools not invented here), envy (the desire for a more […]

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Scalability: The hot topic at this year’s TechSummit

The theme of TechSummit 2016 Berlin and Amsterdam is “Designing for Scalability”. But what do we really mean by the word “scalability”? Well, we’re all familiar with the standard definition along the lines of Wikipedia’s definition: “The capability of a system, network, or process to handle a growing amount of work… A system whose performance […]

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Techsummit Berlin 2016 Podcast: Owning your reliability

Who do you trust? What do you control? What are your dependencies? Reliability in the Internet is an adrenaline adventure but we all want a good night sleep and working service. Adam Surak, DevOps Engineer at Algolia previews some of the reliability nightmares he’s going to discuss at TechSummit Berlin. TechSummit Berlin takes place on […]

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The origins of TechSummits hosted by Leaseweb

In 2014 we held a tryout. Last year we went public. This year we’re going on tour. But where did the idea of organizing TechSummits come from? TechSummit Berlin takes place on 13 April 2016. Join others from the tech community for a day of informal chat and information exchange – all in the cool […]

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TechSummits: Why does Leaseweb organize them?

Our TechSummits have been going for a couple of years now. They started small – just a bunch of Leaseweb guys getting together to talk tech – but last year’s TechSummit Amsterdam marked a turning point. With well over two hundred attendees and some 20 speakers we knew we were on to something big. That’s […]

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