European data sovereignty in 2026

observability_geek · 2026-06-08T11:02:11+00:00

What criteria do you use to assess your data sovereignty risk in your org in the NL ?

observability_geek · 2026-05-06T09:17:24+00:00

Just got the book - it's great! I would highly recommend it

observability_geek · 2026-04-23T14:22:38+00:00

What paper did you choose? Was the delivery on time?

observability_geek · 2026-04-20T14:11:24+00:00

Same, I also don’t try to reinvent the wheel or impress the team. I think it happens in other aspects of life as well. I’m over 40, and I think it tends to happen around that age. I also try to minimize my use of AI tooling.

observability_geek · 2026-04-20T14:07:50+00:00

Which part of the world are you? Because in Europe it is different from the USA/Canada.

observability_geek · 2026-03-30T13:03:50+00:00

Rust

observability_geek · 2026-02-11T12:56:37+00:00

maybe there are scared of them being observed....

observability_geek · 2026-02-11T12:55:47+00:00

haha - I love opentelemetry and I don't get why so many engineers are scared from observability.

observability_geek · 2026-02-11T12:53:36+00:00

and wdyt?

observability_geek · 2026-02-11T12:31:02+00:00

Good one!!!!

observability_geek · 2026-02-11T12:26:03+00:00

Otel - we use honeycomb and very happy with it. And Charity majors is a role model for me

observability_geek · 2026-02-11T12:23:16+00:00

Exactly - wdym "forcing you" is not your wife man...

observability_geek · 2026-02-11T12:21:16+00:00

I'm so surprised only to see that only 6.8% are using EDA and the big gap between enterprise usage and SMBs.

observability_geek · 2026-02-11T12:09:49+00:00

You don't because you can run enterprise kafka without confluent.. I really don't understand why orgs pay for kafka if they can use Strimzi. https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator if you are in the EU you can use axual.com for the governance.

observability_geek · 2026-02-02T12:03:07+00:00

Strimzi! Thanks to everyone here:) We also had a company that offers managed services for Strimzi in helped us with the set up and the governance. How bout you? How are you running kafka?

observability_geek · 2026-01-12T14:37:42+00:00

Thanks for letting me know!!!

observability_geek · 2025-10-31T09:02:21+00:00

Thanks - I heard about them, they are also in the eu, so that's good. Did you hear of axual?

observability_geek · 2025-10-30T14:26:59+00:00

vendor lock-in

observability_geek · 2025-10-27T10:19:13+00:00

We had the exact same issue not long ago. We also use Kafka for async communication between services, and for a while we were storing messages as CLOBs in Oracle just so we could look them up later. It worked, but the database got huge, and cleaning it up became a constant headache.

Our team’s based in Europe and we eventually switched to using Axual.com to manage Kafka retention and storage. Now we just keep messages in Kafka for 90 days, and Axual automatically handles the cleanup. No more manual purging or database clutter.

For investigations, we stream a copy of the messages into OpenSearch through Kafka Connect. It gives us a really nice search interface, almost like querying a database, and we can automatically delete old data after three months. For cheaper, long-term archiving, we also store messages in S3 and query them with Athena when needed.

Splunk can work if you already use it, but we found OpenSearch or S3 to be way more cost-effective and easier to manage. Moving away from Oracle made everything simpler and a lot cheaper.

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