VSHN AG

16/10/2026

We’re fully booked! 🎉

Our Technical Roadshow MariaDB & VSHN in Zürich on Monday has reached full capacity - thank you to everyone who signed up and for all the interest in this event.

We can’t wait to welcome you at the VSHN Tower for an afternoon packed with MariaDB deep dives, live demos of MaxScale and MariaDB Cloud and a real customer case study - wrapped up with an apéro.

Really looking forward to hearing from Michael “Monty” Widenius, Anders Karlsson and Jonas Schwegler from MariaDB, alongside Aarno Aukia and Tobias Brunner from VSHN.

Didn’t get a spot? Join the waiting list - places may still open up.

Or register for our upcoming Executive Breakfast Roundtable MariaDB & VSHN on November 17th: https://buff.ly/deuqi1z

See you Monday!

16/10/2026

Who do I sign the MariaDB contract with? In Switzerland, with VSHN: a Swiss contract under Swiss law, with MariaDB's third-level support behind it.

Zurich, 19 October, in person with Monty Widenius: https://buff.ly/Q1pxbDE
Full webinar: https://buff.ly/SBEQztf

15/10/2026

Heroku, Vercel and Railway are easy to start on and hard to leave, because the orchestration is theirs. Christian Blättler says cloud native already has every piece.

From the Cloud Native Computing Switzerland meetup, 15 September 2026.
Full talk: https://buff.ly/ugvk2LI

14/10/2026

Last chance: only 5 seats left! 🎟️

Join us this Monday at the VSHN Tower and meet the creator of MySQL and MariaDB, Michael “Monty” Widenius, in person. 🐬🦭

At the Technical Roadshow MariaDB & VSHN, you’ll get live demos, a look at the roadmap, open Q&A with the MariaDB and VSHN engineering teams, and an Apéro to round off the afternoon.

📅 Monday, October 19th, 13:30 - 17:00 CEST
📍 VSHN Tower, Zürich

Once these 5 seats are gone, they’re gone. 👉 https://buff.ly/WVllnWV

Meet Michael "Monty" Widenius, the creator of MySQL and MariaDB, at our technical roadshow with VSHN and MariaDB. Beyond the chance to hear from Monty himself…

14/10/2026

A MariaDB subscription does not buy the right to run MariaDB. The server and Galera Cluster are open source anyway. Aarno Aukia on what the subscription is for.

Zurich, 19 October, in person with Monty Widenius: https://buff.ly/Q1pxbDE
Full webinar: https://buff.ly/SBEQztf

13/10/2026

Chris Bingham rebuilt a 20-year-old site with an AI agent and started where everyone starts: one lazy prompt for the whole job. What came back was unusable.

From the Cloud Native Computing Switzerland meetup, 15 September 2026.
Full talk: https://buff.ly/oW6TaxU

12/10/2026

Why is there a MariaDB Foundation? Jonas Schwegler of MariaDB: the source code sits with a nonprofit, and a nonprofit cannot be acquired.

Zurich, 19 October, in person with Monty Widenius: https://buff.ly/Q1pxbDE
Full webinar: https://buff.ly/SBEQztf

09/10/2026

Why pay for open source you could use for free? Aarno Aukia: because you want someone to call when something breaks at 3 a.m. on a Saturday.

Zurich, 19 October, in person with Monty Widenius: https://buff.ly/Q1pxbDE
Full webinar: https://buff.ly/SBEQztf

08/10/2026

A true star of the open source community is coming to the VSHN Tower. ⭐

We're honored that Michael "Monty" Widenius, the creator of MySQL and MariaDB, is joining us in Zürich on October 19th for the Technical Roadshow MariaDB & VSHN. 🐬🦭

Seats are filling fast, so if you've been meaning to sign up, now's the time.

👉 https://buff.ly/Q1pxbDE

What's waiting for you:
⚡ Live demos of MaxScale failover, Enterprise Monitor and MariaDB Cloud with AI agents
🔧 What MariaDB Enterprise really adds on top of Community
🗺️ Monty on migrations, the roadmap and the future of open source
💬 Open Q&A with the MariaDB and VSHN engineering teams
🥂 Apéro afterwards

📅 Monday, October 19th, 13:30 - 17:00 CEST
📍 VSHN Tower, Zürich
🎟️ Limited to 40 seats

08/10/2026

No CVE, no off switch. What stops the Istio ambient bypass: block pods running as UID 1337, drop NET_RAW, enforce mTLS. Benjamin Koltermann's fix list.

From the Cloud Native Computing Switzerland meetup, 15 September 2026.
Full talk: https://buff.ly/aUQVak0