They are seen as being the top-notch best of the best companies around, equipped with unlimited resources and endless cash to keep their stuff protected, detecting/blocking such issues in advance and preventing these kinds of things from happening in the first place.

Of course the "Fortune 500" usually also means that they are so big that they are divided into multiple completely separated departments/units, each with their own tools, practices and processes.

These issues have exploded especially since the dawn of DevOps. Devs have been developing with tight "agile" deadlines, the Ops part has been barely done as the admins were told they were no longer needed and they pivoted to "Cloud Architects" or such, and doing Ops is not "delivering" anything, so you don't get rewarded for fixing reliability issues unless they are visible to end users.

Just when organizations started to realize this doesn't fly in the long run and started to take back control with stuff like Platform Engineering, the Devs got equipped with tools that have even bigger blast radiuses and started running around with huge LLM-scissors and AI-agents with unlimited permissions, vibing stuff into production even faster, cheered and supported by the hyped up upper management sipping more KooLLM-AId.

Now that the water level is starting to rapidly drop, we get to see which organizations have been swimming naked.

Nice one! As a seasoned industry veteran, I've been wanting to have something like this, and while there are many evening tech meetups going on around here, your schedule is much more suitable for the otherwise busy life! *starts karma mining to qualify*

Filled the form and included my email with the HN user ID just in case you'd be willing to deliver the meeting details that way when they've been decided.

The phone number is not associated with WhatsApp (never had it, and won't), but it works with Signal in case it would be more viable option for meetup info comms than email. Who knows, perhaps even a shadow group already exists there, or has potential to get established?

Thank you for arranging such gatherings, hoping to meet up soon!

I guess it's the luck of the draw, but unfortunately Sunday's are no good for me. The curse of parenting :)

But it's still a great idea, and I wish you all happy meetups. Would be nice if this inspired other groups to form too.

We also meet in the evenings sometimes, so I would join now and figure it out later.

No wonder, the country is so small that any modern EV can drive it around completely with single charge. They also have abundance of especially wind energy, and the government recently dropped the electricity tax to EU minimum in order to make electricity very affordable for the Danish folks.

You never quite know when something will come up over the far side of wherever you are.

The country has also modified the tax code that any EV is ~5000 euro cheaper in acquisition costs (through tax punishment for ICE + tax advantage for EV), about ~800 euro per year cheaper (there's secondary tax measures making ICE vehicles more expensive on an ongoing basis, depends on the car, and okay, 800 would be for a very nice car), plus guaranteed public charging capacity (and of course due to charging limits these are cheap parking spaces too)

That's what it takes in 2026 to make EVs still not quite cheaper than ICE cars. I imagine the free-with-charging-at-guaranteed-low-prices parking spaces make a large difference here.

Sadly for obvious capacity reasons the cheap parking space will be only for a few years.

eh, this is EU people regularly and en mass do comute across borders for work.

Unless you're living near the border I don't believe this is true. I think the willingness to drive distances is a lot higher in the US, west coast in particular, compared to Europe.

When you do live near the border, it doesn't really matter, in the Schengen area there is no border for all intents and purposes.

I don't think driving around the country is the main selling point of a car, at least not around here. Huge commutes by car are not a usual thing in my environment, au contrary, I know companies who actively push against that.

If I have a car and I cannot do a weekend trip with it, why did I spend the money?

EVs are fine for weekend trips, you just have to spend a little more time taking breaks.

Plus avoid when everybody else is having a holiday trip (assuming charging stations don't have unlimited bays available)

If you have kids in school you can only have trips when everybody else is having them.

I carry groceries and sometimes (rarely) do my short commute - 30 minutes electric instead of 50 minutes in PT. Vacations by car are maybe twice a year (I always prefer PT) and then, like the other commenter said, I stop anyway at almost every highway stop for a coffer or whatever, so the fast charger can fastly charge. So for this usage model, electric is yay.