Cloud Native London January 2026: Flagsmith, BrassicaPay, and more
Three speakers from Flagsmith, BrassicaPay, and more joined us at the January Cloud Native London meetup at Civo Tech Junction, as well as via the YouTube/LinkedIn livestreams. Unfortunately there were some audio issues with the livestream for the first two talks.
We are immensely grateful to Flagsmith and TechShack for their generous support and sponsorship.
Overview
Kicking off our evening was Kyle Johnson from Flagsmith talking about Feature Flags: A Safety Net in the AI Era(starting at 12:04). He discussed how to:
- Without explicit safety measures, increased reliance on AI-generated code leads to a loss of control over codebases and production behaviour.
- Feature flagging is a great safety net: it allows both AI-generated and traditional code to be deployed to production with no behavioural change, enabling controlled rollouts to internal users or small customer cohorts before wider release.
- AI—despite its imperfections—will fundamentally reshape how software is built and redefine what is possible.
Following this, we had Shubhangi Goyal explaining Context driven AI Agents(starting at 33:33). Her takeaways were about:
- Context engineering, manage memory tools, and tasks for adaptive behaviour
- Prompt engineering into the larger system
- Understanding the use of context engineering
And wrapping up our evening was Mawuko Jeffrey Wilson from BrassicaPay exploring Why Cloud Cost Assessment Must Come Before Cloud-Native Build(starting at 1:31:24). He stated that:
- Cost surprises are architectural, not accidental: Most cloud overspend originates from early service choices, pricing models, and design assumptions-not from poor monitoring alone.
- Cost alerts are controls, not only strategy: Budgets, alerts, and subscriptions help manage spend-but they cannot replace upfront cost modelling and architectural cost awareness.
- Cost assessment must sit alongside security and architecture: Sustainable cloud-native systems treat cost as a first-class design constraint, just like resilience and security. And multi-cloud doesn’t remove cost risk-it multiplies it. Without consistent cost assessment practices, organisations face fragmented spend and reduced financial visibility across AWS, Azure, and GCP (others).
And of course, our usual group photo!
Cloud Native London February
Our next meetup will be on Wednesday 4th February, when we’ll be joined by speakers from SUSE, Mirantis, and Urban Care Community! RSVP and save the date now!.
Stay safe, stay healthy, and see you in a month!
Cheryl (@oicheryl)
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