Cloud Native London October 2026: Testkube, MongoDB, and Cisco
Three speakers from Testkube, MongoDB, and Cisco joined us at the October Cloud Native London meetup at the Just Eat office, as well as via the YouTube/LinkedIn livestreams.
We are immensely grateful to Testkube, MongoDB, cloudsmith, and TechShack for their generous support and sponsorship.
Overview
Kicking off our evening was Ole Lensmar from Testkube discussing Automating Quality in Delivery Pipelines(starting at 11:38). His takeaways explained that:
- Teams are increasingly looking to automate the entire SDLC with AI.
- The biggest challenge with autonomous AI for quality is trust.
- Automating quality in pipelines requires context beyond code and tests.
Following this was Ricardo Villanueva from MongoDB talking about Fewer Moving Parts, Lower Cloud Costs: Rethinking the Cloud-Native Data Stack(starting at 39:30). His takeaways are that:
- Every extra component has a “hidden bill”: infrastructure, integration work, monitoring, upgrades, incident response, and the risk of inconsistent data.
- Integrated data services can remove synchronization work. MongoDB Search combines the database, search engine, and sync mechanism in a managed platform.
- Architecture simplification can free teams to build product features. Helvetia reported that Atlas Search removed separate data-sync pipelines and reduced developer and operational overhead.
And wrapping up our evening, we had Hasith Kalpage from Cisco explaining how AI Productivity Isn’t a Model Problem, It’s a Platform Problem — CAIPE.io’s Story So Far…(starting at 1:32:18). He explored how:
- CAIPE.io — Community AI Platform Engineering. Every enterprise standing up agents hits the same wall: multi-channel deployment, identity and RBAC, tool integration, audit trails, context. None of it is differentiating — it’s table stakes, and rebuilding it at every company is wasted effort. CAIPE is Apache 2.0, self-hosted, community-governed, and already proven in production. Let’s build the foundation for AI productivity together.
- Platform engineering patterns transfer — agents are just a new kind of workload. CAIPE grew out of Backstage-style developer platform thinking, and the core lessons carried over directly: self-service beats ticket queues, pluggable integrations (MCP) beat hard-coded ones, and identity and RBAC have to be designed in from day one, not bolted on when security asks. The novelty is the workload, not the discipline.
- Context is infrastructure, and it has to be shared. The biggest unlock wasn’t a better agent — it was giving agents and engineers the same view of the organisation: code, decisions, and discussions synthesised into something both can read. Without shared memory, every agent session starts from zero and every human re-explains the same context. With it, small teams operate well above their headcount.
And of course, our usual group photo!
Cloud Native London November
Our next meetup will be on Wednesday 4th November, when we’ll be joined by speakers from Magentic, Teleport, and Truelayer! RSVP and save the date now!.
I’ll see you next month. Stay safe, stay healthy, and see you soon!
Cheryl (@oicheryl)
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