South Africa — MongoDB Day x AWS is coming!   Join @Obsidianza on 20 Nov 2025 at The Bryanston Country Club for a practical morning on modernising apps + migrating to MongoDB Atlas on AWS.   🔗 Register now: events.mongodb.com/mongodbdayinso… Seats are limited — don’t miss out.

Obsidianza is calling developers, architects, DevOps engineers, and IT professionals to MongoDB Day x Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Johannesburg on Thursday, 20 November 2025.    Read more: itweb.africa/article/obsidi…

Flashback to Smarter.tech ’25 what a fantastic event!   We explored global insights from Atlassian Team ’25 and Red Hat Summit 2025 while the lunch & learn breakout sessions and live demos kept the energy high throughout the day.   Get Started
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Looking to modernise legacy systems or move data workloads to the cloud without breaking things? 🔗 Register today:events.mongodb.com/mongodbdayinso… See you there!

Obsidian Systems hosted developers, architects, DevOps engineers, and IT professionals at MongoDB Day x AWS yesterday. The half-day event focused on application modernisation and cloud migration with MongoDB Atlas on AWS. #MongoDB #AWS #CloudMigration #ApplicationModernisation

TV had a good run. Now it’s our turn. Here it is: the launch of our podcast series, The Kernel. youtu.be/6BtKeCQ3qAU #WorldTVDay #obsidianpodcast #thekernel #TVisdead #Podcastsliveloud

ALERT: Christmas spirit successfully deployed. 🎅🎄 CPU usage: 20% Cheer usage: 110% Obsidian Sanity Day was a merry mash-up of elves, devs, and questionable sweater choices — exactly how we like it. #ObsidianZA #ObsidianSystems #ChristmasPatch #SanityDay #Geekmas

From Couch to Headphones: Welcome to a new era. Our debut podcast has dropped, listen on your favourite platform: obsidiansystemsmarketing.podbean.com #PodcastSeries #TheKernel #ObsidianSystems #NowStreaming

Switch Off the TV. Turn Up the Podcast. Your tech deep dive starts here. Tune in to conversations that explore open source, innovation, and the future of technology. Listen now: obsidiansystemsmarketing.podbean.com #PodcastSeries #TheKernel #ObsidianSystems #NowStreaming #TechTalk

Welcome to the highlight reel of smarter.tech ’25 in South Africa! Watch the recap: youtube.com/watch?v=rLWeKy…   Want more? Register your interest for future smarter.tech events: smarter.tech/for/twenty-25

Smarter Tech in snackable bytes — fast, fresh, and straight from the people who were there. No scripts. No fluff. Just real voices. youtube.com/watch?v=4cjFFG… #smartertech25 #techconference #DevOps #opensource #cloud #ITcommunity #Smarter25

Tiny bytes, big brains. We cornered attendees for rapid-fire reactions to smarter.tech ’25. Blink and you’ll miss the genius. youtu.be/au3XRUFUC5k Want more? Register your interest for future smarter.tech events:
smarter.tech/for/twenty-25   #smartertech25

In Patchnotes, Episode 2 of The Kernel, we speak with kmf and Bennie Kahler-Venter about how open source moved from the fringes of the 80s into today’s most critical enterprise systems and what that means for innovation, security, and speed. youtu.be/N9OLLO9_cws

We'll be back! @Obsidianza is on our annual shutdown until the 5th Jan. We are thankful for our team that will still be on stand-by to assist our clients over this festive season. We wish you a peaceful holiday. For how we still got you covered, go to bit.ly/3jmWUWb

From all of us, warm wishes for a peaceful and joyful Christmas Eve.

From Obsidian Systems we wish everyone a #MerryChristmas.

You’ve seen the event — now hear it in human form. Smarter.tech ’25 distilled into quick, crunchy bytes of wisdom. youtube.com/watch?v=eKqqa_… Want more? Register your interest for future smarter.tech events:
smarter.tech/for/twenty-25   #smartertech25 #DevOps

Short, sweet, and smarter, vox pops from folks who lived the day, one clever byte at a time. youtube.com/watch?v=ihyUZq… Want more? Register your interest for future smarter.tech events: smarter.tech/for/twenty-25   #smartertech25 #techconference #DevOps #opensource #cloud

The future of retail is not only about customer experience. It is about keeping the systems behind that experience running.   Learn more in our latest press release. retailbriefafrica.co.za/retail-managem…   #retail #digital #infrastructure #support #innovation #customerexperience #ThinLinc

Happy Valentines Day! ❤️ With love, Obsidian Systems.