devdays | Unstacked Engineering

We’ve grown alongside our audience. Over the years, the systems people build became more polyglot, more distributed, more interconnected. The conference needed to reflect that reality. dotnetdays becomes devdays. devdays 2026 21–23 September, Iași devdays.ro

Call for papers for devdays 2026 is open. We’re interested in talks and workshops shaped by real engineering work - clarity, trade-offs, and the reasoning behind decisions. → sessionize.com/devdays-2026/ #devdays #UnstackedEngineering #CFP #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareConference

That’s why we’re evolving. By bringing Backend, Cloud, DevOps, and AI under one roof, we’re making those "hallway tracks" even more valuable.

People would walk out of a session and immediately start stress-testing what they just heard against their own work: "How would this actually hold up in our system?" or "What if our constraints were totally different?"

Before we were devdays, we were dotnetdays. And while the name changed, the part we care most about stayed the same. Same focus on real-world engineering, just a bigger room for the conversation to happen. #devdays #UnstackedEngineering #SoftwareEngineering

devdays 2026 is taking shape. 21–23 September, Iași, Romania. devdays is a #softwareconference for engineers who want to better understand the systems they’re responsible for. Blind Bird tickets are now available. → devdays.ro #devdays #UnstackedEngineering

Our visual identity follows the same principle. It’s built from simple elements that gain meaning through their relationships. That’s the space devdays creates. #devdays

Real systems are made up of many parts that work independently, and only start to make sense when you look at how they interact. That’s how software is built today, and it’s how learning needs to happen as well. #UnstackedEngineering #DistributedSystems #SoftwareEngineering

Modern engineering rarely happens in clean stacks. devdays is designed around this idea. Different disciplines, perspectives, and experiences come together to reveal patterns beneath complexity. We refer to this way of thinking as Unstacked Engineering. devdays.ro

"devdays carries forward everything we’ve learned so far, while making space for how engineering is practiced today." - Irina Dominte (Scurtu), Co-founder devdays More about devdays → devdays.ro #devdays #UnstackedEngineering #SoftwareEngineering

"Today, it feels important for us to keep delivering on the promise we made to our audience, and to expand the conference so it continues to meet those real needs. That responsibility is what led us to evolve dotnetdays into devdays."

"When we started dotnetdays, the goal was simple. We wanted to create a place where people could learn from each other in ways that actually helped them in their day-to-day work as engineers."

devdays carries forward the heart of dotnetdays: the generosity, the honesty, and the respect for the craft. What changed is the scope, simply because the systems engineers work on have changed too. #devdays #UnstackedEngineering #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareArchitecture

We call this way of thinking Unstacked Engineering. We keep the same values: clarity, honesty, and real-world experience. What changes is the scope. Think in systems. Build to last. #devdays #UnstackedEngineering #SoftwareArchitecture #dotnetdays

Modern engineering no longer lives inside a single stack. Backend depends on Cloud. Cloud depends on DevOps. Architecture depends on Testing. AI now threads through every layer. Learning should mirror the systems we build. #distributedsystems

We’ve grown alongside our audience. Over the years, the systems people build became more polyglot, more distributed, more interconnected. The conference needed to reflect that reality. dotnetdays becomes devdays. devdays 2026 21–23 September, Iași devdays.ro

Conversations now revolve less around individual tools, and more around decisions that stand the test of time. Learning needs to catch up with the reality that engineers are coding in today. Our conference evolves to reflect that reality. More soon. #softwareengineering

Most of us don’t work in a single stack anymore. We work in systems that span teams, tools, and time. Learning, however, is still often organised as if the world were simpler than it is. We’ve been working on something to better reflect that reality. Coming soon.