I love well-organized small conferences, so it wasn’t hard to persuade me to have another talk at the DEEP Conference in Zadar, Croatia. This time, I talked about the role of digital twins in disaster recovery/avoidance testing. You might know my take on networking digital twins; after that, I only had enough time to focus on bandwidth and latency matter, and this is how you emulate limited bandwidth and add latency bit.

I also took the opportunity to attend several other presentations. While one of them unfortunately turned out to be inescapable vendor slop¹, I was fortunate enough to attend a highly interesting presentation by Tena Velki on how hackers exploit our system-1 thinking (aka reptilian/limbic brain) and some of our cognitive biases to make us click on a link or download malware, followed by a presentation by Vanja Švajcer describing the tools used by North Korean hackers.

The conference organizers always manage to attract local (= Croatian) presenters working on large international challenges. This year, I stumbled upon Luka Kladarić, who’s developing a universal gateway for database protocols that can provide granular control over developer/support access to production databases.

Fortunately, DEEP remains a boutique conference with a personal touch where the organizers care about the well-being of presenters and attendees, so I hope to be back in 2026, and it would be great to meet and chat with fellow networking engineers (hint, hint ;)