Cloud Native Platform NL

We’re excited to announce the second edition of Cloud Native Platform NL.

Join us on Wednesday, July 1, 2026 at Wibautstraat 200, Amsterdam, for an evening of practical talks, good conversations, pizza, and drinks with the fellow platform engineers and cloud-native enthusiasts.
This edition focuses on two themes that are becoming increasingly important for modern engineering teams: securing AI systems in production and building platform foundations that scale without creating long-term technical debt.

Talk 1: How to Secure & Optimize Your RAG pipelines with Fine Grained Authorization

It’s time for Day 2 Ops in the world of AI.
Building enterprise-ready AI poses challenges around data security, scalability, and integration, especially in compliance-regulated industries. The primary mitigation strategy is to build guardrails around Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to safeguard data while also optimizing query response efficiency.
This session will cover how modern permissions systems can safeguard sensitive data in RAG pipelines. We'll start with why Authorization is critical for RAG pipelines to protect sensitive data from potential vulnerabilities and also the various techniques for permissions-aware data retrieval including prefiltering, and post-filtering vector databases. The principles in this talk can also be used to apply authorization for AI Agents.
The talk will also include a practical demo implementing fine-grained authorization for RAG using Pinecone, Langchain, OpenAI, and SpiceDB.

About the speaker:
Sohan is a Lead Developer Advocate at AuthZed, based in the Netherlands. He started his career as a developer building mobile apps and has been living in the cloud since 2013, in companies such as Amazon, Fermyon and Gupshup. He is also an O' Reilly author, having created a course on Cloud Concepts for Everyone. He has always been interested in emerging technologies and how it shapes the world around us.

Talk 2: Shaky Ground: Infrastructure Mistakes That Create Tech Debt — and How AI-Powered Platforms Fix It.

Every engineering team hits the same trap: infrastructure decisions that work today become painful bottlenecks tomorrow. Shortcuts pile up into tech debt, outages, and teams that can't ship.
This talk covers the most common infrastructure mistakes and how platform engineering and Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) provide a way out — including how different Kubernetes architectures affect scalability and team autonomy.
The highlight: a live demo showing how anyone can extend the platform by simply writing a `skills.md` or `agents.md` file, instantly adding new tools, business apps, and AI-powered workflows — no deep platform knowledge required.
Walk away with practical ideas for building systems that grow with your business without slowing your team down.

Key Topics:

• What IDPs are and why starting early pays off
• Golden paths and self-service tools that keep teams fast and infrastructure consistent
• Kubernetes architecture trade-offs: scalability, cost, and autonomy
• GitOps and automation to eliminate repetitive manual work
• Extending your platform with AI agents — adding new tools and apps through simple markdown files