Serverless Meetup Rotterdam #6

Serverless meetup Rotterdam is a meetup exploring one of the underpinning technologies of the open source Offcourse learning platform. The meetup is open to everyone – from beginner to expert. Join us!

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18:30 Doors open

18:45 Short welcome to everyone

19:00 Sander van de Graaf (Sentia). Sander is a cloud solutions architect, and specializes in both Serverless and IOT.

In this talk Sander will tell you about The Things Network, and how to connect to it using a Serverless architecture. If there is enough time, he'll do a live demo of how to connect an IOT device over the Things Network to an app, using no servers at all, and show you how the interaction works.

19:30 Ahmad Hafeez (Blanco Services) is working as a Serverless Guru at Blanco. He has been working with companies around the globe for past 6 years as his passion is to work within a startup environment with different nationalities.

During his talk Ahmad will tell us about the "Authentication/Authorization with Serverless". No matter what environment you use Serverless or Server, No SQL or an application using RDS. Authorization and Authentication is what every application needs. Ahmad I will discuss how to handle the users with AWS Cognito in your Serverless application, how to handle the pools within Cognito via cloudformation and what are the limitations of AWS Cognito. He will also share his experience on how Blanco has dealt with those limitations .

20:00 Q&A + drinks

21:00 Wrap up + doors close

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About previous meetups:

“I like Serverless Meetup Rotterdam. It’s like being in Silicon Valley.” — Lasse, new to Serverless

“It’s great to interact with other engineers and talk about how they solve certain problems.” — Ted, experienced in Serverless

"Good crowd, good talk and a great atmosphere!" —Thomas, after his first time during Serverless Meetup in Rotterdam