BrabantJUG @ Profit4Cloud

On March 18th we will be hosting another BrabantJUG meetup. Our host Profit4Cloud in Den Bosch will be opening its doors for us.

With Hanno Embregts and Bertrand Foffe we have two awesome speakers who will share their knowledge!

Timetable:
17:00 Doors open
18:00 Food
18:50 Introduction
19:00 Will Git Be Around Forever? A List of Possible Successors by Hanno Embregts
19:45 Break
20:00 DDD & Java Microservices in Agritech – The Jangolo Story by Bertrand Foffe
20:45 Drinks

Will Git Be Around Forever? A List of Possible Successors
In the early 2010s, only early adopters used Git. The majority used Subversion. Ten years later, almost everyone uses Git. So what will we use another ten years from now? And what features would we need? I’ll discuss a few post-Git products, their features and I’ll predict whether Git will remain in the top spot or not.

About Hanno
Hanno Embregts is a Java Developer with a passion for learning, teaching and making music.

In his day-to-day job as a Teacher / Technology Advocate at Info Support, Hanno prefers work that is fast-paced and versatile. This is why he juggles Java development, software architecture, public speaking, leading Info Support’s Speaker Community and teaching courses at Info Support’s Knowledge Centre.

Hanno is a Java Champion, an Oracle ACE Pro and one of the leaders of the NLJUG (the Dutch Java User Group). Outside of work Hanno likes making music with his friends. He plays the flute, the guitar and he likes to sing.

Software conferences are Hanno’s favourite thing in the world, because they allow him to do the three things he loves most at the same time: learning new things, teaching others about stuff he discovered and yes: even making music from time to time!

DDD & Java Microservices in Agritech – The Jangolo Story
Microservices are often presented as a silver bullet but in complex domains, they can quickly become a source of chaos if business boundaries are unclear.

In this talk, Bertrand Foffe shares the real-world journey of building Jangolo, a large-scale agritech platform operating in Cameroon, where over 200,000 users interact daily mostly through WhatsApp to buy, sell, and manage agricultural products.

Using Domain-Driven Design (DDD) as a strategic tool rather than a theoretical concept, the talk explores how complex agribusiness domains were decomposed into bounded contexts and Java microservices. Through concrete case studies such as product modeling across domains, transversal roles like field ambassadors, and identifying the true core domain (marketplace) Bertrand illustrates common myths, hard lessons, and practical trade-offs.

Attendees will learn:

• How to align microservices with real business domains
• Why “bounded context = microservice” is harder than it sounds
• How to avoid over-engineering in Java architectures
• How DDD helps tame complexity in fast-growing systems

This session is ideal for developers and architects looking for pragmatic DDD and microservices insights, grounded in production experience rather than theory.

About Bertrand
Bertrand Foffe is a software engineer and entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in IT consulting and Java-based systems. Originally from Cameroon and based in the Netherlands, he combines deep technical expertise in Java, microservices, and Domain-Driven Design with real-world product building.

Bertrand is the founder of Jangolo, an agritech platform serving more than 200,000 users in Cameroon, connecting farmers, distributors, agro-industrials, and consumers across the agricultural value chain. Through Jangolo, he has designed and operated a large-scale microservices architecture driven by business domains rather than technology hype.

Passionate about turning complex domains into scalable systems, Bertrand enjoys sharing practical lessons learned from building software where business constraints, data volatility, and real human impact meet.