DevOps Amsterdam April meetup

For our next meetup we will be facilitated by ITQ! The venue is across the street from their HQ and just a 5-minute walk from Beverwijk train station, which is about a quick half-hour ride from Amsterdam Central.

• Agenda

18:00 - 18:30 Come in, food & refreshments
18:30 - 18:40 Welcome from the hosts
18:40 - 19:15 Michael Meelis: The journey to a platform product
19:15 - 19:30 Break
19:30 - William Rizzo: The Promise of a Platform
21:00 Doors closed

Michael Meelis: The journey to a platform product
Michael is a Software Engineer / Architect from ITQ with a strange twist of game design that merges into a more architectural approach to software development.

He focuses on trying to understand what makes the software tick, through trial and error, and then ends up with a more thorough understanding of the concept. All of this gives the core concept of who he is and how he approaches the work that he loves.

Abstract:
"’Videoland’ (including RTL XL), ‘Buienradar’ weather app, and ‘RTL Nieuws’ reach millions of customers monthly. How do they handle such a large number of simultaneous viewers, massive streams, and peak loads?This talk explores how RTL transitioned from a traditional sysops setup to a full-fledged platform team developing its own products. Learn from their mistakes and successes! Oh, and #spoileralert: 'DevOps is not a role...'"

William Rizzo: The Promise of a Platform
William is a CNCF Ambassador and currently working at SUSE as a Lead Architect Consultant. He's focused in helping customers designing, building, and running their Kubernetes, and Internal Developer Platforms. He wore many hats in the IT world, Engineering, Pre-Post sales, Product Owner and Consulting. from HPC, Storage to Distributed Systems. William enjoys volunteering at the Dutch Cloud Native/Kubernetes Meetup and Organizing the KCD Netherlands events. Has lived in many European countries and now Netherlands is the place he calls home.

Abstract:
In this talk, we delve into the transformative role of Kubernetes in shaping modern infrastructure foundations, heralding a new era of Platform-as-a-Product methodologies. This transition is not just emerging; it's becoming imperative. Our discussion navigates the 'hows' and 'whys' of this shift, pinpointing our current trajectory and delineating the optimal path to embark on your Platform-as-a-Service voyage, especially if this is uncharted territory for you.