Foreside - Nationale Nederlanden Meetup Rotterdam

JS Meetup Special Edition - Rotterdam
🚀 Our mission is to share knowledge and innovative ideas with engaged attendees at our in-person JavaScript meetups, making the community bigger and better.

🍕 Free pizzas and drinks
🕔 1,5 hours of JavaScript(TS) presentations

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🗓️ When: April 7th at 17:00

📍 Location: Optimaal bereikbaar | Delftse Poort
🚗 Parking: Parkeren Delftse Poort - Rotterdam Centrum

🕔 Time table:
17.00 - 17:30 Walk in
17.30 - 18.00 Elena - Observability in AWS using CDK monitoring constructs
18.00 - 18.15 Break
18.15 - 18.45 Niek - OpenTelemetry; Preventing burning down the house
18.45 - 19.00 Break
19.00 - 19.30 Rick - Implementing OpenTelemetry in a NestJS Microservices architecture
19.30 - 20.30 Drinks & Networking

Event in English 🇺🇸

💬 Talks

Observability in AWS using CDK monitoring constructs
Why bring in a third-party tool when your cloud provider already has you covered?
Leverage AWS-native monitoring solutions to enhance resilience, improve speed, strengthen security, and reduce DevOps workload—all while making the most of the tools already available in your ecosystem.
We will explore a real-world case study, examining the key metrics published by AWS services and how they can be utilized for observability, regardless of the rest of your technology stack.

Elena Naum - Team Lead at Nationale Nederlanden
A Cloud enthusiast with an AWS bias, having had worked for both the service and the builder tool side. I am trying to see how far the layers of abstraction can go by automating best practices, in all their aspects. A Jacqueline of all trades, a bosmang of some.

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OpenTelemetry; Preventing burning down the house
The world of application monitoring with (costly) APM tools like Datadog, New Relic and Splunk is at a turning point. OpenTelemetry (OTEL) - the new open standard in the observability space - is rapidly gaining traction and greatly improving operational stability for a fraction of the effort and costs.
We will discuss the many benefits of choosing an OTEL native solution over a traditional APM Tool. We will also discuss why existing APM suppliers are so costly, and why they are reluctant to support the OTEL standard in their solutions.
Lastly, we will explore the many benefits and functionalities that Native OTEL solutions bring us, and how we can use them to greatly improve the stability and performance of our application stacks, and proactively catch issues to avoid burning down our house.

Niek Heezemans - CTO & Lead Architect at Foreside
It is almost impossible to be a good architects without up-to-date coding skills. I am a seasoned technologist that thrives when designing and developing complex, high performant solutions and platforms in large enterprises and organizations. I am an early adopter of promising new technologies and are always on the lookout the maximize the value we can create with them.

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Implementing OpenTelemetry in a NestJS Microservices architecture
OpenTelemetry is something of a new buzzword but what is it really? How can we as developers use it to make our jobs a lot easier and make our applications more performant? This talk will dive into the OpenTelemetry ecosystem, show you some of the nitty-gritty implementation details and how they all tie together in a NestJS Microservices architecture.
We'll explore various observability aspects, how to instrument your applications across a distributed architecture, and finally how to setup dashboards and alerts to help you debug issues and stay ahead of downtime.

Rick Dutour Geerling - Lead Software Architect at Trilon (builders of NestJS)
I am a pragmatic and solution driven engineer with plenty of experience developing enterprise solutions. I have a passion for solving complex problems and aim for a deep understanding of the code I am working with. I value direct communication, good leadership and the occasional bad pun.