Kong Amsterdam In-Person Meetup

We are thrilled to invite you to our first in-person meetup in Amsterdam for 2023 in collaboration with Wipro!

Kong makes connecting APIs and microservices across today’s hybrid, multi-cloud environments easier and faster than ever.

We power trillions of API transactions for leading organizations globally through our end-to-end API platform and service offerings.

When
April 18, 17:00 - 20:00 CEST

Where
Wipro, UN Studio Tower, Gustav Mahlerlaan 362-364, 6th Floor, 1082 ME Amsterdam, Netherlands

Agenda
17:00 - 17:30 Everyone arrives, networking, snacks
17:30 - 18:15 Talk 1: Let's Mesh Things Up: A Service Mesh Crash Course for Developers by Viktor Gamov
18:15 - 19:00 Talk 2: Introduction to Wipro and how to drive profitable growth with APIs by Anmol Grover
19:00 - 20:00 Networking, food & drinks

Talks
1) Let's Mesh Things Up: A Service Mesh Crash Course for Developers by Viktor Gamov

In the world of microservices, service mesh has become an essential infrastructure for managing communication between different components of an application. But how can you build a reliable and secure microservices architecture?

In this Service Mesh Crash Course, Viktor Gamov, Principal Developer Advocate at Kong, will guide you through the jungle of service mesh. Viktor will demystify the concept of service mesh and show how it can be used to simplify the management of microservices while providing a Zero Trust security model. No prior knowledge of service mesh is required!

Whether you're a developer or an operator/SRE who supports microservices, you'll find something helpful in this talk. Viktor will show you how to use projects like Kuma and Kong Mesh to implement a service mesh that captures logs, traces, and metrics for observability. He'll also talk about the importance of a service mesh in handling communication between different components and managing network complexity. Get ready to mesh things up!

2) Introduction to Wipro and how to drive profitable growth with APIs by Anmol Grover

APIs are increasingly becoming connective membrane to link ecosystems, open pathways to innovation, create new products and improve efficiency. While successful execution and scaling API projects are imperative, design thinking and monetization mindset can help to identify, prioritize and unlock new sources of value. Effectively using APIs can reduce operational or technology costs by simplifying and accelerating development.

The talk will guide on effective usage of design principle and best practices that helps to manage the API portfolio, embrace growth mindset and leverage key metrics in monetizing APIs.

Speakers
Viktor Gamov, Principal Developer Advocate at Kong
Viktor has a comprehensive expertise in building distributed systems and cloud-native architectures using open source technologies. He enjoys helping architects and developers design and develop low latency, scalable, and highly available systems. He is a professional conference speaker on distributed systems, streaming data, JVM, and DevOps topics. He's regular on events including JavaOne, Devoxx, OSCON, QCon, and others. Viktor has co-authored books O'Reilly's «Enterprise Web Development» and Manning's «Apache Kafka® in Action.» He blogs at http://gamov.io and co-hosts KongCast https://pod.link/kongcast. Follow Viktor on Twitter @gamussa, where he posts there about gym life, food, open-source, and Kong and Cloud.

Anmol Grover, Global Head – Open Banking / Open Finance at Wipro
Anmol is an open banking and open finance SME with more than 20 years of experience working with global and regional banking and financial services clients. He is responsible for delivering open banking compliance and monetization programs to clients as well as developing Wipro’s open banking product suite. As an expert on open banking, he is often sourced to give talks and provide expertise at public forums, industry gatherings and client interactions.