Flex your DevOps with Flexport

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It's time once again to see what's going on in the local DevOps community in Amsterdam. This November you'll be hosted by none other than Flexport.

The abstracts will be added at a later point, but we'll hear about some interesting DevOps challenges at Flexport, followed by a talk about DevSecOps by TBD from Mondoo.

Schedule
17:30 - Doors open 🚪
18:00 - Dinner is served (vegan/vegitarian option available) 🥙
18:30 - Kick off and first talk Alex Nederlof 🎤
19:15 - Break 🥤🚽
19:30 - Talk from Ivan Milchev 🎤
20:15 - Talk to other people 🙋🗣
21:45 - Time is up! See you next time. 👋
22:00 - Doors are locked. 🔒

Talk #1: Our journey out of the monolith; how Flexport plans to leverage Backstage to standardise microservice development

As Flexport is still growing rapidly and moving out of a monolith to microservices, we need to make sure we're not creating a wilderness of special snowflake services. We want to make it easy for everybody to go from zero to running a new service in production in as little time as possible. In this talk, we'll go over what we've achieved, learned, and what's still ahead of us. We'll cover CI, security, observability and balancing standardisation vs flexibility. Never heard of Flexport or Freight forwarders before? Checkout this video to learn how we're fixing the global supply chain problems.

Alex Nederlof, Engineering Manager at Flexport and former CTO of two startups. Though he's currently helping Flexport make custom declarations easy, his passion is in devops and infrastructure. He loves getting paged so much he even has his home running on a Kubernetes cluster.

Talk #2: Supply chain security - develop quickly without inviting The Nefarious

Amid pressure to develop faster and release more frequently, the software supply chain has changed significantly in the last few years. The processes and tooling that support our accelerated development introduce new opportunities for cybercrime. Few companies have the time, resources or knowledge to correctly assess their security posture. As a result, supply chain attacks have increased dramatically in the past 5+ years.

Ivan Milchev is a senior software engineer living in Eindhoven, NL. He is a security advocate with a passion for DevOps, Kubernetes and Golang. As a software architect at Prodrive Technologies, Ivan was responsible for maintaining their manufacturing execution system. His love for DevOps and Kubernetes developed over his years working on a managed Kubernetes platform and a network-aware scheduler extension.
His current projects include the Mondoo full-stack security platform and Podkrepi.bg, a free and completely transparent online donation platform for individuals and organizations.