Serverless and beyond! Talks, free food and drinks.

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We'll be back at Desmet Studio's on 3 April for another Serverless Amsterdam meetup with more great talks, a new sponsor and even more free food and drinks.

CALL FOR LIGHTNING TALKS
Would you like to give a short (5 minutes) lightning talk on any subject that is (more or less) related to serverless architecture? Sign up here (https://goo.gl/forms/Pvz5G4unMe2cOPBC3) and we'll put you on the programme.

VENUEDesmet Studio's

You will find Desmet Studio's at Plantage Middenlaan 4, near the Artis zoo (http://www.desmet.tv/routebeschrijving/). Public transport links are plenty and nearby. Parking is available fairly nearby at Markenhoven (https://www.amsterdam.nl/parkeren-verkeer/parkeergarages/parkeergarages/garage-markenhoven/), where you will pay the usual extortionate Amsterdam rates.

PROGRAMME
Our preliminary programme for the evening is as follows:

18:30 Doors open for serverless food 🍝
19:20 Introduction
19:30 First speaker: Mark Coleman of Implicit-Explicit (http://www.implicit-explicit.com/)
20:15 Lightning talks (3 × 5 mins.) Sign up here (https://goo.gl/forms/kz4dv1MPAeeJFv6j1) ⚡️
20:30 Break
20:45 Second speaker: Martin Kåberg of Nordcloud (https://www.nordcloud.com/)
21:30 Drinks at the bar 🍹

SPEAKERS

🗣 Mark Coleman CEO, Implicit-Explicit

Mark is CEO at Implicit-Explicit (http://implicit-explicit.com/), co-founder of the Software Circus (http://softwarecircus.io/) and Docker Randstad (https://www.meetup.com/Docker-Randstad/), marketing chairperson for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/) and was a co-organiser of the first ever ServerlessConf (http://nyc.serverlessconf.io/) in New York in 2016.

“It seems to me that Serverless is an important development in software, but at the same time everyone is a little too focused on Lambda. In this talk I will argue that this is the logical end result of developers avoiding stuff they don't like and, show another tool in the space that you should be looking at (Hyper.sh (https://hyper.sh/)) and try to guess what might happen next with Serverless.”

🗣 Martin Kåberg CTO, Nordcloud

Martin is CTO of our new sponsor Nordcloud (https://www.nordcloud.com/) in the Netherlands.

Security has become an increasingly important part of cloud infrastructures, and that goes for serverless architectures as well. Martin's talk will cover:

• Importance of using multiple AWS accounts
• VPC peering and network design
• Cloudwatch logs metric filters
• Cloudtrail, IAM policies and KMS strategies

LIGHTNING TALKS
Just before the break, we like to feature three quick, pitch-like talks, back to back. These lightning talks may take no longer than 5 minutes each (and the limit is mercilessly enforced!) and allow daring speakers to put their idea, project, or call to serverless arms in front of the audience.

Tonight:

• Marco Slot ⚡️ Citus Cloud: Scalable PostgreSQL as a Service
• Victor Pikula ⚡️ From FAQ to Chatbot in 30 seconds
• Bas Tichelaar ⚡️ Gamified learning platform instruqt.com (https://instruqt.com/)

NEW SPONSOR: NORDCLOUD
Our friends at Nordcloud (https://www.nordcloud.com/) have graciously offered to sponsor our meetup to cover the cost of the venue, food and drinks! We are very grateful for their support, making it possible to continue our series of meetups, provide you with 🍝 and 🍹, and supporting the serverless community.

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