What we’re about
Welcome engineering leaders, DevOps, application developers, SREs and platform engineers!
We’re a group of cloud-native enthusiasts hosting a series of speaking events on a range of topics around platform engineering. You can join us in person in Amsterdam on a regular basis.
Named as a strategic tech trend for 2023 by Gartner, Platform Engineering is gaining traction as an answer to cloud-native complexities. By investing in internal developer platforms, organizations aim to tame the intricacies of their cloud-native stacks, boosting developer experience (DevEx) across the spectrum.
Some of the topics we'll discuss at the meetups:
Platform Engineering challenges and opportunities
Implementation experiences
Best practices
Solutions
Look for our upcoming events!
Upcoming events
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Platform Engineering Amsterdam @ JetBrains
JetBrains Amsterdam, Terrace Tower, Gelrestraat 16, Amsterdam, NLDear Platform Engineering Community,
SO close to 1k members!!! 🤩 Fingers crossed that we'll break that barrier with our upcoming event, and if we do, super excited to be celebrating this milestone together with you at our next get-together - this time at the awesome offices of JetBrains!! We of course have some great speakers ready for you, and plenty of time for deeper conversations during the networking portion of the evening 🌅🍕🍻
As always, all you need to do is bring you++ and please keep spreading the word of our lovely community here as much as you can!!! Pack your good vibes, bring some talking points, and come ready to connect with like-minded professionals in a fun, relaxed atmosphere.
Can't wait to see you all again!! 🙂
Michi & RuslanHosted by JetBrains & Tarmac.io
LOCATION
JetBrains Main Building
Gelrestraat 16, 1079 MZ Amsterdam
what3words Address: ///lump.rewarded.cheesesHOW TO GET THERE
🚶♂️🚶♀️: 5Min (400m) walk from RAI
🚋: Eight stops with M51 from 'Centraal Station' to 'RAI' (or four stops M52 to 'Europaplein' + a small walk)
🚗 🅿️: And if you do come by car, there is paid parking next doorAGENDA
17.30 - 18.00 Doors Open18.00 Welcome by the hosts
18.10 - 18.30 "Eventually RESTful, making Event Sourcing feel familiar"
Yeray Cabello, Founder @ Consistently Eventful
Event Modelling makes for a friendly way to design line of business systems, platform engineering can make the technical problems of event sourcing friendly for newcomers
What we will cover:- Why Event Modelling
- Consistent API
- Demo:
- Background jobs trivialized.
- I heard you like platforms, so I'll put a platform on your platform.
18.35 - 18.55 "Data Hoarder's Guide to Surviving Cloud Bills"
Darko Klincharski, DevOps Lead @ Tarmac.io- The True Cost of Data at Rest — how storage choices quietly drain your budget
- The Hidden Price of Data in Motion — what moving data really costs across services and regions
- Smart Hoarding Strategies — practical, battle-tested tips to store more, spend less, and stay sane
19.00 - 19.20 "Building Identical Kubernetes Clusters Across Any Cloud: Lessons from the Trenches"
Mohammed El Marzgioui (Mo), CSO & Co-Founder @ KubeDNAKubeDNA was born out of a project for a farmer's marketplace in Morocco. We ran into every problem imaginable, learning (literally) expensive lessons. But we hung in there and ended up with an automated infrastructure based on Kubernetes, that has been running pretty much autonomously for the past years, serving 1000s of farmers annually.
That’s when we decided to productize that infrastructure layer. We wanted it to be cloud agnostic, utilising only the bare minimum from cloud providers and identical across different providers. That proved harder than we thought. In this session we will share our journey with you, the key challenges we encountered and how we (mostly) overcame them.
19:30 - 21.30 Get-together with food & drinks
120 attendees
Past events
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