12th DDOG on May 3rd

Our twelfth edition of The Dutch DevOps & GitHub Community will take place on May 3rd at Inspark in Zoetermeer.

What is DDOG

We want to create a community for content related to DevOps and GitHub. We believe GitHub has a lot to offer and deserves a user group in the Netherlands. But we also love the different elements that enable DevOps. So we decided to combine those two into the community you are looking at.
Our goal is to have a platform where we can teach, learn and meet each other.

May 3rd

We are proud to announce our great speakers!

Transitioning Ops to the Cloud, adding Dev skills to the mix

Esther Barthel

This session offers tips and tricks to add core Developer skills to your skillset, so you can transition from (on-premises) Operations to a Cloud DevOps role. This session will zoom in on some basic knowledge and terminology that will make it easier to understand the shift in work and competences for DevOps engineers.

Esther Barthel - Solutions Architect at cognition IT
_{Esther Barthel has worked in different roles and functions as an IT consultant after she finished her Master’s degree in Computer Science in 1997. She soon discovered that End User Computing combined servers, desktops, and user experience technologies into one and specialized in virtualization solutions, like Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops and Azure Virtual Desktops}

_{Esther works as a Solutions Architect at cognition IT, where she combines her passion for designing and implementing Citrix solutions with her newfound love for DevOps automation, using PowerShell, REST APIs and JSON payloads to automate both on-premises and Cloud Infrastructure as Code solutions.}

_{Ever since she hosted introduction days for technical female student candidates Esther has shared her passion and knowledge for IT. She also is a strong advocate of diversity and inclusion as one of the founders of the CUGC Women in Tech mentorship program.}

_{In addition to her Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award, Esther is also awarded as a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) VMware vExpert EUC, and Parallels VIPP.}

Everything you never knew you wanted to know about Azure Functions

Whether you are a cloud engineer picking up developer skills or you are a developer expanding your Azure cloud knowledge; this session will want you to get started with Azure Functions. Johan will share lessons learned at InSpark, security best practices and why Azure Functions might be a valuable tool in your toolbelt.

Johan Kroese

Johan Kroese - Solution Architect at InSpark
_{A developer at heart, Johan divides his time between advising customers, designing software solutions and the actual development of solutions based on the Microsoft product portfolio. Once a SharePoint MCM convinced that SharePoint was the best solution to every problem he has since diversified and takes advantage of all (well not all, but a lot) of the Azure PaaS components to design and build solutions for InSpark’s customers and its software as a service products. As a principal consultant, Johan is part of the technology board at InSpark where he contributes to InSpark’s technology vision, specifically for the development and digital innovation teams.}

The Event

Schedule

The event will take place on May 3rd in Amstelveen, the Netherlands

The schedule for the night is as follows:

Location

The event is hosted at Inspark at KPN in Zoetermeer in the Netherlands.
Address:
Röntgenlaan 75 2719 DX Zoetermeer

Signing up through Eventbrite is required! Please let us know if you will join us for dinner or just for the sessions. Follow us @DDOG_nl on to get the latest updates.

*This event is under the DDOG code of conduct

Please register at Eventbrite!

11th DDOG on October 6th

Our eleventh edition of The Dutch DevOps & GitHub Community will take place on October 6th in Hilversum

What is DDOG

We want to create a community for content related to DevOps and GitHub. We believe GitHub has a lot to offer and deserves a user group in the Netherlands. But we also love the different elements that enable DevOps. So we decided to combine those two into the community you are looking at.
Our goal is to have a platform where we can teach, learn and meet each other.

Thursday October 6th

We are proud to announce our great speakers!

Daniel Paulus

Session to be announced

Daniel Paulus - Principal Consultant at Bryte Blue and Microsoft Azure MVP
_{Daniel is a serial conference organiser and meetup runner. As a principal consultant at Bryte Blue, a Microsoft Azure focussed, consultancy company and a Microsoft Azure MVP. He is helping companies succeed with Cloud Native technologies and DevOps practices.}

VSCode 💖s Devcontainers (and so should you)

Ben Reader

Let’s spend some time diving into how remote container development works in VSCode so you can build awesome solutions on any device in the world and stop saying “..but it worked on my computer”

Ben Reader - Patch My PC - Software Engineer
_{Australian IT Professional with 13+ years of experience. Working with Patch My PC as a software engineer, bringing automation ideas to life and making 3rd party patching simple!}

_{Equally as obsessed with PowerShell as I am with Coffee, Beer and Punkrock.}

_{I’m a Linux nerd who is very excited about the future of Microsoft and open source.}

The Event

Schedule

The event will take place on Thursday October 6th in the Netherlands

The schedule for the night is as follows:

Location

The event is hosted at Xpirit in the Netherlands.
Address:
Laapersveld 27
1213 VB Hilversum

Signing up through Eventbrite is required! Please let us know if you will join us for diner or just for the sessions. Follow us @DDOG_nl on to get the latest updates.

*This event is under the DDOG code of conduct

Please register at Eventbrite!

10th DDOG on May 17th

Our Tenth edition of The Dutch DevOps & GitHub Community will take place on May 17th

What is DDOG

We want to create a community for content related to DevOps and GitHub. We believe GitHub has a lot to offer and deserves a user group in the Netherlands. But we also love the different elements that enable DevOps. So we decided to combine those two into the community you are looking at.
Our goal is to have a platform where we can teach, learn and meet each other.

Tuesday May 17th

We are proud to announce our great speakers!

Learning to ❤️ HATEOAS

Sander ten Brinke

Have you noticed that apps often contain code that already exists on the server? For example: Checking if an item can be deleted. But the server also checks this during deletion! If you change this logic on the server, you need to update all your apps, too! And that is just one of the downsides..

Isn’t there a better way? During this presentation, you will learn how HATEOAS can help!

Sander ten Brinke - Lead Software Engineer @ Arcady
_{Sander ten Brinke is a Lead Software Engineer at Arcady, a Dutch IT consultancy firm based in Zwolle. He loves working with .NET, Azure, CI/CD and a whole lot more. He always stays up to date with all new technology and loves sharing his knowledge with everyone!}

Infrastructure as Code: Better safe than sorry

Barbara Forbes

With infrastructure as code, you can deploy resources to Azure with just a few lines of code. It’s easy to start, just click “export template”, copy PowerShell code from the documentation or use the VSCode extensions for ARM templates or Bicep. What could possible go wrong?

With great power comes great responsibility. How do we make sure the code, the Azure resources and the team running it are all safe? In this talk, we will look at different ways to test Bicep and ARM templates before they are deployed to the real world. After that, let’s not forget about the team processes to protect the environment and ourselves. In the end you will have some practical guidance to ensure your code is secure, risks are mitigated and you can work together to manage your Azure environment.

Barbara Forbes - Azure technical lead @ OGD | Azure MVP | GitHub Star
_{Barbara works as the Azure technical lead for OGD in the Netherlands. She is a Microsoft MVP Azure, MCT and GitHub Star. Her focus is on Azure and automation. Think Serverless, Azure DevOps, PowerShell, GitHub and Infrastructure as Code. She loves teaching in an approachable way. She regularly writes posts for her blog https://4bes.nl and speaks at conferences and user groups. She helps grow the community as co-owner of the Dutch DevOps & GitHub community (DDOG), as well as co-hosting the Dutch PowerShell User Group (DUPSUG).}

The Event

Schedule

The event will take place on Tuesday the 17th of May, all times here are listed in CEST. For the starting time in your local time zone please use the following link: May 17th 2022 – 19:00 CEST

The schedule for the night is as follows:

Location

The event is hosted virtually, and participation is encouraged, do feel free to join our online meeting and have you microphone ready if you want to ask questions directly! Signing up through Eventbrite is not required, but you will receive a link to the meeting by email a day before the event takes place. We will also publish the link to the event on Twitter, an hour before the event. Follow us @DDOG_nl.

This event is under the DDOG code of conduct

Please register at Eventbrite!

9th DDOG on February 15th

Our Ninth edition of The Dutch DevOps & GitHub Community will take place on February 15th

What is DDOG

We want to create a community for content related to DevOps and GitHub. We believe GitHub has a lot to offer and deserves a user group in the Netherlands. But we also love the different elements that enable DevOps. So we decided to combine those two into the community you are looking at.
Our goal is to have a platform where we can teach, learn and meet each other.

Tuesday February 15th

We are proud to announce our great speakers!

Getting Started with Octopus Deploy

Sarah Lean

In this session, I will show you how to get started with Octopus Deploy. I will walk you through how to deploy Azure infrastructure using the Runbooks features. Then take the code of an existing application and automate the deployment to that Azure infrastructure.

Sarah Lean - Senior Solutions Architect at Octopus Deploy - Community Speaker - Lifelong Learner - Founder of the Glasgow Azure User Group
_{With a diverse career that spans over fifteen years, Sarah has been a part of every aspect of the IT world. Sarah is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and ex-Microsoft employee.}

_{Born and raised on a dairy farm in Scotland, Sarah holds true to her heritage by embracing the natural world through her appreciation for technology. For Sarah, technology is a way to see life as it grows and adapts, ever-changing, just like the natural world of farming.}

_{Sarah is proud to give back to her community. As a STEM Ambassador, Sarah helps others learn how IT can impact and change their lives for the better. Most specifically, she enjoys teaching the next generation of young women how they too can rise in a male-oriented field and succeed in their own careers. Sarah also founded the Glasgow Azure User Group, a community collective who meets bimonthly to network and discuss the latest in technology.}

_{Sarah’s enthusiasm in the field of technology has given her the opportunity to speak at public events, most notably, Microsoft Ignite.}

Quantum software development? Azure Quantum & Microsoft Q#!

Johnny Hooyberghs

You’ve probably heard about quantum computing, but it still remains a mystery? In this introductory session, I will quickly explain important concepts like qubits, superposition and entanglement and how quantum computing can hopefully help us to solve exponentially large problems.

Some theoretical knowledge about quantum physics, quantum gates and quantum algorithms will be combined with examples using a simulated environment on a local PC and on real quantum hardware using Azure Quantum. These examples will use the new quantum language Q# from Microsoft.

Johnny Hooyberghs - Passionate Developer at Involved and Microsoft MVP
_{Johnny Hooyberghs is a consultant for Involved since 2014 focusing on .NET architecture and backend development and a Microsoft MVP since 2020. Prior to joining Involved, he has had experience developing software for Corilus since 2008. He has been passionate about .NET ever since it was released and his areas of expertise are C#, .NET (Core), WCF, WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET (Core), Entity Framework (Core), Azure and ALM using the Microsoft Stack. Every now and then he enjoys doing some web development using JavaScript. Since 2010, Johnny spends some of his free time teaching .NET and C# for the adult education institute CVO Antwerpen. When he’s not working or teaching, he likes some casual gaming, scuba diving, learning to play the piano, travelling the world and visiting as many theme parks as possible.}

The Event

Schedule

The event will take place on the 9th of November, all times here are listed in CET. For the starting time in your local time zone please use the following link: February 15th 2022 – 19:00 CET

The schedule for the night is as follows:

Location

The event is hosted virtually, and participation is encouraged, do feel free to join our online meeting and have you microphone ready if you want to ask questions directly! Signing up through Eventbrite is not required, but you will receive a link to the meeting by email a day before the event takes place. We will also publish the link to the event on Twitter, an hour before the event. Follow us @DDOG_nl. When signing in to the meeting please use first and last name, or reach out before the event.

This event is under the DDOG code of conduct

Please register at Eventbrite!

8th DDOG on November 9th

Update:

Unfortunately, due to current events and the new Dutch regulations, we are sorry to announce the in person part of this event has been canceled. So this hybrid event is now virtual only. We hope to see you online next Tuesday!

Our eighth edition of The Dutch DevOps & GitHub Community will take place on November 9th. And for the first time: In person!

What is DDOG

We want to create a community for content related to DevOps and GitHub. We believe GitHub has a lot to offer and deserves a user group in the Netherlands. But we also love the different elements that enable DevOps. So we decided to combine those two into the community you are looking at.
Our goal is to have a platform where we can teach, learn and meet each other.

November 9th

We are proud to announce our great speakers!

Hej! An intro to http://backstage.io

Suzanne Daniels

Backstage is Spotify’s Developer Portal, and now a thriving Open Source project. It’s even become a CNCF Sandbox project with a growing community of contributors, and adopters like Expedia, Netflix and American Airlines.
Suzanne will talk about how Backstage is at the core of Developer Experience at Spotify, and our journey of Open Sourcing backstage. You’ll get a brief tour of Backstage, the plugin ecosystem, and get an understanding of the key use cases of Backstage.

Suzanne Daniels - DevRel Lead for Backstage, at Spotify _{Suzanne recently celebrated her 20th year working in IT. This in a variety of roles ranging from developer, Linux/Open Source consultant to architect. Now knowing this, you might not be surprised that her motto is “Do what you love”. She’s very passionate about her family, technology and diversity & inclusion.}

Helping fight COVID-19 using GitHub Actions

Anand Chowdhary

Anand Chowdhary is an entrepreneur and engineer who cofounded COVID-19 nonprofit Karuna 2020 that raised ₹2M+ and distributed food and masks to migrant laborers and frontline workers in India last year. All infrastructure to make this possible is open source and uses automations based on GitHub Actions workflows to ensure transparency and accountability. In this talk, YC alum Chowdhary shares his insights into using scheduled workflows for data management and how the open source ecosystem came together during the pandemic.

Anand Chowdhary - Co-founder of Pabio (YC S21) and Oswald Labs · Forbes 30 Under 30 · GitHub Star _{I’m a creative technologist, entrepreneur, and avid open-source contributor. I founded Pabio, an interior design and furniture subscription startup; and Oswald Labs, an award-winning accessibility technology company. I use open-source code as a way of scratching my own itch; most of my 100+ repositories are tools to solve problems or experiments with new ideas.}

The Event

Schedule

The event will take place on the 9th of November, all times here are listed in CEST. For the starting time in your local time zone please use the following link: November 9th 2021 – 18:00 CEST

The schedule for the night is as follows:

Location

Unfortunately, due to current events and the new Dutch regulations, we are sorry to announce the in person part of this event has been canceled. So this hybrid event is now virtual only. We hope to see you online next Tuesday!

To include people who are not able to attend, we will host a virtual meeting! We are going to do our best to facilitate a good hybrid experience. When you sign up, you can select if you want a ticket in person or virtually.

This event is under the DDOG code of conduct

Please register at Eventbrite!

Ignite keynote viewing party!

On November 2nd, we are organizing an Ignite Viewing party in de Jaarbeurs in Utrecht and want to invite you to join us!

We are very excited to meet you all in person again. The afternoon and evening will be full of technical content, we will watch the Ignite keynote together and have a panel discussion afterwards. We will close the evening with diner, some socializing and the opportunity to connect with our sponsors. You also get the chance to meet the different user groups.

This event is a collaboration between: DuPSug, DDOG, Azure Live, Go Azure, .BLD() Community, DuAVDUG & Azure Thursdays.

See below, the schedule for the day:

== Program ==
14:00 - 14:30 Walk-in
14:30 - 15:45 Lightning talks
16:00 - 18:00 Ignite keynote and panel
18:00 – 20:30 Diner and drinks

The schedule for the lightning talks will be published asap. You can reserve a seat here: https://ignite-party.eventbrite.nl