7th DDOG on September 21st

Our seventh edition of The Dutch DevOps & GitHub Community will take place on September 21st!

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.

September 21st

We are proud to announce our great speakers!

Automate your Azure infrastructure with Bicep and Azure DevOps!

Toon Vanhoutte

The expectation of modern applications is that they are provisioned in a completely automated fashion. Easier said than done! In this demo-packed session, I will automate the infrastructure provisioning of a web application by using Bicep and Azure DevOps. We will go together through the complete process. Throughout this session you will learn many tips and tricks and best practices to ensure that secrets are handled correctly, that the developer experience is optimized and that we have and end-to-end traceability.

Toon Vanhoutte - Azure MVP | Your Azure Coach | CTO @ Noest
_{Hi! I’m Toon Vanhoutte, Azure Solution Architect and Microsoft Azure MVP. My duty is to design and deliver reliable, secure and scalable applications in the Azure cloud. As a solution architect, I’m not scared to take up big challenges and to dive into a development mode.}

_{I’m a quite active member of the Microsoft Azure community and was speaker on several community and company events. Being a Microsoft Certified Trainer and the founder of Your Azure Coach, I love to share my experiences and learn from others during workshops, presentations and blogs. As an Azure MVP, I’m actively collaborating with various Microsoft / Azure product teams.}

The Fifth Element : Azure Secure Devops

Mike Martin

In the 21st Century the Cyber Universe is threatened by Evil Source Code and Evil entities. The only hope for many developers is the Fifth Element : the Sec in Devops, which must be implemented side by side with the Four elementals : Code, Build, Test , Deploy. A Microsoft Service is bringing the Four Elements but can the Fifth be included, and will it save us from disaster?

Let us see how we can leverage Microsoft product in combination with industry standards and protocols and 3rd party tools al over the full flow of your DevOps and ALM structure.

Mike Martin - Dad, Husband, Geek, NumberGirl, msft technical evangelist, #Azure Lover and ex MVP, wall crawler, #Batman fan, Caring Community Member
_{As a Microsoft Technical Evangelist, Mike is an Azure goto for ISV’s (independent software vendors). He’s been active in the IT industry for more than 20 years and has performed almost all types of job profiles, going from coaching and leading a team to architecting and systems design and training. Today he’s primarily into the Microsoft Cloud Platform and Application Lifecycle Management. He’s not a stranger to both dev and IT Pro topics, they even call him the perfect hybrid solution.}

_{In January 2012 he became a crew member of AZUG, the Belgian Microsoft Azure User Group. As an active member he’s both involved in giving presentations and organizing events (like ITProceed, Techorama and Global Azure Bootcamp aka GAB). Mike was also a Microsoft Azure MVP (awarded 5 times since 2013, received his Fifth in July 2017! ) and Microsoft Azure Advisor.}

_{Helping out in the community and introducing new & young people into the world of Microsoft and technology is also one of his passions.}

The event

Schedule

The event will take place on the 21st of September, all times here are listed in CEST. For the starting time in your local timezone please use the following link: September 21st 2021 – 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 on the @DDOG_nl account. When signing in to the meeting please use first and last name, or reach out before the event.

6th DDOG on June 9th

Our sixth edition of The Dutch DevOps & GitHub Community will take place on June 9th!

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.

June 9th

We are proud to announce our great speakers!

How to really work as a team - from sleepy to strong pair programming

Stacy Cashmore

So many people think that pair programming is a boring waste of time and effort. I’m here to explain how our team made it work, and what benefits we got out of it!

I love working in a team, bouncing ideas off each other and using our combined strengths to produce something that as individuals we wouldn’t be able to come up with.

One way I like to do this is pair programming. But, when I talk to people about this, I often get told it’s a waste of time. That it’s about one person working hard whilst the other looks on, superfluous to the process. And let’s face it, most of us have experienced this when trying it out!

But I’m going to show you how we went from this sleepy type of pair programming to being super productive when working with multiple developers at one machine!

Not the one person working, one person staring into space type of pair programming, but actually providing value to each other, making the extra effort worthwhile, and bringing extra benefits to the team as a whole.

Stacy Cashmore - Tech Explorer DevOps @ Omniplan
_{Stacy is Tech Explorer DevOps at Omniplan, and Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies.}

_{She’s been developing software since the mid-1990s and has been speaking about improving the way we develop software at conferences and meetups since 2018}

_{As well as sparing with the software architect about technical issues, she spends her time helping the development team, and the wider company, with continuous improvement in terms of technical work, process and, of course, working together as a team.}

_{Outside of work she enjoys spending time with her classic car, cooking, playing the piano badly and spending time with her family, doing amongst other things, building a Lego modular building city in their house.}

Creating the Azure Functions Updates Twitterbot

Marc Duiker

I created a serverless Twitterbot which tweets when new releases are made available in public GitHub repositories related to Azure Functions.

In this session, I’ll walk you through the serverless application, highlighting which Azure cloud services and Azure Function specific libraries are in use and why they’ve been chosen. I’ll show two architectural patterns which are used: function chaining and fan-out/fan-in and I’ll cover the C# clients for GitHub and Twitter and describe their limitations.

Finally, I’ll also go into continuous integration & deployment aspects so you’ll end up with a complete picture of what is necessary to deliver a serverless solution to the Azure cloud.

**Marc Duiker - Lead Azure Consultant @ Xpirit **
_{Marc is a lead consultant at Xpirit with a strong focus on event-driven architectures. He has extensive knowledge of the serverless offerings in the Azure platform and he enjoys helping organizations making effective use of cloud-based technology.}

_{You might have seen Marc at a developer meetup or conference since he’s a regular speaker in the area of Azure cloud & serverless technologies. He started Azure Functions University, a free and open source learning curriculum on GitHub, where everyone can learn about Azure Functions in their own pace.}

_{In his spare time, Marc likes to give attention to the creative part of his brain. He likes to create pixel art (check out VSCode Pets), code visuals & music, and an occasional retro game.}

The event

Schedule

The event will take place on the 9th of June, all times here are listed in CEST. For the starting time in your local timezone please use the following link: June 9th 2021 – 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 on the @DDOG_nl account. When signing in to the meeting please use first and last name, or reach out before the event.

5th DDOG on April 7th

Our fifth edition of The Dutch DevOps & GitHub Community will take place on April 7th!

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.

April 7th

We are proud to announce our great speakers!

How to use GitHub Actions with security in mind

Rob Bos

When working in the real world with continuous integration / continuous deployment, you have to take care of your pipelines and the things they have access to.

• Who can push code into to an environment?
• Who could read and change the connection strings to the database?
• Who can create new resources in your cloud environment?
• Do you trust your third party extensions?
• What part of the network does your pipeline have access to?

I’ll go over each of these aspects of your GitHub Actions Workflows and show you what to look for and how to improve your security stance without locking every DevOps engineer out.

Rob Bos - DevOps Consultant @ Xpirit
_{Rob has a strong focus on ALM and DevOps, automating manual tasks and helping teams deliver value to the end-user faster, using Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery and other DevOps techniques. This is applied on anything Rob comes across, whether it’s an application, infrastructure, serverless or Data Science environments. Additionally, Rob focusses on the management of production environments, including dashboarding, usage statistics for product owners and stakeholders, but also as part of the feedback loop to the developers.}

Project Bicep: ARM Templates reloaded!

Esther Barthel & Freek Berson.

If you’re into infrastructure as code, this is a session you do not want to miss! During the week of Ignite 2021, Bicep version 0.3 was released making it ready for production usage as the next evolution of ARM templates. In this demo-heavy session we’ll touch base on the fundamentals of ARM and the architecture of Project Bicep. We’ll perform a deep dive into the latest Bicep features like loops, conditions, decompiling, Az CLI integrations and Azure DevOps deployments! Join us as we flex our muscles and show you how to empower ARM Templates!

Esther Barthel - End User Computing (EUC) Evangelist

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 Server-Based Computing combined servers, desktops, and user experience in one solution and specialized in virtualization solutions, like Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft App-V, Microsoft PowerShell and Citrix NetScaler.

Esther works as a Solutions Architect at cognition IT, designing and implementing Citrix solutions for both small-business and large enterprise infrastructures scaling up to 15,000 users. Ever since she hosted introduction days for technical female student candidates, Esther has shared her passion and knowledge for IT. What started with small internal meetings and a blog to report on the latest technologies has grown into international presentations at Citrix User Groups, events like E2EVC and Citrix Synergy and writing her first book, Citrix XenApp 6.5 Expert Cookbook for Packt publishing.

Esther joined RDS Gurus in November 2017 to add even more expert EUC and Networking (Citrix NetScaler) knowledge and experience to this awesome team of RDS Experts.

Esther is also awarded as a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) by Citrix in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.

Freek Berson - Remoting Windows Enthusiast & Microsoft MVP

Freek Berson speaks at various conferences around the world including Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Ignite | The Tour, Microsoft TechSummit, Microsoft TechDays, Azure Saturday, BriForum, E2EVC and ExpertsLive. Freek is awarded Microsoft MVP since 2011. He coauthored the book “RDS - The Complete Guide” which is available on Amazon. He works as an Infrastructure Specialist at Wortell, a system integrator company based in the Netherlands, where he focusses on End User Computing and all related technologies mostly on the Microsoft platform. He is also a managing partner at rdsgurus.com. He maintains his personal blog at http://themicrosoftplatform.net where he writes articles and blog posts related to Windows Virtual Desktop, Remote Desktop Services, Azure, and other Microsoft technologies. He is also experienced in performing automated deployments using Azure Resource Manager and designing JSON templates. . You can follow him on twitter via @fberson.

The event

Schedule

The event will take place on 7th of April, all times here are listed in CEST. For the starting time in your local timezone please use the following link: April 7th 2021 – 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 on the @DDOG_nl account. When signing in to the meeting please use first and last name, or reach out before the event.

The next DDOG will be April 7th, 2021!

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4th DDOG on February 16th

Our fourth edition of The Dutch DevOps & GitHub Community will take place on February 16th!

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.

February 16th

We are proud to announce our great speakers!

GitHub Actions Update

Martin Woodward

Martin drops in to give us all an update of the latest features in GitHub Actions including manual approvals for deployments.

Martin Woodward - Director of Developer Relations @ GitHub
_{Martin is the Group Principal Program Manager for Azure DevOps helping provide the tooling for engineering teams inside and outside the company. Before that Martin was Executive Director of the .NET Foundation helping drive Microsoft’s move towards open source. He was the original creator Microsoft’s home on GitHub and helped introduce Git into Microsoft.}

The death of your classic blog by using Github Pages

Eltjo van Gulik & Ryan Ververs - Bijkerk.

Eltjo van Gulik - Workspace Consultant

Eltjo van Gulik is a Workspace Consultant and enthusiast from the rural North of Alkmaar where he lives with his wife and eleven year old son. He holds multiple certifications from Citrix and Microsoft. Among the most recent are CC-XAD-CC, CCE-V, and MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure (Charter member). He has more than 18 years of experience in the field of end user computing and Application and Desktop Delivery.

Besides his profession, he is a self-proclaimed beer and coffee geek. If anyone asks for the specifics, his favorite beers are Russian Imperial Stouts and for coffee, he prefers Brasil/Costa Rica Arabica blends.

Ryan Ververs - Bijkerk - Technical Evangelist at RawWorks

Ryan is currently a Technical Evangelist at RawWorks focused on the End-User Computing area. Ryan is primarily focusing on the user experience in centralized desktop environments. With his development skills, Ryan is capable to quickly adapt to customers by having an agile mindset. Ryan is a bit lazy, yes lazy but in a good way. Ryan is all about automation as he is not made for repeating tasks.

Community is very important for Ryan as he is an active blogger and has published multiple tools. Next, to his personal blogs and tools, Ryan is also a member of the Remote Display Analyzer team and TeamRGE. Ryan has been awarded several times for Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and currently holds the Citrix CTP & VMware vExpert status.

The event

Schedule

The event will take place on 16th of February, all times here are listed in CEST. For the starting time in your local timezone please use the following link: February 16th 2021 – 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 on the @DDOG_nl account. When signing in to the meeting please use first and last name, or reach out before the event.

Third DDOG on November 12th

Our third edition of The Dutch DevOps & GitHub Community will take place ont November 12th!

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 12th

We are proud to announce our great speakers!

Getting started with Azure Machine Learning services

Henk Boelman

With machine learning becoming more and more an engineering problem the need to track, work together and easily deploy ML experiments with integrated CI/CD tooling is becoming more relevant then ever.

In this session we take a deep-dive into Azure Machine Learning service, a cloud service that you can use to track as you build, train, deploy, and manage models. We zoom into the building blocks provided and show, through some demos, how to use them.

At the end of this session you have a good grasp of the technological building blocks of Azure machine learning services. Just waiting to be used in your own projects afterwards.

Henk Boelman - Cloud Advocate @ Microsoft
_{Henk is a Cloud Advocate specializing in Artificial intelligence and Azure with a background in application development. He is currently part of the regional cloud advocate team in the Netherlands. Before joining Microsoft, he was a Microsoft AI MVP and worked as a software developer and architect building lots of AI powered platforms on Azure.}

He loves to share his knowledge about topics such as DevOps, Azure and Artificial Intelligence by providing training courses and he is a regular speaker at user groups and international conferences.

Better documentation with GitHub & Gitbook

Jaap Brasser

details will follow

Jaap Brasser - Engineer, Azure MVP and Developer Advocate @ Rubrik
_{Jaap Brasser works at Rubrik and is an Azure MVP with a big passion for scripting and cloud automation. As a technology enthusiast Jaap is part of several technical communities, speaks at international conferences and authors articles on a variety of subjects on his personal blog and other websites and magazines.}

The event

Schedule

The event will take place on 12th of November, all times here are listed in CEST. For the starting time in your local timezone please use the following link: November 12th 2020 – 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 on the @DDOG_nl account. When signing in to the meeting please use first and last name, or reach out before the event.