DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2023
3 full days of workshops and talks for DevOps and Platform Engineers
Look who’s talking!
Another great lineup this year at DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2023. With workshops, keynotes and open spaces, there is content for everyone 🙌
Kosli's top picks
The choice was difficult, but for our top picks consist of a mix of SRE, Platform Engineering and Security talks 🤩
Our Amsterdam Guide
You can't come to Amsterdam, without getting the full experience! Get the low down on all the best places with our guide.
Ignite Talks: Laura Kalbag - Accessibility for everyone
What is accessibility and who benefits from it? Laura’s session will explore how to approach accessibility, how we can create products that are better for everyone, and how we can improve accessibility for our teams too. You’ll leave knowing why accessibility is so important, and top tips for how you can make improvements as soon as you’re back to work.
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Workshops, Beyond DevOps & Platform Engineering talks
Rushil Sharma
How to run production like Google (An SRE Approach)
This is an SRE Jumpstart workshop where Rushil will talk about how Google keeps running services like Search and Gmail all the time with almost no downtime.
He will discuss on what SRE is and how it relates and differentiates from DevOps and introduce the audience to concepts like SLA, SLO, SLI, Error Budgets, Risk Management, Incident Management. Rushii will cover how to work with the SRE culture and psychological safety and how a company’s culture is extremely important in running huge servers.
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Christoph Hartmann
Security vs. Dev Experience: Threat … or Opportunity?
Christoph will look at how modern security teams implement a culture of a continuous approach to security, integrate with development, and achieve better results than traditional methods.
Striking a balance between engineering and security requirements is crucial to the long-term viability of a software product, and everyone should work together to achieve this balance.
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Derik Evangelista
The common fallacies on platform building
In this talk, Derik will explore the common fallacies people believe in regards to platform building, both as supporters and opponents of it. He will give them names, analyse their flaws, and how they are often used in arguments. The goal is to give you the tools you need to spot and rebuke them next time they appear in your team discussions.
After this talk, you will:
- Learn about common fallacies around platform building
- Learn how to spot a fallacy in a team discussion
- Understand how to counter-argument a fallacy
DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2023
| Day 1 | June 21 |
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registration (workshop day) |
| 09:00 - 11:00 | Peer Code Review Best Practices - Luben Alexandrov (Expo 1) |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Improving your team performance by upgrading your (team) positive intelligence quotient (PQ) - René de Leijer (Expo 2) |
| 09:00 - 12:00 | Become A Person Of Influence - Julia Sullivan (Ij Zaal) |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Domain Driven DevOps - Andrew Clay Shafer (Studio) |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | How to run production like Google (An SRE Approach) - Rushil Sharma (Expo 2) |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Choose Your Own Adventure: The Treacherous Trek to Production - Viktor Farcic, Whitney Lee (Expo 1) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | LUNCH |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Measure Twice, Cut Once: Dive Into Network Foundations For All! - Marino Wijay (Grote Zaal) |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | First Steps to Full Lifecycle Security in your DevOps pipeline with Open Source Tools - Anais Urlichs (Expo 1) |
| 13:00 - 13:45 | Introduction to Application Security via instrumentation & observability - Pieter Reekers (Expo 2) |
| 13:00 - 13:45 | Anatomy of a Mattermonster: How I Created an Open Source Developer Demo - Andrew Zigler (Studio) |
| 13:45 - 14:30 | Practical Guide to Distributed Tracing with Jaeger - Dotan Horovits (Expo 2) |
| 13:45 - 14:30 | Machine learning 101: Where to begin? - Lutske de Leeuw (Studio) |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Come and play! Learn how to deal with resistance! - Mark Heistek (Ij Zaal) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | BREAK |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | Let’s Improve - Leverage DORA to Improve Your Team’s Software Delivery and Operations Performance - Nathen Harvey, Amanda Lewis (Grote Zaal) |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | HTTP Fundamentals - Workshop - Michael Arenzon (Expo 1) |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | Building Your Platform on Multi-Cluster Kubernetes - Derik Evangelista, Winna Bridgewater (Expo 2) |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | To the Left, to the Left: All your Security Shifted to the Left - Jamie Lee Coleman (Studio) |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | How To Build A Production Ready Kubernetes - Engin Diri, Ringo de Smet (Ij Zaal) |
| 17:00 - 18:30 | Beer o’clock |
| Day 2 | June 22 |
| 08:00 - 09:15 | Registration - Welcome! |
| 09:15 - 09:55 | Long live the imposter syndrome! - Julia Sullivan - Keynote |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | The Art of Turning Incidents into Opportunities - Busra Koken |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | BREAK |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Learn Sociotechnical Systems The Hard Way - Andrew Clay Shafer |
| 11:25 - 11:55 | Planet Earth as our Stakeholder - Marjolein Pilon |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | LUNCH |
| 13:05 - 13:35 | The Next Generation of IT: Harnessing the Potential of Trainees - Iris de Haas |
| 13:40 - 14:05 | IGNITE TALKS
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| 14:10 - 15:00 | Open Space Opening |
| 15:05 - 15:35 | Open Space Session #1 |
| 15:05 - 15:35 | Three value-inhibiting dysfunctions of enterprise software development - Stefan Holdermans (Grote Zaal) |
| 15:40 - 16:10 | Open Space Session #2 |
| 15:40 - 16:10 | Security vs. Dev Experience: Threat … or Opportunity? - Christoph Hartmann (Grote Zaal) |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Open Space Session #3 |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Modern Governance and the Service Mesh - John Willis |
| 17:00 - 23:00 | BBQ, Musical surprise, Bingo & Karaoke |
| Day 3 | June 23 |
| 08:00 - 09:15 | Registration, Breakfast, and Sponsor Booths Open |
| 09:15 - 09:55 | There are no soft skills: making empathy actionable - Sharon Steed - Keynote |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Stop Chasing Unicorns and Rainbows: The Dangers of Survivorship Bias in Tech - Louëlla Creemers |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | BREAK |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | How we use Data to Ignite Action - Julie Starling |
| 11:25 - 11:55 | Giving for your own good: How volunteering improves your career and well-being - Ivan Milchev |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | LUNCH |
| 13:05 - 13:35 | Psychologically Safe Reliability Management - Lesley Cordero |
| 13:40 - 14:05 | IGNITE TALKS Home Lab for fun & profit? - Carlos León |
| 14:10 - 14:55 | Open Spaces opening, proposals and votes |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Open Space Session #1 |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | AKS unlighted, but what about Compliancy, cost and Multi-tenancy? - Dinant Paardenkooper, Jurgen Allewijn (Grote Zaal) |
| 15:35 - 16:05 | Open Space Session #2 |
| 15:35 - 16:05 | The common fallacies on platform building - Derik Evangelista, Winna Bridgewater (Grote Zaal) |
| 16:10 - 16:40 | Open Space Session #3 |
| 16:10 - 16:40 | Alert Analytics - Monika Singh (Grote Zaal) |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Close Day / Wrap Up (Grote Zaal) |
How to get to Pakhuis de Zwijger
Pakhuis de Zwijger
Piet Heinkade 179
1019 HC Amsterdam
The accessibility of Pakhuis de Zwijger is optimal. By car, Pakhuis de Zwijger is less than five minutes from the Amsterdam A10 Ring North (exit S116) and the Piet Heintunnel (exit S114 Zeeburg/Artis).
Is the parking garage not an option (due to adapted transport)?
There are also parking spaces close to Pakhuis De Zwijger where you can park with a disabled parking card. These parking spaces can be found at Vriesseveem 4 and Withoedenveem 16.
Are you coming by public transport? From Amsterdam Central Station, take tram 26 towards IJburg and get off at the Kattenburgerstraat stop. You can also take bus 43 towards Borneo Island and get off at the Jan Schaeferbrug stop.
The Kosli guide
STAY COZY
The Hendricks Hotel
🚶 0.7 miles from Pakhuis De Zwijger
⭐ 5 on Tripadvisor
Built into a charming 17th century monumental canal house facing the IJ waterway, a stones-throw from Amsterdam Central Station and easily accessible to the main points of interest in Amsterdam.
Pillows Maurits at the Park
🚶 1 mile from Pakhuis De Zwijger
⭐ 5 on Tripadvisor
Experience the unique combination of the green Oosterpark and the bustling center of Amsterdam.
Monet Garden Hotel Amsterdam
🚶 1.2 miles from Pakhuis De Zwijger
⭐ 4.5 on Tripadvisor
A boutique hotel in Amsterdam city centre where comfort and relaxation begins with blends of modernism and coziness
STAY FED
Scheepskameel
🚶 0.6 miles from Pakhuis De Zwijger
⭐ 4.5 on Tripadvisor
Scheepskameel is a lively, relaxed establishment, providing honest, straightforward food. Everything here starts with top-quality ingredients, prepared without fuss and beautifully seasoned.
Cafe Kadijk
🚶 1 mile from Pakhuis De Zwijger
⭐ 4.5 on Tripadvisor
Café Kadijk is a small, cozy eatery located on Kadijksplein opposite the Scharrebiersluis and offers beautiful, sunny terraces in the spring and summer.
Restaurant Verena
🚶 1.2 miles from Pakhuis De Zwijger
⭐ 4.5 on Tripadvisor
Come and taste the Italian taste in this attractive authentic Italian Family Restaurant in the heart of Amsterdam!
STAY REFRESHED
Malabar
🚶 350 metres from Pakhuis De Zwijger
⭐ 4.5 on Tripadvisor
A fusion of cultures, a blend of styles and tastes. Go for an adventurous cocktail from the Far East, be amazed by a ‘piece of art’ by our mixologists, or select a Western classic
Hiding in Plain Sight
🚶 1.2 miles from Pakhuis De Zwijger
⭐ 4.5 on Tripadvisor
Despite the absence of a secret password, HPS cocktail bar maintains the alluring atmosphere of a speakeasy in the heart of Amsterdam
Cafe Lust
🚶 1 mile from Pakhuis De Zwijger
⭐ 4.0 on Tripadvisor
Simple, cozy tavern with a large, lively outdoor area, light fare & a weekly pub quiz.
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