In-Person

An evening on AI

By Maik van der Gaag in Azure, In-Person

January 12, 2021

This evening we have our third event of the season. This evening we will focus on artificial intelligence. The program for this evening: 19:30-19:35: Welcome and sorting out connectivity issues 19:35-20:20: First speaker: Rick van den Bosch (MVP) - Getting started with Azure Cognitive Services 20:30-21:45: Second speaker: Stefan Hogendoorn - What is AI if we make it Programmable Getting started with Azure Cognitive Services Wouldn’t it be great if we could have our applications see, hear, speak, understand and interpret the needs of our users?

An evening on Identity (authentication and authorization)

By Maik van der Gaag in Azure, In-Person

November 10, 2020

This evening we have our second event of the season. This evening we will focus on authenticating and authorizing both systems and users when writing cloud software. The program for this evening: 19:30-19:35: Welcome and sorting out connectivity issues 19:35-20:20: First speaker: Christos Matskas - Introduction to Microsoft Identity for developers 20:30-21:45: Second speaker: Hendrik Wouters - App authentication with Auth0 Introduction to Microsoft Identity for developers If you ever had to deal with identity within your solutions then this is the session for you.

An evening on Infrastructure as Code

By Maik van der Gaag in Azure, Azure DevOps, In-Person

September 8, 2020

In the season 2020/2021 we hope to have five MeetUps and this evening will be the first. Tonight we will learn about managing cloud infrastructure, but without choosing a cloud specific implementation like Azure ARM Templates or AWS CloudFormation. Instead the sessions will be about Terraform and Pulumi. This MeetUp will be held online using Microsoft Teams and the link to join will be posted here roughly 30 minutes before we start.

An evening on moving to the cloud

By Maik van der Gaag in Azure, Azure DevOps, In-Person

July 14, 2020

To establish a rhythm of one meetup every two months, we will have one final MeetUp before the summer holidays. This time we will hear about the eight year long go-to-cloud strategy of SnelStart and about creating reliable, geo-distributed networks in Azure. This MeetUp will be held online using Microsoft Teams and the link to join will be posted here roughly 30 minutes before we start. The program: 19:30-19:35: Welcome and sorting out connectivity issues

An evening on working with cloud infrastructure

By Maik van der Gaag in Azure, Azure DevOps, In-Person

May 19, 2020

It is time to deliver on our promise to have an evening on containers! This evening we will have an online meetup where Brian Veltman and Sudesh Jethoe will share their experiences working with container platforms in AWS and Azure. This MeetUp will be held online using Microsoft Teams and the link to join will be posted here roughly 30 minutes before we start. The program: 19:00 - 19:05 : Welcome and sorting out connectivity issues

An evening on adopting DevOps

By Maik van der Gaag in Azure, Azure DevOps, In-Person

March 9, 2020

Our second MeetUp for this year will be held on the 9th of March. This evening we will learn all about DevOps. Our first speaker, Martin Woordward is the Director of Developer Relations for GitHub. Before that Martin was Executive Director of the .NET Foundation helping drive Microsoft’s move towards open source and was a Principal Group Program Manager of the team building tooling for DevOps teams inside and outside the company.

The Road to FOSDEM: The Rotterdam Edition

By Maik van der Gaag in Azure, In-Person

January 29, 2020

This meetup is part of the “Road to FOSDEM” (#roadtoFOSDEM) meetup selection by Microsoft the Netherlands & Belgium. The Rotterdam edition, is generously hosted by Ibis Software at their office. Program: 18:00 Walk-in & food 19:00 Talk 1: Taylor Thomas - An overview of Microsofts work in the open source Cloud Native area 19:40 Break 20:00 Talk 2: Jose Miguel Parrella - Lessons learned upgrading Kubernetes clusters 20:40 ~21:00 Networking

Cloud Data Platform

By Maik van der Gaag in Azure, Data, In-Person

September 18, 2019

Our second meetup will be at the office of IBIS, in the Groot Handelsgebouw (floor 6) near Rotterdam Central Station. This evening we have two great sessions, of which the first is now confirmed. The agenda for the evening is as follows: 17:30 - 18:30 : Walk in, welcome and dinner 18:30 - 18:35 : Welcome 18:35 - 19:20 : André Kamman: Azure Databricks and/or Azure SQL Datawarehouse 19:20 - 19:30 : Break

Govern your Cloud Platform

By Maik van der Gaag in Azure, In-Person

June 12, 2019

De eerste bijeenkomst van onze Meetup zal zijn op 12 juni. Deze eerste avond zal de Dutch Cloud Meetup zich volledig richten op Compliance in een cloud platform. Agenda 17:30 - 18:30 : Ontvangst, diner en kennismaking 18:30 - 18:35 : Welkom 18:35 - 19:20 : Sessie: Maik van der Gaag - Govern your Azure platform with Azure Policies Heb je je ooit afgevraagd hoe je ervoor kan zorgen dat mensen zich houden aan Azure naamgevingsconventies, Azure services aanmaken op specifieke locaties, niet die ene dure VM maken en hoe standaardtags worden toegevoegd aan Azure-bronnen?