Events

The Dutch Cloud Meetup is organizing sessions for Cloud Takeaways. Cloud Takeaways is an event that is organized multiple times a year with great content on the Microsoft Cloud. Each event will be one session by acknowledged speakers within the Microsoft community. For May we have one session by two speakers: Wim Matthyssen Wim is an Azure Technical Advisor, who has more than fifteen years of experience with Microsoft Technologies. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), his strength is to assist companies in the transformation of their business to the Cloud by implementing the latest features, services and solutions.

Should developers care about Azure Cost?

By Maik van der Gaag in Azure, Online

March 22, 2022

The Dutch Cloud Meetup is organizing sessions for Cloud Takeaways. Cloud Takeaways is an event that is organized multiple times a year with great content on the Microsoft Cloud. Each event will be one session by acknowledged speakers within the Microsoft community. For March we have a speaker: Steef-Jan Wiggers. Steef-Jan is a Microsoft Azure MVP, blogger, author, and frequent public speaker. He has over 20 years of experience as a technical lead developer and application architect, specializing in custom applications, enterprise application integration, Web services, and Microsoft Azure.

An evening on compliance and security

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

March 15, 2022

This evening, we will be back for another Dutch Cloud MeetUp of this season! 18:00 - 18:45 : Dinner + Welcome 18:45 - 18:50 : Welcome 18:50 - 19:35 : 1st Session - Malin de Silva 19:45 - 20:30 : 2nd Session - Jeffrey Opdam 1st Session - Azure Security Benchmark Azure Security Benchmark defines areas related to the security of each service based on the leading industry standards: PCI-DSS, CIS, and NIST.

An evening on IoT

By Maik van der Gaag in IoT, In-Person

November 23, 2021

This evening, we will be back for the second Dutch Cloud MeetUp of this season! 19:00 - 19:10: Word of welcome 19:10 - 19:55: Michiel van Schaik - Azure IoT Introduction 20:10 - 20:55: Frank van Houten - Migrating toAzure Digital Twins V2 Michiel van Schaik - Azure IoT Introduction This session will introduce you to the Internet of Things capabilities of the Azure Cloud Platform. We will look into the overall design of an IoT solution in Azure and dive into the specific Azure IoT Services and capabilities, like IoT Hub, IoT Edge, IoT Central and Digital Twins.

An evening on Serverless and Bicep

By Maik van der Gaag in Azure, In-Person

September 21, 2021

First sessions of the season will take place on the 21th of September and will be an in-person event. 18:00 - 18:45: Dinner + Welcome 18:45 - 18:50: Welcome 18:50 - 19:35: 1st Session - Oscar van Tol Azure Functions in .NET 5 and beyond In November of 2020 .NET 5 got released, the promise of “one-dotnet”. The ‘core’ addition has been dropped and Full Framework evolution has stopped at the 4.

An evening on DevOps Culture

By Maik van der Gaag in DevOps, In-Person

May 11, 2021

This evening we have our fifth event of the season. While we were hoping that this event would be a hybrid or in-person event, circumstances are still forcing us to hold this event online. The program for this evening: 19:30-19:35: Welcome and sorting out connectivity issues 19:35-20:20: First speaker: Nawid Sahebzadeh - The pitfalls to avoid with Microservices 20:30-21:45: Second speaker: Stacy Cashmore - Embrace the pitfalls The pitfalls to avoid with Microservices

An evening on FaaS

By Maik van der Gaag in Azure, In-Person

March 9, 2021

This evening we have our fourth event of the season. While we were hoping that this event would be a hybrid or in-person event, circumstances are still forcing us to hold this event online. The program for this evening: 19:30-19:35: Welcome and sorting out connectivity issues 19:35-20:20: First speaker: Marc Duiker - How to deal with complex workflows in serverless applications 20:30-21:45: Second speaker: James Randall - Contrasting Azure Functions and AWS Lambda

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.