Cloud & DevOps Events in Amsterdam

Dear Platform Engineering Community,

Summer is here… and so is our next Platform Engineering MeetUp in Amsterdam. This being our 10th edition I am extra excited that we will be hosting this milestone event on Hannekes Boot ⛴️🎉😀

This time, we will be diving into the world of FinTech. With a strong focus on security, resilience, and modern platform engineering challenges, we are aiming to learn how to keep the fire where it belongs 😉 Together with three fantastic speakers, we’ll explore everything from Kubernetes security and hidden software supply chain risks to building secure platforms for, and against AI (see agenda below ⏬).

And since no summer MeetUp would be complete without it… YES, there will be a BBQ, drinks, and plenty of time to continue the conversations after the talks 😉🍔🍻

A huge THANK YOU to our hosts Chainguard and Tarmac.io for making this evening possible 🫶

As always, all you need to do is bring you++, some good vibes, interesting talking points, and come ready to connect with fellow engineers in a fun and relaxed atmosphere.

Can't wait to see you all again!! 🙂
Michi

LOCATION
Hannekes Boot
Dijksgracht 4
1019 BS Amsterdam
what3words Address: ///evening.league.builder

AGENDA
17.30 - 18.00 Doors Open, Welcome Snacks & Drinks

18.00 Welcome by our hosts

18.10 - 18.30 "What I’ll Tell My Kids About K8s Security"
Lars Lefebvre, Application Security Engineer @ ING
What I’ll Tell My Kids About K8s Security is a creative and story-driven talk that makes Kubernetes security approachable — even for those who aren’t deep in the weeds of K8s. Framed through metaphors and everyday analogies (like thermostats as a control plane or opening windows in cold winter as malicious action), the talk explores complex security challenges in a fun and memorable way. In the second half, I’ll share the story behind an open source tool we built at ING to help teams uncover and understand real-world security issues in their clusters.

18.35 - 18.55 "Dark Matter Vulnerabilities™ : The Next Infrastructure Frontier"
Cassie Crossley, CEO & Co-Founder @ VulNow

• Uncovering the Invisible Risk: A deep dive into "Dark Matter Vulnerabilities" (TM): the critical, silent security patches and PreCVEs occurring in open-source dependencies that traditional automated scanners completely miss.
• Securing the Golden Path: How modern platform engineering pipelines inadvertently distribute unmapped supply chain risks, and practical strategies to embed true codebase integrity into infrastructure at scale.
• Balancing Compliance and Velocity: A strategic look at navigating the EU Cyber Resilience Act's (CRA) upcoming technical demands without forcing engineering teams to sacrifice development speed for operational security.

19.00 - 19.20 "Towards a Secure Platform for, and against AI"
Django Beek, Enterprise Sales Engineer @ Chainguard
Mythos is real, not a marketing stunt. Critical infrastructure, including fintech, must prepare to be secure in the AI era. Meanwhile, to stay ahead of the competition, development velocity with AI is a must. These competing, inevitable forces need to be tamed. We’ll, among others, touch upon these questions:

• How is the platform the hub of the wheel between agentic developer velocity and maintaining a secure posture against AI adversaries?
• How do you control and mitigate the risk introduced by your software supply chain?
• What is the future of open source and the traditional maintainer model?

The software industry is changing fast, perhaps too fast. We don’t have a glass bowl, but certainly a growing sense of the solution directions. Join us for this preview of the future SDLC in the AI era.

19:30 - 22.00 Get-together with BBQ & Drinks

Join us for a meetup together with MLOps Community, and with talks from Devoteam, Boxd.sh and Elastic. We will share some pizzas and drinks afterwards.

Agenda:
17.45: Doors open
18.00: AI-Driven SRE Observability Solution with Elastic
18.40: The next compute primitive: a serverless container
19.20: Agent Building with Elasticsearch
20.00: Networking with pizza and drinks
20.30: Wrap up

Talks:
AI-Driven SRE Observability Solution with Elastic
This talk will illustrate how the health check script and the LangGraph AI agent work together to provide autonomous diagnostics for Elasticsearch deployments. The solution provides clear insights into what happened, why it occurred, and how it can be resolved. It is built around Elastic and is capable of monitoring and responding to issues, including those related to Elastic deployments.

Speaker: Prince Sharma: Senior Consultant - Observability @Devoteam

The next compute primitive: a serverless container
The cloud split compute into two bad primitives. VMs that are safe but slow. Serverless functions that are fast but stateless. We built a third option: composable, hardware-isolated microVMs that suspend to zero, resume in 10ms, and fork their entire state (memory, disk, network) on demand. Ships as a single Rust binary with zero external dependencies. We'll walk through the architecture and do a live demo.

Speaker: Azin: Co-Founder @ Boxd.sh

Agent Building with Elasticsearch
Speaker: Sander Philipse, Principal Software Engineer @Elastic

Cloud conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands