devopsdays Amsterdam 2024
2024-06-19..2024-06-21
Amsterdam, Netherlands
[devopsdays Amsterdam 2020, devopsdays Amsterdam 2022, devopsdays Amsterdam 2023, devopsdays Amsterdam 2024, DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2025]
who it's for
platform engineers, developer experience engineers, engineering managers, site reliability engineers, cloud architects, engineering leaders, senior software engineers
topics
internal developer platform with Backstage; GitOps and cluster operators; CI/CD pipeline standardization; DORA metrics and developer satisfaction; VS Code and Codespaces tooling; OpenTelemetry observability collectors; dialogue driven development practice; automation risk and human oversight; lift-and-shift cloud migrations; legacy system modernization; measuring GenAI impact for engineering; cloud native warehouse automation
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Reflecting on the Promise of Meritocracy in Tech | Sara Gerion | 46m |
Argues that meritocracy in tech is a belief that clashes with measured reality and biased practices and cites McKinsey data showing 22% of tech roles are held… | ||
| Platform Engineering at bol | Onno Ceelen, Roy Triesscheijn | 22m |
Portal begins in 2019 as an internal software parade catalog and adopts Backstage early adopter tooling in 2021, serving 100+ engineering teams with a… | ||
| Developer Experience is central to DevOps success | Jeremy Meiss | 25m |
Argues that developer experience drives DevOps success by removing setup friction, reducing toil, and democratizing tools; shows a concrete arc from VI and… | ||
| Developer productivity is waste | Coté | 31m |
Argues that measuring developer productivity is mostly misleading and instead improving the outer loop — reliable release pipelines and automation — moves… | ||
| Dialogue Driven Development | Marcy, Stéphane Cusin | 21m |
Pcta Bank's platform team replaces a single legacy Kubernetes cluster by building a new platform, adds GitOps/CD and a cluster operator, and migrates ~200… | ||
| A Case Against Automation | Robin Gilijamse | 05m |
Argues that automation, including AI, is just another automation tool and not magic, citing the LEAP-1B installation on Boeing 737s that caused an automation… | ||
| Best do it at a bit of a run if you're nervous | Daniel Bodky | 05m |
Argues that deliberately running into walls — starting before perfect readiness — is a repeatable strategy to overcome career and skill barriers: three… | ||
| DevOps and Baking | Heather Thacker | 05m |
Analogy maps four DevOps stages to baking as plan build deploy monitor vs prep mix bake feedback, claiming repeatable production by automating after… | ||
| How civilisations end | Marcel Britsch | 05m |
Claims a 1 in 140 chance of another mass‑extinction asteroid in 100 years, about ~100 biotech incidents in UK high‑containment labs over five years, and… | ||
| Platform Engineering's Inferno | Matteo Bianchi | 31m |
An internal developer platform built on Kubernetes with APIs, CLI and UI plus CI/CD integrations (Argo/Flux/Jenkins), GitHub auth and an OpenTelemetry… | ||
| Adding Soul to the System | Henk van der Schuur, Hugo Trippaers | 19m |
A contracting playbook documents moving from time‑and‑materials (19 APIs estimated) to a failed low bid that grows to 135 APIs over two years, then to a… | ||
| Love Letter to Legacy | Gerald Benischke | 27m |
A migration case study of a UK tax system details lifting services from a datacenter into the cloud: a lift-and-shift of a codebase with 7 million lines and… | ||
| Failing to Learn vs Learning to Fail | Sasha Czarkowski Rosenbaum | 37m |
Claim: threat to self undermines both personal and organizational learning so reducing fear improves outcomes. Evidence: Carol Dweck experiments show ability… | ||
| Innovation Incubator | Feu Mourek | 29m |
Company runs a German dual apprenticeship that takes ~6 trainees a year for 2.5–3 years, yielding a government-recognized diploma; Singa has 17 staff with 3… | ||
| Standing on the Shoulders of Giants | Luc van Donkersgoed | 22m |
PostNL migrates to AWS in 2012 and adopts serverless from 2018 to run 70 applications across 30 teams, handling 1.1 million parcels per day with automatic… | ||
| DevOps A Way of Being | Nathen Harvey | 05m |
Claims DevOps arises from cross-discipline collaboration exemplified by Rund DMC and Aerosmith in 1996 produced by Rick Rubin, not by one person; practical… | ||
| On Prem is the new Black | AJ | 05m |
Argues that some teams reverse-migrate from cloud because costs grow exponentially while resource needs grow linearly and GPU processing is often cheaper on… | ||
| In a land before metrics | Lian Li | 05m |
Argues that developer happiness is not directly measurable so teams rely on metrics like DORA and employee NPS and that AI productivity tools collect… | ||
| Daily stand ups will make us a DevOps team | Eugene Romero | 05m |
Management treats daily standups are performative—a ritual to know what people are doing without changing anything. Claims of cloud native = lift and shift… | ||
| IT & The Second Law of Thermodynamics | Marcel Kornegoor | 25m |
Claim: software landscapes inevitably increase in complexity because of the second law of thermodynamics, so decay happens unless external work is applied… | ||
| Nerd Sniping | Katie Schilling | 25m |
At a 100-person company a deliberate tactic called nerd sniping turns customer tickets and curious questions into autonomous projects using open questions and… | ||
| How Can Engineering Leaders Measure the Impact of GenAI | Yishai Beeri | 22m |
Survey shows almost three in four companies already use GenAI for coding, with adoption tracked via Copilot suggestion and acceptance rates. Bots shift… | ||
| Cloud native warehouse automation | Tyko Kieskamp | 22m |
Picnic moves automated fulfillment control from on‑prem back to cloud, citing regained developer velocity, lower TCO and fewer incidents after a staged… | ||
| How to Effectively Communicate Technical Ideas to Non Technical Audiences | Amber Vanderburg | 31m |
Start by asking two to three baseline questions to gauge technological exposure and goals, then choose one concrete tool: use a short relatable story or… | ||
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