DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2025
2025-06-18..2025-06-20
Amsterdam, Netherlands
[devopsdays Amsterdam 2020, devopsdays Amsterdam 2022, devopsdays Amsterdam 2023, devopsdays Amsterdam 2024, DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2025]
who it's for
platform engineers, site reliability engineers, engineering managers, devops engineers, security engineers, data engineers, community managers
topics
platform engineering adoption metrics; OpenSSF scorecard checks; sigstore and artifact signing; SBOM graphing with Guac; Azure Kubernetes and Synapse; Terraform per-domain repos; OpenTelemetry adoption journey; preventing AI agent data access; incident management and retros; zero trust orchestration and cert rotation
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Convergence on Platforms | Evelyn Osman | 28m |
Argument: companies inevitably converge on platforms to reduce cognitive load and speed delivery. Evidence: teams experimenting with Node.js + CircleCI vs… | ||
| Building Secure Software OpenSSF Best Practices for Everyone! | Avishay Balter | 20m |
A practical path to safer software: run scorecard on repos (18 heuristic checks, outputs a 1–10 score) to surface missing branch protection, CI scanning and… | ||
| Trust Driven Teams Building High Performance Through Connection | Busra Koken | 27m |
Creates an incident management team inside a 5,000-person org and navigates Tuckman's stages by co-creating mission and vision, running retros every two weeks… | ||
| How Not to Build a Data Platform Lessons from Failure to Success | Danny Kruge | 21m |
Built a massive platform with IaC, Azure Kubernetes nodes, Data Factory pipelines, Synapse and hosted SQL plus dbt but it only served one file for two daily… | ||
| A cognitive theory of community | Don Goodman | 19m |
Claim: community success tracks to biology — oxytocin is the neurotransmitter of community — and repeated, personal kindness reliably moves engagement metrics… | ||
| How to survive a layoff in tech | Janna Brummel | 05m |
Applied to 36 jobs over three months, yielding 28 replies, 17 screening calls and 12 first-round interviews, and ending with two offers; median reply time… | ||
| DevOps Is Not a Department | Paulina Dubas | 05m |
Central claim: DevOps is a culture not a department or job title, and buying a centralized platform or more YAML does not fix silos. Practical steps: sit… | ||
| Building Platforms, Breaking Code How Your Org Chart Can Support or Wreck Progress | Michael Meelis | 18m |
Architecture mirrors org charts so reorganizing people reshapes systems, and trying the inverse Conway maneuver in a large enterprise usually fails. Use… | ||
| The sociotechnical debt of AI breaking Conway's Third Law | Thiago de Faria | 27m |
Claim: widespread LLM use reshapes team boundaries and cognitive load, risking degraded critical thinking and blurred ownership when internal models absorb org… | ||
| on the hunt for cannabis farms and electrical grid stability | Willem Kuipers, Arjan Mossel | 24m |
Nexus claims DevOps and data science cut waiting lists and avoid blackouts by shifting demand instead of just expanding cables, running a cloud-native platform… | ||
| From Galactic Hacker Party 1989 to WHY2025; the history, future and importance of Dutc | Nancy Beers | 41m |
A concise history of Dutch hacker camps with concrete outcomes: a timeline of events every four years growing into 3,500‑person gatherings, recorded talks… | ||
| What Chickens Can Teach Us About Job Orchestration | Heather Thacker | 05m |
Maps backyard chicken care to concrete orchestration practices, arguing that replacing stored SSH keys with agent-based orchestration and a zero trust model… | ||
| Platform Engineering at | Anna Magdalena Kosek | 21m |
Platform engineering at RTL Netherlands produces a platform that supports TV channels, streaming, advertising and internal tools and follows 10 principles to… | ||
| Overspending on AWS and all the great things it brought us | Ivica Kolenkas | 30m |
AWS Athena queries cost $15,000/month and grow until they account for 40% of monthly AWS spend because a single SQL query scanned the entire dataset in S3… | ||
| Mission Critical Mindset Building a Culture of Resilience in DevOps Teams | Niek van Raaij | 26m |
Pager fires at 3:00 a.m. after a Friday deploy with irreversible schema changes, rollback fails and a manual SQL restore fixes production but exposes missing… | ||
| We accidentally deleted production, but we made it not matter all that much | John Keates | 05m |
A tiny change causes production to go away: deleting two deleted variables from an external secret operator triggers deployment automation, because Arguscd saw… | ||
| What we can learn from Marie Kondo | Robin Gilijamse | 05m |
Argues that Marie Kondo methods map directly to lean: identify waste as toil, commit to a focused tidy session, sort by category and pile everything, then… | ||
| From zero to developer my one year serendipity journey with OpenTelemetry | Virginia Diana Todea | 15m |
Contribution starts with an 8–9 month effort creating the OpenTelemetry Certified Associates exam, then moves to a company proof‑of‑concept: deploy collector… | ||
| How to Prevent AI Agents from Accessing Unauthorized Data | Sohan Maheshwar | 29m |
Explains how Google Zanzibar’s relationship-based model (claimed >10 million queries/sec) and its caching/hotspot batching map to AI RAG pipelines and agent… | ||
| Solving Complex Problems with Systems Design Lessons from Air Traffic Contr | Jan Gabriel Pretorius | 38m |
A four‑step systems design approach — understand, conceptualize, decompose, prototype/integrate — guides three real projects: a 360° tower simulator… | ||
| SRE and Risk management: a love story | Robin van Zijll | 22m |
Molly treats DORA as actionable SRE work: inventorying systems via Backstage catalog info.yml and standardized tags, piping telemetry through an observability… | ||
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