On April 16th, the AWS Summit in Amsterdam took place. The summit is always a nice place to meet like-minded people from the AWS Community. This year, I had the opportunity to speak about digital sovereignty and resilience. My talk was titled Navigating Digital Sovereignty and Resilience on AWS.

Xebia partnered with Wiz, to kick this of I hosted a XKE session together with the Wizards Ida, Jorge and Niek!

15th of April Johannes and I published a recording on how I setup my landing zone. If you have read my blogs you might have noticed that I find joy in automating things. I also automated my AWS account provisioning here is the full recoding of the conversation that we had!

I recently created a pet project to combine proven technology from my professional life with my personal life. Over time it became harder to effectively manage your schedules for volunteering work in sporting clubs. Your name would just be printed in a schedule in the local sports paper. Due to legislation like AVD and GDPG this was no longer an option, and the alternatives are overlooked or even ignored. So I took on the challenge to build a solution that could address this using the power of AWS.

Giuliano Di Leo invited me to record a podcast called Cloud Cafe Podcast. The idea of the podcast is to get to learn a bit more about the person behind the Cloud. Working in the Cloud since 2009, Giuliano approached me to be his guest in the very first episode of Cloud Cafe Podcast.

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On the 20th of April in 2023 Laurens Knoll and I where invited by Fujitsu. We shared our lessons learned during DevOps/Cloud transformations that we see at our customers.

Yes, 5 years already! The first AWS Meetup that Martijn van Dongen organized was at the Xebia office in Amsterdam. So for the 5 year anniversary of the AWS Meetup it is only fitting to host it at the place where it all begun.

On November 1st, 2022 Xebia organized the TED Style XKE. The event was hosted in De Flint in Amersfoort, The Netherlands.