Content and appearances

2024

Podcasts and videos 📸

August 30 – The architecture behind aws-news.com @ The AWS Developers Podcast
March 1 – Learning by fire: taking your side project to production with Luc van Donkersgoed @ Ready, Set, Cloud Podcast!
February 29 – How PostNL Found Success Embracing Serverless in the Enterprise @ #believeinserverless community

Talks 🎤

October 15 – AWS Meetup – Unlocking the Full Power of the Cloud
October 10 – ServerlessDays Cardiff – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants – Embracing Serverless in the Enterprise
September 26 – AWS Community Summit (ComSum) Manchester – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants – Embracing Serverless in the Enterprise [YouTube]
September 17 – AWS Community Day DACH – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants – Embracing Serverless in the Enterprise
June 28 – CloudNation Q-Update – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants – Embracing Serverless in the Enterprise
June 25 – PostNL Engineering Day 2024 – The Best Onion You Ever Had: An introduction to the lovely onion architecture
June 21 – DevopsDays Amsterdam – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants – Embracing Serverless in the Enterprise [YouTube]
June 13 – ServerlessDays Milano – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants – Embracing Serverless in the Enterprise
May 30 – Schuberg Philis Tech Market – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants – Embracing Serverless in the Enterprise
May 23 – Serverless Days Belfast – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants – Embracing Serverless in the Enterprise [YouTube]
May 7 – AWS Community Day Nordics – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants – Embracing Serverless in the Enterprise
April 11 – Community Day Poland – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants – Embracing Serverless in the Enterprise
April 9 – AWS Summit Amsterdam – Keynote section [YouTube]
January 30 – AWSUG NL Re:Cap – Generative AI Foundations
January 18 – Nationale Nederlanden Customer & Commerce Engineer Connect – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants – Embracing Serverless in the Enterprise

Articles and blogs 📝

November 16 – Making AWS News stupid fast with smart caching
October 17 – Five lessons from a minor production incident
July 13 – Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again

2023

Awards 🏆

November 28 – Go Build award by Werner Vogels

Talks 🎤

September 20 – Keynote appearance @ AWS Community Day Netherlands
September 20 – Conference Talk @ AWS Community Day Netherlands – The Tao of Event Driven Architectures
September 13 – Conference Talk @ AWS Community Day DACH – The Tao of Event Driven Architectures
June 07 – Conference Talk @ Serverless Days Paris – The Tao of Event Driven Architectures
June 01 – Conference Talk @ AWS Summit Amsterdam – Building next-gen applications with event-driven architectures (with Marcia Villalba)
April 24 – Conference Talk @ Serverless Architecture Conference London – The Tao of Event Driven Architectures
April 20 – Conference Talk @ Community Day Nordics – The Tao of Event Driven Architectures

Podcasts and videos 📸

December 22 – vBrownBag – AWS Hero and Now Go Build recipient Luc van Donkersgoed
December 1 – Interview with James Eastham for Serverlessland Video
August 24 – YouTube video with Amazon Web Services – PostNL Handles Logistics for Millions of Parcels with Event-Driven Architectures on AWS
May 17 – Serverless Innovation Day – AWS On Air ft. Customer fireside chat: PostNL
March 16 – YouTube video with Amazon Web Services – PostNL and AWS Skills Guild
January 19 – YouTube video – AWS Re:Invent 2022 recap – EventBridge Pipes and Scheduler

Articles and blogs 📝

December 11 – Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) simply explained
December 8 – The single-tenancy to multi-tenancy spectrum
November 16 – Serverless OpenTelemetry at scale: generating traces
November 10 – Serverless OpenTelemetry at scale: the PostNL context
October 13 – If the shoulders of giants are offered, you’d do well to stand on them
October 01 – Evolve data structures in NoSQL with Python data models
August 27 – Creating a serverless Re:Invent session tracker
August 25 – Authorizing cross-account KMS access with aliases
February 20 – Improved EventBridge Latency Opens Up New Use Cases at PostNL

2022

Talks 🎤

September 13 – Meetup talk @ We’re Back: Serverless and More – Confidently build cloud-native applications with serverless integration testing
June 16 – Meetup talk @ AWS Community Day Amsterdam 2022 – User-driven Composable Infrastructure with CDK, Step Functions and CodeBuild

Podcasts and videos 📸

November 2 – Real World Serverless – Event-driven architecture at PostNL

Articles and blogs 📝

September 06 – Serverless Messaging: Latency Compared
April 25 – Implement the Priority Queue Pattern with SQS and Lambda
April 09 – When is the Lambda Init Phase Free, and when is it Billed?
April 08 – Lambda Cold Starts and Bootstrap Code
February 07 – Async Lambda Function Retries with Backoff and Jitter
January 20 – The 9 Ways an SQS Message can be Deleted
January 12 – Reliable Auto-Incrementing Integers in DynamoDB
January 10 – Anonymous User Identities with Cognito Lambda Triggers

2021

Podcasts and videos 📸

Articles and blogs 📝

December 31 – Monitor Events from Multiple S3 Buckets with EventBridge
December 29 – Filter DynamoDB Event Streams Sent to Lambda
December 26 – Cache Control with CloudFront Functions
September 08 – The Anatomy of a CloudFront Distribution