Events – Expedition Data

ITNEXT Summit 2019: serverless, streaming and cloud native transformations

For the third time in a row I’ve attended the ITNEXT Summit. This year I got a ticket from LINKIT, for which I thank them. It was the best ITNEXT Summit I’ve been at so far.

It started with breakfast. I already had it at home, but I can’t resist a good croissant. Mmm… Where was I? Oh yeah, the summit. In this blogpost I look back on the sessions I attended.

Cultivating Production Excellence – Liz Fong-Jones

Liz Fong-Jones about dealing with complexity in production

I’ve been on-call for complex systems in my life, but in the era of containers and serverless things have changed. Some things Liz Fong-Jones spoke about in her keynote did sound familiar, but she discussed how with complex architecures with distributed systems, containers and cloud it is no longer a question of systems being up or down. (more…)

By Marcel-Jan Krijgsman, 6 yearsNovember 1, 2019 ago

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Codemotion Amsterdam 2018, day two

Back on the ferry to the north of Amsterdam I went, back for day two of Codemotion Amsterdam 2018.

Keynote

Daniel Gebler from PicNic told us about what they are doing today to bring groceries home for people. I’ve seen two presentations by PicNic before and I could really see their progress from session to session.

Daniel explained how they use a recommender system to make it possible for customers to buy their most common groceries with one tap in the PicNic app. Which is actually hard. Even if you get 90% of precision of your prediction for one item, that means that for a set of 12 items you actually get 12% precision. So they really had to work to get a much better precision per item. They managed to do that by working with two dimensions of data: big and deep data. (more…)

By Marcel-Jan Krijgsman, 8 yearsMay 10, 2018 ago

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Codemotion Amsterdam 2018, day one

Last Friday I almost felt I had to explain a colleague that I don’t always win raffles and lotteries. Because yep, I won another ticket. Again via the Roaring Elephant podcast. It’s pretty worthwhile listening to them, is all I’m saying.

This was a ticket for CodeMotion Amsterdam 2018. CodeMotion is a conference for developers with topics like the blockchain, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, software architectures, but also front-end development, game development and AR/VR.

Amsterdam from the ferry to the north of the city.

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By Marcel-Jan Krijgsman, 8 yearsMay 8, 2018 ago

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Dataworks Summit Berlin 2018, day two

Back for round two of keynotes, good technical sessions and discussing them with fellow data specialists in between. Keynotes First up was Frank Säuberlich from Teradata, who had an interesting example of machine learning for fraud detection at Danske Bank. They used transaction data sort of as pixels and ran Read more

By Marcel-Jan Krijgsman, 8 years ago

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Dataworks Summit Berlin 2018, day one

I’m back at Dataworks Summit this year. This time I didn’t win any ticket, but my new employer, Port of Rotterdam, has arranged that I could go. Pretty cool, because I did not want to miss it. This time it’s happening in Berlin.

It started with keynotes. Scott Gnau from Hortonworks announced Data Steward Studio for better data governance. Scott’s message was that your data strategy is your cloud strategy is your business strategy. You should not see them as totally different things. (more…)

By Marcel-Jan Krijgsman, 8 years ago

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Dataworks Summit München 2017 – day two

Day two started with more keynotes. Ross Porter of Dell EMC talked about the ingredients of a successful analytics project. Carlo Vaiti of HP Enterprise had an interesting talk about trends in big data, but I would advise him to let a professional presentation bureau go over his slides. They were perfect for a breakout session, but not so much for a keynote. Too small fonts. (more…)

By Marcel-Jan Krijgsman, 9 yearsApril 7, 2017 ago