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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, ago

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, ago