Piet van Dongen
Software Architect & Software Engineering Consultant at OpenValue
Arnhem, The Netherlands
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Piet van Dongen is a senior software architect and engineering consultant at OpenValue, helping organizations solve complex technology challenges through effective software practices. With expertise spanning architecture, engineering, and education, he delivers practical solutions focused on resilient architectures and short development cycles. Known for his calm demeanor under pressure and strategic use of humor, Piet has guided clients through large-scale transformations, trained architects and engineers, and built an extensive professional network across the European tech community as organizer of the Dutch iSAQB Software Architecture Community and former leader of the Dutch AWS User Group.
A regular speaker at international conferences including AWS re:Invent, DevOpsDays, Codemotion, and Devoxx, Piet shares insights on effective software architecture practices, cloud migrations, and resilience engineering, with a blend of technical depth and engaging humor. His pragmatic approach combines technical expertise with business acumen, enabling teams to successfully adopt modern software architecture and engineering practices and DevOps methodologies. Whether consulting, speaking, or training, Piet partners with organizations to deliver tangible value and navigate their software delivery journeys with confidence.
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Creating effective and objective architectural decision records (ADRs)
Documenting decisions is like eating your veggies as a kid: they keep telling you it's good for you, but you just hate doing it. Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) to the rescue! ADRs are perfect for just-in-time, just-enough documentation for engineering teams and organisations.
During this talk, you will learn how to make create and communicate architectural decisions as a team, in barely any time at all.
The single-cloud platform strategy that runs 80+ media brands for millions of customers
DPG Media's almost 6000 employees evolve over 80 media brands reaching 15 million consumers. How do they organize themselves and their technology to make sure their content creation and delivery runs smoothly every day?
During this talk, Piet will run you through the cloud strategy DPG Media chose, what that means for infrastructure, platform and delivery teams, and what organisational structure works for them.
What is resilience engineering?
The coronavirus pandemic has taught us developers two things: 1) all online systems will fail eventually and 2) they will fail in unpredictable ways. But have no fear, resilience engineering is here!
Building and maintaining event-driven, highly scalable and quickly adaptable systems are a pain in the neck. Resilience engineering embraces this complexity and helps you manage it.
In this talk, I will explain what resilience engineering is, why every software person should know about it and how you can start practicing it.
The one true driver of DevOps: value hypothesis testing
In an increasingly unpredictable world, predictable software development and deployment methodologies are losing their value quickly. To maintain relevancy, so-called DevOps teams need to learn to understand what actually matters: accelerating their organization’s value hypothesis testing loop.
In this talk, Piet will explain how teams can move from slow, predictable, and losing to agile, competitive, and winning. The trick: learning to stop worrying about craftsmanship and embracing paradigms like AI pair programming, software-as-actual-code, low-code development platforms, and serverless.
What is resilience engineering?
The coronavirus pandemic has taught us developers two things: 1) all online systems will fail eventually and 2) they will fail in unpredictable ways. But have no fear, resilience engineering is here!
Building and maintaining event-driven, highly scalable and quickly adaptable systems are a pain in the neck. Resilience engineering embraces this complexity and helps you manage it.
In this lightning talk, I will explain what resilience engineering is, why every software person should know about it and how you can start practicing it.
Seriously gaming your cloud expertise: from cloud tourist to cloud native
No cloud skills, no career. As we accelerate towards the future of everything online, cloud skills will be ever more in demand. Not just for engineers, but for your whole DevOps team and the rest of the office, too.
But where to start learning? AWS alone offers nearly 200 services, Azure lists nearly 275 of them. And then we stuff like containers, orchestration, serverless, databases, machine learning, IoT, cost optimization, networking, security. It‘s all quite overwhelming.
Let me help by showing you the learning paths you can follow towards cloud competence, plus the serious game and social learning application we developed to become cloud natives.
Mass migrations to the cloud (or: how to eat an elephant)
Q: How do you move hundreds of interconnected applications, databases, queues and whatnot from your data centre to the cloud?
A: Like how you eat an elephant, one bite at a time.
But where do you start? How fast can you go? What tools and people do you need? How do you keep track of progress? What are the caveats? How do you prevent failure?
Piet knows and he can't wait to tell you. He will take you through the seemingly monstrous task and show you how he helped one of his clients move 100+ applications to the cloud without breaking much of a sweat. He even had a lot of fun doing it. Bonus: he open sourced the migration tools he created, so you can do it too!
iSAQB Software Architecture Gathering 2024 Sessionize Event
Devopsdays Eindhoven 2022 Sessionize Event
ContainerDays 2022 Sessionize Event
Devopsdays Amsterdam 2022 Sessionize Event
DevOpsDays Birmingham (UK) 2022 Sessionize Event
WeAreDevelopers Live 2022 Sessionize Event
J-Fall 2021 Sessionize Event
JCON 2021 Sessionize Event
TEQnation 2021 Sessionize Event
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