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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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.
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 organizations.
During this session, you will learn how to make architectural decisions effectively and objectively by:
- Learning the structure of a good ADR (no more walls of text that nobody reads anyway!)
- Practicing how to turn subjective choices into objective ones (no more pros and cons lists and tribal conflicts!)
- Creating editable diagrams, fast (no more spending hours wrestling tools that your collaborators don’t know how to use!)
- Collaborating quickly with technical and non-technical stakeholders (no more hours of Tower of Babel meetings!)
- Reporting the decision using effective language and fit-for-audience diagrams (no more writing reports that end up unread in drawers!)
Do you want to learn how to facilitate good decision making without spending weeks looking for consent?
Then join this session and you will walk away a better software architecture decision facilitator.
Devoxx Belgium 2025 Upcoming
Creating effective and objective architectural decision records (ADRs)
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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