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Leaseweb’s annual Amsterdam TechSummit took place on June 2 at the Pakhuis de Zwijger, an old warehouse converted to a high-tech multimedia event center. The summit was sold out with over 315 attendees who came to hear a variety of presentations from professionals focusing on this year’s theme: Designing for Scalability. Those who attended were […]
Last year, we merged our existing operations and development departments into one Product Engineering department. Since then we have been focusing a lot on coaching all 13 teams and improving their effectiveness In october last year, we attended an excellent talk by Bol.com at Velocity Amsterdam. In this talk they explained their ongoing transition towards DevOps. […]
Throughout my career I’ve had the opportunity to work at a variety of different companies both large and small. They each had their own set of unique challenges regarding growth but one thing I noticed with time and experience was that the solutions to the problems they faced were not specific to the company itself. […]
The theme of TechSummit 2016 Berlin and Amsterdam is “Designing for Scalability”. But what do we really mean by the word “scalability”? Well, we’re all familiar with the standard definition along the lines of Wikipedia’s definition: “The capability of a system, network, or process to handle a growing amount of work… A system whose performance […]
Who do you trust? What do you control? What are your dependencies? Reliability in the Internet is an adrenaline adventure but we all want a good night sleep and working service. Adam Surak, DevOps Engineer at Algolia previews some of the reliability nightmares he’s going to discuss at TechSummit Berlin. TechSummit Berlin takes place on […]
In 2014 we held a tryout. Last year we went public. This year we’re going on tour. But where did the idea of organizing TechSummits come from? TechSummit Berlin takes place on 13 April 2016. Join others from the tech community for a day of informal chat and information exchange – all in the cool […]
Our TechSummits have been going for a couple of years now. They started small – just a bunch of Leaseweb guys getting together to talk tech – but last year’s TechSummit Amsterdam marked a turning point. With well over two hundred attendees and some 20 speakers we knew we were on to something big. That’s […]
Preparations are in full swing for the newest, freshest event on the tech calendar: TechSummit Berlin 2016. It’s a must-see happening for programmers, developers or anyone in DevOps, SysAdmin or IT management as top speakers from leading tech and retail companies share tips and secrets on designing systems for scalability. Learn from expert speakers All […]
In the last few weeks, it seems that everyone has become convinced that the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) sector is in trouble, thanks to a sudden decline in market valuations of SaaS companies like LinkedIn, Workday and Salesforce. Those concerns aren’t without merit: In one week, the combined stock values of those three companies plunged by $22 […]
Microsoft’s annual worldwide partner conference (WPC) in Orlando, Florida in July opened up many insights into the company’s strategy around the role partners will play in an increasingly Cloud-centric IT architecture. More than 15,000 attendees – myself among them – were given the opportunity to network and discover how working with Microsoft will include as […]