Zaal 10

Sessions

KEY03

The engineering mindset in the age of AI: Beyond vibe coding

Room: Zaal 10 | Time: 09:00 | Duration: 90

What happens when AI makes code writing the easiest part of development? The rise of Generative AI has transformed software development, making rapid prototyping more accessible than ever. This keynote examines the evolving role of developers as AI reshapes traditional coding practices. The presentation cuts through both hype and fear to explore what truly matters in modern software development. Learn why moving from intuition-based ‘vibe coding’ to structured engineering approaches becomes more crucial with AI assistance.

Gunnar Grosch

Principal Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services

ACD204

Modern Logging on AWS: Real-World Strategies for Developer Efficiency (Talks and quizzes session)

Room: Zaal 10 | Time: 11:00 | Duration: 30

Logging often gets ignored—until something breaks. But it can be a powerful tool for debugging, improving visibility, and keeping costs in check. In this session, we’ll explore how to build and manage logging systems on AWS using services like Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon OpenSearch, and Grafana. You’ll see practical examples, compare different approaches, and walk away with a clear understanding of how to create a logging design that’s fast, scalable, so you can catch issues earlier and solve them faster.

Nova Lailatul Rizkiyah

AWS Community Builder

ACD211

The human side of coding

Room: Zaal 10 | Time: 13:00 | Duration: 60

Our tech stacks are exploding in complexity, even with AWS doing a great job at giving us building blocks at higher levels of abstraction. How do we tackle that complexity? Do we take the usual route and solve it by adding more tech or AI? Or is there another route? Yes there is! Even in the 80’s, people realized that the theory of a system can’t be transferred through code and documentation alone.

Nico Krijnen

Cloud Solution Architect

ACD403

Building an Agentic Chat solution using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Room: Zaal 10 | Time: 14:00 | Duration: 30

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (in preview) is the newest AWS service in the Bedrock family. How can you use AgentCore to build your own Chat application using Agents and MCP servers? In this session, I will showcase what I have built and share some lessons learned.

Joris Conijn

CTO for AWS

ACD311

Why Modular Monolith is a great starting architecture for a Serverless application?

Room: Zaal 10 | Time: 15:00 | Duration: 60

In this talk we delve into modularity in serverless environments and compare monolithic, microservices, and serverless modular monolith architectures. Then we will further discuss the serverless modular monolith as an effective starting point due to its flexible deployment, scalability, and cost efficiency, paving the way for potential evolution into microservices if needed. Through practical examples and recent experiments, the talk emphasises PostNL’s successful adoption of this approach to enhance developer experience and manage complexity in logistics technology solutions.

Selcuk Sasoglu

Principal Software Engineer, PostNL

ACD209

Navigating AWS Service Quotas and Limits: Lessons Learned from Booking.com's Challenges

Room: Zaal 10 | Time: 16:00 | Duration: 30

In this talk, we’ll explore an issue Booking.com encountered due to AWS limits and quotas. This unexpected problem affected multiple pipelines, leading to significant delays. We’ll discuss how we discovered the issue, why it surprised us despite our awareness of API limits, and the solutions we considered. Spoiler alert: what role does Terraform play in all of this?

Vladimir Romashov

Software Engineer @ Booking.com

ACD208

Real-time Pattern Detection and Event Processing: Bridging Apache Flink with Serverless on AWS

Room: Zaal 10 | Time: 16:30 | Duration: 30

In today’s data-driven world, organizations need to process and react to streaming data in real-time while maintaining cost-effectiveness and scalability. This talk demonstrates how to leverage Apache Flink’s powerful stream processing capabilities alongside AWS serverless technologies to build a robust, scalable, and cost-efficient event processing pipeline. In this talk, I will delve into what CEP (Complex Event Processing) is and how a CEP layer such as Apache Flink works internally at a high level.

Mohammed Izzy

Principal Developer