thu 7 may 2026 · 18:00 · de makersfabriek, zwolle, overijssel

Meetup No. 5

Name: Meetup No. 5: Building Scalable Systems
Start: 2026-05-07T16:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-05-07T20:00:00.000Z
Location: De Makersfabriek

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Building Scalable Systems

Mark Brinkmanthe-road-to-sovereignty-how-to-build-a-european-cloud-platform
about this talk
Building a European cloud platform for cloud-native workloads with Kubernetes, OpenTofu and Grafana, while keeping full control over data, privacy and compliance.
Mark Brinkman takes you on a journey toward digital sovereignty, showing how to build a future-ready European cloud platform. He explores the challenges of managing modern cloud-native workloads while maintaining full control over data, privacy, and compliance within Europe.
Using technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenTofu, and Grafana, he demonstrates how to design a scalable and transparent platform. Throughout the talk, ensuring data sovereignty remains central, without compromising on flexibility or innovation.
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Robert Slootjesbuilding-a-scalable-ticketing-platform
about this talk
A serverless, event-driven ticketing platform on AWS, built from scratch, that sold over a million tickets for Zwarte Cross, Defqon.1 and Awakenings.
Learn how we built a serverless, fault-tolerant, event-driven ticketing platform on AWS. We will cover the reasons behind the decision of building this platform from scratch ourselves, the architecture of the different components, the concepts of event logging and how we deal with security & privacy. The platform launched halfway 2024 and has already been battle tested by handling over a million tickets for the biggest music festivals of the Netherlands including Zwarte Cross, Defqon.1 and Awakenings.
programme

                                                                
                                                                
                                                                
                                                                
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Programme

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thu 7 may 2026 · de makersfabriek, zwolle · 2 talks · this evening has passed

Building a European cloud platform with full control over data, and a serverless ticketing platform on AWS that handled over a million festival tickets.

18:00doors opende makersfabriek, zwolle
18:15dinner
19:00talkthe-road-to-sovereignty-how-to-build-a-european-cloud-platform --speaker "Mark Brinkman"
20:00talkbuilding-a-scalable-ticketing-platform --speaker "Robert Slootjes"
21:00drinks

The talks.

19:00 · talk
The Road to Sovereignty - How to build a European Cloud Platform
Mark Brinkman
Building a European cloud platform for cloud-native workloads with Kubernetes, OpenTofu and Grafana, while keeping full control over data, privacy and compliance.
Mark Brinkman takes you on a journey toward digital sovereignty, showing how to build a future-ready European cloud platform. He explores the challenges of managing modern cloud-native workloads while maintaining full control over data, privacy, and compliance within Europe.
Using technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenTofu, and Grafana, he demonstrates how to design a scalable and transparent platform. Throughout the talk, ensuring data sovereignty remains central, without compromising on flexibility or innovation.
20:00 · talk
Building a scalable ticketing platform
Robert Slootjes · Director of Platform Technology, Superstruct Digital Services
A serverless, event-driven ticketing platform on AWS, built from scratch, that sold over a million tickets for Zwarte Cross, Defqon.1 and Awakenings.
Learn how we built a serverless, fault-tolerant, event-driven ticketing platform on AWS. We will cover the reasons behind the decision of building this platform from scratch ourselves, the architecture of the different components, the concepts of event logging and how we deal with security & privacy. The platform launched halfway 2024 and has already been battle tested by handling over a million tickets for the biggest music festivals of the Netherlands including Zwarte Cross, Defqon.1 and Awakenings.

Where.

venue: De MakersfabriekCeintuurbaan 15, building ZF (Het Ketelhuis)Zwolle, Overijssel
getting there: Park on the De Makersfabriek grounds: enter the old Philips terrain via the McDonald’s. Walk to building ZF (Het Ketelhuis), past ZWINC, and turn left at the polar bear. The entrance is at the back of the building.directions
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Meetup No. 5

Programme

The talks.

The Road to Sovereignty - How to build a European Cloud Platform

Building a scalable ticketing platform

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