Talks
Presentations and reference material
My recent talks at meetups and conferences.
Baking Reliability into Everyday Python
Presented May 28, 2026 at Python Leiden User Group
Practical patterns for making Python services more reliable with limits, timeouts, retries, idempotency, circuit breakers, graceful degradation, and streaming data flows.
Rolling your own AI SRE agent with GitHub Copilot
Presented May 6, 2026 at Dutch Cloud Native & AI Community
Automating GitHub Copilot into an incident triage teammate with the right prompts, tools, runtime, and safety boundaries.
Aurora DSQL: Unraveling the pricing
Presented November 12, 2025 at AWS User Group The Netherlands
A practical look at Aurora DSQL DPUs, CloudWatch metrics, and how reads, writes, and compute-heavy queries show up in the bill.