Microservices and the PaaS : A true (love) story by Gilles Stragier and Jef Verelst
Why and how CAAMI-HZIV entered the G-Cloud When CAAMI/HZIV was looking for a place to host their innovative microservice solution, they chose for the PaaS that Smals offers within the G-Cloud initiative. In this session, we will show you an application of microservices architecture, and how the platform helped solving some of our challenges. Warning : Real world examples included Gilles Stragier is a software architect at Smals. He has been working on various aspects of Social Security systems for the past decade including document management, accounting, or work relations related systems. He currently works on a large modernization project at the CAAMI-HZIV federal institution, and daily uses OpenShift, Docker and Spring Boot. Jef Verelst After his studies at the University of Antwerp (Computer Science & eBusiness) Jef started to work in the telecoms industry (mobile switching and network management). Five years ago, he joined Smals where he is active in social welfare and health care projects. Over the last year, he is driving the transition from a traditional architecture to a PaaS solution and he participates in the setup of a Belgian government cloud. [YEB-5920]