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Microservices and the PaaS : A true (love) story by Gilles Stragier and Jef Verelst

1,164 views · Published 10 November 2016 · 50:29 · Indexed 21 October 2026

Channel: Devoxx · 2016 · Science & Technology

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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.

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