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Koen Betsens

Koen Betsens

Partner, Senior Architect at Cloudoki. Evangelist at @tricryo_ and @solo.finance

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A Day In The Life Of A Scrum Team
About us

A Day In The Life Of A Scrum Team

"The agile scrum" is one of the more successful organizational frameworks and fundamental to our ability to deliver products reasonably within time, with the user on center stage.

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 21 Apr 2022 • 6 min read
30secondsessions: IoT Tech Expo Europe Recap
30secondsessions

30secondsessions: IoT Tech Expo Europe Recap

Find out how we got on attending the IoT Tech Expo Europe, which took place earlier in November in Amsterdam.

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    Cloudoki
  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Cloudoki, Koen Betsens 2 Dec 2021 • 3 min read
Why we invest time in Google My Business (and ditched Facebook)
culture

Why we invest time in Google My Business (and ditched Facebook)

Cloudoki is not known for digital marketing, but in the background we spend a lot of time automating our marketing process. We assumed that social media would be our primary outlets... until we started to discover some alternatives.

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 6 May 2021 • 3 min read
30 SecondSessions - IT Spree
30secondsessions

30 SecondSessions - IT Spree

Cloudoki was present last week at IT Spree, organised by the city of Ghent, to tickle a group of about 80 youngsters' curiosity in tech...

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 26 Mar 2021 • 1 min read
A day in the life of a PO - day nine
PO

A day in the life of a PO - day nine

For about 8 years, I had the intense pleasure of working as a seasonal Festival Stage Manager. (compare) Welcome to project Utop.ia Day nine Nine used to be my

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 18 Feb 2021 • 1 min read
API Authentication patterns
OAuth2

API Authentication patterns

This article will break down some of the common Authentication patterns we come across on a regular basis.

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 8 May 2020 • 4 min read
Open letter: Spotify PRO
SaaS

Open letter: Spotify PRO

Hi Spotify, We'd love to tell you about a use-case that's out there. We've been avid Spotify premium users for a multitude of years and love everything about the product

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 1 Dec 2019 • 1 min read
A day in the life of a PO - day three
PO

A day in the life of a PO - day three

So far, I haven't seen any project in the wild ran by an exemplary scrum team configuration. What one does, is cross fingers and hope for a team representing all

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 24 Sep 2019 • 4 min read
A day in the life of a PO - day two
PO

A day in the life of a PO - day two

If all the required talent is already in your team, what's your unique selling proposition as Product Owner, you ask? The Guardian of the Roadmap is the best answer I

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 16 Sep 2019 • 5 min read
A day in the life of a PO - day one
PO

A day in the life of a PO - day one

You are about to read a fictionalised story. The journey to be described is not based on a single job, rather a collection of past experiences, sugared with the odd hat tip to more experienced product owners.

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 10 Sep 2019 • 5 min read
A day in the life of a Scrum Team
culture

A day in the life of a Scrum Team

At Cloudoki we develop projects with our own scrum methodology. The agile scrum is an organisational framework that allow us to deliver products on time and user focused. This guide is based on our collective experiences.

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
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    Rui Molefas
Koen Betsens, Rui Molefas 10 Sep 2019 • 6 min read
We just became "state approved" Advisors, what now?
KMOP

We just became "state approved" Advisors, what now?

This morning, we found that e-mail in our mailbox that will make a bigger dent then anticipated when we requested it: "The organisation Lab Gent bvba is registered as

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 6 Sep 2019 • 1 min read
Laravel

Release: FrontQueue

The Laravel Queue foreground jobs extension. Cloudoki just released a brand new package, all MIT. With FrontQueue one can expand and improve the Lumen and Laravel built in Queue to a frontend-enabled driver, required for the 3 Layer architecture. Next to the added features

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 9 Nov 2015 • 1 min read

Mass processing files

What to do when you have 500GB+ worth of files to process? Reserve a couple of nights to let the inner autist out Find a job-student for monkey labour Start CLI scripting A collection of useful scripts: Back up Make sure you only work

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 18 Aug 2015 • 1 min read
Release: Cloudoki Guardian

Release: Cloudoki Guardian

As extension to the Oauth2 Stack, Guardian provides internal Authorisation scopes for Laravel. This package is usable in multiple Laravel versions. Right now, however, the Guardian package is only tested

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 1 Aug 2015 • 1 min read
SQL

A Simple Autistic SQL trick

Ever had that sickening feeling that after a Database efficiency cleanup, your ID's are no longer in line with the actual amount of records? Congratulations, you have autistic tendencies! (We have a club) Set @a = 0; update tablename set id=@a:=@a+1 order

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 19 Jul 2015 • 1 min read
Release: Oauth2 Stack

Release: Oauth2 Stack

Oauth2 Stack Cloudoki just released a brand new package, all MIT. With the Oauth2 Stack one can integrate the complete Open Authentication 2.0 flow in a single require. The

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 3 Jun 2015 • 3 min read
Use Lumen as API Framework
Nginx

Use Lumen as API Framework

Disclaimer: we at Cloudoki think profoundly API-centric. The API is what defines your project. By upgrading the API to the center piece of your application environment, you by definition improve

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 30 May 2015 • 6 min read
Nginx Configuration
Nginx

Nginx Configuration

We love Nginx, if only for it's small footprint. It became our HTTP server of choice, even for light CDN web apps or Wordpress and Ghost websites. As with every

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 28 Mar 2015 • 1 min read
Nginx on Ubuntu
Nginx

Nginx on Ubuntu

As quoted in our parent article, Nginx is our thing. In order to create similar working environments on both your local machine as your server(s), we've written 2 sibling

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 27 Mar 2015 • 6 min read
Nginx on OSX
Nginx

Nginx on OSX

As explained in our parent article, we love Nginx. In order to create similar working environments on both your local machine as your server(s), we've written 2 sibling articles

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 26 Mar 2015 • 6 min read
Create a Frontend App in Backbone
BackboneJS

Create a Frontend App in Backbone

We’ll be making a Superadmin Account Manager as P.O.C. frontend app. The goal of this application is to manage our accounts and users. This post will cover

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 16 Mar 2015 • 12 min read
Set up your Local Battleground
Nginx

Set up your Local Battleground

There is no such thing as always online. As any seasoned developer will second, domesticated or not, you need a local environment to develop. The bigger and more versatile your

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 9 Mar 2015 • 4 min read
3 Layer Architecture
Tutorial

3 Layer Architecture

There is a magical creature we've been chasing throughout multiple projects, plotting and planning with some beautiful minds, and it has a name: The 3 Layer Architecture. In short, the

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 2 Mar 2015 • 2 min read
Brew it, goddamnit*
Nodejs

Brew it, goddamnit*

* You’ll thank me later. If you own a mac and are an aspiring coder, get HomeBrew. And Xcode. But this post is about brew. Homebrew installs the stuff you

  • Koen Betsens
    Koen Betsens
Koen Betsens 17 Feb 2015 • 1 min read
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