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openthebox.be A view of Corporate Networks in Belgium

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Introduction https://www.internet2.edu/blogs/detail/12535/ Rik’s tweet about the Belgian public companies: Convert this awesome idea into a real system:

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Me Niek Bartholomeus @niekbartho Background as a developer Spent 6 years evangelizing DevOps in big organizations Switched to data engineering and data science early 2016 http://niek.bartholomeus.be

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Corporate networks in Belgium Open data KBO NBB Belgian Official Gazette

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Corporate networks in Belgium Data structure Company Annual account Person administer administer Person represent Company participate Company participate Company Politician mandate

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openthebox.be Demo

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openthebox.be Why openthebox.be? Fun Improve the world Business card

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openthebox.be Import companies from KBO Integrate inputs Import annual accounts from NBB Export csv Cytoscape.js Lightweight framework Bash & Cypher CRUNCHER ($$$) WEBSERVER ($) Import political mandates Architecture

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openthebox.be Ops mindset http://wpmlabs.com/ Availability: Scalability: Dev Ops nightmares Resilient code Circuit breakers AWS EC2 Elastic Load Balancer Auto Scaling Group

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openthebox.be Logging: Piwik Monitoring: Datadog & StatusCake Infrastructure: AWS EC2 UI / UX: outsourced Legal stuff: terms and conditions, privacy policy, copyright, … Many other things to keep in mind: Marketing! Security: firewall, SSL certificate, regular patching, … Idea to Production

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Thank you Niek Bartholomeus @niekbartho https://openthebox.be http://niek.bartholomeus.be