AppDeveloperCon Europe 2024
2024-03-19
Paris, France
as the organisers put it
AppDeveloperCon Europe has officially wrapped! Thank you to all the attendees who joined us. Watch keynotes and all breakout sessions on AppDeveloperCon’s YouTube channel. Review session slides from…
who it's for
app developers, platform engineers, devops engineers, site reliability engineers, cloud architects, security engineers, engineering managers
topics
Cloud Native Buildpacks image workflows; post-quantum TLS with Kyber; Dapr sidecar mTLS and identity; OpenFGA relationship-based authorization; Knative serverless on Kubernetes; Crossplane infrastructure provisioning; Dapr and Wasm polyglot runtimes; internal developer platforms with Backstage; OpenTelemetry for observability; service virtualization and TestContainers; JKube Java-to-Kubernetes tooling; CloudEvents and Kafka interoperability
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Mark Fussell | 29m |
Conference launches AppDeveloperCon as a developer-focused forum, cites over a third of KubeCon attendees are developers and records 150 submissions to the… | ||
| Building Polyglot Developer Experiences in 2024 | Marcos Lilljedahl, Mauricio Salatino | 29m |
Counts across the Docker voting sample show YAML files change the most (2019–2023) and shell scripts rank second, highlighting config churn. The demo wires… | ||
| Love, Hate, and Policy Languages | Gabriel L. Manor | 27m |
Argues that modern authorization needs a structured, decentralized layer because microservices, multiple databases, high delivery velocity and fine‑grained… | ||
| Sponsored Keynote: Streamlining Your Application Builds with Cloud Native Buildpacks | Vish Abrams | 06m |
Heroku announces Heroku Cloud Buildpacks (github.com/heroku/buildpacks), a curated open source implementation of Cloud Native Buildpacks that turns source code… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Building Quantum-Safe Applications | Paul Schweigert | 05m |
Quantum-capable machines can break widely used public-key crypto, enabling harvest now, decrypt later attacks; migrating to quantum-safe crypto is urgent… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Principles of Portability for Multi-Cloud Applications | Bilgin Ibryam | 08m |
Recommendations for making apps runnable across clouds focus on concrete choices not vague patterns. Pick containers with OCI spec or Kubernetes for compute… | ||
| Application Modernization: From Concept to Kubernetes | George Peter Hantzaras | 20m |
Concrete migration paths with tradeoffs: refactor for biggest benefit but highest risk, replatform to gain infra features with moderate code changes, or rehost… | ||
| Testing Cloud Apps: Mocks vs. Service Virtualization vs. Remocal Tools | Daniel Bryant | 27m |
Inner dev loop slows as services grow and there are clear inflection points around 5–10 services and again near 50 where local strategies fail; unit tests use… | ||
| Deploying Your Apps to Kubernetes Without the Boilerplate | Marc Nuri, Roland Huß | 23m |
Claims that Java projects can be deployed to Kubernetes with no extra tooling beyond JDK plus Maven or Gradle, using JKube Maven/Gradle plugins to… | ||
| Sleep Better at Night: Dapr's Approach to Secure Cloud Native Development | Alice Gibbons | 25m |
Dapr gives each app a SPIFFE identity with per-replica keys and enforces mTLS by default so service calls carry cryptographic attestation; demo uses Java apps… | ||
| Implementing Modern Cloud Native Authorization Using OpenFGA | Andres Aguiar, Pauline Jamin | 25m |
Agicap replaces ad‑hoc is_admin checks with OpenFGA to centralize fine‑grained authorization, using Relationship-Based Access Control models stored in a… | ||
| Unleashing the Power of Serverless on Kubernetes with Knative, Crossplane, Dapr, KEDA, and Friends | Vktor Farcic | 29m |
Builds a serverless app and its infra on Kubernetes end‑to‑end using OpenFunction plus Knative auto-scaling and Crossplane, provisioning an EKS cluster via a… | ||
| Navigating the Complexities of Service to Service Invocations: Deep and Brief Dive Into Causality | Nele Lea Uhlemann | 21m |
Compares concrete tooling and tradeoffs: Istio + Envoy + Kiali captures HTTP call graphs from sidecars but shows mostly service edges; OpenTelemetry + Jaeger… | ||
| DAPR and Wasm; a Symbiosis for Polyglot Application Development | Sven Pfennig, Christoph Voigt | 25m |
Shows three blueprints that integrate DAPR and Wasm for microservices, serverless and event-driven use cases, with concrete wiring patterns: DAPR as sidecar +… | ||
| Declarative Event-Driven-Application Patterns with Knative | Pierangelo Di Pilato, Matthias Wessendorf | 25m |
Knative Eventing and CNCF CloudEvents are used to build declarative EDAs on Kubernetes with concrete pieces: a Broker HTTP endpoint, Trigger filters, a… | ||
| Building Resilient Services on Kubernetes | Todd Ekenstam, Anusha Ragunathan | 26m |
Intuit runs 7,000 applications across 315 Kubernetes clusters and reports elimination of most infrastructure 5xx errors by applying concrete controls: use AWS… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Paul Schweigert | 01m |
Event wraps with a request to take the survey—a slide with the link stays up and will be posted—plus thanks to sponsors Heroku, diagrid and Dagger and to the… | ||
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