AppDeveloperCon NA 2023
as the organisers put it
AppDeveloperCon is designed for developers at all levels who are involved in the architecture, design, and development (using any programming language) of cloud-native applications.
who it's for
cloud-native developers, platform engineers, backend developers, site reliability engineers, devops engineers, engineering managers, security engineers
topics
Dapr sidecar integrations; Testcontainers local integrations; multi-tenant Kubernetes operations; Envoy per-tenant networking; Argo Rollouts with Helm; KNative scale-to-zero workloads; OpenFeature feature flagging; OpenTelemetry traces with Jaeger; ReBAC and ABAC authorization; Argo Workflows orchestration; Knative Brokers and KServe; preview environments per-PR
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Mark Fussell | 09m |
Conference opens by shifting focus from infrastructure to concrete application design and patterns, arguing the community needs more on architectures… | ||
| Wiring Cloud Native Applications for Local Development | Mauricio Salatino, Oleg Šelajev | 27m |
A small Pizza Store of four microservices runs locally with the same application-level APIs it uses in production, showing developers can iterate without a… | ||
| Lessons Learned Migrating an Existing Product to a Multi Tenant Cloud Native Environment | Natalia Angulo, Carlos Sanchez | 26m |
Adobe Experience Manager moves from JVM monoliths into Kubernetes with 37+ clusters and 177,000+ environments carved by namespaces; sidecars and init… | ||
| Shaping Tomorrow's Technology: Navigating Cloud-Native, Serverless, and Polyglot Programming | Naina Singh, Syed Shaaf | 24m |
A live Cool Stuff Store demo shows a Kafka-backed orders topic invoking a payment KFunction that waits 5 seconds per event, processes messages from the… | ||
| Build Progressive Delivery and Safety Into Your Apps with Feature Flags | Adam Gardner | 26m |
Claim: embed vendor-neutral feature flags and observability into the app to do safe progressive delivery and runtime fixes. Uses OpenFeature as the API layer… | ||
| Modernizing Authorization for Cloud Native Applications Using OpenFGA | Andres Aguiar, María Inés Parnisari | 25m |
Demonstrates building a multi-tenant ReBAC+ABAC authorization model for a document app and running it end to end: create a store, write model and relationship… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Where Has My Circuit Breaker Gone? | Bilgin Ibryam | 09m |
Claim: networking features like circuit breakers either sink into the platform and OS (examples: service meshes evolving from language libs to sidecars to… | ||
| Crafting Resilient and Scalable Systems with Orchestration and Choreography Patterns on Kubernetes | Carlos Santana, Mithun Mallick | 27m |
Shows a working event driven care plan: provider availability posts to a Kafka topic, a Spring Boot service writes bookings to PostGIS, and Argo Workflows is… | ||
| Dapr Workflows: The Key to Simplifying Business Process Orchestration | Alice Gibbons, Kendall Roden | 25m |
Dapr exposes a sidecar-based Workflow API (introduced around v1.10, current demos on v1.12) that runs user-defined workflows via a gRPC stream to the app, uses… | ||
| AI-Ready Microservice Architecture | Ali Ok, Pierangelo Di Pilato | 15m |
A working event driven pipeline that uploads images to an object store, triggers a logo detector that emits bounding boxes and confidence scores, pushes… | ||
| Preview Environments: Now Everyone Is Part of the Software Development Process | Ramiro Berrelleza, Sully Martinez | 23m |
Claims that every pull request spawns an isolated, production-like preview environment that lets PMs, designers and stakeholders give real-time feedback; demo… | ||
| Run Your CI in Code, Not YAML | Kyle Penfound | 27m |
Argues that CI pipelines as code replaces brittle YAML by writing pipeline logic in real languages, demos a Go-based pipeline using Dagger, Hugo frontend… | ||
| Navigating the Shift to Remote Developer Environments - A Year of Insights and Challenges | Andre Jay Marcelo-Tanner | 27m |
Company migrates core services to Kubernetes-backed remote development using DevSpace (Loft Labs, CNCF) and CI-built images, deleting brittle bash scripts… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Buildpacks: Conventional Vs. Convenient for Creating Containers | Ram Iyengar | 05m |
Cloud Native Buildpacks replace handwritten Dockerfiles with a repeatable, language-agnostic build that produces standard OCI images compatible with existing… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Secret Word of the Day: Platforms! | Whitney Lee | 07m |
Defines a platform as a composable, self-service layer that provisions common capabilities like messaging, identity, databases and Kubernetes environments so… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Evan Anderson | 08m |
Thanks sponsors DiagGrid and Red Hat for making the event possible; organizers outline a practical hierarchy of software needs from hardware to orchestration… | ||
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