Thriving in the cloud: Venturing beyond the 12 factors

Track: Cloud Technology

Abstract

Enabling applications to really thrive (and not just survive) in cloud environments can be challenging. The original 12 factor app methodology helped to lay out some of the key characteristics needed for cloud-native applications... but... as our cloud infrastructure and tooling has progressed, so too have these factors. In this workshop we'll dive into the extended and updated 15 factors needed to build cloud native applications that are able to thrive in this environment, and get hands-on with open source technologies and tools (including MicroProfile, Jakarta EE, Open Liberty, OpenJ9, and more!) that can help us achieve this.

Rich Hagarty

Rich Hagarty is a software developer and Developer Advocate at IBM, currently focusing on Java and Open Source related technologies. Based in Austin, TX, Rich has been active in the developer community for the past 6 years, working on cloud computing and AI technologies. He has created numerous learning paths, code patterns, articles, and videos - all to help developers understand and utilize IBM services, such as Watson Discovery and Assistant, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, as well as Red Hat OpenShift container security and deployment. Previous to IBM, Rich worked at HP, where he was a contributor to the OpenStack open source project, focusing on UI dashboards and storage device configuration. Rich's passion is to engage and share new and exciting technologies with developers.

Emily Jiang

Emily Jiang is a Java Champion. She is Liberty Cloud Native Architect and Chief Advocate, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) in IBM, based at Hursley Lab in the UK. Emily is a MicroProfile guru and has been working on MicroProfile since 2016 and leads a number of specifications including MicroProfile Config and Fault Tolerance. She interacts with most of the other MicroProfile specifications. She is also active in Jakarta EE specifications. She is a co-lead in Jakarta Config and also a Jakarta Context and Dependency Injection (CDI) committer. At IBM, she leads the effort of implementing all of MicroProfile specifications on Open Liberty. She is passionate about MicroProfile and Jakarta EE. She regularly speaks at conferences, such as QCon, Code One, DevNexus, JAX London, Voxxed, Devoxx, EclipseCon, GeeCon, JFokus, etc. Connect with Emily on Twitter @emilyfhjiang LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilyfhjiang).

Cindy High

Cindy has worked over 20 years with application servers, Java EE and now Jakarta EE as a developer, technical lead, and architect. She is the WebSphere Application Server migration tools architect at IBM and currently works on app mod tools that help with operational and runtime modernization as well as Java SE and EE upgrades.

Harry Hoots III

Harry is a Software Engineer working as the team lead on the Open Liberty Kernel team and is based at IBM's RTP Laboratory in Durham, NC. He has 25 plus years of experience working in various IBM divisions such as Global Business Services, and the IBM Cloud and Cognitive group. Harry holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University. Check out this blog post to learn more about Harry's activities in open source: https://openliberty.io/blog/2021/10/07/HarryHoots_MeetTheTeam.html

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