Twin Cities Software Symposium - No Fluff Just Stuff
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Twin Cities Software Symposium

March 6 - 8, 2015

Building 12 Factor JVM Applications

Saturday - Mar 7 3:15 PM CST - SALON A

Modern applications are changing as we embrace the engineering practices associated with Continuous Delivery and DevOps, migrate our applications to modern cloud platforms, elastically scale applications with the dynamics of customer demand, and embrace microservices architectures. The Twelve-Factor App is a collection of application development patterns developed by Heroku engineers that aim to support these types of architectural and cultural change.

The 12 Factors are:

  1. One codebase tracked in revision control, many deploys
  2. Explicitly declare and isolate dependencies
  3. Store config in the environment
  4. Treat backing services as attached resources
  5. Strictly separate build and run stages
  6. Execute the app as one or more stateless processes
  7. Export services via port binding
  8. Scale out via the process model
  9. Maximize robustness with fast startup and graceful shutdown
  10. Keep development, staging, and production as similar as possible
  11. Treat logs as event streams
  12. Run admin/management tasks as one-off processes

We’ll examine how to implement these factors using JVM “microframeworks” like Spring Boot and Dropwizard.

Matt Stine

Matt Stine

I Enable Early-Career Enterprise Software Engineers to Continuously Improve

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About Matt Stine

My passion is taking a metaphysical approach to software engineering: what is the nature of the collaborative game that we continuously play, and are there better, more contextually-aware ways to play that game?

By day I lead a team tasked with taking a first-principles-centric approach to intentionally enabling programming language usage at the largest bank in the United States.

By night I write and teach my way through a masterclass in software engineering and architecture targeting early-career software engineers working in large-scale enterprise technology organizations.

What is the primary goal?

To win the game. More seriously: to get 1% better every day at providing business value through software.

Who am I?

I'm a 22-year veteran of the enterprise software industry. I've played almost every role I can imagine:

  • Software Engineer
  • Software Architect
  • Technical Lead
  • Engineering Manager
  • Consultant
  • Product Manager
  • Field CTO
  • Developer Advocate
  • Conference Speaker
  • Author
  • Technical Trainer
  • Technical Marketer
  • Site Reliability Engineer
  • Desktop Support Specialist

I've worked at Fortune 500 companies, a tenacious teal cloud startup, and a not-for-profit children's hospital. I've written a book, and I've hosted a podcast. I've learned a lot along the way, including many things I wish I'd known when I first got started. And so now I want to pass those learnings on to you, especially if you've only just begun your career.