Cloud Foundry for JVM Developers
Cloud Foundry is an open-source, Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution that is an ideal fit for running modern JVM applications, especially those developed in the style of Microservices. Cloud Foundry provides a runtime-agnostic environment which introspects your application (via buildpacks) to determine its needs (JRE, Tomcat container, etc.), inject configuration into its environment, bind it to backing data services (like databases, message brokers, etc.), scale it to a desired number of instances, maintain its health, and provide monitoring visibility. In addition, unlike “public only” options like Heroku, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and Google App Engine, you can run a Cloud Foundry environment in your own datacenter, bringing the benefits of PaaS in-house.
In this session, we'll walk through a day in the life of a developer working with Cloud Foundry using Pivotal Web Services, a public instance of Cloud Foundry running on AWS.
- Target My Cloud Foundry Provider
- Push My App
- Bind My App to Backing Services
- Scale My App
- Monitor My App’s Logs
- Monitor My App’s Health
- Monitor My App’s Performance
In addition, we'll do a brief overview of the architecture of Cloud Foundry and what it means to your application.
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.
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