ConfPad

DevOps is one of the most abused and overrated marketing terms in the last years! That’s not an alternative fact! It’s just Andi’s opinion! Yet - it is a very real thing that allowed many software companies to transform the way they think about software engineering. DevOps can mean something totally different thought depending on who you are and what type of…

Two years ago, we had the gut feeling that we had implemented a pretty solid continuous integration practice in our development lab: all our builds were automated, we were running 70,000 unit and 130,000 integrations tests per week, and sprint reviews also comprised a regular check on test coverage for new features. However, over time some problems showed: b…

Talk about the dangers of the cloud and how to protect against them effectively — in particular on AWS.

Why we evolved from managing every node with Configuration Management constantly to using Immutable Infrastructure? What problems does it solve? What are the lessons learned? I will show the key use cases and what we gained as a team from the move.

A modern system requires access to a multitude of secrets: database credentials, API keys for external services, credentials for service-oriented architecture communication and often much more. Traditional, manual patterns cannot keep the security bar high with dynamic deployment scenarios for distributed systems and containers. Secrets should stay secret an…

In the last years, Microsoft has radically changed its .NET platform. Rewrite of the compiler, switch to open source, making it real cross-platform, harmonize various .NET flavors into one .NET Standard library – .NET Core had been a long and partly bumpy journey for us developers but with the launch of Visual Studio 2017, the entire .NET Core stack has beco…

Microsoft Azure is not just a single product. It's suite of services holds something for everyone. The title says it all. Besides, we'll have a ball as I throw in anecdotes and stories on and around the history of Microsoft and Azure.

Java is a continuously evolving language enjoying more popularity than ever before. With Java 9 on the horizon, its time to look at the new features that will be available. New language features include modular source code and images, advanced APIs for compilers, stack walks, and collections, as well as spin-wait hints for low-level concurrency programming. …

Cloud platforms are on every company’s agenda who want to re-platform their technology stack to shorten time-to-market of new features. In this session you will learn about the concepts of cloud platforms such as Cloud Foundry or Kubernetes, and what’s under the covers of these platforms and container technologies everyone is talking about today.