A Small Business that was Able to Leverage the Platform While...
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DemandBridge moves a 20-year Java/WebLogic monolith to Cloud Foundry on Azure, hires Stark & Wayne to run the platform, and converts to Spring Boot and containers with BOSH and Concourse. Production runs for two years with 83 app instances across 53 unique apps, four developers, one planned outage and three emergency vendor interventions. Deploys speed up dramatically, legacy Java 1.5 constraints disappear, infrastructure cost rises but performance and developer productivity improve.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction and company background
- 1:51Feeling out of place with big tech
- 5:22Realizing the monolith problem
- 8:33Evaluating containerization options
- 11:25Cloud Foundry summit revelation
- 13:54Struggling with open source Cloud Foundry
- 16:03Overcoming the small business complex
- 18:15Partnering with Stark & Wayne
- 20:34Cloud Foundry in production success
- 23:03Transformed development approach
- 24:52Modernizing the monolith
- 26:38Next steps and continuous delivery
- 28:40Improved developer quality of life
- 31:13Cost and scalability benefits
- 32:43Ongoing Cloud Foundry maintenance
- 34:37Azure deployment challenges
- 37:04Q&A and closing remarks
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