A Blueprint for Application Modernization With Waypoint, Dapr, and Ploigos
summary
Blueprint claims a practical three-phase path: carve a monolith using the strangler pattern and domain-driven bounded contexts, deploy Kubernetes across clouds using Plogios federated cluster API (project is a testbed, not yet open source), and simplify app builds and releases with HashiCorp Waypoint buildpacks and operators. Dapr runs as a sidecar to turn inter-service calls, pub/sub, and state into single-line code, and the plan shows how to reduce developer toil while keeping the monolith live.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 2:04What is application modernization
- 5:56Modernization strategies and patterns
- 8:24Strangling the monolith with DDD
- 11:34Carving out microservices from monolith
- 15:11Dapr for distributed application development
- 18:24Deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters
- 21:21Ploigos for multi-cloud Kubernetes
- 24:16Waypoint for simplified deployments
- 26:45Key takeaways and conclusion
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