As one of the most important principles of DevOps, treating configuration and infrastructure as code is critical to the success of high performing organizations. Without accelerating the ability of teams to manage systems the same way developers manage application code, infrastructure becomes a bottleneck preventing stable, agile, and high performing systems from becoming a reality. This session will review what different solutions for configuration management and infrastructure as code are available to teams entering this space. Learn how to use these platforms together to maximize your ability to churn out systems and services as quickly as committing code to source control. We will introduce the basics of solutions like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Terraform to provide a rubric for demystifying your path to quickly provisioning cloud infrastructure.

Architecting an application can be challenging. What do you do to keep your application flexible to ever-constant requirement changes? How do you handle landscape changes (cloud, on-premises, databases)? How do you avoid over-engineering the application? How do I make sure my application plays well with other applications?

In this session, we’ll take a look at some well-understood and practiced Software Architecture patterns. We’ll cover these patterns at a high level to understand how to use these patterns in different scenarios.

You’ll walk away with some knowledge, tips, and tricks that you’ll be able to use for new and existing applications.

Tranio tells Lucentio that, “No profit grows where is no pleasure ta’en: In brief, sir, study what you most affect.” While Tranio’s point was to get Lucentio to loosen up for him to “live a little,” this is still a valuable lesson to developers. Your team has worked hard to build the functionality that provides all of your customers’ needs, but how easily have you made it for them to access that? Sometimes building the API is the easy part; making them usable is the hard part. But by adding an API gateway, we can make it easier for customers to access functionality and data provided by your application.

In this presentation, we will look at API gateways in general and how to use them to make your APIs usable. We’ll then go into examples using Azure’s API Management service, which allows you to streamline work in Azure and across hybrid and multi-cloud environments to provide your customers with a single place to work with your APIs.

It's cheap to get started in the cloud and start sandboxing. Soon after, there's a production environment and more infrastructure is being stood up in the cloud. Then the bill comes and it seems cloud costs are uncontrollable.

This presentation is designed to provide high level strategies and concepts to control cloud costs. We will also go over how DevOps automation plays a big role in how you can control your cloud costs. No matter which cloud provider you use, this presentation will help you have a path forward on starting cost control measures.