Cloud Foundry / Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley 2017

Bringing Google Customer Reliability Engineering to Cloud Foundry - Luke Stone, Google & Andrew Clay Shafer, Pivotal

Toward the end of 2016, Google announced Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE), an outward-facing branch of Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) to help bring Google-class operational excellence to customer applications running on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). GCP customers who are in the CRE program adhere to the principles and practices of SRE, starting with a joint review of application reliability that brings the same rigor Google applies to internal services.

Pivotal and Google Cloud are currently working through a CRE review to bring Pivotal Cloud Foundry into the CRE program. This session will give an overview of the work being done together and the benefits to be had for customers running PCF on GCP.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry is the first third-party platform GCP has collaborated with for CRE support, and together the goal is to have shared customers meet their service level objectives reliably, without anxiety, and without extraordinary effort.

Luke Stone
Luke is defining the customer experience of Google’s new Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team. When he joined Google in 2002 he was the first technical support engineer for AdSense. He ran software engineering teams and started building on Google App Engine in 2009. Recently, he led the technical support team for Google Cloud Platform before becoming a founding member of the CRE team. Before Google, Luke was a system administrator and developer in academic and non-profit organizations, and studied computer science at Stanford.

Andrew Clay Shafer
Pivotal
Andrew Clay Shafer has built a career helping people improve technology and processes for delivering software services. As a co-founder of Puppet Labs, he evangelized DevOps practices and tools before DevOps was a word. He got first hand experience implementing and operating cloud infrastructure as the the VP of Engineering at Cloudscaling. Now at Pivotal, Andrew focuses on helping the Cloud Foundry ecosystem and Pivotal customers leverage platforms to build the future.

Configuring a More Secure BOSH [I] - Saman Alvi & Dale Wick, Pivotal

As BOSH evolves, grows, and improves, it allows you to focus on making your deployments more secure. The addition of config server allows you to generate, store, and update credentials easily and securely for your deployments. It also allows you to share credentials between deployments, as it is possible to have hundreds for all components to talk to each other. It will also help prevent poor credential choices, which can create security breaches. This talk will go into details about how config server works, how credential generation and storage is handled, and how you can use the reference implementation to choose your own credential generation and storage strategy.

About Saman Alvi
Saman Alvi - Saman is a core project contributor on the BOSH team, and has spoken at the Toronto Cloud Foundry meetup events as an advocate of everything BOSH.

About Dale Wick
With over 20 years of industry experience, Dale Wick has a wide range of experience with app deployment in the cloud. He was a pioneer of the large deployment with several hand rolled Debian, Red Hat and Ubuntu distributions as elements of distributed systems for customers such as Best Buy, Kodak, Fuji Film and Sears. An advocate of industry advancement through standards adoption he has participated in several standards initiatives including the IETF standard for the Internet Printing Protocol. Today he works on the open source BOSH project for Pivotal, which greatly simplifies reliable, scaleable, software deployment orchestration.Dale has spoken regularly on a variety of programming and operations techniques including system architecture and Java techniques at the Toronto Programmer SIG, mobile user interface design at Canadian Computing show, game design at Toronto Skill Swap and user experience and programming deep dives at AdamCon.

Deployment Strategies for Cloud Applications: Intel Case Study - Dan Crook, Intel

Enabling application development through PaaS capabilities is a key capability in accelerating cloud adoption. In this session, we will provide an overview of how to design applications for the cloud and provide lessons learned from Intel IT’s internal cloud deployment which has 1400+ applications deployed in production. The session will cover architecture design decisions, key things to consider for integration with existing applications, design patterns, and best practices for deploying cloud aware applications and supporting business strategy for modern application development (cloud, mobile/multi-OS, application security, and improved user experience). We will share our experience using Cloud Foundry and review example applications.

About Dan Crook
Dan is an Enterprise Architect at Intel Corporation, currently working in the area of enterprise mobility. Dan has 20 years of IT Industry experience, primarily focusing on enterprise application development. Dan holds a masters degree from Columbia University in Operations Research. Dan lives in northern California and enjoys spending time with his wife and 4 daughters. Dan has spoken at several IT industry events over the past 5 years.

Panel: The Microservices Stack: Are We There Yet? What’s Missing? - Moderated by Dormain Drewitz, Pivotal

Every so often, a new computing paradigm emerges. It causes ripple effects across many layers of technology. New categories of software and tools are invented. When the dust settles, a new stack has emerged.

Spring Cloud Services stormed onto the scene in 2015. Cloud Foundry has since proven to be the ideal place to run these cloud-native Java apps. But has the dust fully settled? Microservices change the requirements for data, messaging, monitoring, API management, and more. Are vendors ready to support these requirements? How does the Cloud Foundry platform help with this? What remains an unsolved challenge?

This panel brings together: Kenny Bastani from a Spring developer perspective, Cornelia Davis and her work on the platform's data layer requirements, Ed Anuff from an API management perspective, and Alex Williams as an industry observer view. Moderated by Dormain Drewitz, this panel will debate what's real and what's not when it comes to the emerging microservices stack.

About Dormain Drewitz
Dormain spent over five years as an investment analyst following infrastructure software, including Red Hat, IBM, Oracle, and numerous pre-IPO companies. Today, she collaborates with several software companies to build their go to market strategies with Pivotal Cloud Foundry. She is a Director of Product Marketing with Pivotal. She has published extensively on cloud computing topics for ten years, demystifying the changing requirements of the infrastructure software stack. She’s presented at the Gartner Application Architecture, Development, and Integration Summit; MuleSoft Connect; sales kickoffs, and numerous regional marketing events. Dormain holds a B. A. in History from the University of California at Los Angeles.

About Ed Anuff

About Kenny Bastani
Pivotal

About Cornelia Davis
Cornelia Davis is Sr. Director of Technology at Pivotal, where she works on the technology strategy for both Pivotal and for Pivotal customers. Through engagement across Pivotal’s broad customer base, Cornelia develops core cloud platform strategies that drive significant change in enterprise organizations, and influence the Pivotal Cloud Foundry evolution. Currently she is focused on extending the platform capabilities from the application tier all the way through to the data layers. She is an industry veteran with almost three decades of experience in image processing, scientific visualization, distributed systems and web application architectures, and cloud-native platforms.When not doing those things you can find her on the yoga mat or in the kitchen.

Alex Williams
Founder and editor in chief, The New Stack
Founder and Editor in Chief, The New Stack

The Long and Winding Road to Application Logging [A] - Istvan Zoltan Ballok, SAP

This talk is about our long journey towards a robust and scalable application log ingestion and processing pipeline for SAP Hana Cloud Platform. While we initially paved the way leveraging the streaming feature based on user provided services, it soon became clear that it lacked some usability features. We then decided to switch gears and moved to the Loggregator Firehose, which made life easier for application developers, but required additional effort on our end, especially in large-scale production environments. The lessons we learned (the hard way) on that leg finally convinced us to take a different road again. Next is SLEEVE, a brokered log forwarding service, with features such as quotas and burst limits. Best part is: We plan to make open source.

About Istvan Zoltan Ballok
Developer, SAP SE

State of Cloud Foundry on Google Cloud Platform - Meaghan Kjelland, Google

Google has been working closely with the Cloud Foundry community with key contributions to the ecosystem to enable enterprises to run on the Google Cloud. Meaghan will talk about how far we’ve come since the first release of the BOSH Google CPI and where we plan on going next. She’ll cover recent updates to the GCP Service Broker that bring the power of Google’s data and machine learning services to the Cloud Foundry marketplace as well as the General Availability of the Stackdriver Nozzle for logging and monitoring your applications and infrastructure.

About Meaghan Kjelland
Meaghan is a Software Engineer at Google taking the steam out of proprietary software by building the future in open source. She is currently working with Pivotal to make Kubernetes' container orchestration strengths complement Cloud Foundry applications.

A Smooth Path to Cloud Foundry on Containers [B] - Jan von Löwenstein, SAP

Cloud Foundry (CF) has been running apps in containers from the beginning. However, CF itself is deployed with BOSH on virtual machines. At the same time, we see more and more
services outside of CF being deployed on container platforms, such as Mesos or Kubernetes.

We love BOSH, but apparently, container schedulers have advantages over VMs.
How do you deploy a CF based product with additional services on Kubernetes?
Others want to take BOSH out of the equation.
We want to preserve it.
Thus, we take a more evolutionary than revolutionary approach.

In this talk, we show how to deploy regular BOSH releases without modifications using a naive Kubernetes CPI https://github.com/SAP/bosh-kubernetes-cpi-release. We discuss the obstacles we encountered on the way and the current limitations of the CPI. Furthermore, we would like to start a discussion about how to evolve BOSH to overcome some of the current limitations and make container platforms just another deployment choice.

Jan von Löwenstein
SAP SE
Senior Developer
jan.von.loewenstein@sap.com
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Jan von Loewenstein is a developer on the BOSH OpenStack CPI project. He has worked on SAP's Cloud Management Console before. He is at SAP SE for over 10 years now. Jan had talks at SAP internal conferences. He had a lightning talk at the BOSHDay (CF Summit Santa Clara) in 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWkaxOuNCHw&list=PLhuMOCWn4P9iqBDITU3bY6drETEwPMVpd&index=16

Diversity Luncheon: Panel - Karen Holtzblatt, Moderator

Karen Holtzblatt, PhD, Founder of Women in Tech Retention Project, CEO of InContext Design; Cornelia Davis, Senior Director of Technology, Pivotal; Dr. Kyla McMullen, Assistant Professor, University of Florida; Kim Bannerman, Google

About Karen Holtzblatt
Karen Holtzblatt is the founder of the Women in Tech Retention Project and creator of the @Work Action Framework for understanding women’s experience at work and interventions to help companies and individuals. She is also the co-founder and CEO of InContext Design and the visionary behind InContext’s unique customer-centered design approach, Contextual Design. Karen has been recognized as a leader in requirements and design for pioneering transformative ideas and design approaches throughout her career.

Karen holds a doctorate in applied psychology from the University of Toronto, is the author of Contextual Design 2nd Edition Design for Life, and has received numerous accolades for her work, including the CHI Academy Lifetime Award for Practice and honors from the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI). She is a research scientist at the University of Maryland.

About Cornelia Davis
Cornelia Davis is Sr. Director of Technology at Pivotal, where she works on the technology strategy for both Pivotal and for Pivotal customers. Through engagement across Pivotal’s broad customer base, Cornelia develops core cloud platform strategies that drive significant change in enterprise organizations, and influence the Pivotal Cloud Foundry evolution. Currently she is focused on extending the platform capabilities from the application tier all the way through to the data layers. She is an industry veteran with almost three decades of experience in image processing, scientific visualization, distributed systems and web application architectures, and cloud-native platforms.When not doing those things you can find her on the yoga mat or in the kitchen.

About Kyla A. McMullen, PhD
Dr. Kyla McMullen earned her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where she was also a Meyerhoff Scholar. She earned her Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan (2007-2012). While earning her Ph.D. she was also a faculty member at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. At Wayne State University she taught computer literacy courses to over 2,000 students. Professor McMullen is the first underrepresented woman to earn a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan. She is currently a tenure-track faculty member at the University of Florida’s Computer & Information Sciences & Engineering Department. Dr. McMullen has a personal commitment to encouraging women and minorities to pursue careers in computing and other STEM fields. She is the creator of "Beautiful, Black, and Brainy" and "Brilliant is the New Black", which showcase hundreds of exceptional young African Americans who excel in STEM fields and don't fit the typical "scientist" stereotype.

Dr. McMullen is the leader of the SoundPAD Laboratory at the University of Florida, which focuses on the Perception, Application, and Development of 3D audio in various contexts. Current projects include (1) psychoacoustic analysis of the quality of customized head-related transfer functions, (2) using 3D audio to sonify positional data for situational awareness, (3) using virtual spatial audio to augment assistive technology for persons with visual impairments, (4) discovering critical interface design techniques for developing virtual auditory environments, and (5) using 3D audio to increase immersion and realness in virtual and augmented reality.

About Kim Bannerman
Kim has over a decade of experience in the tech industry leading diverse teams and working with enterprise customers. She is passionate about the people behind the technology, especially in the open source community. For the past six years, she has transformed her love of learning and community into organizing multiple user groups. In addition to founding the Seattle Cloud Foundry Meetup and the Seattle Chapter of the Startup Chicks Foundation, Kim serves as a Cloud Foundry Ambassador. Her interest in cloud technologies is longstanding, evidenced by her roles as Director of Cloud Evangelism at CenturyLink and Program Director of Technical Advocacy at IBM BlueBox, where she focused in part on Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes and OpenStack. Most recently, Kim joined Google as a Program Manager for Developer Relations where she runs worldwide technical advocacy programs focused on enterprise and Global 1000 users for Google Cloud Platform. You can follow her on twitter at @kmbannerman.

Diversity Luncheon: Why Women Leave Tech: Research & Interventions - Introduction by Caitlyn O'Connell, Marketing Communications Manager, Cloud Foundry Foundation - Karen Holtzblatt, Founder, Women in Tech Retention Project & CEO, InContext Design

Extreme Ops: Platform Operations at The Home Depot - Kevin Igarashi-Ball, Home Depot

Start treating Cloud Foundry like a product instead of a platform.

The Home Depot, the world’s largest home improvement retailer, leverages Pivotal Cloud Foundry to empower 1800 developers and enable them to deliver value to their customers. Join Kevin as he talks about their unique approach to platform operations. See how a customer-focused operations team uses Extreme Programming principles and a product, not infrastructure, approach to foster a thriving development community.

Kevin Igarashi-Ball
Staff Software Engineer, The Home Depot
Kevin Igarashi-Ball is a Staff Software Engineer on the App Platforms team for The Home Depot.

File Systems as a Service [I] - Silvestre Zabala, SAP

Volume services are a new feature of Cloud Foundry that allow service brokers to expose services which are mounted as a file system into run-time environment of the bound applications. Volume services thus allow legacy applications which expect a persistent and shared file system to run on Cloud Foundry.

This session will give an introduction to volume services, how to use them, and show you how to build your own file system service.

Andreas Müller

Silvestre Zabala
Developer, SAP SE
Silvestre Zabala is a developer at SAP SE working on the SAP Cloud Platform which runs on Cloud Foundry. Silvestre is currently working on the File System Service which provides access to file system storage to Cloud Foundry apps.

Lightning Talk: Making APM a Platform Feature with BOSH - Mike Villiger, Dynatrace

Analysts recently reported that most organizations only utilize APM solutions across 5% of deployed applications. In a modern cloud native architecture this level of coverage is insufficient for ensuring a reliable and performant user experience. Learn how Dynatrace has utilized the power of BOSH to make AI based monitoring with automated root cause analysis a platform feature with three easy steps.

Mike Villiger
Dynatrace
Product Evangelist
Greater Chicago Area
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Mike has spent the last 19 years occupying various engineering positions surrounding web-scale performance, architecture, and operations before joining Dynatrace in 2014. At Dynatrace Mike has specialized in assisting customers implementing Application Performance Management technologies and processes in the worlds of Public/Private Cloud, DevOps, and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Mike has constructed many of the technical integrations partners utilize to deploy and utilize Dynatrace on their platforms.

Lightning Talk: Microsoft and OSS: Who Would Have Thought? - Sean McKenna, Microsoft

In the last three years, Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation, deployed the largest Git repo on the planet, open-sourced .NET, and added a Linux subsystem on Windows. Suggesting just one of those a decade ago probably would have elicited chuckles, never mind having them all happen in short succession. In this talk, we’ll look at how Microsoft has changed its views on open-source software, both in how we interact with the community and how we operate internally. We’ll also do a whirlwind tour of how we’re supporting 1st and 3rd party OSS in our platforms and how you can get involved.

Sean McKenna
Sean is a member of the Microsoft Azure Compute group and is responsible Cloud Foundry on Azure. He works closely with partners like Pivotal, GE, and SAP to make CF-based platforms sing on the Azure cloud. He regularly speaks at major Microsoft conferences including //build and Ignite, and smaller events like the CF Meetup in Seattle.

Lightning Talk: Moving away from legacy requires a non-legacy approach! - Daniel Hekman, Grape Up

Are you going DevOps? Moving from legacy infrastructure to microservices? You Need a Partner, Not a Vendor! Changing business environments are forcing companies to operate at a higher speed and transform their business. Doing so successfully requires a non-legacy approach to changing the technology stack, business processes and the way people work. In this talk, Daniel shares what the foundational elements are of a non-legacy approach.

Daniel Hekman
Grape Up, Inc.
Business Development Manager
Jaworzno, Silesian District, Poland
LinkedIn Connect Websitegrapeup.com
Are you going DevOps? Moving from legacy infrastructure to microservices? Grape Up is your strategic partner to help embrace digital innovation.

Daniel Hekman is responsible for Grape Up's North American and European customer and business development activities and partnerships.

Daniel loves moving between worlds, bringing them together and introduce fresh ideas, to blend perspectives, tell inspiring stories, create and market amazing products and services.

Lightning Talk: Performance Engineering and Testing of Apps and Services Deployed on Cloud Foundry - Siva Balan, GE

Performance engineering of apps and services deployed on Cloudfoundry is an art in itself. If there is any misconception that this is going to be very similar to performance engineering of on-premise apps, you are in for a rude awakening. This sessions explains the various nuances of doing non-functional testing and analysis of your services when deployed to cloudfoundry. The session will also cover some examples of how to effectively setup your environment for performance engineering and things to look for that may not be very obvious. We will also look at some performance engineering tools and frameworks that has been adopted successfully at GE Digital. The session will also showcase how this framework can be extended to include performance testing of your services as part of your CI/CD pipeline.

Siva Balan
GE Digital
Sr. Staff Performance Engineer
San Ramon, CA
Websitehttps://twitter.com/sivabalans
I currently wear a hat of a Performance Engineer for platform security services for GE Digital's Predix platform built on Cloudfoundry. I am actively involved in performance engineering of Predix services like UAA(User Account and Authentication), ACS(Access Control Service) and TMS(Tenant Management Service). I also wear a hat of Performance architect for the Predix platform and love to experiment with technologies to make performance engineering better. I am currently working on seamlessly integrating performance testing with the CI/CD pipeline and also making Predix Security Services auto-scale based on resource utilization.

Monitoring Node.js Microservices on CloudFoundry with Open Source Tools and a Shoestring Budget [I] - Tony Erwin, IBM

While microservice architectures offer lots of great benefits, there’s also a downside. Perhaps most notably, there is an increased complexity in monitoring the overall reliability and performance of the system. In addition, when problems are identified, finding a root cause can be a challenge. To ease these pains in managing the IBM Bluemix UI (made up of more than twenty microservices running on CloudFoundry), we’ve built a lightweight system using Node.js and other opensource tools to capture key metrics for all microservices (such as memory usage, CPU usage, speed and response codes for all inbound/outbound requests, etc.). In this approach, each microservice publishes lightweight messages (using MQTT) for all measurable events while a separate monitoring microservice subscribes to these messages. When the monitoring microservice receives a message, it stores the data in a time series DB (InfluxDB) and sends notifications if thresholds are violated. Once the data is stored, it can be visualized in Grafana to identify trends and bottlenecks. Tony Erwin will discuss the details of the Node.js implementation, real-world examples of how this system has been used to keep the Bluemix UI running smoothly without spending a lot of money, and how it’s acted as a “canary” to find problems in non-UI subsystems before the relevant teams even knew there was an issue!

Tony Erwin
IBM
Senior Software Engineer
Austin, Texas Area
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Tony Erwin is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM and currently the Lead Architect for the IBM Bluemix UI. He's been with IBM for 18 years and has extensive full-stack experience building UIs using a wide variety of technologies. Current interests include cloud, Node.js, microservices, reliability, and performance. In addition, he's a semi-regular blogger on Bluemix and CloudFoundry-related topics.

Over ￡75,000,000, 3 PCFs, 2 IaaSs, 1 Night - The Comic Relief Story - Marie Cosgrove-Davies, Pivotal; Zenon Hannick, Comic Relief; Benedict Dodd, Armakuni; Jay Marshall, Google; & Evan Willey, Pivotal

What happens when an entire country decides to exercise your app at the same moment? How do you architect an app, platform and IaaS where a second of downtime results in thousands of pounds of missed donations.

This was the challenge we faced to support the 2017 Comic Relief charity drive. The campaign is aiming to raise over £100 million and culminates in a 7 hour BBC telethon on March 24th.

Come and hear from Comic Relief (customer), Armakuni (app developer), Pivotal (operator), and GCP (IaaS provider) talk about the challenges and solutions faced in preparing for and supporting the 2017 Comic Relief event.

Evan Willey
Pivotal
Evan is the Director of Program Management for Pivotal Cloud Foundry. He enjoys scaling agile organizations and telling dad jokes.

Marie Cosgrove-Davies
Pivotal
Product Manager, CloudOps
Greater Pittsburgh Area
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Marie is a product manager for Pivotal’s CloudOps teams in the EU and SF. CloudOps supports EU-PWS (the environment that supported Comic Relief’s fundraising), Pivotal Tracker's PCF, and the open-to-the-public US-PWS (run.pivotal.io). In her spare time, she reads far too many books and works on her century-old house to ensure her cats can maintain the lifestyles to which they’ve become accustomed.

Ben Dodd
Armakuni
Ben was a founding member of Armakuni, a company originally formed to transform the way Comic Relief ensure every penny is collected on their riskiest night of the year. Having run the event every year since, he continues to partner with the best and brightest in the Cloud Foundry community to ensure Comic Relief can concentrate on raising money and not worrying about technology being a limiting factor in its mission for a vision of a just world, free from poverty.

Zenon Hannick
Comic Relief
CTO
London
Websitecomicrelief.com
Zenon has worked in many different technology roles across financial services, startups and the third sector. As CTO he is leading an ambitious change program to bring technology and digital to the centre of the whole organisation. At Comic Relief he previously led the rebuild of the On The Night Donations platform to allow for peaks of 500 concurrent donations a second in order to facilitate the collection of millions of pounds during the Red Nose Day and Sport Relief TV shows.

Jay Marshall
Google
Jay Marshall is part of the Solutions Engineering team at Google Cloud, and is an ex-Pivotal Field Engineer/early Cloud Foundry obsessor. He currently focuses on helping developers and enterprises build on top of Google’s massive global footprint of cloud infrastructure and services known as Google Cloud Platform. Jay is a lifetime wannabe musician and spends much of his free time recording music that no one else listens to.

Panel: The State of Node.js - moderated by Dave Ings

Michael Dawson
IBM
Senior Software Developer
Ottawa, Ontario
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Michael Dawson is an active contributor to Node.js and a CTC member. He contributes to a broad range of community efforts including platform support, build infrastructure, N-API, LTS as well as tools to help the community achieve quality with speed (ex: ci jobs, benchmarking and code coverage reporting). Within IBM he leads the Node.js team driving IBM’s Node.js runtime deliveries and their contributions to Node.js and v8 within the Node and google communities. Past experience includes building IBM's Java runtime, building and operating client facing e-commerce applications, building PKI and symmetric based crypto solutions as well as a number of varied consulting engagements. In his spare time he uses Node.js to automate his home and life for fun.

Tracy Hinds

Trevor Livingston

Mikeal Rogers
Linux Foundation
Communication Manager of the Node.js Foundation
Mikeal Rogers is the Community Manager of the Node.js Foundation. He has been heavily involved in Node.js and JavaScript and is the creator of request. He has been a keynote speaker at Node.js Interactive, WebRebels, LXJS, NodeConf EU, JSConf Asia, FullStackFest and has spoken at many industry events. He has also run NodeConf and JSFest.

He’s held positions at DigitalOcean, CouchOne, Mozilla, Yammer and many other technology companies.

Running SAP's IoT Services on Cloud Foundry [B] - Wei-Wei Lin & Michael Ameling, SAP

It is predicted that, in the next 10 years, the IoT revolution will dramatically alter all major industries, such as manufacturing, transportation, utility and more. For this reason, SAP has invested and focused on developing comprehensive IoT solutions that can benefit a wide variety of audiences.

In May, SAP will be rolling out brand new IoT Services on SAP Cloud Platform ( IoT Services 4.0). It is running exclusively on Cloud Foundry. In this session, we’ll talk about why we choose Cloud Foundry as our platform and how the rich resource from the open source community compliments and highlights IoT Services’ key features.

Michael Ameling
Development Manager, SAP SE
Michael is responsible for the development of the SAP Cloud Platform Internet of Things. Michael joined SAP in 2006 where he was working in numerous research and development projects in the area of Internet of Things (IoT).

Wei-Wei Lin
Senior Product Manager, SAP
Wei-Wei is a product manager for SAP Cloud Platform. Her work has focused on IoT services and the related components. She has spoken at many events about the impact of SAP's IoT offering and role Cloud Foundry plays for SAP Cloud Platform.

Service Fabrik – Manage Enterprise-Grade Backing Services for an Enterprise-Grade Cloud Foundry [I] - Shashank Mohan Jain & Krishanu Biswas, SAP

Cloud Foundry is a great abstraction layer for developing Cloud-native applications. In order to develop applications, you will also need backing services for caching, messaging, persistence and so on, besides an application runtime. Redis, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, and Postgres are some examples of such backing services. So far, there has been no open source offering that will allow you to provision, and operate backing service instances for Cloud Foundry in an automated/managed way including backup & restore, updates/upgrades and more. SAP’s open source offering called “Service Fabrik” (https://github.com/SAP/service-fabrik-boshrelease), provides a well defined contract and framework to provision and operate services to close this gap. While it is the basis for SAP’s own service offerings, Service Fabrik allows to deploy services described by either BOSH releases or as Docker containers. In this session, we’ll show the basics of Service Fabrik, the features and functions the framework provides and how easy it is to integrate your own services into it.

Krishanu Biswas
Engineering Manager, SAP

Shashank Mohan Jain
SAP Labs India Pvt. Ltd.
Product Architect - SAP Cloud Platform Core
Shashank Mohan Jain works in SAP Labs India Pvt. Ltd. as a Product Architect for SAP Cloud Platform Core. He is the lead architect for a host of technical services and components that SAP is developing on Cloud Foundry as part of SAP Cloud Platform. He is passionate about Software Architecture and Development and developing and solving problems around Cloud, Cloud Infrastructure, Containers turns him on. He has been a speaker in events like Cloud Expo, IEEE Cloud Computing for Emerging Markets, SAP TechED and many other internal events.

Visualize and Analyze Network Traffic of BOSH-Releases in Real-Time [I] - Marco Voelz, SAP

With BOSH, you can deploy complex distributed systems like Cloud Foundry with ease. The difficulties start with day 2: If you are an operator, you need to gain a deep understanding how your system behaves, especially in error cases.

There are some methods to increase understanding of production system: A real-time visualization of a system's network traffic makes it easy to spot anomalies. Additional usage of a chaos-monkey can help you to verify your assumptions about the system's ability to cope with certain errors. You can gain more insights if you drill deeper in the raw network data.

In this talk, we show how we built a visualization and analysis tool for a netflix-like intuition engineering experience entirely from open-source components. By looking at a small example and a bigger Cloud Foundry installation, we discuss how both, visualization and deeper analysis can help us to get a better understanding of our system and discover new insights. And, of course, we use a few BOSH features to make our lives easier.

Marco Voelz
Developer, SAP SE
Marco is a software developer at SAP working as PM in the BOSH OpenStack CPI project. He is a committer in BOSH and spends most of his time with monitoring, automation, and nitty-gritty infrastructure details.

99 Problems But a Container Ain’t One: Forget Serverless, Let’s Talk Containerless Development [B] - Julian Friedman, IBM

It’s time to talk about Serverless. Cloud Foundry has always been an opinionated platform that *uses* containers but hides them from users. It famously popularised the motto “Here is my code, run it on the cloud for me, I do not care how”. Now, the Serverless buzzword has repopularised the idea of not caring about Operating Systems, Patching and Orchestration and “just pushing code”. So how is Cloud Foundry (and PaaS in general) different from Serverless? This talk argues that Serverless is an extreme example of an emerging trend towards *Containerless* development: that is, push code, let the platform take care of the low-value bits like containerisation, dependencies, scaling, monitoring and orchestration. Containerless, in 2017, fits in the sweet-spot with regards to Serverless than Containers did compared to PaaS in 2015 -- that is, it is far far easier to migrate existing apps and knowledge to Containerless technologies, like CF, than to Serverless, and that the next big trend in computing is to Containerless platforms, not Serverless.

Whether you are currently using Containers and interested in PaaS or Serverless, or if you are interested in Serverless but considering whether it is right for you and how Cloud Foundry can enable higher-level abstractions this talk is for you!

Julian Friedman
IBM
Product Manager / Software Engineer
Julian is an IBMer and the Product Manager of Garden Core, Cloud Foundry’s Container Engine supporting both buildpack and docker apps. Julian has worked on Cloud Foundry and IBM’s Cloud Foundry deployment, BlueMix, for 4 years and before that on Cloud Technologies, IBM Watson, Large Scale Performance engagements and Map/Reduce for around 10. He holds a doctorate in Large Scale Complex IT Systems. Julian spoke at all of the past Cloud Foundry Summits and at various other conferences, including twice at ContainerSched and at CF Meetups and authored the InfoQ article “Build Your Own Container in Fewer than 100 Lines of Go” which was one of the Golang Newsletter’s 10 most popular articles of 2016.

Addressing Delivery Reliability in Loggregator - Adam Hevenor, Pivotal

In this session Adam will discuss Loggregator's evolving architecture influenced by customer requests for more reliable log delivery. Loggregator has undertaken a series of low level changes that addresses loss due to network (UDP), back pressure isolation (buffers) and service discovery reliance. Adam will describe current state and improvements in Loggregator as well as introduce roadmap and future work for Loggregator.

Adam
Adam Hevenor joinded Cloud Foundruy in 2016 as the Product Manager for Loggregator. Adam previously worked in Pivotal Labs and engaged with customers using Cloud Foundry. Adam works in Denver Colorado and enjoys outdoor activities and spending time with family.

Apps Need Data, Redux: The untold true(-ish) story of one developer’s search for a complete microservices platform - Dormain Drewitz & Cornelia Davis, Pivotal

Meet Jamie. Her team is building a new feature for a human resources application. It's going to make vacation requests so much more fun - almost as fun as the vacation itself!

But there's just one problem.

That HR application is a monolith. So Jamie sets out to figure out how she can build her service as a microservice. She thinks about managing the APIs that the monolith will use. She thinks about the persistence layer her application will need. She thinks about how she will secure her application. She thinks about how she will manage performance - oh the spikes of traffic before major holiday weekends!

You can probably guess where Jamie found such a platform that would support all her requirements (hint: Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry). But in this talk, Dormain Drewitz and Cornelia Daviswill take you through the surprising twists and turns of how she got there. After all, Spring Boot makes it easy to make stand-alone Spring applications and Spring Cloud provides the scaffolding to coordinate distributed Boot apps, but what about API management? Performance monitoring? Persistence? It takes an ecosystem to complete a microservices platform.

Cornelia Davis
Pivotal
Senior Director of Technology
San Francisco
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Cornelia Davis is Sr. Director of Technology at Pivotal, where she works on the technology strategy for both Pivotal and for Pivotal customers. Through engagement across Pivotal’s broad customer base, Cornelia develops core cloud platform strategies that drive significant change in enterprise organizations, and influence the Pivotal Cloud Foundry evolution. Currently she is focused on extending the platform capabilities from the application tier all the way through to the data layers. She is an industry veteran with almost three decades of experience in image processing, scientific visualization, distributed systems and web application architectures, and cloud-native platforms.When not doing those things you can find her on the yoga mat or in the kitchen.

Dormain Drewitz
Pivotal Software
Director, Product Marketing
San Francisco Bay Area
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Dormain spent over five years as an investment analyst following infrastructure software, including Red Hat, IBM, Oracle, and numerous pre-IPO companies. Today, she collaborates with several software companies to build their go to market strategies with Pivotal Cloud Foundry. She is a Director of Product Marketing with Pivotal. She has published extensively on cloud computing topics for ten years, demystifying the changing requirements of the infrastructure software stack. She’s presented at the Gartner Application Architecture, Development, and Integration Summit; MuleSoft Connect; sales kickoffs, and numerous regional marketing events. Dormain holds a B. A. in History from the University of California at Los Angeles.

BOSH CLI v2: the evolution of the BOSH command line interface - Shatarupa Nandi & Danny Berger, Pivotal

BOSH operators spend an enormous amount of time using the bosh command line interface (CLI). Any interaction with BOSH or the clusters it manages, is essentially an invocation of the CLI with some parameters. While the current Ruby-based CLI has served the community well, it suffered from many shortcomings. Some important ones are:
- It is slow and difficult to install (especially on Windows)
- It lacked a consistent user experience when using the commands
Additionally, BOSH init (replacement for micro BOSH) introduced it's own CLI.

To remedy these issues and streamline the BOSH operator's experience, the BOSH team has created a new, Golang-based, CLI which addresses existing feedback and:
- Adds enhancements to existing commands
- Encourages more secure usage patterns
- Reduces the need for several different manifest generation tools
- Provides a Golang-based client to securely access the BOSH Director API

This talk will provide a complete overview of BOSH CLI v2, including discussions on how to migrate your environments and scripts to the next evolution of the CLI. It will also introduce the audience to 'bosh-deployment', the preferred way of installing the BOSH Director.

Shatarupa Nandi
Software Engineer, Pivotal, Inc.
Shatarupa Nandi is an Engineering Director at Pivotal. She is passionate about open source and is a core contributor to Cloud Foundry BOSH. She presented a talk about 'Streamlining the BOSH experience' last year’s Cloud Foundry Summit.


Danny Berger
Pivotal
Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Websitehttps://dpb587.me
Danny is a software engineer at heart who has worn many hats across several different industries with the goal of making sure businesses can succeed technically. He first discovered BOSH when researching open source infrastructure management tools, and soon he was creating BOSH releases and managing production environments with it. Eventually he found his way to Pivotal where he is a Software Engineer on the BOSH Core team who enjoys demystifying BOSH and its eccentricities.

Blockchain as a Service: Building Blocks of Blockchain [B] - Gary White Jr., Dell EMC

Blockchain is among the hottest technologies in the market place today. Blockchain has the potential to change how we transact business on the internet, empowering users to make secure transactions online without the need to have a third party oversight. For all its benefits Blockchain is still a relatively new technology and most people don’t know how they would practically use it. In this talk we will deep dive Blockchain implementations; explaining how they work and demonstrate how we have integrated these with Cloud Foundry. At the end of this talk you will have a clear understanding of the Blockchain technology and how your Cloud Foundry applications can take advantage of it.

Gary White Jr.
Dell EMC
Software Engineer II
I work for DellEMC on the Dojo team in Cambridge, MA. We have been working on open-source projects like the Bosh-RackHD-CPI since our team's beginning, and also worked with Persistence in Cloud Foundry for the better part of last year. One of our more recent projects was a POC for storing data into a Blockchain using Cloud Foundry.

Bluemix Live Edit/Sync: How to Develop and Debug a Node.js Application Without Re-deployment - Eugene Melnikov, Altoros

There are many ways to become a part of the Node.js ecosystem, but not all of them allow developers to jump in equally easily. A tool reducing the infrastructure development process to minutes would definitely make the process smoother. In this talk, Eugene is going to share his experience with Bluemix Live Sync—an IBM Bluemix service synchronizing local changes to a cloud workspace—and describe how it can be used to set up your IT infrastructure and development environment for building Node.js applications.

Eugene Melnikov
Altoros
IoT Developer
Belarus
Twitter Tweet Facebook Message LinkedIn Connect Websitehttps://altoros.com/
Eugene is a highly experienced IoT Developer at Altoros. He has over 10 years of experience, working closely with business owners. His professional interests include IoT solutions, as well as designing architectures that meet customers’ needs. Eugene successfully implements cutting-edge practices and emerging trends across various spheres of software development. His strong expertise allows Eugene to write a number of unique articles and tutorials.

Building a Testing Framework in NodeJS and ReactJS for Cloud Foundry Evergreen Testing [A] - Rajesh Jain & Brian Byers, Pivotal

Smolder is testing framework written in NodeJS and ReactJS for checking the health endpoint of all the apps running on Cloud Foundry. The health tests are executed by Concourse pipelines. Apps can implement their own health endpoint and the Radiator Dashboard pulls the health data using Websockets to show the current status. Concourse pipelines are driven either on a CF Event, like buildpack update or stemcell or service update or periodically every few minutes. Everyone needs to know the health of apps running on CF when something changes underneath, and this testing framework provides the answers. We are using this in Ford and other CF customers.

Brian Byers
Pivotal
Platform Architect
Minnesota
I am a Platform Architect with Pivotal helping enterprises in their Cloud Native journey. My background started in hardware and moved to software development using PHP, Grails and most recently Spring Boot, Python and NodeJS. I have also been working with a lot of new technologies over the last year such as Concourse, Spring Cloud Dataflow and various IoT platforms.

Rajesh Jain
Pivotal
Platform Architect
Greater Detroit Area
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Rajesh Jain is the Platform Architect working with Ford on their Cloud Native Journey. Currently he is working on multiple projects at Ford, enabling Ford teams to adopt Cloud Foundry, Testing Framework for the Cloud Native Apps on Cloud Foundry, Data Services, Tasks on Cloud Foundry and configuring Cloud Foundry for HA . Rajesh is a full stack developer and has presented at DevOps Days, Velocity and Perform conferences in the past.

CF-Motion: Live Migration of Cloud Foundry Applications and Data [I] - Xuebin He & Thinh Nguyen, Dell EMC

Cloud Foundry can provide application portability across multiple Cloud Foundry instances. Developers can push applications to different Cloud Foundry instances easily. However, data and services have traditionally tied applications to a Cloud, limiting application portability. With CF-Motion, applications and data can now migrate across multiple Cloud Providers with minimum to no downtime. In this talk, Xuebin and Thinh will walk through design and architecture of CF-Motion with a demo.

Xuebin He
Software Engineer, Dell EMC
CloudFoundry Contributor, working at Dell EMC Dojo focusing on research and advanced development. @hexuebin0201

Thinh Nguyen
Software Engineer, Dell EMC

Deploying Cloud Foundry with BBL, BOSH 2.0 and CF-Deployment [I] - Angela Chin & Christian Ang, Pivotal

Have you ever spent all day trying to deploy open source Cloud Foundry and thought there must be a better way? Want to deploy Cloud Foundry from scratch in no time as the core development teams do? Core CF teams have been enjoying a new world where they don’t have to waste days figuring out how to manually deploy BOSH and CF. Now Christian and Angela want to share it with you! In the past year, major inroads have been made to create new tools that automate much of the process of deploying BOSH and CF. Using new tools, BOSH-Bootloader, BOSH 2.0 and CF-Deployment, developed and used by core Cloud Foundry teams, attendees will learn how to deploy Cloud Foundry in an automated, reproducible, and user-friendly way!

Christian Ang
Software Engineer, Pivotal
Christian Ang, software engineer at Pivotal, is the Anchor of the CF-Infrastructure team; maintainers of consul-release, etcd-release, and BOSH-Bootloader.

Angela Chin
Pivotal
Software Engineer
Angela Chin, software engineer at Pivotal, currently works on the CF-Container-Networking team, which does open-source work. In addition to networking experience, she has previously worked on orchestrating core infrastructure components of Cloud Foundry as a member of The CF-Infrastructure team. She graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 2016.

Distributed Caching For Your Next Node.js Project [I] - Viktor Gamov, Hazelcast

Caching keeps the data in memory that either slow to calculate or originate from another underlying back-end system. In this presentation, you will see how to leverage Hazelcast as a distributed cache for Node.js applications. Hazelcast is an open source, elastic, self-balancing, self-healing and highly available in-memory computing platform provides fast, reliable access to scalable in-memory data. This hands-on talk will enable you to get started exploring Hazelcast for Node.js and give your project a jump start in speed and scale.
In this talk, will be covered:
- How distributed caching works in general.
- Capabilities of Node.js client.
- Real world use cases and best practices.

Viktor Gamov
Hazelcast
Senior Solutions Architect
New York City Area, USA
Twitter Tweet Websitegamov.io
Viktor Gamov is a Senior Solution Architect at Hazelcast, the leading open-source in-memory data grid (IMDG). Viktor has comprehensive knowledge and expertise in enterprise application architecture leveraging open source technologies. He has helped leading organizations build low latency, scalable and highly available distributed systems. He is co-organizer of Princeton JUG and New York Hazelcast User Group. He is a co-author of O’Reilly's “Enterprise Web Development”. Viktor’s presenting at the conferences (http://lanyrd.com/gamussa), blogging and producing a podcast. Follow Viktor on Twitter @gamussa.

Distributed Tracing - Implementing Latency Analysis for microservices on Cloud Foundry - Reshmi Krishna, Pivotal

Microservices are great but the complexities associated with monolith have now been transferred into the microservices ecosystem. So when things go wrong especially in terms of latency, how do we troubleshoot them? How do we answer questions like how much time it took for the request? Which microservice is responsible for the delay? How can we better troubleshoot without searching through lines of logs? What about real time debugging? In this talk we learn about how we can better answer these questions and more with distributed tracing along with Metrics from Pivotal Cloud Foundry. We will also show a demo of how to implement Distributed Tracing in an existing application with Spring Cloud Sleuth, PCF Metrics and Zipkin. By the end, you should feel empowered to add distributed tracing into your own applications!

Reshmi Krishna
Pivotal
Senior Platform Architect
New York
"Reshmi Krishna (@reshmi9k) is a Senior Cloud Application & Platform Architect with Pivotal, where she works with Cloud Foundry and helps customers transform the way they build software. Previously, Reshmi was a software engineer with investment banks and startups on Wall Street. Reshmi has also presented in various conferences and meetups like Oreilly’s Velocity (New York), Spring One Platform(Las Vegas), Spring User Group (NY), Cloud Native Meetup (NY). She also supports various conferences and causes for diversity, including Women in Tech and the Society of Women Engineers, and participates in the Grace Hopper Conference for Women. "

Enhancing Cloud Foundry Application Security with Vault - Seth Vargo, HashiCorp

Vault is a popular open source tool for managing application secrets at scale, and it uses an innovative approach to secret acquisition and managing the lifecycle of credentials over time. This approach is not without tradeoffs, since it often goes against common architectures, and Cloud Foundry is no exception.

Unlike traditional secret acquisition which is just a single request, Vault requires a regular updates from the application. This is very akin to a DHCP lease or a TTL. If an application dies or is restarted, it requests new credentials, and it renews those credentials over time. Unused credentials are automatically revoked, reducing the secret sprawl and decreasing the attack surface. Additionally, each instance of an application receives a different credential; if an attacker is able to compromise one application, it's easy to revoke a single credential without causing application downtime.

Seth will discuss the architecture of the Cloud Foundry Vault integration, exploring technical challenges exposed by both Vault's own architecture and design decisions in Cloud Foundry in implementing the Cloud Foundry Vault broker, which controls the distribution of secrets to applications running under Cloud Foundry.

Seth Vargo
HashiCorp
Director of Technical Advocacy
Pittsburgh, PA
Websitehttps://sethvargo.com
Seth Vargo is the Director of Technical Advocacy at HashiCorp. Previously, Seth worked at Chef (Opscode), CustomInk, and a few Pittsburgh-based startups. He is the author of Learning Chef and is passionate about reducing inequality in technology. When he is not writing, working on open source, teaching, or speaking at conferences, Seth enjoys spending time with his friends and advising non-profits. He loves all things bacon.

Go Big or Go Home – SAP’s Journey to Offering a Public PaaS Built with Cloud Foundry - Bernd Krannich, SAP

SAP Cloud Platform is SAP’s Platform as a Service offering built for Enterprise customers and scenarios. In this talk, Matthias and Bernd will describe SAP’s journey from its first steps with Cloud Foundry to amending SAP Cloud Platform public PaaS with Cloud Foundry. From a pure consumption of Cloud Foundry to an active involvement in the Cloud Foundry foundation and open source activities. From a small AWS deployment to a multi-cloud strategy. Additionally, they will talk about the challenges and gaps that needed to be filled to cover Enterprise requirements that SAP’s customers demand and the additional challenges they see when moving a Cloud Foundry deployment towards the currently known limits.

Gulliver’s Travels In Cloud Foundry [I] - Kevin Rutten, Stark & Wayne

Cloud Foundry is full of Giants. Clouds of thousands of servers and millions of apps. Imagine you could type one command and get a tiny Cloud Foundry deployed on AWS with Pipelines, services like PostgreSQL and Redis, monitoring, and even automated backups. The CF-Tiny project looks at all the steps required to create and provision the many parts for a production quality Cloud Foundry.

In this presentation, Kevin will discuss the “CloudCow” project. CloudCow pulls together Terraform to stand up an AWS IaaS, scripts to generate and deploy all the pieces for a tiny Cloud Foundry with services, and provides a complete Concourse pipeline to allow you to experiment and upgrade your Cloud Foundry. When you can quickly build a production like Cloud Foundry as easily as you can boot a VirtualBox BOSH Lite, work with it, and tear it down or grow it into production. Run a smaller Cloud Foundry for a smaller team or smaller budget.

Kevin Rutten
Stark & Wayne
Cloud Engineer
Canada
Twitter Tweet Websitehttps://starkandwayne.com
Kevin Rutten is an Electrical Engineering Technologist and Cloud Engineer in Canada. He has worked with everything from 8-bit microprocessors to setting up new Data Centres. He is currently working at Stark & Wayne, developing the tools to streamline the deployment and maintenance of BOSH and Cloud Foundry components. Kevin has worked with large companies on their deployment pipelines and backup solutions. Kevin also works on OSS projects such as SHIELD and Genesis.

Keynote: Fireside Chat with the Chairman of the Cloud Foundry Foundation Board of Directors, John Roese & Abby Kearns, Executive Director, Cloud Foundry Foundation

Abby Kearns
Cloud Foundry Foundation
Executive Director
San Francisco Bay Area
Twitter Tweet Websitehttps://cloudfoundry.org
Abby is a true tech veteran, with an 18 year career spanning product marketing, product management and consulting at a mix of Fortune 500 and startup companies. As the first fellow at Cloud Foundry Foundation and VP of Strategy, Abby was responsible for structuring and executing operational and strategic initiatives, as well as leading the User Advisory Board and Industry Special Interest Groups. Prior to joining the Foundation, she was part of the Product Management team at Pivotal, focusing on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Previously, Abby led a Product Management and Product Marketing team at Verizon focused on cloud services. In her free time, Abby enjoys posting up at her local coffee shop, indulging in food and wine, and spending time with her husband and son.

John Roese
Dell EMC
Global Chief Technology Officer at DellEMC & Chairman of the Board of Directors, Cloud Foundry Foundation
John Roese is the Chief Technology Officer of EMC Corporation. This role will play a key role in shaping EMC’s technology strategy as the company embarks on its next phase of growth and leadership across three of the most transformative trends in the history of IT – Cloud, Big Data and Trusted IT.

Prior to EMC, John was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the North American R&D Centers at Huawei Technologies responsible for advanced technology development across the entire product portfolio ranging from photonics to cloud computing and costumer technology. Having previously served as CTO at four large corporations in the telecom and IT sector over the past two decades (Nortel, Broadcom, Enterasys and Cabletron),
John has developed a broad understanding of the total ICT ecosystem and its diverse global customer base. In addition to his roles as CTO, John has been a Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Information Officer in publicly traded companies. This expertise has allowed John to become an extremely well-rounded senior executive and an expert in both establishing the long-term strategy of a company and the near-term tactical execution to reach those goals. John is a published author; holds more than 18 pending and granted patents in areas such as policy-based networking, location-based services, and security; is a recognized public speaker; and has sat on numerous
boards, including ATIS, OLPC, Blade Networks, Pingtel and Bering Media.

In recent years, John has been honored by the Ottawa high-tech community by being named High Tech Executive of the year and one of the Forty Under 40 executives in Canada’s capital region. John also was one of the first senior executives in Canada to publish his thoughts on an external blog, where more than 10,000 unique users per month followed his thoughts and commentary.

Keynote: Freedom: For Better and For Worse - Stephen O'Grady, Principal Analyst & Co-founder, RedMonk

Today developers enjoy a freedom to create that is without precedent. They are faced with an embarrassment of riches in tool choices, and even ten person teams can run services with a billion users. All of this freedom is not without cost, however, and developers need to think critically about their choices and which choices are important to them. In this talk, we’ll explore this seeming paradox and strategies for how developers are responding to the challenges and opportunities in front of them.

Stephen O'Grady
RedMonk
Stephen O'Grady is a Principal Analyst and Co-founder of RedMonk. Based in Portland, Maine, his job is to help companies understand developers better and to help developers. He focuses on infrastructure software such as programming languages, operating systems and databases, as well as covering horizontal industry trends such as open source and cloud computing. Stephen is also a regular contributor to GearMonk, the RedMonk blog reviewing the latest gear. Before founding RedMonk, Stephen worked as an industry analyst at Illuminata, and prior to that, Stephen served in various senior capacities with large systems integrators and boutique consultancies. He is the author of “The New Kingmakers” and “The Software Paradox” and is regularly cited in publications such as the New York Times, BusinessWeek, and the Boston Globe. He was born and raised a Red Sox fan, earned a BA in History from Williams College and @sogrady has over 8K followers.

Keynote: Leveraging Cloud Foundry for Development Efficiencies - Jessica Criscione, Director of Technology Management, Ogilvy & Mather

Jessica Criscione, Director of Technology Management at Ogilvy, will be discussing how Ogilvy uses Cloud Foundry to help achieve rapid development timelines to meet client demands. This talk will go through several examples of projects we've built and the services we've used to speed up development time.

Jessica Criscione
Ogilvy & Mather
Director, Technology Management
New York, NY
Jessica Criscione is Director of Technology Management at Ogilvy, serving critical client relationships for the last several years. With over 19 years of experience in digital, her work has included everything from websites and mobile apps to experiential installations. Jessica is a self-admitted data geek and promotes developer initiatives within the company to enhance marketing efforts for clients - with a smarter use of available technologies.

Keynote: Mendix Roundtable: Cloud Foundry and Low-Code: The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts

Although Cloud Foundry has greatly simplified application deployment and management, developing cloud-native apps is still challenging and time-consuming. But what if you applied the same principles of abstraction and automation that have streamlined deploying applications to building them?

Enter low-code platforms, which Forrester defines as "platforms that enable rapid application delivery with a minimum of hand-coding, and quick setup and deployment.” With the market surging to an expected $15 billion by 2020, low-code platforms are being adopted by enterprise IT organizations looking to speed innovation and business transformation.

In this panel, several leading organizations will share how they’re leveraging low-code platforms on Cloud Foundry to deliver web and mobile applications at unprecedented speed and scale. See how low-code enables a much broader range of users to build enterprise-grade applications, helping IT to close the capacity gap while maintaining control. In addition, discover how the combination of low-code and Cloud Foundry speeds each stage of the app lifecycle (ideate, develop, test, deploy and operate) to enable continuous innovation).

Michael Vizard
IT Business Edge
IT Business Edge
Michael Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist, with nearly 30 years of experience writing and editing about enterprise IT issues. He is a contributor to publications including Programmableweb, IT Business Edge, CIOinsight and UBM Tech. He formerly was editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise, where he launched the company’s custom content division, and has also served as editor in chief for CRN and InfoWorld. He also has held editorial positions at PC Week, Computerworld and Digital Review.

Beth Ann Bergsmark
Georgetown University
Interim Deputy CIO and Assistant Vice President and Chief Enterprise Architect
Beth Ann Bergsmark is the Interim Deputy CIO and Assistant Vice President and Chief Enterprise Architect at Georgetown University. In her current role, she is responsible for leading strategic change and transformation by aligning technology direction and organizational resources with GU’s core principles of cloud first, mobile first, balanced security, best in class customer services, moving the campus into integrated rather than point solutions and embracing innovation and change. Georgetown has been engaged in an aggressive transformation process to modernize IT systems across the campus leveraging each change point as an opportunity to unite the campus, enable the universities mission and goals, and deliver integrated, value-driven services.

At Georgetown University, she has worked across the IT organization for the past 20 years in leadership and oversight roles in operations, infrastructure, enterprise services, academic technologies, program services, and security. As a previous adjunct faculty member, she has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in photography at George Washington University and Georgetown University.

Olu Brown
MIT
Director of Data Science and Platform Engagement
Olu Brown is the Director of Platform Engagement at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is responsible for IT Application Platforms, Data Science and Business Intelligence teams. These teams have a specific focus of using new, cutting-edge technologies to drive IT innovation at MIT.

Olu has 18 years of experience as an IT professional in different roles, including consultant, software developer, technical architect and leader of technology innovations teams. He has worked in a variety of industries, including pharmaceutical, financial, cybersecurity and logistics.

Jonathan Foucheaux
Solomon Group
Partner & Co-Founder
Jonathan is one of the founding Partners of Solomon Group, a New Orleans-based
entertainment design, production and technology firm. Under his leadership, the company has produced jaw-dropping audience experiences for clients that include College Football Playoff (CFP), Mercedes-Benz Superdome, C3 Presents, ESSENCE Festival, and The National WWII Museum. Jonathan’s areas of expertise include systems design, A/V integration, programming, and large-scale event management. Over the past year, he has developed an innovative suite of event technology and management solutions which have been used at Coachella, ESSENCE Festival, Lollapalooza, CFP, and Bonnaroo.

Johan den Haan
Mendix
CTO
Johan den Haan is the CTO at Mendix, where he leads the company’s overall technical strategy and research & product development teams. Johan is a renowned speaker and blogger on a range of topics, including PaaS, model-driven development, scrum, cloud computing and software engineering. Follow him on Twitter at @JohanDenHaan.

Managing APIs and Contracts in a Microservices World Using Spring Cloud Contract [I] - Bjorn Boe, Pivotal

With the rise of microservices and the fall of the monolith, new challenges arise. The monolith that used to be contained in one large codebase have been split up and is being managed by multiple teams. These teams still depend on each other to deliver the final solution, but may not have exactly the same understanding of the APIs that tie the solution together. This situation leads to a lot of time being spent fixing integration problems late in the development cycle and complicates the ability to fully automate the software deployment lifecycle.

In this presentation, Bjorn will look at how Spring Cloud Contract can be used to address this problem. He will show how Spring Cloud Contract can be used to define consumer driven contracts that can be used as server stubs for the client and as unit tests for the server.

After this presentation, the audience will know how Spring Cloud Contract can be used to help them deliver successful microservices at scale.

Bjorn Boe
Platform Architect, Pivotal
Bjorn works as a Platform Architect at Pivotal, helping customers build applications natively for the cloud, using technologies like Spring and Cloud Foundry.

OCI Images for Droplets and Buildpacks [B] - Julz Friedman, IBM

The CF buildpacks workflow allows app developers to focus on the business logic of their code rather than the operational concerns of the OS that runs their code. At the same time, CF operators need confidence that all the code running in their org has been patched for the latest vulnerabilities. However, the current workflow does not currently support dynamically linked compiled languages well. This makes it very difficult to support apps written in C, haskell, et.al.; and also leaves us with a large difficult-to-protect surface area in our rootfs. We explore a solution to this problem using the new OCI container image specification, and demonstrate how this could result in a more flexible, more secure platform that supports better interoperability with the rest of the container ecosystem. For example, what if you could download your droplet and run it on any OCI container manager?

The OCI Image Spec standard gives Cloud Foundry an opportunity to unify the container and buildpack workflows, and to embrace open standards throughout the stack. An OCI Image can be used both to describe a container created using a tool such as a Dockerfile and a container created from a Cloud Foundry buildpack. Using OCI images as a primitive throughout the stack lets us revisit some of the assumptions in the platform and enables a number of new features. This talk motivates this idea and talks about our progress towards making it happen!

Julian Friedman
IBM
Product Manager / Software Engineer
Julian is an IBMer and the Product Manager of Garden Core, Cloud Foundry’s Container Engine supporting both buildpack and docker apps. Julian has worked on Cloud Foundry and IBM’s Cloud Foundry deployment, BlueMix, for 4 years and before that on Cloud Technologies, IBM Watson, Large Scale Performance engagements and Map/Reduce for around 10. He holds a doctorate in Large Scale Complex IT Systems. Julian spoke at all of the past Cloud Foundry Summits and at various other conferences, including twice at ContainerSched and at CF Meetups and authored the InfoQ article “Build Your Own Container in Fewer than 100 Lines of Go” which was one of the Golang Newsletter’s 10 most popular articles of 2016.

PCI Compliance using Cloud Foundry and BOSH Add-ons - Mark DCunha & Slawek Ligus, Pivotal

If your company accepts, transmits or stores any cardholder data you already know that PCI Compliance is a difficult process. This session will examine how Cloud Foundry and BOSH Add-ons can be used support compliance. It will cover our own journey through stemcell hardening, network encryption, antivirus scanning, file integrity monitoring and many other aspects affecting modern cloud platform security.

The continual onslaught of hackers against our networks means that every enterprise needs to know what they should be doing and how to do it. By adopting Cloud Foundry, you’ve taken an important step forward - but it’s not enough! Join this session to find out how companies are using Cloud Foundry to build a more secure computing platform.

Slawek Ligus
Slawek is a member of the PCI Security Engineering team. He is a systems and software engineer with a background in web development and operations and service-oriented architectures.

Mark DCunha
Pivotal
Mobile & Cloud Platforms
Toronto, Canada Area
Twitter Tweet Websitehttps://pivotal.io/
Mark D’Cunha is a Product Manager at Pivotal with a strong computer engineering and systems engineering background. He specializes in security, cloud and mobile solutions, helping customers to improve their productivity and transform their business through the power of platforms. At Pivotal, he leads product management for the public cloud service brokers and PCI security. He has developed software platforms for Fujitsu, Motorola, AT&T, Vodafone and Emirates Airlines. He is a licensed professional engineer and a nationally certified archery coach in Canada. He has spoken at conferences including SxSW and Cloud Foundry Europe.

Panel: Securing Cloud Native Applications [B] - moderated by Kamala Dasika, Pivotal

The emphasis on continual, incremental, and rapid delivery of software has inspired a reinvention of the the way apps are built, deployed, and managed. These new methods are rapidly gaining popularity, and IT organizations are evaluating how this impacts their overall security posture. The complex controls that shape traditional enterprise processes require the security community to work together and reason about them.

This session rounds up diverse perspectives from the Cloud Foundry ecosystem on topics such as
1. Security concerns at different layers of the technology stack
2. Bringing time tested security design patterns into a Cloud Native environment
3. The right combination of trade-offs and optimizations to make security teams more agile

Participants include John Field from Pivotal, Tyler Shields from Signal Sciences, Joe Pindar from Gemalto, and Joe Grandja who is a core committer on Spring Security. The session will be moderated by Kamala Dasika from Pivotal.

Kamala Dasika

John Field

Joe Grandja

Joe Pindar

Tyler Shields

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Quickly Build Spring Boot Applications to Consume Public Cloud Services [I] - Colin Stevenson & Prasad Bopardikar, Pivotal

We all know Cloud Foundry is a great platform for cloud native applications. However, what happens when you’re building an app that leverages services from public cloud providers such as Microsoft and Google? Service brokers make it easy to spin up service instances and bind to apps. What about the actual code itself?

Developers leverage the popular Spring Boot framework to quickly build Java apps to deploy to Cloud Foundry. The Spring Boot Starters and Auto-Configuration eliminate the need to write boilerplate code to consume some services, but not all.

We’ve decided to give you a head start. This session is about extending the Spring framework. We’ll use examples from our recent work with Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform services. As more services become available, developers will want to consume these on Cloud Foundry. Extend Spring to make it easier for developers to consume those backing services!

Colin Stevenson
Partner Solution Architect, Pivotal
Colin manages Pivotal’s Partner Solution Architects within the Global Ecosystem team. Pivotal's GET team works with strategic system integrator, ISV, and cloud provider partners. Colin recently spoke at Microsoft Ignite.

Prasad Bopardikar
Pivotal
Prasad Bopardikar is a Partner Solutions Architect and Cloud Foundry Evangelist at Pivotal. He works with customers and partners worldwide in implementing solutions supporting micro services architecture with Cloud Foundry and Spring. Prasad is a regular speaker at Java and Cloud Foundry Meetups.

Split That Monolith: a Java on Cloud Foundry Story [I] - Michele Mancioppi & Tim Gerlach, SAP SE

They say: "If you are smart, start with a monolith." Justly so.

And then, as the popularity of the service increases, and workload with it, it often comes the phase: "If you want to scale, split that monolith already."

In this talk aimed at developers and architects, the SAP Cloud Platform Performance Team details the many steps of splitting a complicated Java monolith on Cloud Foundry based on its workload and how this evolves over time. How the requirements, APIs and SLAs evolve with the process. How other programming languages, components and backing services get added to the mix. And, of course, what the final, scalable architecture looks like.

Tim Gerlach
SAP SE
Heidelberg, Deutschland
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Tim is part of the SAP Cloud Platform Performance Team, where he devotes himself to finding out and consult others on best practices for testing and development on Cloud Foundry. Driven by passion for sharing knowledge and for excellent software, Tim is also a trainer for Microservices and Continuous Deployment at SAP: whatever it takes to help other developers to make the best out of the SAP Cloud Platform.

Michele Mancioppi
SAP SE
Senior Developer
Germany
Websitesap.com
Michele is a performance and development expert in the SAP Cloud Platform Performance Team. His daily business revolves around making good cloud software: deep-diving into cloud applications with performance, resilience or scalability issues. Mentoring development teams for improving their cloud engineering skills. Improving cloud monitoring technology and its usage. Coding (and, whenever possible, open-sourcing) tools to improve the life of cloud developers on Cloud Foundry. Because life is too short for bad cloud software.

Stranger Danger: Addressing Vulnerable CF Application Dependencies [B] - Guy Podjarny, CEO, Snyk

Open source packages are an incredible productivity boost, but also represent an undeniable risk. Such packages often include severe vulnerabilities, easily discovered and exploited by attackers. Keeping up-to-date on Cloud Foundry protects you from kernel and operating system vulnerabilities, but what about your application’s dependencies, pulled from npm, Maven, RubyGems and more?

This talk will help you understand the risk and how to protect your application from vulnerable packages. We’ll demonstrate real world exploits on a live CF application, demonstrating their impact. We’ll then explain the steps you should put in place to address these vulnerabilities, and how to best implement them in your dev process and CF environment.

Guy Podjarny
Snyk
CEO
London, UK
Twitter Tweet Websitehttps://snyk.io/
Guy Podjarny (@guypod) is a cofounder at Snyk.io, focusing on securing open source code. Guy was previously CTO at Akamai following their acquisition of his startup, Blaze.io, and worked on the first web app firewall & security code analyzer. Guy is a frequent conference speaker, the author of "Responsive & Fast”, “High Performance Images” and the upcoming “Securing Open Source Code”.

Test Driven Alerting: Now with More Data Science! [I]- Rick Farmer & Diego Lapiduz, Pivotal

Dev & Ops professionals everywhere are threatened by a plague.
Alert fatigue is sweeping the planet.
The sheer enormity of the logs and metrics flooding out of the Cloud Foundry firehouse, by comparison, makes finding the needle in the haystack child's play. How can we identify and react to the truly critical events and notify the right people?
In this talk we will present a test-driven framework for creating anomaly detectors while continuously filtering out the junk. Sean will discuss creating alert dashboards that matter to you. Rick will provide strategies for identifying the correct model based on common metric patterns.
Proactive alerting enables you to focus on responsive automation for the important things. We’ll get you ready for autonomous system remediation and global bursting.


Rick Farmer
Pivotal
Galveston Island, Texas
Websiterickfarmer.com
Rick Farmer (Pivotal) is driven to solve business challenges for the most valuable organizations in the world. He is a solution-powered leader with a track record of navigating complex organizational technology and services to deliver breathtaking results for mission-critical initiatives at the world's most recognizable companies and trusted brands. Rick is a Data Science junkie with a project included in the Visualization Hall of Fame at Harvard’s Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He surfs tropical events hitting the Texas Gulf Coast since 1997.

Diego Lapiduz
Solutions Architect, Pivotal

There and Back Again: The BOSH Windows Story [I] - Matthew Horan & Natalie Arellano, Pivotal

Pivotal's Windows Experience team has been working hard to improve the Windows Operator Experience. The early days of Windows Diego cell installation involved a series of MSI installers, command line install generator utilities, and PowerShell scripts. Automation was difficult and error prone. We learned a lot from our experience in decomposing BOSH releases into their component parts, and distributing MSI installers. Just over a year ago, we embarked on an effort to port the BOSH agent to Windows. In this talk, we'll discuss what we learned when porting the BOSH agent to Windows, and the choices we made when designing the interface for Windows BOSH releases. We'll also discuss the benefits we found in moving to BOSH, instead of maintaining an alternative installation mechanism like MSI installers.

Matthew Horan
Pivotal
Manager, Software Engineering
New York, New York
Websitehttps://matthoran.com/
Matthew Horan has spent over a decade developing Web applications. Before becoming a developer, he worked as a systems administrator at various startups and hosting providers. Having worked with just about every configuration management tool, and being a developer by trade, he was naturally drawn to Cloud Foundry. He has focused on .NET due to a desire to bring the best practices of Pivotal's Cloud Foundry platform to a wider audience.

Unlock the Power of IoT and Cognitive Computing with Node.js and Cloud Foundry [I] - Andrew Trice, IBM

Innovation is critical to both survival and evolution in all industries; In today's app driven economy, IoT and Cognitive computing are at the forefront of innovative application development patterns. Forward thinking ideas, rapid iteration, and adoption of new technology come together to transform how problems are solved, and how value is created. What’s this have to do with Node.js and Cloud Foundry? Well, the combination of Node.js and Cloud Foundry is a perfect conduit for driving that innovation. In this session, come see how an unmanned aircraft (aka "drones") is combined with computer vision and machine learning with IBM Watson, and scalable cloud runtimes to transform how industries work, today, highlighting a new insurance use case which enables companies to handle claims faster, safer, and with less error than ever before.

Andrew Trice
Andrew Trice is a technical advocate, experienced software architect, team leader, accomplished speaker, and published author who possesses more than 15 years of designing and implementing rich applications for the web, desktop, mobile, and wearable devices. Andrew has delivered industry leading solutions across many verticals, and has presented hundreds of times to audiences ranging from C-level management, to technical & developer groups, to creative directors.

Using Minikube (Kubernetes) for Node.js Development [I] - Troy Connor, Emerging Technology Advisors

Do you usually pay to develop your Node.js app in a cluster from a cloud provider? You won't do that anymore after you see how you can develop locally in a cloud environment. You will see how using minikube can help you scale your app along with how you plan on updating apps in real time.

Troy Connor
Software Engineer, Emerging Technology Advisors (ETA)
Troy Connor is a software engineer for Emerging Technology Advisors. I help maintain the open source software that allows you to change node versions called N. In his spare time, he likes to play with robots, read, code, chase conferences and meetups and develop communities.

What's New in Cloud Foundry Volume Services I - Julian Hjortshoj & Paul Warren, Dell EMC

We’ve made some great strides in CF Volume Services since our last talk in October.

We’ll start with a quick reminder of what Volume Services support means, and how it works in CloudFoundry. We will then highlight some of the new support we’ve added, including:

Support for existing NFS shares, with user app mapping to control app identity on the NFS server

Support for LDAP authentication (planned as of this writing)

Experimental Kerberos support

Support for Volume Services in PCFDev for easy ramp-up

Bosh runtime-configuration support for easier deployment of volume drivers

Finally we’ll do a 0-60 live demo showing how easy it can be to get started with shared filesystems in your own CF applications.

Julian Hjortshoj
Technical Staff, Dell EMC
Julian is the PM of the Diego Persistence team, and a 12 year veteran at Dell EMC. In his spare time, Julian enjoys traveling, cooking, sporadic exercise, and building stuff that isn’t software.

Zero to 12 million - Brendan Aye & Melissa Chapman, T-Mobile

T-Mobile wanted Cloud Foundry, and they wanted it quickly. The target was an application receiving 12 million daily calls running on the platform in three months. With no IaaS and complicated politics, were they able to meet their deadline? This talk will focus on some of the unexpected problems (technical and otherwise) that you may encounter in a large enterprise and how to address them.

Brendan Aye
brendan.aye@t-mobile.com
Brendan Aye is the Principal Cloud Foundry architect at T-Mobile, where he has been working with Cloud Foundry for four years.

Melissa Chapman
Sr. Product Owner, T-Mobile

Building Security Frameworks Into Your CI/CD Pipelines [I] - Nathan Gibson & David Brock, Allstate Insurance

Allstate is a company that puts extreme value in the trust that is given by their customers. This means taking all measures available to ensure that all customer information is protected. In addition, being in the insurance industry puts them under a significant amount of regulatory compliance requirements. Safeguarding this trust continues to become challenging in the world today where traditional security controls are no longer effective against the advanced persistent threats that organizations face.

In this session, Allstate will discuss the approach that we have taken to bring security to the right levels to ensure we protect our customer’s assets. It starts with a “secure by design” approach that is integrated into our extreme agile practices across the multiple layers of our technology stack.

We leverage a natively securely architecture for our platform infrastructure. Cloud Foundry provides us with unprecedented capabilities in providing some native security attributes and secure operational practices for all applications hosted. We leverage tools to continuously audit the infrastructure, supplementing the practices that the open source community do to secure and harden the platform.

We add another layer of continuous audit by integrating static and dynamic code analysis into our continuous integration pipelines. Cloud Foundry provides us with a platform that allows us to direct our assets and inspection to a well scoped threat area for hosted apps. In addition, it provides us with the ability to consistently and reliably do security related analysis, and enables us to confidently deploy to production knowing that our risk profiles do not change across environment.

Our approach of “secure by design” and “continuous audit” across all layers, coupled with the capabilities that Cloud Foundry provides, allows us to confidently assure our customers that they are in good hands.

David Brock
Allstate Insurance Co.
Product Manager
David Brock is the Product Manager for the CompoZed platform at Allstate. Over his many years at Allstate as a product manager, engineer and developer, he has gained in depth knowledge of mobile and platform architecture. David utilizes these skills to help accelerate development at Allstate.

Nathan Gibson
Allstate Insurance Co.
Senior Manager Application & Cloud Security
Nathan Gibson is an information security professional with over 15 years experience in the industry who loves continuous integration, inspection, and deployment environments. Nathan specializes in bringing information security concepts to continuous deployment software development environments.

Deploy the admin-ui as a CloudFoundry Application [B] - Michael Grifalconi, SAP

There are many applications that don’t exactly fit the 12-factor rules but it would still be useful to deploy them on Cloud Foundry.

SAP used the admin-ui project as a BOSH release to monitor the status of its Cloud Foundry deployments until it was considered an unnecessary effort to maintain a BOSH deployment for the specific use case. Unfortunately, admin-ui was not designed to be deployed as Cloud Foundry application.

The solution was to wrap the application in a way that allows the user to set all necessary configuration parameters in the manifest and deploy it on Cloud Foundry. Even if the talk will focus on the admin-ui, the procedure can be applied to any application which does not support injection of configuration parameters as environment variables like standard Cloud Foundry applications.

Michael Grifalconi
SAP SE
Developer
Michael Grifalconi is a Developer at the SAP Cloud Platform since 2015 and his main work field is DevOps where he contributes to deploy, maintain and update Cloud Foundry, infrastructure monitoring as well as continuous delivery solutions using BOSH for all deployments. His first experience on cloud topics starts in 2013 where he worked on OpenStack deployments and application auto-scaling technologies at university.

Disaster Recovery from Day 1 for every system with SHIELD - Dr Nic Williams, Stark & Wayne

BOSH and GCP make it incredibly easy to bring up vast arrays of production systems - Cloud Foundry, Kubo, monitoring systems, data services, and more. Unfortunately, you might not have a homogenous way to immediately commence backups of all data on all systems. A system is only a "production system" when operators know how to restore it after a disaster.

Fortunately, SHIELD is an open source standalone system that can perform backup and restore functions for a wide variety of pluggable data systems. SHIELD can be deployed with BOSH, and integrated to backup/restore both BOSH deployments and BOSH director itself. It has also been integrated with various Chef Habitat plans to provide backup/restore out of the box.

One of the pluggable storage systems is GCP's own object store.


Dr. Nic Williams
Stark & Wayne
CEO
Dr Nic Williams is one of the foremost open source developers and evangelists in the Cloud Foundry and BOSH ecosystems. Dr Nic discovered Cloud Foundry and BOSH in April 2011 and has been contributing to it, extensions, BOSH releases, tutorials, and blog posts ever since.

Dr Nic is also the founder and CEO of Stark & Wayne - the premier consultancy for Cloud Foundry operations and development - with over 30 staff in USA, Canada, Europe, and Australia. We love that Cloud Foundry makes people happy.

A Roadmap to Active Multi Cloud [I] - Steve Greenberg, Resilient Scale & Steve Wall, ECS Team

Multi-cloud capability is a key feature of cloud foundry. Extending this model to multiple active cloud foundry installations has many enterprise wide use cases.

This talk will define active multi cloud, look at common enterprise use cases, describe the concerns that must be addressed, walk through a roadmap and demo and wrap up with best practices.

Often perceived as difficult, creating multiple active multi-clouds with CF is not difficult when you break down the concerns. This talk provides a reference architecture and roadmap for active multi-cloud using Cloud Foundry.

Steve Wall
ECS Team
Director of Solutions Architecture
Denver
Websiteecsteam.com
Steve has over 20 years of experience architecting, designing and developing sophisticated enterprise applications, with the past three years focused in Cloud Foundry development. He is a Cloud Foundry Certified Associate and served on the Cloud Foundry Foundation’s committee to create the operator and developer certification programs. In addition, Steve has been a speaker at several user groups on Cloud Foundry-related topics, presenter at the Cloud Foundry Summit for the past two years, as well as a regular blogger on cloud-native topics. In 2017, he was named co-chair of the Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley Cloud-Native Java Track. Steve has successfully led software development teams and provided guidance to clients from initial discussions for architecting and re-architecting entire systems from implementation through post-production support, including operator experience with Open Source Cloud Foundry and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.


Steve Greenberg
Steve is the Founder and CEO of Resilient Scale, a consultancy focused on building capabilities through collaboration, training and mentoring. He is a long time application developer and architect and a proponent of Spring & Cloud Foundry. Steve has been working with Cloud Foundry since March of 2012, was one of the first Pivotal Engineers to complete the Cloud Foundry Dojo, and built (and donated to the community) the Spring Cloud Service Broker. He lives in the mountains of Colorado and spends his free time skiing, mountain biking, fly fishing and making things in his workshop.

Accelerate your Digital Transformation [I] - Michael Dawson, IBM

Digital transformation is more than a buzz phrase. Learn how companies are evolving to Cloud, systematically leveraging existing workloads on their current platforms for competitive advantage. This session explores the transition to Cloud using Node.js technologies and unlocking the power of your existing data sets and what you can expect from the Node.js Foundation and community moving forward. See how the ability to start on known and familiar platforms and environments and to maintain a bridge to data on these platforms using new technologies like Node.js can be one of the keys to success of the move to cloud native.

Come learn about the work IBM is doing to ensure to that:
- Node.js is available across platforms and environments
- that key tools and capabilities are available (monitoring, post mortem investigation)
- you can leverage existing datasets in your cloud native applications using the IBM SDK for Node.js is based on the Node.js™ open source project. It provides a compatible solution for IBM Power™, Intel® and z Systems™ products that require Node.js functionality and package management.

Michael Dawson
IBM
Senior Software Developer
Ottawa, Ontario
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Michael Dawson is an active contributor to Node.js and a CTC member. He contributes to a broad range of community efforts including platform support, build infrastructure, N-API, LTS as well as tools to help the community achieve quality with speed (ex: ci jobs, benchmarking and code coverage reporting). Within IBM he leads the Node.js team driving IBM’s Node.js runtime deliveries and their contributions to Node.js and v8 within the Node and google communities. Past experience includes building IBM's Java runtime, building and operating client facing e-commerce applications, building PKI and symmetric based crypto solutions as well as a number of varied consulting engagements. In his spare time he uses Node.js to automate his home and life for fun.

Analyzing Pets and Live Debugging: Using Google's Machine Learning APIs and Stackdriver Debugger [I] - Colleen Briant, Google

Learn how to use Google’s industry-leading machine learning technology and live debug production applications in one fell swoop! In this session we’ll explore some of the different apis and options that Google has for your machine learning needs, and then live demo using these apis and debugging a production application using the Stackdriver Debugger integration in the Java buildpack for Cloud Foundry.

Colleen Briant
Software Engineer, Google
Colleen is a Software Engineer at Google. She keeps Cloud Foundry developers and operators on the cutting edge of Google Services with the GCP Service Broker and other open source integrations. She has previously spoken at Cloud Foundry Summit Europe.

Architecture and Performance of Royal Bank of Canada’s Online Banking Application on Cloud Foundry Platform [I] - Surya V Duggirala, IBM & Milorad Stefanovic, Royal Bank of Canada

As more and more Banking applications are being deployed on Cloud Foundry cloud platform, it is essential to understand their performance characteristics. In this session, we will discuss the architectural and performance characteristics of customer facing retail Online Banking application of Royal Bank of Canada on Cloud Foundry Platform. This session covers some of the specific performance challenges encountered and a prescriptive guidance to resolve them which will be applicable for many other Banking applications. This session also discusses other RBC applications in production on Cloud Foundry.

Milorad Stefanovic
Senior Director, Digital Business Channels, Royal Bank of Canada

Surya V Duggirala
IBM
STSM, IBM Watson and Cloud Platform Architecture & Performance Engineering
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Surya Duggirala is IBM STSM responsible for Architecture and Performance of IBM Bluemix Cloud Platform. He directs a globally distributed team responsible for Bluemix performance engineering. He also leads Cloud Architecture Solution Engineering performance workgroup focused on various industry domain architectures. His special interests include designing microservices applications using scripting and cognitive technologies targeted for cloud. As a Global Technical Ambassador (GTA), he works with many customers, partners and ISVs across the world on cloud, application integration, performance and architecture.

BOSH Splitter - Chris Weibel, Stark & Wayne & Balajee Nagarajan, GE Digital

As Cloud Foundry operators, we want to provide a seamless experience to our end-users, while keeping Cloud Foundry itself up to date and scaled appropriately. While BOSH is a powerful tool for managing such complexity, those deployments can become unwieldy. Large deployments that involve hundreds, or even thousands of instances run into problems of scale, especially during upgrades.

Drawing on their experience keeping GE's Cloud Foundry - based Predix platform running and up to date, BOSH Splitter was created - a tool that helps split large-scale deployments into easier to manage bites. This tool allows you to split out a BOSH job in an existing deployment into its own manifest, without having to manage multiple deployment repos for the same environment. For example: In a large production environment, you might have 500 or more servers, most of these being runners or cells split across a few availability zones. These can be easily split out into their own deployment manifests and maintained while continuing to leverage your existing templates. You can then schedule your upgrade windows one availability zone at a time if desired, or implement whatever paradigm befits your organization.

Learn how Balajee, Chris and the rest of the team have successfully used BOSH Splitter to make Diego Cell stemcell upgrades much more bearable, and how you can use it in your own large-scale deployments today.

The tool and additional information can be found here: https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/bosh-splitter

Balajee Nagarajan
Balajee Nagarajan is a Sr Engineering Manager at Predix Cloud Engineering team at GE Digital, responsible for building, maintaining and providing TLC for the application and container runtime environments for Predix, a job that gives him the joys of maintaining very large BOSH deployments. Before joining GE Digital, Balajee was part of the Avi Networks team building next gen Cloud Load balancers and responsible for bootstrapping their QA/Operations and Support teams. He has spent time attending/speaking at various meetups in SF and East bay.

Chris Weibel
Stark & Wayne, LLC
Cloud Engineer
Niagara Falls, NY

Chris Weibel is a Engineer Team Lead at Stark & Wayne and has worked on several projects including SHIELD & RDPG. The last two years have been spent helping deploy and maintain Cloud Foundry for GE Predix. A former DBA, SAN administrator and developer in the regulated banking, utilities and health care industries he has focused on discovering what DevOps needs to make their lives easier from several perspectives. He is a regular meetup speaker at Buffalo Lab's Database Seminars.

Breathe Into the Node.js [B] - Mark Hinkle, Linux Foundation

Node.js is becoming increasingly more popular with 7 million users per month and growing at a rate of 100% year-over-year. Although the application platform is attracting a lot of new developers, it is also attracting Java, Ruby and Python developers, especially as more enterprises explore microservices.

Node.js is a dynamically typed language and if you are trying to approach this application platform like Java, Ruby and Python, you are bound to fail.

This presentation will provide an overview of why Node.js is the right choice for PaaS and how best to approach this language if you are a traditional Java, Ruby or Python developer.

Mark Hinkle
The LInux Foundation
VP
Mark is responsible for marketing programs and community relations at The Linux Foundation. Previously, Mark was senior director, Open Source Solutions for Citrix, where he managed their Open Source Business office and their involvement in the Apache CloudStack and Xen Project communities. He also drove the strategy and execution of open source marketing efforts for Cloud.com, leading to its acquisition by Citrix in 2011.

Build Enterprise Apps Using CF Instance on Your Laptop! [B] - Sanjay Patil, SAP

Most enterprise applications depend upon a powerful underlying database engine for data storage and data intensive business logic. On top of it, it is common to use languages like Java for business services and JavaScript for sleek user experience. It is also highly desirable to develop, debug and test such polyglot applications locally before deploying them in the Cloud.

This session will demonstrate (with working code) some best practices for:
- Using Cloud Foundry for implementing micro-services architecture for all application layers (including database driven micro-services)
- Developing and testing polyglot applications with a local Cloud Foundry instance on your laptop and deploying the very same application code to Cloud

Sanjay
SAP
Product Manager, SAP Cloud Platform
Sanjay Patil is a Product Manager of SAP Cloud Platform, a certified Cloud Foundry PaaS solution. With his passion and decade-long experience with Open Standard technologies, Sanjay has been closely involved in creation and launch of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. He has delivered talks on Cloud Foundry at previous Cloud Foundry Summit as well as other developer conferences such as SAP TechEd.

Build Intelligent Business Applications with Machine Learning and Cloud Foundry - Margaret Laffan, SAP

Explore the role of machine learning in transforming every digital business. Locate areas where deep learning can be applied to generate deeper insights and uncover new opportunities and potential challenges, using machine learning solutions on SAP Cloud Platform. Learn how SAP is leveraging Cloud Foundry technology and building intelligent applications that enable you to gain a deeper understanding of your business and make it more agile.

Margaret Laffan
Margaret Laffan belongs to the Business Development Team for Machine Learning at the Innovation Center Network and is driving customer engagement for the different SAP Leonardo Machine Learning Applications. Margaret has a MA in Political Science and professional background in Product Marketing, Business Development and Partner Engagement.

Build an Application at Google Scale with Spanner, Cloud Foundry, and Google Cloud Platform [I] - Jeff Johnson, Google

Google runs on Spanner, the global scale database that allows our product teams to focus on building incredible products and our infrastructure teams to focus on delivering database that's consistent, highly-available (5 9's), and tolerant to network partitions. This innovation is now in your Cloud Foundry marketplace as Google Cloud Spanner through the GCP Service Broker. Join Google Engineers as they build a ticketing application on Cloud Foundry and see how simple it is push to data centers across the world and achieve Google scale without handling replication, sharding, network splits, or the rest of long tail of problems that comes with managing state across the planet.

Jeff Johnson
Jeff is a Software Engineer at Google who is giving developers super powers by integrating the tools that run Google with open source Cloud Foundry. He has worked closely with the excellent engineers at Pivotal on the stackdriver-tools BOSH release to integrate Google's Logging, Monitoring, Tracing, and Debugging with Cloud Foundry. Today he is working with Pivotal on bringing Kubernetes' container orchestration strengths to complement Cloud Foundry applications. Check out the Pivotal Cloud Foundry on Google Cloud Platform web series for a hint of what's to come.

Burning Down The House: How to Plan for and Deal with Disaster Recovery in CF - Jatin Naik & Therese Stowell, Pivotal

People make mistakes. Hardware fails. Hurricanes, volcanoes, acts of God. You’ve installed Cloud Foundry and are running 1000 mission-critical apps. You’re the operator and the health of CF is on your head, how do you sleep at night?
Backups? But.. is backup an outdated term in a cloud native world? What does it mean to back up Cloud Foundry? What components are involved? What about data services?
In this talk Therese and Jatin will dig into CF internals to map out what’s required to make reliable backups of Cloud Foundry and app data. They will talk through the challenges of engineering a robust b+r solution that works across IaaSs. They will look at different tools and approaches in use now, and discuss issues like downtime and consistency across multiple components. Finally they will present their proposed BOSH-based framework for backup and recovery plus other potential solutions, from disk imaging to event streams, while considering potential modifications to CF to make it more backup-able.

Jatin Naik
Jatin Naik is an Engineer on the Cloud Foundry team at Pivotal, working on backup and restore. He is interested in BOSH and Cloud Foundry, and spoke at CF Summit Europe last year on an intro to writing an app for CF and a multi-cloud CPI.

Therese Stowell
Pivotal
Staff Product Manager
London
Websitepivotal.io
Therese Stowell is Product Manager at Pivotal. She has worked in the software industry for 20+ years as programmer, interface designer, and product manager. She worked on Windows, developing the command line environment, founded a successful social enterprise, and was part of a startup team to win a Nesta Open Data Institute £40,000 prize. She also has an MA in Fine Art. She has extensive speaking experience, most recently moderating a panel on implicit bias in technology and speaking about metrics in Cloud Foundry at the PaaS LOPUG.

CF Networking: All Your Packets are Belong to Us - Usha Ramachandran & Jay Dunkelberger, Pivotal

Is your network admin losing sleep over whitelisting your entire deployment? Worried about public routes to your backend apps? Can’t tell which application is hammering your production database?

Worry no more! Cloud Foundry has a brand new container networking stack, that enables application level policies and direct container-to-container communication. Join us for an overview of the new feature set and the use cases it solves. See it how it works through a demonstration and learn about where we plan to go next.

Jay Dunkelberger
Software Engineer, Pivotal
Jay Dunkelberger is a Software Engineer at Pivotal who has worked on Cloud Foundry for the last year after a previous life in physics.

Usha Ramachandran
Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Senior Product Manager
San Francisco

Usha Ramachandran is a Product Manager at Pivotal and the the Product Lead for CF Networking. She has over 15 years of networking experience, having worked at Cisco, Alcatel and Ericsson. She has worn several hats throughout her career including software engineer, technical marketing engineer and product manager. A seasoned conference speaker, she has spoken at Cisco Live! and VMworld over multiple years and at CF Summit in 2016.

CF Serverless: CloudFoundry as a Platform for Serverless Computing [I] - Nima Kaviani & Michael Maximilien, IBM

As CloudFoundry matures to become the de-facto platform for enterprise cloud computing, it is no surprise that various types of computing services need to be supported. Server-less computing is a new name for various previous concepts or technologies, e.g. functors, functional programming. In this model of computing, applications are written as a series of small functions with clear input and output and can be executed in the cloud on demand. The difference between this approach and eg. micro-services is that the backend part only executes when invoked. In this talk we compare and contrast possible approaches to make CF a first class platform for server-less computing. We explore retrofitting the current CF app push model, leverage open source server less platforms like OpenWhisk, and investigate how the CF runtime (Diego) could be improved to support server less apps as on-off tasks.

Nima Kaviani
IBM
Nima Kaviani is a cloud engineer with IBM and a contributor to CF Diego. Nima holds a PhD in computer science and tweets and blogs about Cloud Foundry, distributed systems, and technology in general.

Michael (aka dr.max)
IBM
Scientist, Architect, and Engineer
My name is Michael Maximilien, better known as max or dr.max, and I am a computer scientist with IBM. At IBM Research Triangle Park, I was a principal engineer for the worldwide industry point-of-sale standard: JavaPOS. At IBM Research, some highlights include pioneering research on semantic Web services, mashups, and cloud computing, and platform-as-a-service. I joined the IBM Cloud Labs in 2014 and work closely with Pivotal Inc., to help make the Cloud Found the best PaaS.

Do you love the simplicity and ease of pushing your application to Cloud Foundry but want to know what happens to your app instances under the hood? Do you operate a Cloud Foundry deployment and need to understand how all its different components work together to keep applications running?

After years of development, Diego has now replaced the previous DEA system as the official container runtime at the heart of Cloud Foundry, capable of running even the largest CF deployments. In this talk, the project lead for the Diego team will survey how the Diego components interact with each other and with the other subsystems inside of CF to run application instances, how those interactions have changed over the past year to improve system stability, security, and scale, and how to use tooling such as the CF Diego Operator Toolkit ("cfdot") to inspect the app instances and tasks in a deployment. This talk will also review how Diego enables powerful platform features such as container networking and volume plugins, and discuss other upcoming features that CF teams are actively working on and exploring today.

After attending this talk, you'll be ready to operate your Diego-backed CF deployment with confidence and to take advantage of the powerful features it unlocks for your applications.

Eric Malm
Pivotal Software
Eric works at Pivotal Software as the Product Manager for the CF Runtime Diego team, and prior to that was a software engineer on the Diego team and on the CF Runtime team. He also holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Stanford University.

Cloud Foundry in the Enterprise Track Introduction - Dormain Drewitz, Pivotal & Savita Raina, SAP

Dormain Drewitz
Pivotal Software
Director, Product Marketing
San Francisco Bay Area
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Dormain spent over five years as an investment analyst following infrastructure software, including Red Hat, IBM, Oracle, and numerous pre-IPO companies. Today, she collaborates with several software companies to build their go to market strategies with Pivotal Cloud Foundry. She is a Director of Product Marketing with Pivotal. She has published extensively on cloud computing topics for ten years, demystifying the changing requirements of the infrastructure software stack. She’s presented at the Gartner Application Architecture, Development, and Integration Summit; MuleSoft Connect; sales kickoffs, and numerous regional marketing events. Dormain holds a B. A. in History from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Savita Raina
SAP
Sr.Product Marketing Manager
Palo Alto
Websitehttps://cloudplatform.sap.com/index.html
Savita is Sr. Product Marketing Manager for SAP Cloud Platform and has 10 years of direct work experience working in high tech industry. She has a diverse set of experiences that span from engineering design & product development to pre-sales, product and audience marketing functions. In prior roles at SAP she has been responsible for defining and delivering audience messaging, value proposition, and thought leadership content for the IT line-of-business. Prior to SAP, she has worked at Proofpoint, MKS Instruments and Oerlikon. She holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and MS in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Cloud Native Java [B] - Josh Long, Pivotal

“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” -W. Edwards Deming

Work takes time to flow through an organization and ultimately be deployed to production where it captures value. It’s critical to reduce time-to-production. Software - for many organizations and industries - is a competitive advantage.

Organizations break their larger software ambitions into smaller, independently deployable, feature -centric batches of work - microservices. In order to reduce the round-trip between stations of work, organizations collapse or consolidate as much of them as possible and automate the rest; developers and operations beget “devops,” cloud-based services and platforms (like Cloud Foundry) automate operations work and break down the need for ITIL tickets and change management boards.

But velocity, for velocity’s sake, is dangerous. Microservices invite architectural complexity that few are prepared to address. In this talk, we’ll look at how high performance organizations like Ticketmaster, Alibaba, and Netflix make short work of that complexity with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.

Josh Long
Pivotal
Spring Developer Advocate
Josh (@starbuxman) is the Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal. Josh is a Java Champion, author of 5 books (including O'Reilly's upcoming Cloud Native Java: Designing Resilient Systems with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry) and 3 best-selling video trainings (including Building Microservices with Spring Boot Livelessons with Spring Boot co-founder Phil Webb), and an open-source contributor (Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud, Activiti and Vaadin)

Cloud Native and Automation at Garmin - Jonathan Regehr & James Stueve, Garmin International

You may remember the 2015 CF Summit talk entitled "Leaving Your Comfort Zone - Garmin and Cloud Foundry". Garmin IT has learned and changed a lot since then. Jonathan and James will take you through our Cloud Native journey, including successes and mistakes along the way. Our story includes a Pivotal Labs Engagement, pair programming, pipelines.

Jonathan Regehr
Garmin International
Senior Software Engineer
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Jonathan is a Senior Software Engineer with Garmin International.  He is a thought leader when it comes to developing applications that run in Pivotal Cloud Foundry.  He is passionate about CI/CD pipelines and automation.  Making sure that we "automate all the things" is one of his ongoing goals. Jonathan spoke at Cloud Foundry Summit 2015 - the talk was entitled "Leaving our Comfort Zone"

James Stueve
Garmin International
Internet Architect
Olathe, KS
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James is an Internet Architect with Garmin International. He is a big proponent of code quality and CI/CD pipelines.  James is currently working on helping jumpstart applications that will run in Pivotal Cloud Foundry.  Primarily his expertise is working with Spring boot applications. Making sure developers can code solutions without having to worry about tooling is something he is very passionate about.

Cloud-Native Node.js Track Introduction - Michael Dawson, IBM

Michael Dawson
IBM
Senior Software Developer
Ottawa, Ontario
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Michael Dawson is an active contributor to Node.js and a CTC member. He contributes to a broad range of community efforts including platform support, build infrastructure, N-API, LTS as well as tools to help the community achieve quality with speed (ex: ci jobs, benchmarking and code coverage reporting). Within IBM he leads the Node.js team driving IBM’s Node.js runtime deliveries and their contributions to Node.js and v8 within the Node and google communities. Past experience includes building IBM's Java runtime, building and operating client facing e-commerce applications, building PKI and symmetric based crypto solutions as well as a number of varied consulting engagements. In his spare time he uses Node.js to automate his home and life for fun.

Comcast Cloud Foundry Journey - Part 2 - Greg Otto, Comcast

It is hard to believe that Comcast is on the third year of our Cloud Foundry Journey! Our platform has scaled 490% in 2016 and has enabled development teams to improve productivity and time-to-market by as much as 75%! However, this is yesterday's news and our developers want more. Our focus has shifted to engaging closer with the developer community, expanding the platform by creating new capabilities and contributing back to the open source community, all with less than a handful of resources! Come talk to us about our lessons learned, how we’ve tapped into the passions of our developer community, our strategy for changing our focus to expand the platform to deliver even more services and business value! All of this while still keeping the lights on.


Greg Otto
Comcast
Executive Director, Cloud Services
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Note - Keynote speaker at Cloud Foundry 2016 and SpringOne Platform 2016 BIO - As Executive Director of Cloud Services at Comcast, Greg is helping transform the product delivery experience. A 20+ year veteran with roots as a programmer, he is passionate about improving the lives of Comcast development teams. Greg has been a driving force for cloud, after initiating the program over 8 years ago, and has focused a lot of his time partnering with the Pivotal Cloud Foundry team since 2014. Greg and team have delivered a robust Pivotal Cloud Foundry environment across hybrid cloud environments, enabling critical application refactoring efforts and fast adoption across the enterprise.

Coming Soon to a Cloud Near You: Multiple Buildpack Support - Keaty Gross & Stephen Levine, Pivotal

"The Buildpacks Team just wrapped work on multiple buildpack support and we want to share the good news!
This latest Cloud Foundry feature allows applications to leverage a mixture of different technologies in one `push`, permitting strategic use of multiple languages in one app or app-embedded additional processes. This will come as welcome news to users interested in building apps of this type in the future, or to users who already have but had to switch to Docker containers or custom buildpacks to achieve these ends.
Attend this talk if you’d like to learn more about what multi-buildpacks do under the hood, how they differ from their predecessor the multi-buildpack buildpack, or where this feature might come in handy in the future. As an added bonus for the uninitiated, we’ll even provide a bit of insight into what exactly happens when you `cf push`. Appropriate for all experience levels."

Keaty Gross
Software Engineer, Pivotal
Keaty Gross is a Pivotal CF engineering manager, currently enjoying allocation to Buildpacks team. She has given talks about (P)CF products at CF Summit Shanghai and SpringOne Platform.

Stephen Levine
Stephen Levine is a Pivotal CF Product Manager on Buildpacks team. He’s been known to leave unsuspecting coworkers’ keyboards set to Dvorak. This is his first time presenting, so be nice.

Creating a Smart and Serverless Cat Detection System with IoT and Image Recognition APIs - Linda Nichols, Emerging Technology Advisors

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be the difference between applications that just perform tasks and applications that seem truly intelligent and intuitive to humans. With cloud platforms like IBM Bluemix and Amazon Web Services, AI is as accessible as ever to developers through provided and hosted APIs. These cloud platforms also allow simplify the process of using AI with other powerful cloud services such as IoT, big data, messaging, and serverless functions.

Hardware systems are unique in that they are able to collect real-time data from their environments with various sensors. These systems can become even more powerful and perceptive when this data can be rapidly analyzed with machine learning models. A basic detection system will send an alert when it detects any kind of motion near the sensor, but an intelligent system “knows” what the detected object is. Using image recognition, it can classify the moving object as human and even make a trained guess at what emotion that human was feeling at the moment it was detected.

In this talk, Linda Nichols will describe how a real-life use-case (pets jumping on the kitchen counters) evolved from a simple motion detector to an intelligent and inexpensive cat detection system. Using IBM Watson IoT Platform and Node.js, she was able to connect a Raspberry Pi with IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk functions and IBM Watson image recognition APIs. She will demonstrate how her system can quickly and reliably notify owners when it detects a cat, but ignore other categories of moving objects. She will also discuss how she was able to reduce the complexity of the system architecture and the amount of static code stored on the Raspberry Pi by using “serverless” IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk functions.

Linda Nichols
Emerging Technology Advisors
Senior Software Engineer
Norfolk, Virginia Area
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Linda is a senior software developer at Emerging Technology Advisors. In addition to creating software, she has a passion for community involvement and education. She is a co-founder of Norfolk.js, NodeBots Norfolk, and RevolutionConf. She also teaches a variety of local robotics and coding workshops. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Old Dominion University and a Masters in Information Technology from Virginia Tech. She enjoys bad karaoke, good sushi, and all varieties of cats.

Blog posts and recent talks/appearances: https://www.emergingtechnologyadvisors.com/team/linda.html

Deploying Kubernetes with Cloud Foundry and BOSH [I] - Jeff Johnson and Meaghan Kjelland, Google

In this talk, Meaghan and Jeff will show you how to run and manage Kubernetes with Cloud Foundry and BOSH. This is made possible by a joint collaboration between Pivotal and Google on an open source BOSH release of Kubernetes. We’ll go over the architecture, deployment, and value of the platforms alongside one another.

Meaghan Kjelland
Meaghan is a Software Engineer at Google taking the steam out of proprietary software by building the future in open source. She is currently working with Pivotal to make Kubernetes' container orchestration strengths complement Cloud Foundry applications.

Jeff Johnson
Jeff is a Software Engineer at Google who is giving developers super powers by integrating the tools that run Google with open source Cloud Foundry. He has worked closely with the excellent engineers at Pivotal on the stackdriver-tools BOSH release to integrate Google's Logging, Monitoring, Tracing, and Debugging with Cloud Foundry. Today he is working with Pivotal on bringing Kubernetes' container orchestration strengths to complement Cloud Foundry applications. Check out the Pivotal Cloud Foundry on Google Cloud Platform web series for a hint of what's to come.

Effective Patterns and Practices for Polyglot Programming [A] - Martin Kreibe, ECS Team

Polyglot programming is not just using multiple programming languages, it also involves multiple frameworks and multiple services.


Whether we choose it or not, as technologies evolve, polyglot programming is already there in every corporate environment. Best thing to do is to understand it better and make the right decisions to choose the right programming language/framework/service based on the problem at hand.

We will look at
• What is polyglot programming?
• Risks of polyglot programming? What are the trade-offs?
• What are the patterns and anti-patterns you need to watch out for when you are using it?

Martin Kreibe
ECS Team
Sr Cloud Architect
Denver, CO
Martin is a Senior Cloud Architect who is constantly striving to improve application and business processes. He has worked in a variety of fields, from manufacturing to finance to startups, and an on countless greenfield and modernization projects. When leading and advising teams, Martin always has an eye on the current and future needs of the user and business. As a natural polyglot, Martin has constantly switched from C++, C#, Java, Golang and JavaScript to suit the application, needs of the team and the speed to market.

Evolving the Cloud Foundry CLI UX - Dies Köper, Fujitsu & Mike Long, Pivotal

Starting with an overview of what the Cloud Foundry CLI is and what has been added and improved since last year’s Summit, Dies and Mike will give the audience a peek under the covers of the design process they follow for new features for the cf CLI.

CLI anchor Nick will explain how the team converts Dies & Mike’s output into code.

The cf CLI gets about half a million downloads per month and is used by users of all Cloud Foundry products and offerings. Supporting new features and workflows, as well as improving the user experience of existing workflows without breaking user’s scripts, requires diligent work. Or just luck? Take a peek with us!

Mike Long
Pivotal
Product Designer
San Francisco Bay Area

Mike Long has worked on Cloud Foundry as a product designer for nearly three years, and designing tools for developers for about six years. In his spare time, Mike enjoys hacking on web apps and running a large designer meetup group in San Francisco.

Dies Koper
Fujitsu
CF CLI PM
Sydney, Australia

Dies Köper evolved from a Java developer to project manager of the Cloud team at Fujitsu in Sydney, Australia.

Since Fujitsu started a Cloud Foundry based aPaaS, Dies has been promoting Fujitsu's involvement in the CF community.

Dies became the Product Manager of the Cloud Foundry CLI in Nov 2015, now 20 months ago, working on a cross-vendor team spread over San Francisco, Seattle and Sydney.
He has been speaking about this collaboration at Cloud Foundry Days and Meetups in Australia and Japan.

He also brought SAP, IBM and Fujitsu together with an incubator proposal for an App Auto-Scaling solution for CF.

Experiments and Extensions Track Introduction - Matt Cowger, Dell & Dr. Max, IBM

Michael (aka dr.max)
IBM
Scientist, Architect, and Engineer
My name is Michael Maximilien, better known as max or dr.max, and I am a computer scientist with IBM. At IBM Research Triangle Park, I was a principal engineer for the worldwide industry point-of-sale standard: JavaPOS. At IBM Research, some highlights include pioneering research on semantic Web services, mashups, and cloud computing, and platform-as-a-service. I joined the IBM Cloud Labs in 2014 and work closely with Pivotal Inc., to help make the Cloud Found the best PaaS.

Ford Motor Company’s Transition from Auto-Motive to Auto-Mobility [I] - Mohsin Ahmed & Manu Pasari, Ford Motor Company

Software is driving the transformation at Ford Motor Company by enabling it to transition from an Automotive to both an Auto and a Mobility company. Embracing the agile software development methodologies and micro services architecture, Ford has launched business critical applications by leveraging the Cloud Foundry Platform in its Data Centers and the Public Cloud. Rapid adoption and iteration for the platform and its services presented the challenge to scale it globally and stay current on releases while maintaining its stability along with strong logging and monitoring. Learn how Ford Motor Company incorporated the DevOps model and integrated tools to overcome these challenges to maintain this continuous innovation platform.


Mohsin Ahmed
Ford Motor Company
Senior Systems Engineer
Mohsin Ahmed is working as Senior Systems Engineer at Ford Motor Company. He has been involved in various enterprise infrastructure design, development and implementation projects for the past 15 years. He has engineered resilient and highly available solutions with VMware virtualization platforms, Microsoft server and cloud infrastructure. His recent engagement has been with the design and implementation of Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform in the Microsoft Azure public cloud to support Ford’s transformation into both an automotive and a mobility company.

Manu Pasari
Ford Motor Company
Manu Pasari is a Senior Systems Engineer at Ford Motor Company with over 15 years of experience in IT industry. He has worked on design, implementation and support of Virtualization solutions, Client & Server technologies and hosting Cloud Foundry platform in the enterprise Data Centers. He has recently been involved in designing Cloud Foundry platform solutions and integrating tools for its support and automation to host next generation of applications.

Garden Project Update [I] - Julz Friedman, IBM

You may know that Cloud Foundry uses Garden as its API for Container Management. But why does CF use Garden rather than Docker? What are the major features and advantages of the Garden Container Engine? How does Garden relate to other container technology you may have heard of (like OCI, runC, CRI-O, containerd and docker)? What security features does Garden give you out-of-the-box that other technologies make you configure?

In addition, this talk will provide an update on some of the major advances in Cloud Foundry Containers over the past year, including:

The Move to RunC - ensuring CF uses the exact same low-level open-standards-based container-runtime as other platforms (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker etc).

Plugin API - allowing extension and experimentation in the platform, including container to container networking and more performance and supported overlayfs-based root filesystem management.

Security Advances - Garden is the most secure container-runtime *out of the box* for multi-tenant deployments. We now take the guess-work out of configuring your container engine for multi-tenant deployments by enabling and configuring the needed features out of the box.

Docker Auth, CPU Maximums, Better DNS Support - lots of new work for operability in large-scale environments, including support for CPU maximums, better DNS auto-configuration and support for username and passwords when pushing Docker Images.

Julian Friedman
IBM
Product Manager / Software Engineer
Julian is an IBMer and the Product Manager of Garden Core, Cloud Foundry’s Container Engine supporting both buildpack and docker apps. Julian has worked on Cloud Foundry and IBM’s Cloud Foundry deployment, BlueMix, for 4 years and before that on Cloud Technologies, IBM Watson, Large Scale Performance engagements and Map/Reduce for around 10. He holds a doctorate in Large Scale Complex IT Systems. Julian spoke at all of the past Cloud Foundry Summits and at various other conferences, including twice at ContainerSched and at CF Meetups and authored the InfoQ article “Build Your Own Container in Fewer than 100 Lines of Go” which was one of the Golang Newsletter’s 10 most popular articles of 2016.

Getting Started with Node.js on Cloud Foundry [B] - Joe Doyle & Patrick Mueller, NodeSource

Node.js is the fastest growing runtime used in Cloud Foundry. If you’re just getting started with building Node.js applications for Cloud Foundry, you may have a lot of questions about best practices for this runtime environment. How can you test an application locally? Should you push your package dependencies, or let the staging machine download them? Should you be pushing your Node.js applications as Docker containers? How do you deal with private packages? How do you debug your application?

This presentation will cover these questions and more, by building a new Node.js application designed to be run in Cloud Foundry. Existing Node.js developers will probably learn a trick or two as well!

Joe Doyle
NodeSource
Solutions Architect Manager
San Francisco Bay Area
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Joe Doyle is the Solutions Architect Manager at NodeSource. He has been working with Node.js and JavaScript for the last 5 years. Today much of his focus is on helping enterprise customers be successful with Node.js leveraging NodeSource products such as N|Solid and working to support the open-source Node.js community in general.

Patrick Mueller
NodeSource
Senior Node Engineer
Patrick Mueller is a Senior Node Engineer at NodeSource, and has been using Node.js as his primary development runtime since 2010. Patrick worked at IBM for 30 years, developing a variety of software platforms including IDEs, mobile runtimes and libraries, and server platforms including IBM Bluemix. He is the primary contributor of the popular "cfenv" Node.js package which provides complete environmental information about your Node.js applications running in Cloud Foundry. Patrick has previously presented at OSCON, GOTO Nights, Nodevember, Node Interactive, and other conferences.

Humana - Scaling Cloud Foundry From One Team to The Entire Enterprise - Patrick Huber, Humana & Parag Doshi, Pivotal

Humana started their cloud-native journey three years back when they set up Digital Excellence Center (DEC). The goal of DEC was for enabling their business customers achieve faster time to market and create a new way of developing applications within Humana by using Cloud Foundry.
In 2016, Humana undertook an initiative to spread DevOps culture and scale their use of Cloud Foundry across the enterprise for all development teams.
This presentation will illustrate their DevOps and Cloud Foundry journey led by Patrick for creating an enterprise resilient Cloud Foundry offering and changing the mindset of their internal teams to the new way of developing applications and infrastructure automation.
The audience will learn about their wins and the challenges that DevOps team faced along the way of creating an enterprise-wide Cloud Foundry offering. They will get to hear about different automation and functionality put in place by Patrick and Parag to create enterprise grade resilient Cloud Foundry platform. Come and learn what it takes to roll out and scale Cloud Foundry from one team to a

Patrick Huber
Humana
Architect & Product Owner - Cloud Foundry
Patrick is a domain architect and change agent at Humana. He has more than 14 years of experience in architecting business applications for Humana and other Fortune 500 companies. He has implemented infrastructure automation and is currently spreading the DevOps culture at Humana. Patrick is a prolific speaker and has presented numerous times at Humana - the latest at DevOps Days event at Humana where Patrick presented their enterprise Cloud Foundry vision and capabilities to a packed room of technology enthusiast. Patrick is currently the product owner and architect for adding more capabilities to their enterprise offering of PCF and is responsible for the rollout of Cloud Foundry across their enterprise.

Parag Doshi
Pivotal
Platform Architect - Cloud Foundry
Parag Doshi is a Cloud Foundry Platform Architect at Pivotal. Parag has more than fifteen years of experience in architecting, developing and deploying enterprise applications for various Fortune 500 companies. He has successfully led DevOps and organization transformation initiatives in various engagements in the past. In his current platform architect role, Parag works closely with various enterprise customers and helps them become successful in their DevOps and cloud foundry adoption journey.

Java Buildpack in 2017 [B] - Ben Hale, Pivotal

Over the years, the Java Experience team has worked hard to ensure that Cloud Foundry was the best place to run Java applications in the cloud. To that end, we ensure that every year adds new functionality, new integrations, and improves what's already there. This session will discuss some of the exciting new integrations as well as the recent improvements made to JVM memory calculation.

Ben Hale
Pivotal Software, Inc.
Cloud Foundry Java Experience Lead
Ben Hale leads Pivotal's efforts to constantly improve the Java experience on Cloud Foundry. Recently he has been working on the Cloud Foundry Java Buildpack with an eye to making it the best place to run Java applications, in the Cloud or otherwise. In addition, he leads the team that is revamping the Cloud Foundry Java Client, a Java language binding on top of the Cloud Foundry REST APIs. Prior to working on Cloud Foundry, Ben worked on large-scale middleware management tools, tc Server, dm Server (OSGi), and Spring. If you go back far enough, he even worked on a network management and monitoring application, but will deny it when asked. Ben has been a regular on the conference circuit for the last 10 years, speaking at Spring One, Cloud Foundry Summit, Devoxx, No Fluff Just Stuff, and more.

Java Microservices at Scale on Cloud Foundry, Today and Tomorrow [I] - Pieter Humphrey and Madhura Bhave, Pivotal

What makes Cloud Foundry the best place to run Java microservices? Looking beyond the Java buildpack -- we'll examine what makes a distributed platform such a perfect fit for distributed applications. How can BOSH managed microservice infrastructure make life easier for DevOps teams once a service has been deployed? What could operational automation look like for critical functions like service discovery, circuit breaker monitoring, and configuration services? Application and operations-focused developers, Architects, and IT managers will walk away with a solid introduction to what makes Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Spring Cloud Data Flow workloads exciting on Cloud Foundry.

Madhura
Pivotal
Madhura Bhave is a developer at Pivotal on the Spring Boot team. Before joining the Spring Boot team, Madhura worked on the UAA (Authentication and Authorization component for Cloud Foundry) which is written in Spring.
Pieter Humphrey
Pivotal Software, Inc
Principal Product Marketing Manager
San Francisco Bay Area

My role at Pivotal is focused on app and infra developers that use Java, Spring and Cloud Foundry. Java middleware has been my focus for nearly two decades, working in development, marketing, sales, and developer relations at BEA, Oracle, VMWare and Pivotal. Talk to me about Cloud Native applications!

Keynote: A Platform for the Enterprise: Where Maturity and Innovation Intersect - Chip Childers, CTO, Cloud Foundry Foundation

Chip Childers
Cloud Foundry Foundation
Chief Technology Officer
Chip has spent more than 18 years in large-scale computing and open source software. In 2015, he became the co-founder of the Cloud Foundry Foundation as Technology Chief of Staff. He was the first VP of Apache Cloudstack, a platform he helped drive while leading Enterprise Cloud Services at SunGard and then as VP Product Strategy at Cumulogic. Prior to SunGard, he led the rebuild of mission-critical applications for organizations including IRS.gov, USMint.gov, Merrill Lynch and SEI Investments. Chip is an experienced speaker at events like OSCON, LinuxCon North America, LC Japan, LC EU, ApacheCon, O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference, and many more. In his free time, Chip loves trail hiking with his black lab, sailing catamarans and sunfish, and trying to keep up with his young daughter.

Keynote: Engaging Engineers to Delight the Customer and Drive Business Results - Opal Perry, Divisional Chief Information Officer of Claims, Allstate Insurance

Allstate, founded in 1931 and the second largest Property and Casualty Insurer in the US, is pursuing the goal of creating a 22nd Century Corporation and technology is at the forefront of this transformation. There are many pieces that must fall into place for an enterprise transformation to succeed: a strong vision, support from a leadership coalition, leveraging new technology and business models and most of all the engagement and drive of the individuals who power the corporation. Opal will discuss how she and the team took a global first approach to leading engineers and product teams on the transformation journey and enabled powerful growth for teams across three continents.

Opal Perry
Allstate Insurance Company
Divisional Chief Information Officer of Claims
Opal Perry is Vice President and Divisional Chief Information Officer for Claims at Allstate Insurance where she leads a global engineering workforce focused on the digital transformation of claims including advancements in virtual estimating, digital payments and settlement.

Opal has over 20 years of expertise in building and growing global technology organizations across a variety of software engineering disciplines. Prior to assuming her current role, she served as the interim Managing Director of Allstate Northern Ireland and the Chief Operating Officer of the Allstate International technology organization where she created an engineer enablement program that levels up enterprise developers to full stack engineering while delivering software products to Allstate’s many businesses and customers.

Keynote: Enterprise is the New Black - Björn Goerke, CTO , SAP and President, SAP Cloud Platform

Digital transformation is fundamentally about enabling businesses to quickly innovate on top of their core competencies. For building innovative applications without compromising enterprise-grade qualities, the underlying platform must be agile, robust and open for accessing cutting-edge technologies. In this keynote, you will learn how SAP customers are driving innovations in leaps and bounds in IoT, Machine Learning, eCommerce and other areas by using SAP Cloud Platform -- a Cloud Foundry enterprise Platform offered in a multi-cloud environment.

Björn Goerke
SAP SE
Chief Technology Officer and President SAP Cloud Platform
Björn Goerke is Chief Technology Officer and President of SAP Cloud Platform at SAP SE. He reports directly to Bernd Leukert and Rob Enslin, members of the Executive Board of SAP SE.

Overseeing the technology strategy and standards across all products at SAP as well as product management, development, operations and go-to- market/sales, ecosystem and business development of SAP's innovation Cloud platform-as- a-service SAP Cloud Platform, Björn drives innovation with a global team of more than 4000 employees in Sales and Development across SAP Labs in Germany, India, Bulgaria, United States, Israel, China, Canada and additional countries working along Lean and agile Software Development methodologies and DevOps practices.

With SAP Cloud Platform SAP supports customers in developing and running innovative software solutions in their innovation and digital transformation projects, whether in areas of User Experience, Mobile, Application Integration, Machine Learning, Internet of Things (IoT)/Industry 4.0, Security, Big Data management including SAP HANA, Analytics or application development and operations (DevOps).

SAP Cloud Platform is built around and leveraging Open Source and Open Standards like Open Stack and Cloud Foundry. Based on SAP's commitment to and active support of and contribution to Cloud Foundry, Björn serves as member of the Board of Directors of the Cloud Foundry Foundation.

As part of SAP's long-term commitment to customer success, Björn also oversees the development support and maintenance activities of respective SAP technology products used by more than 70.000 SAP customers in mission critical scenarios. Since joining SAP in 1995, Björn has held several managerial and executive positions in technology and innovation development, both in Germany and the United States.

Keynote: How Comcast is Putting Customers First - Powered by Cloud Foundry - Moderator Fintan Ryan, Analyst, Redmonk; Greg Otto, Executive Director, Cloud Services, Comcast; Christopher Tretina, Director, Technical Architecture, Comcast; Uma Tumala, Principal Engineer, Comcast

Comcast is the largest cable provider in the United States, meaning it is vital for its services to be available at all times to meet enormous customer demand -- while ensuring its development teams can implement updates continuously, without sacrificing uptime. Join Greg Otto, Uma Tumala and Christopher Tretina from Comcast as they discuss the reasons they chose Cloud Foundry, from three unique perspectives: operations, development and line of business. Hear about the benefits and challenges of deploying Cloud Foundry across multiple clouds in one of the largest enterprise environments in the world.

Fintan Ryan
Redmonk
Analyst
Fintan Ryan is an industry analyst at RedMonk, the developer focused industry analyst firm.

Fintan's research focuses on all things related to developers, from tooling to methodologies and the organizational aspects of software development. His primary research areas include cloud native computing architectures, analytics, software defined storage, DevOps and machine learning.

Prior to joining RedMonk Fintan held senior roles in various software vendors. He holds an MSc in Information Systems Strategy from Dublin City University.

Greg Otto
Comcast
Executive Director, Cloud Service

Note - Keynote speaker at Cloud Foundry 2016 and SpringOne Platform 2016 BIO - As Executive Director of Cloud Services at Comcast, Greg is helping transform the product delivery experience. A 20+ year veteran with roots as a programmer, he is passionate about improving the lives of Comcast development teams. Greg has been a driving force for cloud, after initiating the program over 8 years ago, and has focused a lot of his time partnering with the Pivotal Cloud Foundry team since 2014. Greg and team have delivered a robust Pivotal Cloud Foundry environment across hybrid cloud environments, enabling critical application refactoring efforts and fast adoption across the enterprise.

Christopher Tretina
Comcast
Director, Technical Architecture
Greater Philadelphia Area

Christopher Tretina is Director of Technical Architecture at Comcast and has led the Core Architecture team that’s been driving the migration of the Enterprise Services Platform (ESP) implementation from SOA and WebLogic to the Xfinity Services Platform (XSP) built with microservices and deployed to Pivotal Cloud Foundry across numerous DevOps teams. Chris has 15 years’ experience in the technology industry in various roles marked at AstraZeneca, Pfizer, QVC, and Comcast.

Uma Tumala
Comcast
Principal Engineer
Uma Tumala is a Principal Engineer at Comcast who had been working within the confines of a heavy weight back office mediation platform built on monolithic architecture for several years. Comcast explored various opportunities to divide those monolithic services into fine-grained micro services and deploy those on a cloud platform. Ultimately, Comcast opted for the power and simplicity of Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Uma served a focal role in leading significant portions of that transformation initiative, especially as it related to indoctrination of automated testing within the build pipelines, as per her background. Uma has been actively involved in each step of this transformation from day one showcasing her enthusiasm and passion in making the migration successful including seamless migration of 200+ consuming applications to the new platform. She and her team worked through many challenges in this journey and gained a great deal of knowledge in the areas of CI/CD, common frameworks, Spring Boot upgrades, monitoring and alerting set up, GSLB configurations, micro service standards, and more. In so doing, she and her team have been able to successfully migrate 90+ services over to Pivotal Cloud Foundry in a little over two years, serving 250+ million transactions with reduced operational overhead, improved ease of scalability, and heightened resiliency and availability.

Keynote: Leap of Agile Faith - How Liberty Leveraged Agile, Cloud and Product Focus to Rapidly and Successfully Jump into a New Australian Market Segment - Mojgan Lefebvre, SVP & Chief Information Officer, Global Specialty, Liberty Mutual Insurance

Keynote: Open Source, Open Mind: Sound Solutions for Humanity - Kyla A. McMullen, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Florida

Undoubtedly, there is a strong connection between open source contribution and academia: collaboration across multiple groups, open access to information, and quality over quantity. Dr. McMullen will discuss how the SoundPadLab at the University of Florida uses open source to create novel solutions to many societal challenges. Come hear about how open source projects are being implemented in academic and human contexts.

Kyla A. McMullen, PhD
University of Florida
Assistant Professor
Dr. Kyla McMullen earned her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where she was also a Meyerhoff Scholar. She earned her Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan (2007-2012). While earning her Ph.D. she was also a faculty member at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. At Wayne State University she taught computer literacy courses to over 2,000 students. Professor McMullen is the first underrepresented woman to earn a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan. She is currently a tenure-track faculty member at the University of Florida’s Computer & Information Sciences & Engineering Department. Dr. McMullen has a personal commitment to encouraging women and minorities to pursue careers in computing and other STEM fields. She is the creator of "Beautiful, Black, and Brainy" and "Brilliant is the New Black", which showcase hundreds of exceptional young African Americans who excel in STEM fields and don't fit the typical "scientist" stereotype.

Dr. McMullen is the leader of the SoundPAD Laboratory at the University of Florida, which focuses on the Perception, Application, and Development of 3D audio in various contexts. Current projects include (1) psychoacoustic analysis of the quality of customized head-related transfer functions, (2) using 3D audio to sonify positional data for situational awareness, (3) using virtual spatial audio to augment assistive technology for persons with visual impairments, (4) discovering critical interface design techniques for developing virtual auditory environments, and (5) using 3D audio to increase immersion and realness in virtual and augmented reality.

Keynote: Panel: How Google and Microsoft are Using Cloud Foundry To Embrace Multi-Cloud - Chip Childers, Cloud Foundry, and Frederic Lardinois, TechCrunch (moderator)

Chip Childers
Cloud Foundry Foundation
Chief Technology Officer
Chip has spent more than 18 years in large-scale computing and open source software. In 2015, he became the co-founder of the Cloud Foundry Foundation as Technology Chief of Staff. He was the first VP of Apache Cloudstack, a platform he helped drive while leading Enterprise Cloud Services at SunGard and then as VP Product Strategy at Cumulogic. Prior to SunGard, he led the rebuild of mission-critical applications for organizations including IRS.gov, USMint.gov, Merrill Lynch and SEI Investments. Chip is an experienced speaker at events like OSCON, LinuxCon North America, LC Japan, LC EU, ApacheCon, O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference, and many more. In his free time, Chip loves trail hiking with his black lab, sailing catamarans and sunfish, and trying to keep up with his young daughter.

Fred Lardinois
TechCrunch
Reporter
Frederic has spent more than five years covering news and providing analysis about technology, the industry and consumer tech related to the Internet with potential to influence industry direction. At TechCrunch, his focus spans from emerging technologies and niche startups to major product advances by industry titans – all innovation focused. Before he joined TechCrunch in 2012, he founded Silicon Filter and wrote for ReadWriteWeb (now ReadWrite).

Keynote: The Makers of Marvels: How Developers Are Rebuilding the Enterprise, One Brick at a Time - Abby Kearns, Executive Director, Cloud Foundry Foundation

History teaches us that astonishing feats occur not when a singular leader envisions them, but when a mass of skilled workers collaborates to transform that vision into something material. The Pyramids of Giza, for example, were not built overnight by a Pharaoh, but constructed by tens of thousands of workers over a period of years. Today’s “pyramid” is quite a bit smaller, but a wonder of the world in its own right: The iPhone has transformed the world as we know it -- but most of its power comes from the app store, which offers thousands of apps created from the imaginations of thousands of developers. These developers are the makers of marvels in our time. They instantiate the very concept of digital transformation -- that notion of infrastructure disruption and re-assembly on the mind of every CIO. Business development is driven by software development, and software development is shaped by developers in the open source community.

In her talk, Abby Kearns empowers developers to think of themselves as the doers and makers who hold the key to unlocking digital transformation. She will cover the importance of diversity among developers for the technology industry to evolve and to reflect its user base, and will highlight the key open source concepts and technologies powering this trans-industrial transformation.

Abby Kearns
Cloud Foundry Foundation
Executive Director
San Francisco Bay Area

Abby is a true tech veteran, with an 18 year career spanning product marketing, product management and consulting at a mix of Fortune 500 and startup companies. As the first fellow at Cloud Foundry Foundation and VP of Strategy, Abby was responsible for structuring and executing operational and strategic initiatives, as well as leading the User Advisory Board and Industry Special Interest Groups. Prior to joining the Foundation, she was part of the Product Management team at Pivotal, focusing on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Previously, Abby led a Product Management and Product Marketing team at Verizon focused on cloud services. In her free time, Abby enjoys posting up at her local coffee shop, indulging in food and wine, and spending time with her husband and son.

Lightning Talk: Leveraging Large Scale Data Analytics on Cloud Foundry - Beibei Yang, Dell EMC

Beibei Yang
Dell EMC

Monetizing Your Applications Using Cloud Foundry Abacus and Billing Engines [I] - Pankaj Kumar, SAP

This session will demonstrate how CF Abacus is used for metering your applications. Based on this we can monetize on various attributes like API Calls, Resources consumed etc. This session will include an end to end scenario of enabling metering for an existing application. Followed by pushing the metered data into a rating and billing system there by triggering an invoice to the customer. The demo will use the knowledge and experience we have gathered at SAP in monetizing some of our cloud solutions using Cloud Foundry.

Pankaj Kumar
Product Manager, SAP
Pankaj Kumar is a product manager for SAP Cloud Platform where he focuses on commercialization aspects of the various platform resources and services. He has been a speaker at various Industry events like SAP TechEd, ASUG etc.

Nick Milani
VP Strategy & Solution Managment, SAP
Bucket list: Neural implants, holodeck, space travel, 488 Spider, Drum with AC/DC, DJ at Berghain. MBA, BSc (Software Engineering). Australia - France - USA

Monitoring Cloud Foundry Infrastructure and Applications with Stackdriver and BigQuery [I] - Jeff Johnson, Google

Create a single pane of glass for your Cloud Foundry deployment, search through application logs, and be alerted on errors with Stackdriver Logging and Monitoring. This talk will look at the open source Stackdriver Nozzle developed by Google and Pivotal and walk through useful features for operators and developers alike including the ability to stream logs into Stackdriver.

Jeff Johnson
Jeff is a Software Engineer at Google who is giving developers super powers by integrating the tools that run Google with open source Cloud Foundry. He has worked closely with the excellent engineers at Pivotal on the stackdriver-tools BOSH release to integrate Google's Logging, Monitoring, Tracing, and Debugging with Cloud Foundry. Today he is working with Pivotal on bringing Kubernetes' container orchestration strengths to complement Cloud Foundry applications. Check out the Pivotal Cloud Foundry on Google Cloud Platform web series for a hint of what's to come.

Monitoring Cloud Foundry: Get on TOP of Your Cloud Foundry Foundations - Kurt Kellner, ECS Team

Have you ever had to answer the question “what is happening on my foundation right now?” As a foundation operator, this is a common question. The open-source “top” plugin for the cf CLI can be a valuable tool in helping track down issues.

The “top” plugin is unlike most cf plugins which typically run using various command-line arguments, output information to the terminal and then exit. Instead, when you run “cf top” on the command-line, it will initialize a text-based interface that will allow user interaction with the screen. It works much like
the UNIX top command.

This talk will demonstrate the “top” plugin, walk through many of its features describing various use-cases where top saved valuable time in diagnosing problems. In addition to the functionality of top, a discussion of how this plugin was written and how it works under the covers.

Kurt Kellner
Kurt Kellner has more than twenty years of software implementation experience, ranging from the simplest of utilities to enterprise-wide systems serving millions of customers. His current focus is delivering cloud-native solutions to his clients, and he is a Certified Practitioner of Pivotal Cloud Foundry. In his spare time, he combines his many interest in woodworking, microcontrollers, electronics to create kinetic art.

Monitoring and Diagnosing the Performance Problems of Enterprise Applications on Cloud Foundry Application Platform [B] - Surya V Duggirala, IBM & Igor Music, Royal Bank of Canada

In this session/lab, we'll explore many available tools and techniques to diagnose performance problems and help track the transactions for Java and Node applications deployed on Cloud Foundry Cloud Platform. This session covers applications deployed on native runtimes like Node.js and Java on Cloud Foundry Platform with special focus on microservices.

Igor Music
Lead Solutions Architect, Royal Bank of Canada
Enterprise and Solution Architecture, Application Frameworks, Domain Driven Design, development of reusable Domain Models, and design and implementation of Solutions for Financial Services, Financial Models and Products.

Surya V Duggirala
IBM
STSM, IBM Watson and Cloud Platform Architecture & Performance Engineering
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Surya Duggirala is IBM STSM responsible for Architecture and Performance of IBM Bluemix Cloud Platform. He directs a globally distributed team responsible for Bluemix performance engineering. He also leads Cloud Architecture Solution Engineering performance workgroup focused on various industry domain architectures. His special interests include designing microservices applications using scripting and cognitive technologies targeted for cloud. As a Global Technical Ambassador (GTA), he works with many customers, partners and ISVs across the world on cloud, application integration, performance and architecture.

No Rocket Scientist Required - Developing +14,000 Message p/second IOT Systems - Dale Robinson, Arity LLC.

Anchoring the team tasked with developing a high throughput REST system for the Arity IOT platform, Dale Robinson has faced many of the common frustrations such an endeavour inevitably presents. This talk hopes to help fellow developers avoid the pitfalls and highlight the tools that helped deliver a working solution for Arity. Using Java and open source software like JMeter, RabbitMq and Spring Boot, Dale discusses ways to peek inside running containers, how breaking a monolith application into micro-services improved performance and Dales experiences of SDD (Security Driven Development - a personal term born from traumatic experiences) on team velocity.

Using Cloud Foundry instead of traditional JEE architecture, Arity has enabled its developers to deliver scalable applications with ease and made the nightmare of 4 a.m. deploys part of history.

Dale Robinson
Arity LLC.
Anchor Developer
U.K.
Dale Robinson is the Anchor for the A_SIX Project within Arity. Dale serves as an internal subject matter expert using Java technologies deployed on the Cloud Foundry Platform. Dale has acquired significant experience building high throughput systems in the Financial Services and Banking sectors. Dale has presented on numerous occasions to large groups as part of corporate Training and Developer communication sessions.

Open Service Broker API: Creating a Cross-Platform Standard - Shannon Coen, Pivotal & Doug Davis, IBM
Experiments & Extensions

Integral to Cloud Foundry's success has been the ability for app developers to choose from a marketplace of 3rd party services and easily integrate them with their applications. Exposing services to developers in this way requires the service provider to implement a few API endpoints known collectively as the Service Broker API.

This powerful yet simple model has not gone unnoticed by the broader Cloud Native community. As a result, the CF Foundation has joined forces with other key players in the community to create the new Open Service Broker API project to enhance the API and foster adoption by other platforms, including Kubernetes. This industry wide project will enable service providers to offer their services to multiple platform marketplaces with a single integration, making support for it more compelling to service providers and accelerating the diversity of services available to app developers and ultimately increasing the velocity of innovation.

This talk will introduce the new Open Service Broker API project, its mission, members, and future plans.

Doug Davis
STSM, IBM
Doug works in IBM's Open Source and Standards division. He's been working on Cloud related technologies for many years and has worked on many of the most popular OSS projects, including OpenStack, CloudFoundry, Docker and Kubernetes.

Shannon Coen
Pivotal Software, Inc.
Product Manager
San Francisco Bay Area
"Shannon Coen has been guiding core functionality in Cloud Foundry since joining VMWare in 2012. He stayed with the project when it moved to Pivotal, and served for three years as Product Manager with the Services team from 2013-2015, responsible for the v2 Service Broker API and Service Marketplace. Since 2015 he has served as Product Manager for the Cloud Foundry Routing team. Shannon chairs the Open Service Broker API PMC and is a member of the CF Foundation PMC Council."

Ops in the Time of Serverless Containerized Webscale - Bridget Kromhout, Pivotal

Living #opslife makes us keenly aware of the cavernous gap between lofty ideals and 3am reality. In a perfect world, everyone would be devopsing sans effort. In the real world, sharing operational responsibility is not as easy as giving developers production access, adding them to an oncall rotation, and saying “good luck! have fun!”

When incentives mean a feature team is concerned primarily with shipping and not operability, while site reliability is someone else’s concern, conflict results. We build in graceful degradation for decentralized systems but often neglect the (just-as-essential) human interactions. As the fractal complexity of our distributed systems grows, we need mindful practices that work with our tooling and effective tools that reinforce our desired culture.

Overengineering: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment - Alex Sologub, Altoros

If your are using Cloud Foundry, you are most obviously into the microservices architecture and cloud-native app development approach. These are definitely best practices in modern application development, but too much of a good thing is good for nothing. Overuse of these principles may lead to overengineering, when an application is split into too much microservices and, as such, gets hard to maintain and support. In this presentation, Alex will talk about how far overuse of the microservices concept can go, what issues exist and how these issues can be avoided.

Alex Sologub
Altoros
Software Engineer
Minsk, Belarus

Alex Sologub is a Software Engineer at Altoros. With 6+ years in software engineering, he is an expert in cloud automation and designing architectures for complex cloud-based systems. With extensive experience in Ruby, Go, and Javascript, he took part in integrating a number of popular clouds with RightScale (a web-based platform for managing cloud infrastructure from multiple providers). His professional interests include IoT solutions powered by cloud technologies, as well as designing architectures that meet customers’ needs. Alexander has spoken at several local IT conferences.

Polyglot In-Memory Track Introduction - Jana Richter, SAP

Jana Richter
Product Manager, SAP SE
Jana Richter is leading the SAP Cloud Platform Core Product Management team - current focus topics: multi cloud strategy, Cloud Foundry environment, runtimes and backing services, XSA programming model, hybrid cloud setups.

Rapid API Prototyping with LoopBack - Erin McKean, IBM

In this session, Erin will demonstrate how the open source LoopBack framework can be used to rapidly prototype, and deploy, REST APIs. LoopBack is easy to use and extremely configurable, making it useful in nearly any environment. Erin will demonstrate how to install, start up, and use LoopBack as well as how APIs are defined and customized. Multiple examples will be shown to help the audience see how LoopBack can be used in production.

Erin McKean
IBM
Developer Evangelist
Cal-i-forn-i-a
Twitter Tweet Websiteerinmckean.com
Erin McKean loves talking about APIs to anyone who will stand still long enough. Before Node.js, she dabbled in Ruby, HyperCard, Perl, and Omnimark, and still finds herself writing bash scripts on a regular basis. Erin is also the founder of Wordnik.com, which has a lot of fun APIs! In her spare time she sews clothes and makes Twitterbots.

Rethinking RDBMS Data Migration: Modernizing Traditional ETL Processes to Cloud-Native Event Driven Microservices [I] - Anupama Pradhan, Health Care Service Corporation & Jeff Cherng, Pivotal

Extract, transform, load (ETL) has always been complex and expensive for moving massive data sets from one data source to another. This is especially true if the source system is a traditional RDBMS with complicated relationships between tables. Most of the time, traditional ETL processes are implemented with batch, monolithic, and tightly coupled approaches. As the result, traditional ETL processes are often considered fragile, hard to maintain, not easy to tune, and often introduce high data latency between source and destination systems. In this session, Anupama Pradhan and Jeff Cherng will cover how to modernize traditional RDBMS ETL processes to cloud-native event driven microservices pipelines by using Cloud Foundry, Spring Cloud Stream, and RabbitMQ/Kafka. The pipelines can handle high volume data sets and complex database queries, yet with low data latency between the source RDBMS and destination data store. In addition, the design is highly tunable and scalable. The session will also cover analysis of performance metrics based on implementations of real world use cases.

Jeff Cherng
Pivotal Software Inc.
As a member of the Pivotal Data Engineering team, Jeff Cherng is responsible to work with customers to drive technical innovations on high performance data solutions. Jeff is very passionate about Spring Framework/Cloud Foundry and has worked on many distributed systems projects over the course of his career. His current focus is working on integrated solutions/patterns with Cloud Foundry, Spring, and Apache Geode (In Memory Data Grid).

Anupama Pradhan
Health Care Service Corporation
Senior Technology Architect
Anupama Pradhan is a Senior Technology Architect at HCSC with more than 20 years of experience in software engineering. As part of Enterprise Architecture team, she helps build reference implementations for various technologies and establish architecture patterns in the enterprise. Her current focus is Microservices on Cloudfoundry and monolith migration to Microservices Architecture.

Robots For Hire - How an A.I. Sales Rep Helps You Revolutionize Your Business - Kristina Traeger, Cybrid Industries

You can hire a team of people to man your website customer chat widget around the clock - or Cybrid Industries can give you a turn-key chat experience using cognitive abilities backed by Cloud Foundry and IBM Watson technology. In this session we'll show you how we've built a company delivering turnkey chat services that integrates seamlessly into your website. It even uses your industry lingo to answer common customer questions, sell your product, and convert visitors into leads. As a startup, easy to use cloud services and unlimited scalability matters, which is why we've built our application on Cloud Foundry with Node.js. We’re using socket.io to enable real-time live chat that is integrated with Watson’s cognitive system. With a firebase database, an angular front end app, and express.js for distribution, we'll take you through our thought process, from development, to results, and success. Replicate our story in your own successful venture!

Kristina Traeger
Cybrid Industries
Co-Founder
San Francisco, CA
Twitter Tweet Websitecybridindustries.com
Originally from East Germany, Kristina moved to San Francisco to pursue her startup dreams. After 7 years of operations experience at various startups, she realized that her true passion was building her own products. She taught herself how to code and partnered with other successful entrepreneurs to create a cutting edge software company. She’s now a Co-Founder of Cybrid Industries, the world's leading sales assistant A.I. company.

SAP Hybris Smart Driving Showcase - Featured by Microservices and Cloud Foundry to Empower the Development Ecosystem [B] - Torsten Born, SAP

Cloud computing demonstrates, how to think beyond the idea of an unscalable infrastructure. Applying this idea to cars, the showcase SAP Hybris Smart Driving demonstrates the possibility to access additional range of functions. Increasing or decreasing horse power can for example impact the insurance costs. It utilizes SAP Hybris Revenue Cloud for subscription and pay-per-use billing. Hands-free is a must-have in cars, therefore voice recognition technology and digital assistant service are used to subscribe for additional range of functions.

Following the micro service architecture and API-first pattern in our applications like SAP Hybris Revenue Cloud, customers, partners and developers can easily integrate but also reinvent their business model. The necessary scalability and flexibility is provided by SAP Cloud Platform and Cloud Foundry. During the presentation we will demonstrate a smart driving adventure in virtual reality and explaining the architecture behind the scene. The architectural concept provides insights, on how integration and extensibility concepts could look like. Discussion on the blueprint are welcome.


Torsten Born
Program Director, Research & Innovation , SAP SE
Torsten evangelizes the potential of SAP's customer engagement and commerce product portfolio by showcasing digital transformation scenarios.

Source of Truth: Auto-Populating Your G-Suite Users and Permissions in Cloud Foundry [I] - Colleen Briant, Google

Managing your GSuite and Cloud Foundry users has never been so easy! With the development of a new integration from Google, GSuite users and their permissions are automatically propagated to your Cloud Foundry foundation. This talk will show you how to integrate your GSuite users and groups into your Cloud Foundry auth and permissions structure, including best practices for using LDAP groups and SSO.

Stay Out of My Yard! Isolation Segments - a New Feature for Isolating Workloads in Cloud Foundry [I] - Sandy Cash & Dan Lavine, IBM

Tenancy in Cloud Foundry only provides a logical sort of separation currently - access and ownership of orgs, apps, and spaces is restricted to the appropriate individuals, e.g. But with the introduction of Isolation Segments for compute in CF 250 and later, deployers have the option of providing their tenants with true workload isolation at the compute layer. Sandy and Dan describe the ins and outs of this exciting new feature, the benefits and the limitations, and how best to take advantage of it. They will describe not only how it functions today, but also how they see it progressing to provide an even fuller set of isolation capabilities in future CF releases.

Sandy Cash
Sandy is a Senior Software Engineer and Cloud Architect IBM who has worked in a variety of roles, including development, architecture, and consulting. Past projects have included designing and implementing enterprise and hybrid clouds, as well as advising clients on their cloud strategies. He has contributed to Cloud Foundry multiple components, including Diego, the Cloud Controller, and the legacy DEA runtime. He currently works for IBM BlueMix, the world's largest single Cloud Foundry deployment, and he greatly enjoys working in the open source world.

Dan Lavine
IBM
Dan has spent the last couple of years with IBM working extensively on Cloud Foundry and worked with a number of teams, including: CLI, Diego, Routing, CAPI, RuntimeOG, and Release Integration. With his vast knowledge of Cloud Foundry, Dan has been working alongside many of those previous teams to implement the much requested Isolation Segment feature. Besides this current work, Dan enjoys tackling complicated issues brought up in Slack or GitHub. For instance, he enjoyed tracking down a potential memory leak in the DEAs when there was poor network connectivity.

To Kill a Monolith: Slaying the Demons of a Monolith with Node.js Microservices on CloudFoundry [I] - Tony Erwin, IBM

The Bluemix UI (which runs on CloudFoundry) is the front-end to Bluemix, IBM's open cloud hosting platform. The original implementation as a single-page, monolithic Java web app brought with it many demons, such as poor performance, lack of scalability, inability to push small updates, and difficulty for other teams to contribute code. Over the last 2 years, the team has been on a mission to slay these demons by embracing cloud native principles and splitting the monolith into smaller Node.js microservices. The effort to migrate to a more modern and scalable architecture has paid large dividends, but has also left behind a few battle scars from wrestling with the added complexity cloud native can bring. The team had to tackle problems in a wide variety of areas, including: large-scale deployments, continuous integration, monitoring, problem determination, high availability, and security. Tony Erwin will discuss the advantages of microservice architectures, ways that Node.js has increased developer productivity, approaches to phasing microservices into a live product, and real-life lessons learned in the deployment and management of Node.js microservices across multiple CloudFoundry environments. His war stories will prepare you to wage your own battles against monoliths everywhere -- happy slaying!


Tony Erwin
IBM
Senior Software Engineer
Austin, Texas Area
Twitter Tweet Facebook Message Websitehttps://tonyerwin.com
Tony Erwin is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM and currently the Lead Architect for the IBM Bluemix UI. He's been with IBM for 18 years and has extensive full-stack experience building UIs using a wide variety of technologies. Current interests include cloud, Node.js, microservices, reliability, and performance. In addition, he's a semi-regular blogger on Bluemix and CloudFoundry-related topics.

TrueRec.io: A Blockchain Project Running on Cloud Foundry [B] - Nethaji Tummuru, Michael Kunzmann & Mario Ponce, SAP

We all have gone through the process of hiring or applying for a job. In most cases, it's very tedious to verify a candidate's credentials (academic, employment, professional records), and even more to prove one’s own credentials. After the job offer, the bureaucracy starts. One of the most time-consuming processes is background checks to verify the applicant’s identity, education and employment history. How can a recruiter trust a resume the moment he receives it? How can resume records be notarized and verified in a blink of an eye with bullet-proof confidence? Is it possible to empower applicants to provide pre-verified records and still allow them the ownership of their information? TrueRec solves all these problems by utilizing Blockchain , Machine Learning all built on Cloud Foundry.

In this talk, we will discuss about the building blocks , blockchain architecture and cloud foundry components that we have leveraged.

Michael Kunzmann
SAP
Lead Platform Engineer
My name is Michael Kunzmann and I am the lead Software Platform Engineer of the truerec.io platform. My work focus is in designing, architecting and building the truerec.io platform. I have worked in various Cloud Foundry projects before and currently working on delivering one of the first SAP blockchain pilot products.

Mario Ponce
SAP Labs
Senior Architect
San Francisco Bay Area
Facebook Message LinkedIn Connect
Mario is a Senior Developer working for SAP Labs from the Innovation Center Network Team architecting and developing cloud native applications with Cloud Foundry. Currently developing truerec.io leveraging Ethereum blockchain and computer vision algorithms. Speaker at SAP conferences.

Nethaji Tummuru
SAP Labs
Director of Product development
Palo Alto
Nethaji, is responsible for bringing ideas to market. He has expertise in engineering and product management. He has a strong engineering background with focus on building scalable cloud-native applications. Have strong technical expertise in Cloud, big data, and in-memory platforms. He is currently focused on driving the team in building blockchain distributed applications.

UAA Feature Updates and 2017 Roadmap [I] - Sree Tummidi, Pivotal

In the past year, multiple features have been introduced in UAA which have accelerated its adoption in the CF ecosystem.

OpenID Connect Enhancements:
Multiple enhancements around OpenID Connect have been introduced for UAA as an Identity Provider and Relying Party including support for discovery profile, custom user claims in id_token and /userinfo , account chooser, authentication method reference and much more.

Keys and Secrets Rotation:
At last year’s CF Summit Justin Smith introduced his vision for Cloud Native Security with three R’s(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUXpz0Dni50). Now UAA supports canary style rotation of signing keys and OAuth clients secrets and will soon add support for rotation of SAML Keys.

Opaque Tokens:
UAA since its inception has supported JSON Web Tokens which has the advantage of offline validation. However with the the addition of stateful opaque tokens UAA now supports on-demand token revocation.

In addition to this Sree Tummidi will also provide a sneak peek of the UAA roadmap for FY 2017 with features like Multi-Factor Authentication, additional token exchange flows and fine grained authorization support.

Sree Tummidi
Pivotal
Staff Product Manager
San Francisco
Sree Tummidi is the Product Manager for UAA (User Account and Authentication Service) on Open Source Cloud Foundry since the past 2 .5 Years and drives the Identity and Access Management products for Pivotal. She brings in more than 12 years of experience in the security domain. Prior to joining Pivotal she held multiple Product Management & Engineering positions at CA Technologies. She holds a Masters of Business Administration from Boston University & Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University. She has spoken at multiple sales & customer conferences about Identity & Access Management related topics and products. Most recently she spoke at Spring One Platform 2016 about UAA and Cloud Identity (link here : http://bit.ly/2kD1WNB)

Unlocking Diego: Achieving Distributed Robustness Through Simplicity and Reliability [A] - Nima Kaviani, IBM & Adrian Zankich, Pivotal

Cloud Foundry makes extensive use of Consul as a distributed key/value store in order to achieve active-passive high availability for components that are harder to operate in parallel. This is done through implementing a distributed locking mechanism that allows the active component to claim ownership of the lock and take responsibility on execution.

However, Consul’s underlying RAFT algorithm becomes fragile when the entire environment undergoes multiple BOSH re-deployments. This results in an array of different failures, e.g., Consul not being able to elect a leader or mistakenly choosing multiple nodes as leaders. These recurring inconsistencies in Consul can potentially reduce reliability in a distributed system like Cloud Foundry.

In Diego, as one of the primary subsystems of Cloud Foundry, we have taken advantage of Consul’s distributed locking mechanism in several components such as the Diego database (BBS), the auctioneer, and the route emitters. As such, we have spent extensive amount of time to understand how these distributed locks can potentially be avoided or redesigned in order to reduce dependencies to Consul. To this point, two of the Diego components, i.e., the route emitters and the database have adopted alternative solutions to achieve high availability.

In this talk, we will go over lessons learned from using Consul in Cloud Foundry, and how we are trying to find alternative solutions that can help with improving robustness and reliability of Diego components without having to use a complex system like Consul.

Nima Kaviani
IBM
Nima Kaviani is a cloud engineer with IBM and a contributor to CF Diego. Nima holds a PhD in computer science and tweets and blogs about Cloud Foundry, distributed systems, and technology in general.

Adrian Zankich
Adrian is an engineer with Pivotal and has worked on several teams contributing to different components in Cloud Foundry. He has been the anchor and also the PM for the infrastructure team and currently a contributor to BOSH.

Using BOSH to Deploy Concourse onto Google Cloud Platform [B] - Cameron Stewart, Pivotal

In this session, developers will learn how to use Concourse as the tool to automating their path to production. Take a look at how to deploy Concourse to Google Cloud Platform using BOSH while understanding how BOSH manages large-scale distributed systems.

Cameron Stewart
Cameron comes from a full-stack developer background thanks to the Galvanize Full Stack Developer program which makes her fiercely passionate about all things cloud-native, 12 factor and agile. As part of the Global Ecosystem team at Pivotal, Cameron works with a variety of partners to help bring cloud-native solutions to joint customers.

Speaking history includes Pivotal and Google Cloud-Native Roadshow event touring 25 cities worldwide.

Using Bosh Add-Ons to Customize your CF Experience [I] - Bridget Arthur & Josh Ghiloni, ECS Team

Bosh add-ons are a new feature that allows teams to customize the virtual machines in their bosh deployment. Although this was previously accomplished through complex post-deploy orchestrations or fragile stemcell modifications, the bosh add-on is a simple, flexible mechanism that plugs directly into any existing bosh 2.0 manifest.

Often times operators discover that the standard VM does not contain some of the VM-level monitoring tools commonly used in troubleshooting. Using this situation as a working example, attendees will learn:
- The use cases for bosh add-ons
- The details and mechanics of how add-ons work
- How to create a bosh add-on
- How to integrate it with an existing bosh deployment

Josh Ghiloni
ECS Team
Senior Cloud Architect
Greater Denver Area

Josh is a Principal Consultant and Senior Cloud Architect with ECS Team, a professional services firm based in Denver, CO. Throughout his career, Josh has developed applications and architectures ranging from traditional n-tier enterprise software solutions to microservice architectures on various flavors of Cloud Foundry. Josh is a passionate woodworker, cook, and home brewer. He lives in Arvada, CO with his wife Korinna and their menagerie.

What Does It Take to Run Cloud Foundry at Enterprise Scale? - Josh Stone, Verizon

As a Fortune 15 company, Verizon is big. Really big. Over 10,000 developers, 3000 applications big. What does it take to offer Cloud Foundry to a development community that big? How do you run/upgrade/support a dozen independent foundations all over the US? Josh will share the Cloud Foundry story at Verizon, how Cloud Foundry fits into a Fortune 15 IT cloud strategy, and operations lessons learned that can be applied at any scale.

Josh Stone
Cloud & API Architect, Verizon

What's New in the Cloud Foundry Ecosystem? - Alex Zalesov, Altoros

A lot has changed in the Cloud Foundry ecosystem in the recent year. But how have these changes influenced the everyday life of the platform operations engineer? What has changed in the developer’s workflow? A year ago one needed to provision a virtual machine for the broker—today, a broker can be deployed as an ordinary application. Previously, a developer had to add authentication code to each of the applications—now a single routing service on top of all apps is used. In this talk, Alex will describe the changes accommodated by our engineers interacting with Cloud Foundry on a day-to-day basis. Alex will describe the features that saved us most time, and the ones that increased our confidence in the platform’s ability to self-heal in the face of failure. Also, Alex will touch upon the most anticipated features that we believe will make our lives much easier.

Alex Zalesov
Altoros
Cloud Foundry Engineer
Minsk, Belarus
Aleksey Zalesov is a Cloud Foundry/DevOps Engineer at Altoros. He has seven years of experience in managing computer systems, both traditional and cloud-based. Currently, he designs and implements distributed PaaS systems based on Cloud Foundry. Aleksey is passionate about automating cloud infrastructure management with BOSH and using DevOps techniques in everyday activities. His research interests also include self-managing computer systems and techno-social interactions.

Write Once, Earn Anywhere – Monetizing Enterprise APIs with Cloud Foundry - Robert Land & Elijah Martinez, SAP

Microservices are frequently touted as “SOA done right”. Cloud Foundry and microservice architectures are ideally suited for one another, with Cloud Foundry handling underlying issues such as scaling, failover, load balancing, etc. When coupled with a strong API layer, true continuous software delivery becomes a reality for developers. This architecture is ideal for applying API management which provides usage monitoring, service discovery and monetization. Additionally businesses and application developers increasingly rely on external APIs for quick and efficient enhancement of their core data and business processes, whether on premise or in the cloud.

SAP as a world leader in business data, touching over $16 Trillion of consumer purchases globally, has committed to moving its business into the cloud, supporting API development and choosing Cloud Foundry as its strategic architecture for its Cloud Platform. Come discover how you can leverage this new paradigm of data openness to tap into Enterprise APIs, and how API Management enables developers to quickly and easily monetize software built on these APIs.

Robert Land
SAP Labs, LLC.
Product Manager, SAP Cloud Platform, Demo Creation
Robert is a Product Manager for SAP Cloud Platform Demo Creation, where he creates proof-of-concept software applications. Robert has a software engineering background in medical robotics and networks, including more than a decade at Cisco Systems. Robert has been a frequent presenter during Hack-a-thons, Corporate conferences and industry events.