Combining Cloud Native & PaaS: Building a Fully Managed Application Platform on Kubernetes

An engineering-led talk that covers the challenges DigitalOcean encountered with a Droplet-based architecture and why we pivoted to using Kubernetes. Steven Normore, Engineering Manager at DigitalOcean, shares the benefits that a Kubernetes-based architecture provides to customers, and shares guidance on what to keep in mind as you build your business on DigitalOcean.

Agenda
0:00 Introduction
0:55 What you’ll learn
2:03 PaaS vs. IaaS
2:47 Cloud-native applications
3:10 Continuous delivery
3:28 Containers
3:37 Microservices
3:48 DevOps
4:16 Benefits of cloud-native apps
4:35 12-Factor Applications
5:26 12-Factor principles
6:05 Codebase
6:25 Dependencies
6:40 Config
6:58 Backing services
7:25 Build, release, run
7:46 Stateless processes
8:06 Port binding
8:30 Concurrency
8:57 Disposability
9:22 Dev/prod parity
9:47 Logs
10:13 Admin processes
10:36 Benefits of 12-Factor Methodology
11:07 DigitalOcean App Platform, a cloud-native PaaS
18:07 Takeaways & guidance

About the Presenter
Steven Normore is an Engineering Manager at DigitalOcean. He builds and operates systems for production web applications. He has an education in computer science and mathematics with a focus on combinatorics and distributed systems.

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