It’s difficult to improve what you can’t measure! Profiling an application should always be the first step in trying to improve its performance. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to deploy a Symfony application on Platform.sh, and then set up a local development environment and profile the app using Blackfire.io. You’ll learn how to adopt the best profiling practices into your daily development habits, how to identify performance issues in your application, and then compare those profiles across development environments to incrementally improve the production app. This workshop will use the Blackfire.io tool to help you identify performance leaks and Platform.sh to deploy the Symfony application.

Decoupled web applications have recently gotten attention in the software development industry, this is because of how useful and effective it can be for development teams. Decoupling is a software architecture pattern that entails splitting web applications into smaller components that perform only a subset of tasks.

This is advantageous because it becomes easier to maintain and update code without affecting the whole application or needing to understand each part of the site. Decoupling comes with it’s own risks of added complexity, and cannot always be implemented quickly or even the right choice for every site.

In this talk, we'll explore the basics of decoupling, and how you can identify whether decoupling is appropriate for your site. We’ll also cover progressive decoupling as a migration strategy, as well as a  series of success stories from teams and individuals that have used a decoupled architecture for their applications in production.

Operations through Git is not new but now we the technology to realise what we always wanted. The GitOps pattern has matured over the years, from the initial definition to the major adoption by the community, and the arrival of Kubernetes and the controller/operator pattern has made it possible to adopt GitOps in practice.

Although we have come far, there is still more work to be done. This is why the OpenGitOps project was created in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, where we hope to define what it means to use GitOps and spread awareness.

This talk is aimed to explain the concept of GitOps, why we need it and how it can be implemented. It is based on the principles defined by the OpenGitOps project and is a vendor and platform neutral look at the operational model.

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Serverless also known as FaaS, is a more and more popular solution of cloud computing. Comparing with IaaS or PaaS solution, users can save lots of time in considering servers/vm purchasing and load balancing and how to dynamical scaling.

Serverless is commonly provided from different Cloud Vendors, e.g. AWS lambda Azure Functions. As a top level cloud Vendor, Alibaba serverless solution named Function Compute is a powerful competitor in this market. Combining with other services, Alibaba Cloud can provides different solutions to match different scenarios of users.

In this talk, we will introduce how to define serverless workloads on Alibaba Cloud. Several useful tools from Alibaba Group will be introduced to help development teams, operation teams or devops teams to facilitate daily work.

As Apsara Conference 2021 of Alibaba Cloud will be held on October 19th to 22nd, this talk will be one of the post-Apsara Conference community events and a part of the Alibaba Cloud Community Day.

Adopting DevOps methodology without understanding the theory behind the practices can cause hiccups in implementation and stall progress. In this talk, Sonal will share her experiences working with teams that participate in DevOps practices without knowing the reasoning behind them- she will highlight pain points and discuss solutions. This talk is for audiences familiar with the various processes of DevOps- continuous implementation and deployment, automated testing- the “How“ of DevOps. In this talk, Sonal will shift the focus to the “Why”, with the hope that as teams start exploring the principles behind practices they get better are implementing true DevOps.

Netflix is a global leader in video streaming and has always been known in the valley for its culture document, a seminal work in setting the context about culture.

In this session, I will shed light on how Netflix thinks about DevOps, how our culture permeates our thought on Agile practices, DevOps, and development.

It would be a great way to get a glimpse of how loosely coupled and highly aligned Netflix is, and participants can apply some parts of our culture to their organizations.