Harnessing the Power of Open Source for Cloud Native Development: Strategies for Success

Track: Artificial Intelligence
Abstract
As cloud native architectures become increasingly popular, open source tools have become essential for managing and deploying cloud native applications. Whether you are a developer, architect, or IT professional, this talk will provide valuable insights and guidance for leveraging open source tools in your own cloud native initiatives. Mo Haghighi, will explore some of the most popular open source tools for cloud native development such as Kubernetes, Prometheus and Grafana that work together complementarily to orchestrate, log activities and monitor containers.
We will begin with an introduction to cloud native architecture and the benefits of microsevices architecture. He will then dig into the key challenges faced by organizations looking to adopt cloud native technologies.
We will then dive into open source tools that work efficiently with Kubernetes, an open source container orchestration platform that simplifies the management of containerized applications.
Mo will specifically discuss open source monitoring systems such as Prometheus and Grafana to get detailed and visualised insights into the health of microservices.
The main focus of the talk will be to educate attendees on the benefits of using open source tools for cloud native development, and how to leverage them effectively to streamline processes and maximize productivity.
Mo Haghighi
Dr Mo Haghighi is distinguished engineer/director for Cloud Platform and Infrastructure at Discover Financial Services. His current focus is hybrid and multi-cloud strategy, application modernisation and automating application/workload migration across public and private clouds. Previously, he held various leadership positions as a program director at IBM, where he led Developer Ecosystem and Cloud Engineering teams in 27 countries across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Prior to IBM, he was a research scientist at Intel and a Java developer at Sun Microsystems/Oracle. Mo obtained a PhD in computer science, and his primary areas of expertise are distributed and edge computing, cloud native, IoT and AI, with several publications and patents in those areas. Mo is a regular keynote/speaker at major developer conferences including DevOpsCon, Java/Code One, Codemotion, DevRelCon, O’Reilly, The Next Web, DevNexus, IEEE/ACM, ODSC, AiWorld, CloudConf and Pycon.