Cloud Native Computing Meetup | August 2023

Please join our August 2023 CNC meetup on Thursday, August 24th 2023 at 16:00 CEST.

Location:

VMware Switzerland GmbH
Baslerpark – Room “Matterhorn”
Baslerstrasse 60
8048 Zürich

How to find us:

Using public transportation: take trams 2, 3, and 4 and hop off at "Kappeli"; buses 89 and 83 and hop off at "Letzipark West;" bus 31 and hop off at "Letzipark;" or take the train and hop off at Zürich Altstetten and walk 15 minutes. If you come by car, use the “Letzipark Parking” just a one-minute walk from the venue.

Agenda:

16:00 – Door Opening

16:05 – Welcome, Intro, & Announcements

16:15 – "VMware on ARM - let's give ESX a spin on Ampere Altra CPU" by Darragh Grealish (56K.Cloud)

16:55 – 5 minutes pause

17:00 – "Spring Apps with AOT and GraalVM" by Sam Brannen (VMware)

17:40 – 5 minutes pause

17:45 – "Infrastructure as Code for Kubernetes Applications using cdk8s" by Malte Reimann and Jun Zhang (AWS)

18:25 – Final words, networking & apéro

Session 1: "VMware on ARM - let's give ESX a spin on Ampere Altra CPU" by Darragh Grealish (56K.Cloud)

Recently, there has been a huge uptake of workloads moving to ARM architecture. This has been possible for sometime with VMware Fling project, but now that larger more powerful CPU's like 128-core Ampere and AWS Graviton 3 start to enter the cloud space, what does this mean for virtualization on ARM? We've seen great support on mobile devices for years, now that starts to enter the client work with Apple M1/M2 and Lenovo's Qualcomm Snapdragon for Windows (WoA). In this talk we will take a look at the technology, the possibilities and why the industry is moving in this direction.

Darragh as an ARM Ambassador and Docker Captain, is passionate about enabling developers and the tooling they use across edge and cloud. Darragh enjoys hacking on devices in legacy industries to build out new use cases. As Co-founder and a CTO at 56K.Cloud, Darragh likes to explore new possibilities with technology, most recently around securing the developer's toolset on Docker containers from cloud to edge devices. Darragh works with customers across Public Cloud in the Arm PARSEC and SystemReady programs. He is also a member of the AWS community builders group.

Session 2: "Spring Apps with AOT and GraalVM" by Sam Brannen (VMware)

Attend this talk to learn about the first-class support for ahead-of-time (AOT) optimizations and GraalVM native image deployments in Spring Framework 6+ and Spring Boot 3+. Sam will provide an overview of the official feature set, configuration options, Maven and Gradle build support, as well as tips for testing a Spring app within a native image.

Sam Brannen is a Staff Software Engineer at VMware with 25 years of experience in software design, development, and testing of enterprise Java applications using the Spring Framework, JUnit, and a plethora of open source technologies. Sam is a popular speaker at international conferences on Spring, Java, and testing. He is also an active core committer for the Spring Framework and JUnit 5 as well as the author and maintainer of Spring's testing framework. When not in front of his computer, Sam enjoys traveling and spending time with his kids.

Session 3: "Infrastructure as Code for Kubernetes Applications using cdk8s" by Malte Reimann and Jun Zhang (AWS)

How do you define your Kubernetes applications? Do you write lines of YAML or do you maintain many custom CLI scripts? Why not use the programming language you are writing your application in, to also define your application running on Kubernetes? In this session we are going to use the open source ckd8s project to code more and configure less when defining our Kubernetes applications.

Malte Reimann and Jun Zhang are Solutions Architects at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Zurich. Malte is a trusted advisor to small and medium sized businesses in Switzerland, and has a background in computer science with research in software engineering and mixed reality. Outside of work, he enjoys exploring the Alps on a mountain bike or with hiking boots. Jun helps Swiss customers identify opportunities as well as their risks, and architect cloud-based solutions to achieve their business potential. He has the passion for sustainability and strives for solving current environmental challenges with technology for a better future. He is also a huge tennis fan, who enjoys playing board games a lot.

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If you would like to talk about your cloud-native projects at the CNC Switzerland meetup events, just send us your talk suggestion here: https://cnc-meetup.ch – we look forward to hearing from you!