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AppDev Field Day 1

Left to Right: Scott King, Josh Atwell, Mitch Ashley, Stephen Foskett, Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Jack Poller, Sam Holschuh, Alan Shimel, Chrystina Nguyen, Michael Levan, Guy Currier
Inset: Joep Piscaer, Kati Lehmuskoski

AppDev Field Day 1

May 29–May 30, 2024

#ADFD1

Who: AppDev

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Silicon Valley

AppDev Field Day was the first-ever Tech Field Day event focused on application development and modernization! This new topic builds on over a decade of events and brings an exciting new range of delegates and presenting companies. Stay tuned for AppDev Field Day 2, which will coincide with KubeCon/Cloud Native Con, November 2024 in Salt Lake City!

Application Development and Modernization is a crucial practice for organizations aiming to stay competitive and agile in the rapidly evolving digital landscape. The strategic shift towards modernization involves transforming legacy applications to embrace cloud-native architectures, microservices, and containerization. This transition brings about significant impacts on DevOps and platform engineering, fostering collaboration, automation, and continuous integration.

By leveraging cloud-native technologies, organizations enhance scalability, flexibility, and resource efficiency. Microservices architecture allows for modular development, enabling quicker updates and easier maintenance. Containerization streamlines deployment across different environments, enhancing portability.

Read the latest insights into application and development and modernization on The Futurum Group website, and check out DevOps.com for insight from Techstrong!

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Delegate Panel

Delegates are selected by the Field Day Delegate community. For more information on our selection process, please see our page about becoming a Field Day Delegate.

Alan Shimel

@AShimmy

Founder and CEO of Techstrong Group. Serial entrerenuer with a background in cyber, DevOps and cloud.

Calvin Hendryx-Parker

@CalvinHP

AWS Community Hero | Python, Django, Orchestration & Containers | CTO and Founder | IndyPy & IndyAWS | FreeBSD, Linux & ZFS

Chrystina Nguyen

Technology Community Builder and Event Specialist, Streamer

Guy Currier

@GuyCurriersFeed

Chief Analyst at Visible Impact, specializing in AI, DevOps, enterprise applications, cloud, and CPU-GPU-xPU.

Jack Poller

@Poller

Principal Cyber Security Industry Analyst

Joep Piscaer

@JPiscaer

Founder of TLA Tech, a tech marketing firm focusing on cloud-native. Co-hosts TheCUBE sometimes. Blogs at VirtualLifestyle.nl

Josh Atwell

@Josh_Atwell

IT veteran turned Developer Relations leader

Kati Lehmuskoski

@KatiLehmuskoski

DevOps Solution Owner at Metsä

Michael Levan

@TheNJDevOpsGuy

Kubernetes and Platform Engineering Thought Leader, Engineer, Content Creator, and Consultant

Mitch Ashley

@MitchellAshley

Innovator, Analyst and Product Creator in Cybersecurity, Cloud, DevOps and SaaS

Paul Nashawaty

@PNashawaty

Top 10 Industry Analysts ranked by ARchitect Analyst Power 100 | Practice Leader | Application Development | Open Source | Business Strategy

Sam Holschuh

Research, Content Creation, and Market Insights

Scott King

Sales executive, with 25 years of experience leading commercial transformation.

Presentation Calendar

Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at TechFieldDay.com, and on the Tech Field Day LinkedIn page. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

Wednesday, May 29 8:30-9:00
Software Development Roundtable at AppDev Field Day 1
Moderator: Paul Nashawaty
Wednesday, May 29 10:00-11:30
Google Cloud Presents at AppDev Field Day 1
Presenters: Lisa Shen, Sridhar Venkatakrishnan, Steren Giannini, Yunong Xiao
Wednesday, May 29 13:00-14:00
Mezmo Presents at AppDev Field Day 1
Presenters: Bill Meyer, Tucker Callaway
Thursday, May 30 8:00-9:30
Catchpoint Presents at AppDev Field Day 1
Presenters: Brandon DeLap, Mehdi Daoudi
Thursday, May 30 10:30-12:00
Ignite AppDev Field Day 1
Presenter: Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Chrystina Nguyen, Jack Poller, Josh Atwell, Michael Levan, Mitch Ashley, Paul Nashawaty, Stephen Foskett
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Andrew Blackburn

Video Editor at Tech Field Day

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

Stephen is the President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group and focuses on AI, edge, and cloud


33 Links with Tag #ADFD1

  1. Coverage: Demand for AI Pushes Up the Global AI PC Adoption Curve
    • Stephen Foskett, Sulagna Saha
  2. Coverage: App Modernization Adoption Surges Prompting Integration of AI
    • Paul Nashawaty, Sulagna Saha
  3. Coverage: Don’t Get Caught in the DevOps Loop
    • Mitch Ashley, Sulagna Saha
  4. Tech Field Day Podcast: Open Source Helps Small Businesses Modernize Applications
    • Jack Poller, Paul Nashawaty, Stephen Foskett
    • Tech Field Day
  5. Coverage: Mezmo Data Management, Observability and More
    • Paul Nashawaty
    • Mezmo, The Futurum Group
  6. Tech Field Day Podcast: GenAI is Revolutionizing the Enterprise
    • Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Jack Poller, Josh Atwell, Stephen Foskett
  7. Coverage: App Modernization, a Measured Exercise or a No-Brainer?
    • Alan Shimel, Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Guy Currier, Jack Poller, Josh Atwell, Kati Lehmuskoski, Michael Levan, Mitch Ashley, Paul Nashawaty
  8. Coverage: Incident Analysis Under Minutes, With Catchpoint Internet Performance Monitoring
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Catchpoint
  9. Coverage: Mezmo Telemetry Pipeline – Aggregate, Transform, Distribute
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Mezmo
  10. Coverage: When Every Millisecond Counts
    • Kati Lehmuskoski
    • Catchpoint
  11. Coverage: Telemetry Data – Taking Data Management to Next Level
    • Kati Lehmuskoski
    • Mezmo
  12. Coverage: Optimal Developer Experience With Google Cloud Run, and New Product Updates
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Google Cloud
  13. Coverage: Navigating the Future of Digital Performance and the Role of Comprehensive Monitoring Solutions
    • Catchpoint
  14. Coverage: As Application Developers, Why Should We Monitor the Internet?
    • Jack Poller
    • Catchpoint
  15. Coverage: Enhancing Digital Experience: Catchpoint’s Enterprise IPM Solution Shines at AppDev Field Day
    • Paul Nashawaty
    • Catchpoint
  16. Coverage: Exploring Google Cloud’s Cloud Run: Advantages and Limitations
    • Google Cloud
  17. Coverage: Is There a Chief Resiliency Officer in Your Future?
    • Alan Shimel
    • Catchpoint
  18. Coverage: Mezmo: Telemetry Data Management for Observability and Security
    • Mezmo
  19. Coverage: Catchpoint Works to Catch Your App’s Sticking Point
    • Guy Currier
    • Catchpoint
  20. Coverage: The AppDev Tech Field Day Report: GCP Cloud Run Demo and a GKE Comparison
    • Alan Shimel
    • Google Cloud
  21. Coverage: Network Visibility for Application Performance
    • Michael Levan
    • Catchpoint
  22. Coverage: Google Cloud & Cloud Run: Helping Developers Build Faster?
    • Jack Poller
    • Google Cloud
  23. Coverage: Optimizing Observability With Mezmo
    • Jack Poller
    • Mezmo
  24. Coverage: Google Cloud at AppDev Field Day by Empowering Developers With Cloud Run
    • Paul Nashawaty
    • Google Cloud
  25. Coverage: Mezmo at AppDev Field Day Describes Controlling Your Telemetry Data With Confidence
    • Paul Nashawaty
    • Mezmo
  26. Coverage: Cloud Run for K8s: GKE, Not GKE
    • Guy Currier
    • Google Cloud
  27. Coverage: Monitoring and Observability (Enter Mezmo)
    • Michael Levan
    • Mezmo
  28. Coverage: Google Cloud Cloud Run and GKE
    • Alan Shimel
    • Google Cloud
  29. Coverage: Is Serverless Still Relevant? (GCP Addition)
    • Michael Levan
    • Google Cloud
  30. Coverage: GCP Cloud Run vs Kubernetes
    • Michael Levan
    • Google Cloud
  31. Tech Field Day Podcast: Application Modernization Requires Good Security Practices
    • Michael Levan, Mitch Ashley, Paul Nashawaty, Stephen Foskett
    • The Futurum Group
  32. Coverage: Moving Beyond Platform Engineering and IT Operations at AppDev Field Day
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Catchpoint, Google Cloud, Mezmo
  33. News: Moving Beyond Platform Engineering and IT Operations at AppDev Field Day
    • Paul Nashawaty, Stephen Foskett
    • Catchpoint, Google, Google Cloud, Mezmo, Tech Field Day, The Futurum Group

More Information

If you would like to sponsor or attend these events as a delegate, please contact Tech Field Day, [email protected].


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