Gail Frederick

CTO, Heroku

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Twelve-Factor was published by Heroku founder Adam Wiggins over a decade ago and served as a guiding principle for many software engineers and tech founders of SaaS companies. In that time, cloud-native and Kubernetes has fundamentally transformed technology. As we look to the next decade of technology innovation and the millions of apps we’ll build and run – how durable are these Twelve-Factors? In this talk Gail Frederick, CTO of Heroku will reflect on the journey of the Twelve-Factors, Heroku’s journey as a platform designed around these twelve-factors and what that means for the future, and working with the community.

Vish Abrams
Chief Architect, Heroku

 
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 In 2011, the “Twelve-Factor App“ manifesto was written, outlining essential principles for building scalable applications. These principles became foundational to the container ecosystem and have been translated into 18 languages, remaining highly relevant today. However much has changed in the decade plus since and it’s time to reexamine and refresh the manifesto for where cloud-native environments are today and where apps and systems are going. 

In this session, we explore three key updates to the manifesto that will propel your development practices into the future—empowering your teams to harness the full potential of cloud-native platforms, unlock new levels of efficiency, and build applications ready to thrive in the next decade.

Jesse Brown
Software Engineer, Heroku
Terence Lee
Software Engineering Architect, Heroku

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Buildpacks transform source applications into images that run on any cloud. Each output image contains a full Software Bill of Materials which allows platform developers to know precisely what software is deployed. This makes them an excellent solution where a container runtime is provided to untrusted or semi-trusted development teams. There are wider use-cases where many application development teams share a common runtime, like Kuberenetes. In this talk we look at using Buildpacks to deploy web applications at scale, we consider batch processing in large workflows - particularly AI/machine learning workflows - and we look at an example Functions as a Service platform that uses Buildpacks.

Alex Arnell
Principal Engineer, Heroku

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OpenTelemetry makes bold promises to unlock and unleash your observability, providing you with open standards, no vendor lock-in and interoperability with just about everything. You believe that your organization could really benefit from an uplift to modern observability. It would be easy to adopt if you were starting out fresh, but let’s face it, most organizations have sprawling codebases and architectures. Decisions, infrastructure and often engineers that have been in place for decades. How do you even get started? This Heroku case study dives into our OpenTelemetry journey where you'll discover strategies on adoption, how to deal with internal resistance, and technical guidance on rolling out the change. Learn from our missteps and what we wished we had done differently. You’ll even see how a bit of luck can help drive adoption over the finish line. This session will equip you to navigate OpenTelemetry adoption in the most entrenched environments.

Adam Zimman

Sr. Director, Product Marketing

Betty Junod

Heroku CMO

Chris Peterson

Sr. Director, Product Management

Julian Duque

Principal Developer Advocate

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Heroku empowers developers by managing infrastructure complexities, enabling rapid application development and deployment. This session explores how Heroku simplifies scaling with features like automated dyno management, advanced metrics, and seamless GitHub integration. It also covers managed data services like Heroku Postgres and integrations with third-party tools and Salesforce solutions for enhanced security and compliance. Highlighting modernized 12-Factor App principles, expanded language support, and future-focused advancements, Heroku demonstrates its ability to increase productivity, reduce DevOps costs, and support businesses of all sizes through real-world customer success stories.