OurSky

Oursky is a Hong Kong based app development studio with a talented team of 40 people. Our apps are loved by millions of users and got features by the App Store from time to time. Apart from building apps, we have also been striving to contribute to the developer community and this year, we open source our backend solution, Skygear, which is originally built for internal use to replace Parse.

Rick Mak

CTO at @oursky. Father of two sons. Programmer who writes JS, python, golang. Read code, run marathons and drink whisky for better quality of life.

Tony Li

Tony Li is the product marketing manager director based in mainland China and is responsible for sales partners enablement, business development and market communication. He is a veteran in product marketing and marcom of IT products who has been serving major IT companies as market consultants. Tony is also a technology enthusiast with special interests in AI, cloud computing and data storage.

Introduction to NGINX Unit - The NGINX web application server

NGINX Unit is a dynamic web and application server, designed to run applications in multiple languages. Unit is lightweight, polyglot, and dynamically configured via API. The design of the server allows reconfiguration of specific application parameters as needed by the engineering or operations. This speech is a briefing of NGINX Unit's features and its significant in modern microservice architecture.

Pushing upstream

In this talk we will look at the OSS container ecosystem and break down its components into three families. Container runtimes, container orchestrators and then packaging tools like Helm and CNAB. At Microsoft we are priding ourselves on contributing to the OSS container ecosystem by supporting all three of this family of projects. So in this talk we will look at how we are pushing changes to projects like containerd, Docker and Kubernetes but also donating projects to the CNCF like Helm to be community driven under a Linux foundation with open governance.

Scott Coulton

Scott Coulton is a Developer Advocate and Docker captain with 10 years of experience as a software engineer in the managed services and hosting space. He has extensive experience in architecture and rolling out distributed compute systems and network solutions for national and multinational companies with a wide variety of technologies, including Azure, Kubernetes, Puppet, Docker, Cisco, VMware, Microsoft, and Linux. His design strengths are in cloud computing, automation, and security space.