Presentation on Spring Boot

A few months ago, I was invited to speak on Spring Boot and Cloud Native. This was a good discussion. It was fun to build an app from scratch using Boot. For those interested, you can find the app in my github account:

https://github.com/albertoaflores/spring-boot-demo

Slides used for that preso can be found here:

http://www.slideshare.net/albertoaflores/spring-boot-intro

Hope some find this useful.

Managing Service Brokers in CF

The existing CloudFoundry architecture includes a layer to support "Service Brokers".

CF Components

As such, CF includes a registry to manage "Service Broker" implementations. You can use this registry to configure the availability of services (including plans within a service) to different organizations. This is among the things that makes CloudFoundry a very powerful platform. I wrote a simple broker that should give you a quick overview of how to use it with CF. This is found here:

https://github.com/albertoaflores/dummy-cf-service-broker

Deploying Ozone on CloudFoundry

The Ozone Widget Framework (OWF) is a set of tools to enable "widgets" in the UI to communicate to each other. I must admit that the framework (or platform) was an early approach to projects such as "Rave" or "Wookie" (Apache), yet I've been asked if CloudFoundry supports it. While my experience using OWF has been somewhat painful, I noticed that an OWF deployment requires a server that is "optimized" for its deployment.  As such, OWF can work on CF using the "buildpack" feature. I suspect you can argue that OWF can be re-written as a web application component to work with the "standalone" java buildpack, however such work is beyond the scope of this post. This post describes what I had to do to create the "ozone-buildpack" to get this working.