In this slide deck, Anjana explores the history of Ballerina, the motivation behind its development, and how Ballerina can help in your journey through modern cloud-native development and deployment.

1. A Programming Language for Cloud and DevOps
Anjana Fernando, WSO2 Inc. | @lafernando

2. Increasing demand is causing disaggregation

3. Everything is
An Endpoint
Functions
APIs
Data
SaaS apps
Legacy apps
Devices
Disaggregation leads to more endpoints

4. Integration in an increasingly disaggregated world
Transactions
Circuit Breaking
Protocols
Payloads
Events
Security
Workflow
Streams
Compensation

5. AGILE
NETWORK AWARE

6. Hello World

7. caller hello
GET
Hello World

8. Annotations

9. caller hello
POST (name)
Hello, name!

10. Connectors

11. caller RekService
POST (status)
response
Amazon Rekn
detectText (input)
response

12. Docker & Kubernetes

13. Hello World! [with k8s]

14. Hello World! [with k8s]...

15. AWS Lambda

16. AWS Lambda

17. AWS Lambda

18. GitHub Actions

21. Observability

22. Distributed Tracing: Jaeger/Zipkin

23. Metrics: Prometheus + Grafana

24. OpenAPI

25. Sequence Diagrammatic

27. Docker Jaeger
Kubernetes Prometheus
AWS Lambda
KNative
OAuth2 / OIDC
etcd Kafka
Istio / Envoy RabbitMQ
LinkerD AMQP
Consul
Swagger/OpenAPI
MySQL gRPC / NATS
Postgres WebSub
Cassandra
Visual Studio Code
OpenAPI Intellij IDEA
Ecosystem extensions for
disaggregated architecture

28. How to get involved
Learn more
Open source
Get support
http://ballerina.io
http://github.com/ballerina-platform/
Stack Overflow #ballerina tag

29. Q & A

30. THANK YOU