Alastair is an enthusiastic techie with a penchant for doing things the hard way and diving into the guts of a problem. As an engineer at Canonical he works on the open source cloud orchestration engine Juju, written in the Go programming language. He has a passion for open source software and its positive social impact on the world. When not immersed in the depths of a terminal, tinkering with his home server, Alastair can be found exploring the outdoors, running or playing the piano up in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Unlocking the Full Potential of Open-Source

There are some parts of running applications in the cloud that can be very difficult to automate: integrating dependencies, scaling, upgrades, setting up observability. But what if... it could be easy? In this talk I will show you how you can use the fully free and open source Juju from Canonical to unlock this power for your applications. I will demonstrate how Go, Django, Flask and FastAPI apps can be "charmed" with incredible ease to unlock these benefits.

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