The State of Open Source Web App Development

Nearly every organization today has at least one web application. And, at enterprise scale, most of these companies are using open source technologies to power mission-critical areas of their web applications.

However, just using open source software isn’t enough to stay relevant in a hypercompetitive digital world. Companies that want to find success must constantly evaluate new technologies and stay ahead of industry trends if they want to maintain their competitive advantage.

About the Webinar

In this recorded webinar, NGINX Senior OSS Evangelist Dave McAllister, Perforce Chief Open Source Evangelist Javier Perez, and Zend Product Manager and Laminas Project Development Lead Matthew Weier O’Phinney discuss the trends and technologies shaping modern web application development, and how companies can stay ahead in an increasingly competitive digital landscape.

Attend the Webinar to Learn:

The key trends shaping web app development today.
Why organizations are choosing open source software.
How organizations are using open source to transform their digital experiences.
The importance of open source observability and scalability tooling in modern web apps.
Web app technologies and trends to watch in 2022 and beyond.
And more!

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Presenters

Javier Perez

Chief OSS Evangelist and Senior Director of Product Management, Perforce Software

Passionate about technology and open source software, Javier is the Chief Open Source Evangelist and Senior Director of Product Management at Perforce Software. He is responsible for technical thought leadership and advocacy for open source software while driving the OpenLogic by Perforce offering. Javier has been in the application development, open source, cloud, app security, AI, SaaS, and mobile industries for 25+ years. As a speaker and blogger, he has had the opportunity to present at industry events all over the world. Javier holds an honors degree in Computer Systems and an MBA.

Matthew Weier O’Phinney

Senior Product Manager, OpenLogic and Zend by Perforce

Matthew has been using and contributing to open source software since 2000, counting a patch to the Blackbox window manager as his first public OSS contribution. He has led large open source projects, including Zend Framework, which he started developing on before its first public release and led from 2009 to 2019. Matthew has also contributed to standards bodies, and advised and participated in open source foundations, including The PHP Foundation.

Dave McAllister

OSS Technical Evangelist, NGINX

Dave works with open source projects in the NGINX product group at F5 to promote the advantages of modern architectures and orchestration for solving the challenges of large-scale distributed systems, especially with today's fast-moving cycles.
Dave has been a champion of open systems and open source from the early days of Linux to today's world of clouds and containers. He speaks on topics such as the real-world issues associated with emerging software architectures and practices. Currently, his driving interests are app management, observability, and service mesh.
Dave was named as one of the top ten pioneers in open source by Computer Business Review, having cut his teeth on Linux and compilers before the phrase "open source" was coined.