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Practical Tips for Application Development on Cloud Foundry

Drawn from practical experience migrating production applications to Cloud Foundry, this session will present detailed tips for developers looking to get the most out of this open source platform as a service. Topics covered include: - Using spring profiles and the CloudEnvironment class - Use of environment variables for quick config - Filesystem - Creating an API - Creating a local version - Creating a mongo version - Using temp - 504 Gateway timeouts (using a ServletFilter and javascript to deal with them) - Debugging tips - Logs - Remote debug with Micro CF and --debug (or using STS) - Caldecott to look at your data - Compiling java with just a JRE (porting the eclipse compiler) - Micro CF tips - Adding memory to the VM - Disk space errors - Cookie timeouts due to incorrect clock after suspend - Using vcap.me with tunnel and DNS proxy - Using ssh to investigate - Tweaking nginx timeouts - Disable services for memory

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