DigitalOcean App Platform talks at the deploy conference
Tags: digitalocean, dodeploy, cloud, cloudnative
Published: 2020-11-16 20:18:07

I recently attended the deploy virtual conference by [DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/). Btw, this is where I work and my team was actually responsible for organizing this event. However, none of that takes away from the fact that I did actually attend the event (virtually.. like everyone else). Among other things talked about at this event, there was also [App Platform](https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/), our latest Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering.

I want to highlight here my favorite App Platform sessions from the event.

#1) Overview of App Platform
[Jake Levirne](https://twitter.com/awakenjake) provides a high level walkthrough of the various things you can do with App Platform

Link: [Build Apps Faster With DigitalOcean App Platform
](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tech_talks/build-apps-faster-with-app-platform)
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#2) Build your first app with App Platform
[Kamal Nasser](https://twitter.com/kamaln7) walks us through building our first web app on App Platform

Link: [Build, Deploy, and Scale Your First Web App Using DigitalOcean App Platform
](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tech_talks/build-deploy-scale-your-first-web-app)
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#3) If JAMStack is your jam
[Chris](https://twitter.com/chrisoncode) lives his love for all things JAMStack in this session

Link: [Fullstack Jamstack on DigitalOcean With App Platform](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tech_talks/fullstack-jamstack-on-digitalocean-with-app-platform)
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#4) If you follow the line of command-line
[Mason Egger](https://twitter.com/masonegger) shows us how to deploy apps to App Platform, purely using the command-line

Link: [Command-line Your Way to PaaS Productivity With DigitalOcean App Platform](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tech_talks/command-line-your-way-to-paas-productivity-with-app-platform)
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#5) If Docker is where your deployment preferences are docked
[Phil Dougherty](https://twitter.com/phildougherty) shows us how to use the flexibility offered by Docker to build apps using languages/frameworks not natively supported by App Platform

Link: [Escape the Walls of PaaS: Unlock the Power & Flexibility of DigitalOcean App Platform With Docker](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tech_talks/escape-the-walls-of-paas-unlock-the-power-flexibility-of-app-platform-with-docker)
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#6) How was App Platform built
[Steven Normore](https://twitter.com/snormore) lifts the hood of App Platform to show all the exciting cloud-native open source technologies it is built on

Link: [Combining Cloud Native & PaaS: Building a Fully Managed Application Platform on Kubernetes](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tech_talks/combining-cloud-native-paas-building-a-fully-managed-application-platform-on-kubernetes)
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Along with these sessions, we also announced [new updates to App Platform](https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/easily-deploy-open-source-apps-with-the-new-deploy-to-digitalocean-button-and-other-app-platform-enhancements/) - including a "Deploy to DigitalOcean" button.  

**UPDATE** We recently announced some new functionality which I describe here in this article:
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