by Josh Long and Pieter Humphrey

Spring's central to a key message: software is business differentiating functionality, and everything that defers an organization's from delivering better software, faster and safer, should be automated or eliminated. SpringOne Platform captures that narrative with talks on all things continuous delivery.

The SpringOne Platform 2016 event shows how everything about this show has been bigger and better than ever! We've doubled the conference attendance from 2015, with record (2000+) attendees, 200+ talks, 30+ sponsors, amazing speakers from Netflix, Paypal, Microsoft, Google, Rakuten, Heroku, Red Hat, and many others.

The show kicked off on monday night with hands on training, ignite talks, sponsor workshops, and open Cloud Foundry feedback forums. And yes, we are recording everything for you, even the ignite talks.

Tuesday morning, after kickoff from Pieter Humphrey and Andrew Shafer

Our heroes @littleidea & @PieterHumphrey kick off @spring1platform #s1p to roaring applause@pivotal @springcentral pic.twitter.com/6hvDICkISd

— Josh Long (龙之春, जोश) (@starbuxman) August 2, 2016

The general sessions and keynotes introduced Pivotal and how it reduces the cost of change -- starting with VP of Cloud R&D Onsi Fakhouri.

The talk by @onsijoe is online - reduce cost of change & distribution -> https://t.co/f1GRyxGFX7 #S1P @spring1platform

— Chris Sterling (@csterwa) August 3, 2016

We looked Pivotal's culture of improving communication to improve software, and we looked at its culture of inclusion and diversity.

@cdavisafc sharing a pivotal moment in her life. #S1P pic.twitter.com/2VS7k6Yd6p

— ritam (@ritam) August 2, 2016

Surprisingly viral tweeter and Spring Boot project lead Philip Webb defined DevOps for all of us that have been wondering:

"by simply dropping two pizzas into any organisation, teams will form around them, and then you have devops" - @phillip_webb #s1p @pivotal

— Sticky Touchthing (@monkchips) August 2, 2016

and then proceeded to drop an epically amusing and informative keynote about the history of Spring as a series of feedback loops and how that informs the cloud native future.

We then looked at how technologies like Cloud Foundry and Spring are the secret sauce enabling agility and speed-of-development.

Today we saw great talks on all aspects of the development lifecycle, including agile product management with Pivotal Tracker.

Scaling your product team while staying agile - great talk by @danpodsedly #S1P @Pivotal pic.twitter.com/pdR8MgHwj3

— Pivotal Tracker (@pivotaltracker) August 3, 2016

And we saw great talks on open-source projects that played an important role in the Spring ecosystem, like Google's gRPC..

#s1p 4:20pm at Bristlecone 7! watch @bretmcg & i create microservices w/ @grpcio + bidirectional streaming. https://t.co/LmkVDRqXpS

— Ray Tsang (@saturnism) August 2, 2016

and we saw Ordina release the 1.0 version of their Spring Boot Dashboard, today!

Excited that our Microservices Dashboard 1.0.0 has just been released to maven central live @spring1platform! https://t.co/FDY3QwzLUz #S1P

— Andreas Evers (@andreasevers) August 2, 2016

and we saw Stormpath unveil 1.0 of their SDK and auto-configuration for Spring Boot today!

Watching @lhazlewood introduce @goStormpath and @springBoot @spring1platform #s1p #s1pgo #oauth #security #sso pic.twitter.com/7iYEhiCQHL

— Josh Long (龙之春, जोश) (@starbuxman) August 3, 2016

We saw talks that looked at the integration opportunities that you get when you combine the best toolkit for building cloud-native applications (Spring), and a cloud (Cloud Foundry).

Slides from my @spring1platform talk on Extending the Platform with @springboot and @cloudfoundry #s1p #springone https://t.co/wvVc201qm1

— Kenny Bastani (@kennybastani) August 2, 2016

We saw great talks from Pivotal customers who are doing amazing things with Pivotal technology and culture to deliver real value to their customers.

In particular, the talk on how Accenture is helping Comcast deliver better software on top of Pivotal Cloud Foundry was pretty epic!

How @Accenture is helping @Comcast migrating legacy to cloud-native and @pivotalcf #YesYouCan #S1P pic.twitter.com/MjjmGEtDQt

— dekt (@dekt) August 2, 2016

And so was this talk from Citi

Pulling apart a monolith best done by decomposing, refactoring, and rewriting loop says Brad Miller @Citi #S1P pic.twitter.com/3n56DWJPO1

— Coté (@cote) August 2, 2016

And a great talk on Unikernels

Very interesting talk about Unikernels (https://t.co/4yWDglOfpd) from @Idit_Levine at #s1p @spring1platform pic.twitter.com/rag7nzZRwd

— Bart Blommaerts (@DaggieBe) August 2, 2016

and of course there are lots of selifes and wonderful banner art!

You gotta love @starbuxman #s1p pic.twitter.com/3qnfgTzZYA

— Chris Richardson (@crichardson) August 2, 2016

and of course Stephane and I shared our love for great banner art!

Spring Advocate Josh Long shows off his fancy banner while Spring Boot Dev Stephane Nicoll teaches v1.4. #S1P pic.twitter.com/wC5I5gXozb

— Nicholas Eden-Walker (@JinpaLhawang) August 2, 2016

We cannot wait to discover what is going to happen tomorrow -- this is just day one ! Check back here for tomorrow's day 2 wrap up!