Open Source Summit Japan & Automotive Linux Summit 2021

Ballerina is an open-source cloud-native programming language developed to make it easier to use, combine and create network services. The next major version of Ballerina was released this year with vast improvements in all aspects. This release is named Swan Lake. With Ballerina, developers will be spending less time integrating cloud-native technologies and focusing more on business logic. The intuitive way of defining and running services on the cloud using Ballerina's inbuilt network primitives plays a key role in this revolution. Flexible type system, data-oriented language-integrated queries, enhanced and intuitive concurrency handling along with inbuilt observability and tracing support, make Ballerina one of the languages for the cloud era. Compared to its predecessor, Ballerina Swan Lake comes with an improved type system, enhanced SQL-like language-integrated queries, enhanced and intuitive service declarations, and many more. We will be looking at the creation, deployment, observability, and security of microservices with Ballerina Swan Lake. Finally, we will briefly look at the future of Ballerina and what to look forward to as a cloud-native developer. Ballerina on Github: https://github.com/ballerina-platform Ballerina Website: https://ballerina.io