February 25-27, 2026
Montreal, Canada
Modern DevOps on Legacy Code
Things we might take for granted today: comprehensive testing, automated deployment, local dev environments on demand. How do you take a 20 year old web application, including its runtime dependence on a live database, and retrofit it with these modern best practices? Well, testing was the (relatively) easy part, it was the deployment cycle, and spinning up local dev environments that was harder, but not impossible. Let us show you how we did it.
Julian Egelstaff
Formulize
Julian leads the Formulize open source project, a data management platform that turns messy information and chaotic processes into beautiful databases that blend smoothly with how people actually work. In 1996, Julian got a Bachelor of Journalism and Philosophy, and naturally went on to 30 years in the software industry. In 2003, he co-founded Freeform Solutions, a non-profit web development firm, where the Formulize project began. Somehow, along the way, Julian became a Zend Certified Engineer.
