About Ballerina
Many modern programming languages include libraries to handle performance, multiple cores, structured data, errors or failures, and other tasks. Ballerina builds many of these tasks directly into the language. With this brief introduction, developers and software architects will learn how Ballerina can speed development and reduce failures in today’s cloud native, distributed environments.

Ballerina is a general-purpose cloud native programming language that specializes in integration. On the surface, it looks like many other C-style languages, but Ballerina also contains features that incorporate current best practices for web programming, microservices, and Agile- or DevOps-oriented development.

About this session
In this session you'll learn from Anupama Pathirage, the Director of Engineering at WSO2, the development group behind the open source language Ballerina. We will review the basics of the language and benefits for developers, applications for various corporate and startup use cases, and demo the product in action.