Track: In The Cloud
The development industry moves to the clouds! Different cloud offerings from a few big companies compete for attention. A new type of application is born. One thing is certain; Cloud development and cloud hosting are hugely important trends today. Our Cloud track will bring you the latest news from the cloud enablers as well as a good forecast of the cloudiness in development land.
Wednesday
Down to Earth Cloud Computing
We've moved to the Amazon Cloud, and we're back to tell you all about it. What is it? How should you use it? What parts are pure gold, and where are there poison snakes waiting to bite you good?
The Cloud should save you money, right? We'll share our experiences with how to save on time and money when moving into the cloud. And then on how to REALLY save money by using the dynamic pay-as-you-go payment plan of the Cloud.
Adam Skogman
Adam works as a System Architect at Jayway, specializing in cloud architectures, scale-out and performance. As a long-time Agile advocate, he loves having a paradigm shift every week, and works with teams and customers to make the most of all the fascinating new technology, methodology and opportunities. Adam thinks that next-gen databases are a great leap forward, and a much-welcome return of some advanced computer science to the field of IT architecture.
Keeping Your Options Open, Even if the Cloud is Not
Cloud computing is a major shift in the way applications are developed and deployed. Once you’ve chosen a vendor how can you avoid being locked in to a proprietary API or service? Unfortunately, cloud standards have been slow to emerge. In this session we’ll look at techniques for keeping your applications and infrastructure as open and flexible as possible. We’ll look at APIs and standards such as EC2, S3 and OVF. Cloud computing won't reach its full potential without open standards
Doug Tidwell
Doug Tidwell is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM. He was a speaker at the first XML conference in 1997, and has spoken on technical topics around the world. He works in IBM's Software Strategy group as a technology evangelist for Cloud Computing and emerging XML standards such as SCA, SDO and XForms. He is the author of O'Reilly's XSLT, and has written many articles on IBM's developerWorks site and elsewhere on the Web. He lives with his wife, daughter and dog in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Windows Azure = Windows in the Cloud
Windows Azure has been around since the end of 2008 and have seen both tremendous interest and leverage amongst developers around the world. Learn from the leadership what the purpose and possibilites of the platform delivers and how you today can publish and execute your own applications and solutions in the cloud.
Johan Lindfors
Johan works as the Technical Evangelism Manager at Microsoft in Sweden. He started his career within Microsoft in 1998 and has since held a couple of different roles, constantly with focus on the technology and products targeted at developers and IT-pros.
Google App Engine in Practice
App Engine makes it easier than ever before to write Java webapps that will scale far beyond the constraints of a single machine. Learn how to write a straightforward but useful App Engine app, and hear more about the pitfalls of relational databases, and how you can use App Engine to overcome them.
Nick Johnson
I'm a Developer Programs Engineer on the App Engine team. My job includes interfacing with external developers on the forums, IRC, and in person, answering highly technical questions, and writing articles, sample code, etcetera. I also contribute in an engineering capacity to the App Engine project; my contributions include remote_api and appcfg. I'm also the author of BDBDatastore, an alternate datastore backend for App Engine apps, written in Java.
Data Analysis in the Cloud with Apache Hadoop
The Cloud enables us to store and process massive amounts of data. This talk will begin by introducing Apache Hadoop, an open source implementation of Google's MapReduce and Google File System (GFS). We will see how Hadoop utilizes the cloud to distribute data across a set of nodes, and run distributed computations on those nodes to allow for a deeper and broader understanding of one's data.
Alex Loddengaard
Alex Loddengaard is part QA engineer, part operations engineer, part
support engineer, and part Hadoop trainer at Cloudera. He spends most of his time
deploying and testing Hadoop. He has also contributed to the open-source Hadoop
project itself. While at the University of Washington, Alex was awarded the Bob Bandes Memorial Award for Excellence
in Teaching his first year as a teacher's assistant (TA), and later grew to become a guest lecturer and head teacher's assistant.
Cloud Panel Debate
Today's Cloud speakers will discuss different technologies and platforms - They will discuss about Amazon, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure and more.
Alex Loddengaard
Alex Loddengaard is part QA engineer, part operations engineer, part
support engineer, and part Hadoop trainer at Cloudera. He spends most of his time
deploying and testing Hadoop. He has also contributed to the open-source Hadoop
project itself. While at the University of Washington, Alex was awarded the Bob Bandes Memorial Award for Excellence
in Teaching his first year as a teacher's assistant (TA), and later grew to become a guest lecturer and head teacher's assistant.
Nick Johnson
I'm a Developer Programs Engineer on the App Engine team. My job includes interfacing with external developers on the forums, IRC, and in person, answering highly technical questions, and writing articles, sample code, etcetera. I also contribute in an engineering capacity to the App Engine project; my contributions include remote_api and appcfg. I'm also the author of BDBDatastore, an alternate datastore backend for App Engine apps, written in Java.
Doug Tidwell
Doug Tidwell is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM. He was a speaker at the first XML conference in 1997, and has spoken on technical topics around the world. He works in IBM's Software Strategy group as a technology evangelist for Cloud Computing and emerging XML standards such as SCA, SDO and XForms. He is the author of O'Reilly's XSLT, and has written many articles on IBM's developerWorks site and elsewhere on the Web. He lives with his wife, daughter and dog in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Johan Lindfors
Johan works as the Technical Evangelism Manager at Microsoft in Sweden. He started his career within Microsoft in 1998 and has since held a couple of different roles, constantly with focus on the technology and products targeted at developers and IT-pros.
Adam Skogman
Adam works as a System Architect at Jayway, specializing in cloud architectures, scale-out and performance. As a long-time Agile advocate, he loves having a paradigm shift every week, and works with teams and customers to make the most of all the fascinating new technology, methodology and opportunities. Adam thinks that next-gen databases are a great leap forward, and a much-welcome return of some advanced computer science to the field of IT architecture.
