I’m off to London for QCon 2012, the 6th International Software Development Conference. I am one of the track chairs for this meeting. I’ve just learned that the show is now sold out, but there is a wait list if you have not already registered. All indications are that this is going to be an outstanding conference, so if there is any way you can possibly attend, you should make the effort.
I’m hosting a track this Friday called Industrial-Strength Architecture for Integration and Web Computing. Here is how I described the track to potential speakers:
The enterprise is demanding more from the Web than ever before. No longer content with simple web application delivery, the new enterprise web has become an integration point between mobile devices, browsers, legacy systems, and third-party web apps. It is a difficult balancing act. The new enterprise web is highly scalable, but can also reconcile the different service level expectations across each participant. At its core, it enables agile product delivery while maintaining extreme reliability. In this track, we will study the architectural challenges faced by the enterprise that needs to harness the web as a rich delivery channel—and highlight the real world solutions that address these. We will explore the intersection where trends such as virtualization, noSQL, JSON, OAuth, APIs and mobile apps meet. Join us to understand the fine tuning between milliseconds and dollars that can make the difference between wild success and disappointing mediocrity.
I’m fortunate to have a great roster of speakers, including Theo Schlossnagle from Omniti, Paul Fremantle from WSO2, John Davies from Incept5, and finally both Marcus Kern and David Dawson from Mobile Interactive Group.
I’m also going to chair a panel titled Integration At Scale: Lessons Learned From The New Enterprise Web. This one promises to be a very interesting discussion:
The mobile device revolution has upended our traditional view of the world wide web. The enterprise web is now about integration: connecting any device to to any data, reliably and under wildly fluctuating load. How has this affected web architecture, and what changes in the day-to-day operation of the web resource? Join us for this panel of senior enterprise architects, each of whom has met the challenge of the new enterprise web.
The panel line up consists of David Laing from CityIndex, Neels Burger from MoneySuperMarket.com, Neil Pellinacci form Tanzarine Technology, and Parand Tony Darugar from Xpenser. Each brings tremendous experience to the panel, and bringing them all together is going to make for a lively and informative debate. I’m looking forward to it.
Hope to see you in London.
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Was the panel discussion interesting? Should we watch the video if it’s available?
Yes, do watch the video if you have the chance. I had a minor technical glitch with a video I tried to play. I had intended to use the video to jump start a discussion about cultural differences between enterprise IT and the modern Web developer community. Fortunately, the video didn’t really matter because the panelists were able to jump in comment on the point anyway. I was fortunate to have a very professional group of panelists who brought a lot of experience to the discussion.