Up in the Clouds at Oredev!
Another set of stories from Oredev, this time about cloud technology. First up is Chris Auld, talking about the economics of Azure. Next is Adrian Cole, talking about jCloud provisioning. Third is a deep discussion with Jim Webber and Ian Robinson about REST.
Guests:
Chris Auld
You can usually find Chris Auld at events around the world by walking up the stack from his crazy yellow shoes. Chris is a Director at Intergen, based out of New Zealand. Chris travels the world enthusing others about technology. Chris has been a key global trainer for the Azure Services Platform early adopter program and brings extensive theoretical and hands on experience in building high scale web applications. Chris is a Microsoft Regional Director for the ANZ region.
Adrian Cole
Adrian Cole founded the open source project jclouds in March, 2010, and is actively engaged in cloud interoperability and devops circles. Recently, he's worked at VMware helping make vCloud relevant to developers and ISVs. He's also put in effort at Opscode on java-chef integration. Adrian's currently consulting under Cloud Conscious LLC.
Jim Webber
Dr. Jim Webber is director of professional services for ThoughtWorks where he works on dependable distributed systems architecture for clients worldwide. His current interests are in using the Web for building distributed systems. Jim is an active speaker at conferences across the globe, and is currently working on a new book called "REST in Practice." He blogs at http://jim.webber.name and he tweets often @jimwebber.
Ian Robinson
Ian Robinson is a Principal Consultant with ThoughtWorks, where he specializes in service-oriented and distributed systems development. He has written guidance for Microsoft on implementing integration patterns with Microsoft technologies, and has published articles on business-oriented development methodologies and distributed systems design-most recently in The ThoughtWorks Anthology (Pragmatic Programmers, 2008). Ian is currently co-authoring a book on Web-friendly enterprise integration