I recently found out that I will be speaking at JavaOne again this year! I’ll be participating on a quick-fire demo panel called Taking Java to the Sky: Cloud Computing 2010 Expert Panel together with representatives from Oracle, Salesforce, and Amazon. Raghavan Srinivas will again be doing a wonderful job by moderating the session, and you can [...]
This is from November 2009, but I’ve just noticed that my “Patterns for Cloud Computing” session recording from QCon San Francisco has been posted online. You can find the recording and slides here.
I have the pleasure of presenting the keynote at the Microsoft @Cloud Conference in Korea next week. I’m not sure how many people from Korea (if any!) follow my blog, but if you do and are planning to come, I would love to meet you.
This will be my third trip to Korea and I’m [...]
I was watching a presentation yesterday, half way through which the presenters fired up a demo of their application. To their horror, the demos failed spectacularly. After what seemed like an eternity trying to recover, the presenters were forced to move on, leaving the presenters visibly annoyed and the audience disappointed.
Although I’m not immune to [...]
Over the past few weeks I’ve been working with Jean Paoli’s team at Microsoft to create an application that runs across multiple cloud vendors. Jean’s team has been working on a number of SDKs for PHP and Java, and I wanted to create a sample that demonstrated all of them working together.
The result is a [...]
If you’ve been following the recent developments on Windows Azure, you are probably aware that the July CTP of Windows Azure introduced support for FastCGI. One of the benefits of supporting FastCGI is the ability to run PHP applications in the Azure fabric.
If you are a developer using the Eclipse IDE, this month marks [...]
One of the conferences that I regularly look forward to is PDC. This year will be the first in a move to an annual format, as traditionally it has only been every two years. If you are on the fence about going, it looks like there is only one more day to register (to qualify [...]
Brad beat me to blogging this, but he, Arturo, Adam, and I will be traveling to Europe at the end of the month to deliver several sessions across numerous web developer, designer, and architect conferences throughout Europe.
My schedule takes me to the following places:
Tuesday 22nd September (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Presenting “Patterns for Cloud Computing” to post-LEAP attendees.
Wednesday [...]
Over the past few months I’ve been working with many customers and internal groups to try and determine whether there is a common set of patterns for cloud computing. As you’ve probably read, many people are claiming to do cloud computing, so my goal has been to explore the types of applications that people are [...]
Just before heading home from TechEd 2009 in LA, I recorded a couple of online interviews, which are now available:
Patterns for Moving to the Cloud: Recorded with Denny Boynton, host of ARCast, we chat about where applications live, and what applications make sense for the cloud. We also cover a set of patterns that was [...]