2009 Session: Cloud Panel Debate
Wednesday, 16:40 - 17:30
Track: In The Cloud
Today's Cloud speakers will discuss different technologies and platforms - They will discuss about Amazon, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure and more.
Additional Info
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.