Three tomatoes are walking down the street-
poppa tomato, momma tomato, and baby tomato.
Baby tomato starts lagging behind and Poppa tomato gets really angry,
goes back and squishes him... and says, Ketchup...catch up.
Recently I attended a road show organized by Vmware in partnership with our company in Bangalore. A day long session was organized exclusively for our company, before there public session in september.
The session was conducted by a bunch of techies lead by Patrick Chanezon.
I went it to the session with a expectation that it would be more about cloundfoundry, but was disappointed that sessions turned out to be intro to set of spring products, with very little dump given on clound foundary.
The day begin with a talk by Patrick Chanezon who set the context of the day. He used the story of the movie 'The Artist' as an probable to explain why the companies/IT need to embrace cloudfoundary/cloud platform so that they don't lag behind.
I think cloud platforms help companies to do away with niti-gritys of infrastrucutire management - like owning Hw&Sw, maintain them on day to day basis. It provides a convenient way for the companies to just focus on the business problem they are trying to solve. Though I have certain apprehension about cloud computing on few things like
1. Security - how secure is your data in others hand? Do you trust them?
2. Things are good as long as cloud platform provider is in good times. What if the company starts going down like Lehman/Nokia/ KF. Will you be able to move away from one cloud to other or manage to create a infra of your in short time ?
The second talk was by Josh Long. He basically gave a intro to products of spring framework like Roo, Spring Integration, Spring Batch, Spring Security and AOP. Having worked in spring framework for years, this talk by Josh wasnt of any use to me.
Post luch talk was on products like vFabric, Intalio (vmware partner presentation) and Play.
Play is rapid application building tool. I have worked a lot in building consumer web application using Ruby on Rails(ROR) and I enjoyed using ROR. Play is exactly the same as ROR. I would say its cheap copy of (ROR) without passionate vision for this product. Its worth ignoring this product for now.
The last talk of the day was by Chris Richardson on application scalability and deploy-ability.
I found this session very useful. The entire deck of session is uploaded here.
Its intereseting to study the practical problems faced by popular consumer web apps like amazon & netflix. Read more at http://highscalability.com/amazon-architecture.
