WSO2Con 2011 – 5 Don’t Miss Talks by WSO2

Written by Sami

This years WSO2Con Agenda is filled with two tracks over three full days. The and a wide verity of topics and speakers will trouble the attendees in picking what sessions to attend.

I myself am still struggling to pick and choose what talks to attend. In addition to the user testimonials, It is a great opportunity to learn the past, present and future of SOA and Cloud Computing, by listening to speakers from WSO2.

From among the sessions by WSO2 folks, here are the top 5 I have picked to attend already and booked my calendar:

1. Keynote: WSO2 Vision and Roadmap by Paul Fremantle, Founder & CTO WSO2
   Day 3, 4.15 pm
   It is a joy to listen Paul talking. And he is a visionary. So there is nothing better than listing to Paul on WSO2’s future.
   His thoughts on where the market is evolving is not only going to be useful to WSO2, but also to the industry in general, including our competitors.
2. Open Source Middleware for the Cloud: WSO2 Stratos by Afkham Azeez, Director of Architecture, WSO2
   Day 2, Track 1, 11.00 am
   Azeez is one of the Key architects in out architecture team. It is not exaggerating to say that Azeez is the one who knows both WSO2 Carbon product platform and WSO2 Stratos cloud platform to the extreme both at the code level as well as the overall architecture level. And he started and completed his masters thesis on cloud computing elastic scaling even before any other vendor in the space had started thinking about it. He would know cloud computing realities better than many experts in the space.
3. Building Cool Applications with WSO2 StratosLive by Selvaratnam Uthaiyashankar, Senior Software Architect,WSO2
   Day 2, Track 1, 11.45 am
   If Azeez is the “master architect” of Stratos, Shankar is the “master builder” of StratosLive, the public cloud computing Java PaaS by WSO2. Shankar leads the StratosLive team within WSO2 and works across development, testing, techops, devops of this cloud platform. So if you want to build an app for this platform, there is none who is better than Shankar who can tell you how to do that right.
4. Security in Practice by Prabath Siriwardena, Architect & Senior Manager – Carbon Platform & Security, WSO2
   Day 2, Track 2, 3.30 pm
   Prabath is one of the best presenters, if not the best, in WSO2 engineering team. He has his own style, and it is hard to loose your concentration while he is presenting. Thought that itself is a reason to attend this talk, there is another equally important reason to attend: Prabath is one of the few experts in the computer security space. Even if you do not know theory in this domain, you will learn what security means in practice.
5. Quality - The Key to Successful SOA by Charitha Kankanamge, Senior Technical Lead and Manager QA Team, WSO2
   Day 3, Tack2, 11.45 am
   SOA testing is tough; Need to balance the quick turnaround demands of the SOA world with sustainable QA practices. You cannot just follow the traditional testing. And it is a great opportunity to learn the tricks, tips and the realities of SOA QA from Charitha, who has experience in testing WSO2 SOA stack throughout the evolution of the stack.

Apart from the above sessions, that I plan to attend, I will obviously attend my talk where I plan to speak on the “secret ingredients” that enabled WSO2 take over the middleware world.

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