SOAWorld East 2008 - Perspectives
Immediately after the conference last month, I got caught up in vacation and then working with a couple of new clients. I’m back in the saddle now, and wanted to share some of my experiences.
The SOAWorld conference was very well attended, including the co-located events: Virtualization World and Data Services World. I was a bit suprised to see that so many of the presenters were vendors rather than customers or practioners. If this had been my first SOA conference, this would be a red flag for me that SOA is still just a lot of hype. As it was, I just found it rather odd and a little more of an empty experience than I have come to expect. Otherwise, the conference was great and it was quite encouraging to see so much energy around things like SOA and Virtualization in spite of the state of the economy. This gives me great confidence and reinforces a belief that I have held for some time now, which is that SOA and Virtualization make good economic sense.
My portions of the conference went fairly well. On Monday, June 23rd, I delivered: “A Composable Service is a Good Service”. The room was packed and that presentation was extremely well received. The audience was very engaging, shared some of their own war stories and asked for insight on particular service design dilemas that they have been dealing with. On Tuesday, SYS-CON staff contacted me and asked if I would be willing to step in for a speaker that would not be able to attend. I accepted, and delivered: “A Little SOA Goes a Long Way” (my SOAWorld presentation from last November). I also had the pleasure to participate in two expert panels, one of which was held in the Reuters studio in Time Square. When one or more of those videos become available, I’ll be sure to provide a link.
Presentation deck downloads: “A Composable Service is a Good Service” (PDF) and “A Little SOA Goes a Long Way” (PDF)
One final comment about the conference is that there was quite a bit of buzz about virtualization as well as “cloud computing”. I’ve paid a little bit of attention to the virtualization movement, but thus far I have completly ignored cloud computing. None of my clients are talking about it, and it may all be vaporware (let the cloud-related puns ensue), but it has sparked my curiosity all the same.
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