Cloud Camp Bangalore
This is a belated post as I was really busy coming back from injury trying to catch up with work.
Cloudcamp Bangalore went off well in end March with good attendance. Out of the 400 people who registered, more than 300 people turned up. There were quite a few interesting discussions.
The format was a cross between a normal conference and an an unconference. Some of the sessions were planned beforehand (not scheduled on the spot as in an unconference). The “UnPanel” format was a big hit. In the UnPanel, we asked who amongst the audience felt they were the experts on a certain topic (such as security, networks, storage etc) and invited them onstage to form the panel. Then we asked the rest of the audience, what questions they expected to be answered during the conference. Then we wrote down these questions on the board and got the unpanelists to answer them. This got the audience involved and spawned some animated conversations which continued over lunch.
There were 4 parallel sessions after lunch on a variety of topics related to CloucComputing. Here are some presentations from those post-lunch sessions:
Snappyfingers
Snappyfingers is a FAQ search Engine. Snappy Fingers uses S3, SQS and EC2 services from Amazon to run it’s infrastructure. Chirayu Patel explains some of the lessons from building a search engine using Cloud services in the following presentation.
ACK Media
ACK Media is also using S3 and EC2 Cloud services to build a MMORPG. based on Indian epic Mahabharata. Arjun Gupte from ACK media explains why he used cloud computing to build the game and the architecture of the game in the following presentation.