Adrian Cole
RWX / CDX
Fort Lauderdale · November 27 - 30, 2012
Cloud Engineer at Twitter
Adrian is an active member of cloud interoperability, REST, and DevOps circles. He is the founder of a few popular open source projects, notably Apache jclouds and Netflix denominator, both of which java libraries that help create portable cloud deployments. Adrian maintains the http/2 implementation of Square okhttp. Adrian's currently focused on cloud computing at Twitter.
Presentations
I Got 99 Problems, but REST Ain’t One
The world’s most popular services expose ReST APIs. Whether it’s in Google, Twitter, Amazon, or even your middleware, ReST is everywhere. Have you ever wondered why APIs look the way they do? Is there a balance between API design for usability and scale, or can we have them both? What’s the relationship between standards such as WS-* and ReST?
What's new in jclouds 1.5
jclouds 1.5 is the result of 3.5 years of development by nearly 100 developers interested in portable cloud computing.
Lessons learned building cloud services using AWS, elasticsearch and MongoDB
The design of a cloud service is fascinating. Aspects from all directions converge: from billing model to scale to tenancy, everything is important and must be evaluated in context. The reason is that at scale, small problems become big problems. At scale, logging turns into a big data problem, restarting a cluster can turn into hours of re-indexing, the price of a dependency can cripple your billing model.