From the start of the day yesterday (30-Aug-2008), I was eagerly waiting for BarCamp7 to get started. It was scheduled to begin at 2:30PM at Amazon Dev Center, Hyderabad. After having a good lunch at my office, myself and Arula started for the event. We didn't find any luck in getting systems for live blogging. :(
2:30 PM - Registration started. Though the wiki page showed the count to be more than 150, the initial count was very less (around 60). It increased gradually and at the end of the day, the turn around was more than 100. Thanks Sugandh for correcting me. We reached Amazon at around 2:45 PM after searching for a while in Raheja IT Park where Amazon is located. Also, Amazon office was not as big as I thought it would be. The camp was organized in the Amazon cafeteria. No banners. No information. That made our task difficult to identify the place. Nothing to criticize here. Indeed, it was a great job by Sugandh and Swetha to organize this event. Do pull me in for the next event. we will make it still more better next time.
3:00 PM - The camp was about to get started and lots of techies were rolling in around that time. Presenters were getting things ready for presentations, setting up for projectors and it was quite a buzz around the podium. And, nothing to surprise that 50% of the audience were students and 25% presenters.
3.10 PM - Ramesh L from Progress Software kick started the camp with setting up the context. He talked about the evolution of cloud, with origins in ASP (Application Service Provider), amplified by SaaS (Software As A Service) /Paas (Platform As A Service) and virtualization, with the current momentum built by the likes of Amazon's EC2 and Google app engine.
Soon after the talk by Ramesh L, various presenters kick started their demos:
First to go was Jyothi from Yahoo R & D, Bangalore. He gave presentations on Hadoop. It was one of the presentations I liked the most (Might be because it was the first one). He gave an insight into what is grid computing? How things are being done using computers at Parallel? Then, he talked about Software layer which takes care of stitching the machines on a grid. He quoted that different ways of failures, synchronization, tracking outages and reliable data storages are some of the challenges in the grid environment. He gave an intro on Map-Reduce algo. (similar to traditional divide n conquer algo) which serves as the back bone of grid computing. Hadoop is an open source initiative to build one such software layer. Yahoo contributes about 60% to Hadoop. For more, click here.
Next one to follow was the talk from Web giant Google's developers Anirudh and Rajdeep. They gave presentation on Google App Engine. It was more of a demo. Anirudh demonstrated how to specify config for Google app engine in YAML(YAML Ain't Markup Language) format and he explained what are handlers used for. Then, he showed a demo with a simple python script as handler. Then, he built a WSGI (equivalent to CGI for Perl) application using Google webapp framework. Then, he showed demos on accessing user list from google account and persisting some data in Google's Big Table. (Till date, Google provides only 500 MB free storage for applications hosted in Google App Engine). It definitely increased my curiosity in trying out this.
Matthew Hussain was the next to present. He presented on Salesforce.com, a CRM software. Here, it was told that they have built SQL like queries for searching web service. This session might have been useful for corporates where CRM is one of the biggest challenges. Nothing much here for me to get my hands dirty on this.
I felt a little drowsy after this session. Took a break and in no time the next session starts. It was Anup presenting Amlock - in my distracted mood, it could just understand that its a software which guarantees that you can safely deal your bank transactions with your service provider. (Might not be correct exactly). Yet to explore fully on this!
An official tea break was taken then.
The next session was from a startup called Zveego (which is basically a map provider company like TeleAtlas based in Bangalore). Narayana from Zveego gave presentation on the scalability issues they have faced in rendering maps. He explained about the usage of Amazon Web Services like EC2, EBS and S3. Yes, as he told its nothing but usage of another credit card.
The next to follow was the presentation on "BPM on demand" by Cordys' JeyaPrakash. He talked about how Cordys is supporting BPM. MashApps, MashApps Composer and MaskApps Market Place were also demonstrated as part of his presentation. Again, this is something for the corporates. Nothing challenging to me here.
P2W2 - People To Work With - This is the startup from Chaitanya, the next presenter. He projected his site (P2W2) as an online marketplace for services. He talked about the need for having online marketplace for services. Lots of similar marketplaces are available to bridge the gap between service provider and consumer. But, he added that their system has a fool-proof mechanism (record voice of clients) that saves from hosting a fake project. I was pleased with the interface of their service. Yet to explore fully!
Hrishikesh from Pramatiwas the next one to present. He presented on "Tell a friend" Widget. Its a widget which can be added to blogs / websites to help your readers share the information with their friends via mails, IMs, or even blogs. He talked about the wide user group for this product and explained the need for scalability concerns. He talked about various webserver scaling and database scaling technologies.
LootStreet.com - Startup by Kaushik and Arun from IIM A. Lootstreet.com is an E-Commerce site which the special feature of bargaining. Apart from that its all the same crap available in other E-Commerce sites.
Final session was from Amitesh and Jayant from Acuvate. They presented on the problems in scaling an application. Sugandh from Amazon ended the camp with talk on Map-Reduce algorithm.
7:15 PM - Distribution of goodies. Goodies were sponsored by Progress Softwares.
The overall rating I can give for the camp is 7/10. Still needs more attention from the techies to make it a success.
2:30 PM - Registration started. Though the wiki page showed the count to be more than 150, the initial count was very less (around 60). It increased gradually and at the end of the day, the turn around was more than 100. Thanks Sugandh for correcting me. We reached Amazon at around 2:45 PM after searching for a while in Raheja IT Park where Amazon is located. Also, Amazon office was not as big as I thought it would be. The camp was organized in the Amazon cafeteria. No banners. No information. That made our task difficult to identify the place. Nothing to criticize here. Indeed, it was a great job by Sugandh and Swetha to organize this event. Do pull me in for the next event. we will make it still more better next time.
3:00 PM - The camp was about to get started and lots of techies were rolling in around that time. Presenters were getting things ready for presentations, setting up for projectors and it was quite a buzz around the podium. And, nothing to surprise that 50% of the audience were students and 25% presenters.
3.10 PM - Ramesh L from Progress Software kick started the camp with setting up the context. He talked about the evolution of cloud, with origins in ASP (Application Service Provider), amplified by SaaS (Software As A Service) /Paas (Platform As A Service) and virtualization, with the current momentum built by the likes of Amazon's EC2 and Google app engine.
Soon after the talk by Ramesh L, various presenters kick started their demos:
First to go was Jyothi from Yahoo R & D, Bangalore. He gave presentations on Hadoop. It was one of the presentations I liked the most (Might be because it was the first one). He gave an insight into what is grid computing? How things are being done using computers at Parallel? Then, he talked about Software layer which takes care of stitching the machines on a grid. He quoted that different ways of failures, synchronization, tracking outages and reliable data storages are some of the challenges in the grid environment. He gave an intro on Map-Reduce algo. (similar to traditional divide n conquer algo) which serves as the back bone of grid computing. Hadoop is an open source initiative to build one such software layer. Yahoo contributes about 60% to Hadoop. For more, click here.
Next one to follow was the talk from Web giant Google's developers Anirudh and Rajdeep. They gave presentation on Google App Engine. It was more of a demo. Anirudh demonstrated how to specify config for Google app engine in YAML(YAML Ain't Markup Language) format and he explained what are handlers used for. Then, he showed a demo with a simple python script as handler. Then, he built a WSGI (equivalent to CGI for Perl) application using Google webapp framework. Then, he showed demos on accessing user list from google account and persisting some data in Google's Big Table. (Till date, Google provides only 500 MB free storage for applications hosted in Google App Engine). It definitely increased my curiosity in trying out this.
Matthew Hussain was the next to present. He presented on Salesforce.com, a CRM software. Here, it was told that they have built SQL like queries for searching web service. This session might have been useful for corporates where CRM is one of the biggest challenges. Nothing much here for me to get my hands dirty on this.
I felt a little drowsy after this session. Took a break and in no time the next session starts. It was Anup presenting Amlock - in my distracted mood, it could just understand that its a software which guarantees that you can safely deal your bank transactions with your service provider. (Might not be correct exactly). Yet to explore fully on this!
An official tea break was taken then.
The next session was from a startup called Zveego (which is basically a map provider company like TeleAtlas based in Bangalore). Narayana from Zveego gave presentation on the scalability issues they have faced in rendering maps. He explained about the usage of Amazon Web Services like EC2, EBS and S3. Yes, as he told its nothing but usage of another credit card.
The next to follow was the presentation on "BPM on demand" by Cordys' JeyaPrakash. He talked about how Cordys is supporting BPM. MashApps, MashApps Composer and MaskApps Market Place were also demonstrated as part of his presentation. Again, this is something for the corporates. Nothing challenging to me here.
P2W2 - People To Work With - This is the startup from Chaitanya, the next presenter. He projected his site (P2W2) as an online marketplace for services. He talked about the need for having online marketplace for services. Lots of similar marketplaces are available to bridge the gap between service provider and consumer. But, he added that their system has a fool-proof mechanism (record voice of clients) that saves from hosting a fake project. I was pleased with the interface of their service. Yet to explore fully!
Hrishikesh from Pramatiwas the next one to present. He presented on "Tell a friend" Widget. Its a widget which can be added to blogs / websites to help your readers share the information with their friends via mails, IMs, or even blogs. He talked about the wide user group for this product and explained the need for scalability concerns. He talked about various webserver scaling and database scaling technologies.
LootStreet.com - Startup by Kaushik and Arun from IIM A. Lootstreet.com is an E-Commerce site which the special feature of bargaining. Apart from that its all the same crap available in other E-Commerce sites.
Final session was from Amitesh and Jayant from Acuvate. They presented on the problems in scaling an application. Sugandh from Amazon ended the camp with talk on Map-Reduce algorithm.
7:15 PM - Distribution of goodies. Goodies were sponsored by Progress Softwares.
The overall rating I can give for the camp is 7/10. Still needs more attention from the techies to make it a success.
Great work in touching every nook and cranny of the event and yet present it in etirity.
ReplyDeleteJust one correction - our company is called "Acuvate" and not Accuvate... :-)
Thank you.
See ya on the 13 th
Varun, that's a nice summary of Barcamp7. I am glad that you had something positive to say about p2w2.
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