The conference formerly known as JAOO
I've spent the last few days in
Aarhus,
Denmark at the GOTO conference - which was formerly known as
JAOO. One of the things I like about my post-sun life is that I get
to give talks other than a generic "state of the union". In this
case, on the hacking I've been doing to help out on a
fun
project at VW/Stanford (but that's another whole series of blog
posts). JAOO/GOTO is a great conference. One of the unusual things
they do as a commercial conference is that the content and schedule
isn't driven by sponsors. Rather than putting out a generic "call
for papers" (which in many conferences gets tied to sponsorship),
the organizers map out technical trends and then invite speakers in
the midst of those technologies. I particularly enjoyed the tracks
on NoSQL and web-scale infrastructure. Rather than pitching
particular products, the speakers did an excellent job of covering
the whole technical debate and the tradeoffs.
