Trackhost: Gregor Hohpe, Google Inc.

Gregor Hohpe is a software architect with Google, Inc. Gregor is a widely recognized thought leader on asynchronous messaging and service-oriented architectures. He co-authored the seminal book "Enterprise Integration Patterns" (Addison-Wesley, 2004), followed by "Integration Patterns" and "Enterprise Solution Patterns", both published by Microsoft Press. He was nominated a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) Solution Architect for his contributions to the developer community and recognized as an active member of the patterns community by the Hillside Group. In 2005, Joel Spolsky selected Gregor's article "Starbucks Does Not Use Two-phase Commit" for his "Best Software Writing" (APress).

Gregor speaks regularly at technical conferences around the world. He likes to cut through the hype surrounding service-oriented architectures and captures nuggets of advice in the form of design patterns that can help developers avoid costly mistakes. Find out more about his work at eaipatterns.com

Presentation: "Introduction: The cloud..."

Track: The Cloud as the New Middleware Platform

Time: Wednesday 10:30 - 10:45

Location: Fleming Room

Abstract: The Web has become the application delivery platform of choice. After an initial focus on the presentation layer client, business services and middleware components are moving to the web as well. Examples range from core services like Amazon's EC2 compute cloud & S3 storage services, over application services like Google's GData APIs, to front-end mashup platforms like Facebook or Popfly. Instead of writing applications that can run over the web, we can now write applications that run on the web. What does this mean for application developers? Will the little cloud icon replace the server & database-cylinder on tomorrows system design schematics? Will applications be composed by dragging web-based components together? Or do we still have to fiddle around with JavaScript and brittle APIs? This track invites experts who have been living the cloud to share their experiences and give hand-on advice.

Presentation: "Integration in the Cloud"

Track: Interviews

Time: Friday 11:00 - 12:00

Location: Wordsworth Room

Presentation: "Ending Panel"

Time: Friday 17:15 - 18:15

Location: Fleming Room