James Governor, RedMonk

James Governor is Principal Analyst and founder of RedMonk, the open source analysis company. He lives and works in London, England with his wife and son. RedMonk strategy is based on open source and social media approaches, tracking and engaging with practitioner communities in order to extrapolate industry trends and directions.

He tracks architecture, application development, middleware, systems management, systems platforms, open source and web/consumer/enterprise service convergence.

His blog MonkChips covers everything from mainframes to DRM to music to politics to systems management and agile development. He is one of the top ten "James" on Google.com, which is nice.

Presentation: "Introduction: Architectures you've always wondered about"

Track: Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Time: Friday 09:00 - 09:15

Location: Fleming Room

Abstract: Have you ever browsed to a site like eBay or Amazon and wondered, or even fantasized about what software architecture they may have used, and what insights their teams must have after solving such complex and large-scale problems? This track will give you an exclusive chance to learn directly from some of the most well-known and high-volume web applications in the world. In the previous 2 QCons, this track featured Amazon.com, SecondLife, eBay, Linked-In, Yahoo!, Orbitz.com, Voca, InfoQ.com.