Conference Overview

As you can tell I didn't get to blog about the conference as much as I planned due to the unreliable wireless (1000 geeks with laptops).

Some highlights which have stuck with me a week after the event:

• The SOA vs REST comparison. This was a very entertaining, informative and at times hilariously frank look at the technologies and the politics behind them
• The eBay case study. With 2 petabytes of data (1024 terrabytes in a petabyte - if you have to ask you can't afford to store it).
• GRAILS, Groovy and pretty much any talk by Scott Davis. He even gave me a free copy of his book on GIS.