Session Title

Think before you develop!

Abstract

This talk explores web server architectures, web services in general and discusses the pros and cons of different programing languages (like PHP, Java, Python, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript, ASP.NET) and database technologies in the field of web application development, deployment and hosting. The talk shows pitfalls and common mistakes developers make when building web-based applications. The talk ends with a quick introduction of horizontal and vertical scaling.

The targeted audience are software developers and all topics are presented from a developers point of view.

Language

English

Speakers

Kai Seidler

Kai graduated from Technical University of Berlin with a Diplom-Informatiker degree (equivalent to a Master in Computer Science). In the 90's he created and managed Germany's biggest IRCnet server irc.fu-berlin.de, and co-managed one of the world's largest FTP server ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de. He is truly an early bird to the Internet having professionally set up his first public web server in 1993. Since then, he has worked on numerous projects for a variety of international companies like Lufthansa, Audi, Toyota, Deutsche Telekom, Gruner+Jahr, or SuSE. In 2002 Kai co-founded Apache Friends and created the multi-platform Apache web server bundle XAMPP. His third book, Das XAMPPP-Handbuch, was published by Addison Wesley in 2006. Currently Kai works as Senior Engineer/Technology Evangelist for Web Tier products at Sun Microsystems. (more)

Where

Main Stage

When

Thursday, 3 of December of 2009, from 14:00 to 14:45

Files and video

Presentation Download

• thinkbeforeyoudevelop-2009.pdf

Attendees

André Cruz André Manuel Pereira Santos André Pereira de Matos Anselmo Silva Antonio Barcia García Antonio Borges Rosado Artur Jorge Martins Bernardo Raposo Bruno Barão Bruno Costa Bruno Morisson Bruno Pires Bruno Silva Carla Vanessa Ferreira Alves Leite Carlos Anjos Carlos Brito Lage Carlos Pires Cátia Nunes Dan Mihai Ile David Emanuel da Silva David José Vaz cruz David Júlio David Walter Figueira Jardim Eduardo Taborda Elizeu Carlos Cuginguilua Fábio André Damas Filipe Adriano Lima Dias Filipe Manuel Miranda da Cruz Flávio Cruz Flávio Martins Francisco Costa Gonçalo Araújo Gonçalo Fortes Gonçalo S. Silva Gustavo Funke Hugo Durães Hugo Monteiro Isa Costa João Bordalo João Campos João de Castro Figueiredo João Duarte Gomes João Eduardo Luís João Miguel Forte Oliveirinha João Nelas João Paulo Carvalho João Pedro Pereira João Pescada João Poupino João Rui Martins Jorge Filipe Teixeira Jorge Miguel Ferreira Alves Jorge Moura Jorge Oliveira Santos Jorge Varandas José Climaco Pereira Jose da Silva José Luís Baía Ribeiro José Manuel Canelas José Pedro Aguiar Airosa José Vasco Fidalgo Patrício Lenz Grimmer Luís Couto Luis Nabais Luis Neves Luís Osório do Carmo Ferreira Manuel João Silva Manuel Silva Márcio Moreira Marco da Silva Marco Neves Marco Sousa Marcos Garcia Mário Morgado Miguel Louro Manso Miguel Nogueira Miguel Pais Mike de Boer Nelson Correia Nuno Cardoso Nuno da Costa Ferro Nuno Fernandes Nuno Filipe Marques Cruz Nuno Marçal Nuno Pereira Patrícia Barbosa Lecas Espada Paula Valenca Pedro Amorim Brandão da Silva Pedro Cardoso Pedro Correia Pedro Duarte Pedro Frazão Pedro Gomes Pedro Luiz de Castro Pedro Moreira Pedro Trindade Ricardo Dias Marques Ricardo Moreira de Carvalho Ricardo Vercesi Ruben Marques Rui Filipe Rocha Leite Rui Lopes Rui Patinha Rui Pedro Magalhães Samuel Junqueira Samuel Ramos Samuel Santos Sara Santos Sérgio Bernardino Sérgio Bessa Tiago Boldt Sousa Tiago Henriques Tiago Miguel Cavaco Rodrigues Tiago Oliveira Tiago Portela Tiago Silveira Varela Tomás Senart Tomé Duarte TT* Vitor Reis

Estimated head count: 209 people
(based on the total of persons interested in this talk and the universe of people attending Codebits)

Attendance