BarCamp on Sunday...

I went to BarCamp at IIM, Bangalore on Sunday.. gosh, I missed my sleep, that what I was thinking before, but after going there I wasn't feeling too much bad. There were few good topics which were presented and discussed.

The crowd was very less as compared to last BarCamp in Bangalore. Though I met few of the people, whom I knew in last BarCamp, some them who inspired me to write blog even, and here I am...

Though, I first went to MySpaces.com presentation, though it sounds nice, the presenter presented on the rich API MySpace provide in order to build application. But I guess I was looking much more interesting topic so I quit from there.

Next, I went to a presentation where Naveen (if I am correct!!!), was presenting on integration of BIRT to the RIA, though it was interesting as I worked on BIRT sometime back, but I missed the initial thing, hence joined people arguing about one way or the other using Business Intelligence tool.

Next, I had a cup of coffee; I was bit sleepy now, so I rejuvenated myself.

So, I thought to go to a discussion which is totally apart from my domain of interest. So I went to VoIP a.k.a. Voice over Internet Protocol. They were discussing why VoIP is still not favored by Indian government and how its been popular West and South – East countries. But we explore it using Skype like software but it yet has to become legal so that we could call locally within India using VoIP. We should protest, and I am ready…

By now, it was lunch time, so I went to have lunch. As I said, it takes pro-active nature to get to know people. Hence I met few good people in discussion talks and during lunch hours who are working closely in the domain of my interest and not of my interest as well, but doing cool things. I get to know how people are scaling their applications in order make a mark in the market. All Web 2.0 technologies are not hot piece but some are. There were talks about how Adobe is making use and aggressively marketing its Web 2.0 tools, though they are paid frameworks. People also talking about OSS tools as well and how Web 2.0 is making buzz in the computing market.

So lunch was good, now I went to talk / discussion, where Vinayak from Akamai, talking about High Performance Websites. Though I herd of High Performance Computing, but High Performance Websites, what is this… ????

Vinayak, talking about how you could make your website popular from 10 hits per day to 100,000 hits per day and increase them. He talked about the caching technology, As he was from Akamai, which deals in providing services to companies like MySpace in server and stuff, so he knew where the bandwidth is eaten up in your web site. He talked that with little tweaks, you could make your website fast downloadable when network is slow. That’s nice one, I must say…

Next, I was searching but tired how you could make your software as a service, but I couldn’t find. Then, I thought, lets call for the day, and called my chauffer, and went back home…

Wait a sec, I also got a shirt as well as a souvenir to remember BarCamp the whole year and look forward to participate in it next year… So kudos to all who started this concept and its really worth appreciation….