Keynote Address-2 Derek Collison : Cloud Foundry: Why Ruby, and will it last?

Presentation Material(PDF)

Date

September 5 (Mon.) 17:15-18:15

Room

Hall-A (International Conference Hall 3F)

Speaker

Derek Collison
(VMware Inc.)

Speaker’s profile

Derek is an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience, specializing in high performance distributed systems. With tenures at Google and TIBCO Software, he specializes in Distributed Systems Architecture, High Performance Messaging Systems, and Event-Driven Systems. His current focus is Cloud Foundry and the Open PaaS at VMware Inc.

Presentation title

Cloud Foundry: Why Ruby, and will it last?

Presentation outline

Cloud Foundry is the industry’s first OpenPaaS. Written in Ruby, this talk will discuss the rationale for choosing Ruby, how VMware expects to make money out of Cloud Foundry, and what challenges and benefits the team got by selecting the Ruby language.