Yesterday I was at the ItDevCon conference organized by Bit Time in Verona. I made two talks there one just before lunch and the other right after lunch. The first talk was about Continues Integration and the second was about Enterprise Integration Patterns with messaging.
The Continues Integration talk was a general overview about continues integration and some of the most common problems that I have seen when using continues integration. According to me one of the most common problems with continues integration is long build times, or maybe better said, continues integration makes it more evident that the build times are too long. An other problem that I have noticed with continues integration is that it may lead to information overload, since we generate information more frequently then if you dont use continues integration.
In second talk, about enterprise system integration, made a short introduction about different kinds of system integrations, file transfer, shared database, remote procedure invocation and messaging for then talking about different patterns of system integration with messaging. The talk was made in a high level and language agnostic, but I think that I got through with the message that there is some common patterns that can be reused and makes system integrations a bit easier.
There where around 60 people attending the conference and there was three tracks. On my talks there was around 20 people so I guess that I cant complain about the amount of public. One thing that made me wonder if I was failing to get the message across was that there was not that many questions asked, but that may be because most of the people there where quite new to the things I talked about. After the talk I met some people that had attended my talks and they said that they like them and that they got something to think about, so I think I have to be satisfied with them. I also have to say that, as usual, I really like too speak to the people between the talks, during lunch and after the conference day was over.
Unfortunately I could only attend one off the two days of the conference but that is the way it is and I knew it before. Next time I get the opportunity to speak at a conference I will try to be able to attend all the days.
I will update this post when I have made the slides for the talks available.
I have now made the presenations avalible on SlideShare, Continues Integration and Enterprise Integration Patterns
