David Boloker at Emerging Web Technologies Conference

On Monday some colleagues and I were at the Emerging Web Technologies and Trends Conference in Auckland. Like a lot of conferences, the informal conversations were the most interesting and inspired the best ideas.

We spoke to David Boloker from IBM about web service security and the future of mobile apps, he also showed us his QEDWiki project which allows people to easily “mashup” or integrate web services to create new applications. Reminds me of Yahoo Pipes, but I think it has a lot of potential to be used in the real world, particularly for integrating in-house data behind the firewall with external services. I must have a play with it. It did get me thinking about some of the challenges I face everyday with web services, can you have a critical application which depends on multiple external data sources? David Boloker suggested that in fact, yes you can, and that commercial SLAs will help with this. Also, if we have these SLAs in place, how do we also guarantee the availability and security of our own web services to meet our customers needs? David pointed me in the direction of an IEEE conference last year which has plenty of good papers around these subjects.

Michael Sampson, one of the presenters, has some great posts about the rest of conference, with some interesting stuff on WPF/E and the user-centric nature of the web from Nigel Parker, John Lewis and the other speakers.

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