Data Integration Part II : The Future, Today
Following on the overview of part I, we will introduce a slew of emerging technologies that are starting to make tomorrow's integration strategies available today. Come explore technologies that allow real mashups to function on both the web and the Enterprise. We can use a variety of languages and tools to link legacy data and modern content sources. We will explore resource-oriented computing as a new way of building systems that manage information spaces, not code.
We will look at research projects like Simile from MIT, open source projects like Aperture, metadata storage systems like Mulgara and scalable orchestration environments like NetKernel. What happens when you mix the concepts of REST with Unix Pipes and Service-oriented architectures? What happens when you leverage the power of the web as a global data source in the context of your own day-to-day activities? What happens when you have an open world data model applied to the world of information resources?
This second talk will be more technical and hand's on. We will cover a lot of material so beginner technologists may get a little overwhelmed, but if they are patient and willing to go with the flow, they should be fine.
About Brian Sletten
Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. He has a background as a system architect, a developer, a mentor and a trainer. His experience has spanned the online games, defense, finance and commercial domains with security consulting, network matrix switch controls, 3D simulation/visualization, Grid Computing, P2P and Semantic Web-based systems. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary. He is President of Bosatsu Consulting, Inc. and lives in Los Angeles, CA.
He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries.
