Agenda Highlights

The gluecon agenda is rounding the final turn and headed toward the finish line, and I gotta tell ya - I'm pretty happy with how's it's turning out.As I scan through it, the breadth *and* depth of technical presentations it what strikes me. And I'm still confirming some final slots. I'm adding things like:

• Chris Messina talking XAuth
• Adrian Cole presenting about cloud provisioning with java and clojure
• A Cloudera expert coming in to dive deep on Hadoop
• A session about Drizzle and Gearman

Of course, besides the late adds, the agenda has sessions like:

• How 2^4 people handle >2^14 users with ~2^16 apps in the cloud
• Memcached: Fast Distributed State for your Site's Glue
• Configuration Management in the Cloud
• Pricing an API Sucks. Here's what we did.
• Inside MongoDB: the Internals of an Open-Source NoSQL Database

and topics like Riak, CouchDB, Cassandra, Webfinger, YQL, SAML, OpenID, OAuth, WRAP, cloud testing and performance, hybrid clouds, and VMWare's vCloud API.I worked on this agenda with engineers in mind, and actually had the behind the scenes help and advice of several unsung engineering heroes (you know who you are!). I think all of the effort is paying off. We actually received an email from one person (who was registering a block of people) that said she had floated going to Gluecon to the engineering team, and gotten run over by responses -- "I had no idea that many people would want to go."  ;-)Use the code "twit2" to take 10% off of your gluecon registration. The crowd's going to be special, the discussion's going to be lively, and the experience like no other. Join us.