today was the last day of the AjaxWorld conference in San Jose, CA. It have been good 2 days, and the last was a bit disappointing. As it seems the Expo was just planned for two days, so everybody from there left late Tuesday. Also there were a lot less people here to listen for the last talks.
The talks however were really good. Elaine Wherry from meebo gave a really great and interesting talk. The slides are on slideshare. She had an unconventional style to present how it is to run a startup that out of sudden gets really busy. She told about sleepless nights and the concept of quick fix or homerun, which I might explain in a later post as it is really interesting and worth looking at it.
When she showed a graph of meebo user count, which was growing from less than 1 k to 5k users one thought: wow that is a large increase of user count.
She took a while to talk about that she knows for every spike and abnormality in the graph what the reason was, so this was really fascinating. Even more fascinating was the next slide which she left uncommented. the Graph changed scale and now shows up to 80 Million users. If you now recap what she said about sleepless nights during the first graph, it must have been a nightmare on the second.
But during the remaining slides she explained why she then could sleep better and what they did at meebo to create a scalable architecture.
Jeffrey Barr from Amazon held a good session about “the cloud”, or to be more precise: The Amazon Web Services. They do look attractive by themselves, but having them presented in such a good way makes you even more wanting to try them out.

That’s it for this conference. I am really tired and will sleep on the flight back. See you in Germany.

Ill follow up with a summary of the new and noteworthy of the conference later. In meanwhile: have a good day in Europe