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[Post Event] ISTA Conference 2015, November 18-19, Sofia Bulgaria

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This week I had the great opportunity to be one of the speakers of ISTA Conference. This was the 5th edition of ISTA Conference and it seems that every year ISTA Conference becomes not only bigger and bigger but also the quality of the session is higher and higher.
This year there were more than 30 speakers from 3 different continents, 2 keynotes, more than 26 sessions, 4 tracks in parallel and a full day of workshops. On top of this all tickets were sold out. Great job!

From my point of view, it was one of the best organized conferences. All the events went very smoothly, all the time internet connection was working, you were able to find enough water and coffee and during the lunch break there was enough food for everyone. This small thing makes a big difference. On top of this, the local speakers presented all their sessions in English, in the end all speakers were able to join and understand all the sessions.

At this conference I talked about cloud and how we should design a system that can scale over the boundary of a cloud provider. You know, even if you are using cloud, this doesn’t mean that you have no limitations. Each service has his own limits and you need to know how to handle the situations when this limits are hit.
Below you can find the slides from my session.



See you next year.

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