[Post-event] ITCamp 2013

These days I participated at ITCamp 2013. This year I had the opportunity to participate at a premium event with almost 400 attendees. For Romania, this is big number, it is hard to gather 400 people at a premium conference.

What we found this year? COOL stuff. We discover what is the future of tablets, what is happening on the cloud and the voodoo magic that is happening inside the team management... and so on.

I really enjoyed the conference, the sessions and especially the location – you could see all the city from above. Each year one of the most important thing at ITCamp is socialization – meeting people from different parts of the world, discover what they are doing and what are the trends of the IT industry.

This year I had the opportunity to be invited as a speaker at ITCamp. Last year I talked about background task on Windows 8, but this year I decided to go on the cloud and talk about messaging pattern and how we can implement those patterns using Windows Azure Service Bus Services.

My slides from ITCamp:

Messaging patterns in the cloud from Radu Vunvulea

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