[PostEvent] ITCamp 2014, Cluj-Napoca

Last week, Cluj-Napoca hosted the 4th edition of ITCamp. More than 400 people participate to this premium conference. During the two days of the event, more than 30 speakers talked about Microsoft Stack, Architecture, Cloud, Development methodology and many more. For this two days we could say that Cluj-Napoca was the center of IT from Romania.
This was the first year when we had 4 tracks in parallel and there were moments where it was pretty hard to decide at which session to attend. Session like “Management of Fear”, “30 Tools for Modern .NET Web Development in 60 minutes”, “Code Quality through Application Software Infrastructure” or “The Battle for Success” made waves between attendees.
Special thanks to the core organization team (Mihai Tataran and Tudy-Tudor Damian). You made a great job this year. There were a lot of sponsors that sustained this event. I’m proud that iQuest was one of the Platinum sponsors.
This year I had the opportunity to do a workshop dedicate to Agile, oriented to practice. The main purpose of it was to see how we can resolve different issues that can appear in a team or company using Agile methodology (if is possible). Also, in the first day of the event I had a session related to redundancy over Microsoft Azure - Database and Public Endpoints redundancy on Azure. Even if we are on a cloud platform, we need to think on different solutions that would offer us redundancy and failover mechanism. Cloud is not managed by God.
ITCamp 2014 Summary: 400+ people, 34 speakers, 2 days, 4 workshops, 4 tracks, 28 sponsors, 6 media partners and a lot of good sessions.
See you next year!

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