[Post Event] DevTalks 2015, Cluj-Napoca

Today I had the opportunity to be one of the speakers of DevTalks conference. The conference was pretty interesting, with 4 different tracks in parallel (Web, Mobile and IoT, Cloud and BI/BigData). From this perspective, attendees had a lot of options.
The thing that I liked at this conference was the subjects that were presented. It was not a conference only about a specific stack (only Java or Microsoft). Because of this, I decided to talk about cloud and to not take only Azure in consideration. I analysed all cloud providers that are on the market and I tried to expose what people should take into consideration where they are moving from on-premises to cloud.
Based on DevTalks website it seems that there were:

416 attendees
44 speakers
40 presentations
4 even stages (tracks)

There are a lot of "4" in this statistics. I hope that next year we will see "5" in their statistics.

Below you can find the slides and abstract of my presentation.

Title: What we should(n’t) know about cloud providers

Abstract: Nowadays, cloud is not only a trend, it is a solution that is recommended and used by everyone. This session is dedicated to all decision makers that are looking into cloud. We will take a look at the dark side of cloud and we will try to identify what are the things that we need to take into account before jumping in the world of cloud.

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