Teched Barcelona
Teched BarcelonaI arrived in Barcelona on Sunday for Teched Europe. This is the first time that I've set foot on mainland Europe!
The city is quite nice, and the weather is much better than dreary London.
It's my first time attending teched and I must say that I'm really impressed.
The technical content is engaging, the infrastructure is seamless and there's always food!
I'm trying to mix and match the sessions that I attend so that I can get a good variation of new tech,
architectural sessions and more practial knowledge that I can use right away.
So far the sessions I enjoyed the most were Pat Helland's talk on transactions and Luca Bolognese's talk on LINQ to SQL.
Pat was the guy behind MSDTC and now proclaims himself an Apostate of the technology. In fact, in the session he proclaimed that: "Distributed transactions suck".
He took us through managing of transactions in a distributed computing environment using asynchronous messaging patterns, for example idempotence.
It reminded me a lot of the concepts in the book called Software fortresses by Roger Sessions.
Luca is a real funny guy, but what impressed me the most about his talk was the simplicity of the demo. I've done some work with the framework before,
but he got my colleagues real fired up about it, as I'm sure he did with a lot of people.
Let's hope the rest of the week is as informative it's been thus far...