The term cloud can be nebulous, this session will define and describe the core services that mature cloud service provider is expected to provided, such as scaling, load balancing, search and storage. In addition to comparing the different cloud options OSS options will be discussed and demonstrated. This brief introduction will be informative and necessary for the core of the presentation, which is looking at the building of the cloud and a glimpse into the future of cloud.

Working in a Cloud R&D center has provided an opportunity to understand the lower bits of the Cloud and where technology is going in order to optimized hardware resources and prioritize services. This session will discuss and demonstrate the future of the cloud leveraging lessons learned by Google, Twitter and other industry leaders. We willl the issues and failures of current virtualization technologies and explore the future of the cloud with demonstrations that include Mesos, Docker, Nerve and Synapse.

Spock is a groovy based testing framework that leverages all the “best practices” of the last several years taking advantage of many of the development experience of the industry. So combine Junit, BDD, RSpec, Groovy and Vulcans… and you get Spock!

This is a significant advancement in the world of testing.

This session assumes some understanding of testing and junit and builds on it. We will introduce and dig deep into Spock as a test specification and mocking tool. This is a workshop which requires a laptop that includes Java and an editor which includes the ability to run JUnit tests.