Normally, cloud-based solutions are scaled horizontally by adding more nodes to a cluster. However, the fine-tuning capabilities are limited in this case.
The experts explored continuous integration with Jenkins and Travis CI, virtual environments with Vagrant and Cloud Foundry, and AngularJS development.
At the conference, participants discussed real-time data analytics, development of prediction services, data science algorithms, methods of Hadoop optimization, etc.
During the event, the participants learned how to increase the productivity of Ruby-based applications, explored new tools, deployment techniques, etc.
At the event, the winning projects were selected in nine categories, including the best mobile app, Windows Azure–based project, big data project, etc.