David Mertz OSCON's guest appearances

David Mertz OSCON

IBM developerWorks podcasts

Scott Ambler

Scott Johnson

Chris Anderson

Grady Booch

Jeff Casimir

Chris Aniszczyk

Sandy Carter

David Meerman Scott

Bhaskar Sunkara

Rohit Bhargava

Jacob Taylor

Michael Curry

Brian Smith

Jimmy Wales

Josh Elman

OwlTail

Bradford Stephens

Bradford Stephens is Co-Chair of OSCON Data and CEO of Drawn to Scale, creators of Spire, the "Real-Time Big Data" cloud Platform. Bradford discusses why we need ways of handling very large distributed data sets, why SQL doesn't quite work anymore, and the possibilities that lie at the intersection of structured and unstructured data.

David Mertz OSCON 2011 interviews: Bradford Stephens, Co-Chair of OSCON Data

Edd Dumbill

Edd is Lead Architect, Conferences, for O'Reilly Media and a former regular contributor to developerWorks. Edd discusses how OSCON has changed over the years, how the Java platform is ideal for big data and cloud computing architectures, and which languages are helping to bring functional programming into its own.

David Mertz OSCON 2011 interviews: Edd Dumbill of O'Reilly Media

Steve Chin

Steve Chin is Chief Agile Methodologist with GXS and organizer of the Java track at OSCON. Steve talks about JVM languages, the effect of non-Java JVM languages on the Java ecosystem, and why a Java skillset is now an on-ramp to bleeding-edge platforms.

David Mertz OSCON 2011 interviews: Steve Chin, OSCON JavaTrack organizer