REST and Resource-Oriented Architectures

This half-day workshop provides a comprehensive vision and practical framework for adopting a modern view of software development and information technology infrastructure. The presentation will walk through web architectures with a view to building information-centric systems that are flexible, scalable and extensible.

This is primarily a technical workshop targeting an intermediate to advanced audience, but much of it will be accessible to patient and motivated business-oriented individuals who want to understand how technology can provide real, dynamic value to the business side of the house. It is based on real, transformational implementations performed at customer sites.

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. He is a system architect, a developer, a mentor, and a trainer. Brian has been speaking about REST, the Semantic Web, and other technologies around the world as part of conferences such as NoFluffJustStuff, JavaOne, Jazoon, the Spring Experience, the Rich Web Experience, and Museums on the Web. Brian has written for DevX's Semantic Web Zone, JavaWorld, and has contributed chapters to O'Reilly Media's "Beautiful Architecture" and "97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know." He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and currently lives in northern California. He consults and speaks frequently about next generation technologies around the world.