I've gotten accepted to speak at the IOD conference during Oct 26-31 in Las Vegas on WebSphere eXtreme Scale and DB2 integration.
Conference for the Global Spring Community
This one-of-a-kind event is for application developers, solution architects, and project managers who develop business applications with Spring and the technologies Spring integrates with.
December 1st - 4th, 2008 - Hollywood, Florida
Speaking at DB2 Information on Demand Conference in late October in Las Vegas
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Billy Newport
on 07/28/2008
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About Billy Newport
Billy is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM. He's been at IBM since 2001. Billy was the lead on the WorkManager/ Scheduler APIs which were later standardized by IBM and BEA and are now the subject of JSR 236 and JSR 237. Billy lead the design of the WebSphere 6.0 non blocking IO framework (channel framework) and the WebSphere 6.0 high availability/clustering (HAManager). Billy currently works on WebSphere XD and ObjectGrid. He's also the lead persistence architect and runtime availability/scaling architect for the base application server.
Before IBM, Billy worked as an independant consultant at investment banks, telcos, publishing companies and travel reservation companies. He wrote video games in C and assembler on the ZX Spectrum, Atari ST and Commodore Amiga as a teenager. He started programming on an Apple IIe when he was eleven, his first programming language was 6502 assembler.
Billys current interests are lightweight non invasive middleware, complex event processing systems and grid based OLTP frameworks.