Jonathan Wisler, TweetGeneral Manager EMEA at SoftLayer

Biography: Jonathan Wisler

Jonathan Wisler is a technology veteran who has been driving innovation, profitability and international expansion in technology companies for close to 15 years. Prior to SoftLayer he was a principal at Magnify Consulting where helped technology startups with international expansion and develop scalable operations. Prior, he spent 8 years at Kodak Gallery growing the business unit from an idea to an international market leader. At Kodak he was responsible hosting and developing a global web to print infrastructure on a limited capital budget. He graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a major in economics and a minor in surfing.

Twitter: @jpwisler

Presentation: TweetTame the unpredictable: Building maps for apps in the cloud

Track: Case Studies / Time: Wednesday 11:30 - 12:20 / Location: Administratiezaal

Infrastructure able to embrace the chaotic nature of mobile apps world is just as important as product design. Introducing the new new, creating rich applications and running them in the cloud requires a platform that can provide global scale, robust performance and instant availability. There are clouds and there are CLOUDS. Snowciety is a social ski tracking app which shows you in real-time where your friends are and how they are doing on the slopes. Timan Rebel with his team using open source tools and creative common data, and placing the architecture in the SoftLayer cloud, managed to build a system equivalent to Google Maps, covering 85% of the ski resorts in the world. See what it takes to build and run your own maps.