Define-Develop- Deploy web ideas!!! @ SiliconIndia WebApps Conference 2011 Date:   Thursday , August 04, 2011 The chapter of web applications in Bangalore turned a new leaf on 16th of August at SiliconIndia WebApps 2011. The conference brought together web developers, designers, technology enthusiasts, innovators, vendors, and users to experience the future of Web Applications and the upcoming trends. The conference boasted of experienced and knowledge rich speakers who held the audience in awe with their erudition on Android. ‘Customers are looking for solutions. The demand for upcoming webapps is such that they solve simple customer related problems in an efficient way, independent of technology or platform used to create it,’ said Amit Aggarwal, Co Founder and CTO from VIA who was officially present to give the key note on ‘Trends in the Web space and new business models’ Janakiram MSV, Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services spoke on Building Powerful Web Applications in the AWS Cloud and provided with an introduction to the Amazon Web Services from a business and technical perspective. He emphasized on building a Simple LAMP-based web application in the AWS cloud and then apply all the attributes and latest features of the cloud to turn it into an Auto-scalable, highly available, highly scalable, fully-monitored edge-cached application that is not only easier to develop but also easier to maintain. Coming in next was Pronam Chatterjee, Staff Systems Engineer-vFabric SME, VMware who spoke on Spring, tcServer and Hyperic - Build, Run and Manage lightweight J2EE web apps. He got the audience thinking by asking them questions like “What do we mean by New Applications? What is new about applications and why does that mean we need a cloud application platform?” Srinivas Bhagavatula, Program Architect from Mind Tree spoke on eCommerce webapp Architecture and Scalability ‘The key to scalability is, to understand what it is, to keep principles simple, to clearly understand what is expected and to exploit system characteristics,” he said. The young CEO of Tyto software, Narayan Raman spoke on ‘Agile Web Application Testing - Technologies and Solutions’ where the objective of his speech was to ensure ‘Rapid feedback on the quality of software’. Narayan emphasized that the problem with Web application testing is that there are many browsers, many operating systems, browsers have quirks and the browser technologies are evolving at an amazing pace. Speaking on Developing secure and high performance web applications, Dipankar Sinha, Infrastructure Head - Project Manager from Hungama.com elaborated that security is a never ending process and works in a circle. Circle starts with development cycle Detection or Analysis of Weak links in code, fixing weak links, development cycle. Security is not only developer’s responsibility; it’s a joint effort of developer + infrastructure professional + QC/QA. “‘Knowing is everything’, if you know your enemy, you can take precaution. One need not become a hacker to prevent your company property from hackers. If you know in which scenarios hackers can gain access and can compromise your company property, that will increase chances of winning war against hackers by 50-80 percent and rest is how beautifully you can convert your knowledge to code,” he said. Sudhir Rao, Brand Practice Manager – Rational from IBM gave the closing session on Instrumented Interconnected & Intelligent Cloud. “Our world is also going through the following three transformations: First, the world is becoming instrumented. Second, our world is becoming interconnected. Third, all of those instrumented and interconnected things are becoming. Intelligent,” said Rao. One of the key capabilities that drives smarter planet is 'cloud computing’ Sudhir concluded. Amazon web services, VM ware, Mcgraw Hill, Rails Detective and VTU Alerts partnered together to make this event a successful one.