Keynote by Ted Leung

• Sun Microsystems VP on new tools
• Cloud computing guy at Sun

Status of web frameworks

• The status of web frameworks
• Django is the python web framework
• Growth of django jobs is astronomical, but our numbers are still low
• Django jobs increased 692% in 2009!

RIAs

• Flex/Flash
• Silverlight
• JavaFX
• Open Web

Latency is a big deal. If your app does not respond in 0.1 seconds, then you have a problem.

Cloud Computing

• Began as deploy / operational play
• Will impact development

Competition

• Rails have solved the deployment issue
• Lift (Scala) has a lot of neat features like easy Comet support
• Nitrogen (Erlang) has a strong focus on UI.

JavaScript

• Bleah, slow
• But getting optimized for speed

What can Django do better

• What about an AJAX version of the admin module!
• Django + Comet is a pain in the butt!
• Deployment standards
• Monitoring and building that into the admin!!!
• Suggested stuff that Pinax is doing for best practices
• REST needs to go into core