Afkham Azeez | WSO2 Oxygen Tank

Title: Software Architect

Country: Sri Lanka

I am a Member, PMC member & committer at the Apache Software Foundation. I joined WSO2 in December 2005. I work as a software architect at WSO2 and am the Product Manager of WSO2 Web Services Application Server. I'm also the lead of the WSO2 Carbon project, which is the base platform on which all Java products are built

My areas of interest include distributed computing, SOA, Highly Available & Highly Scalable applications & J2EE technologies. I am the author of the clustering implementation for Apache Axis2. My current research area is cloud computing.

I've actively contributed to the following projects at Apache & WSO2

I hold a B.Sc. first class honors degree in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, and am currently reading for a Masters Degree in Computer Science specializing in Software Architecture. My masters thesis is "Autoscaling Web services on Amazon EC2".

My blog about Open Source SOA Middleware, Distributed Computing & Automobiles can be found at http://blog.afkham.org. I also contribute to the WSO2 WSAS blog

My GPG Public Key Fingerprint: 643F C2AF EB78 F886 40C9 B2A2 4AE2 C887 665E 0760

Enterprises are inherently complex, comprising of hundreds of applications with completely different semantics. Some of these applications are custom built, where as some are acquired from third parties and some even can be a combination of both and they can be operating in different system environments.

WSO2 VMware Images helps you to try our products inside your virtualized environments without having to go through the trouble of installation and configuration. Download an image and get your hands on cutting edge, lightweight SOA middleware right away!

WSO2 Governance Registry is a product from WSO2 that facilitates you to govern the SOA platform of your organization by helping you store and manage SOA meta data. The product is free and open source with Apache licence and you can download it from http://wso2.org/projects/governance-registry

In this webinar we'll share the range of concerns we've heard from the industry, and survey some of the new and sometimes subtle types of lock-in associated with cloud technologies.

Wednesday, 8 September, 10.00 AM (PDT)