By definition, Cloud Computing is an internet based computing wherein resources like virtual machines are available on demand. From what I understand about cloud computing is that it enables users such as business owners to deploy their applications such as websites in a cloud. A cloud represents virtual machines that are available on demand, meaning you only pay on what you use. It involves dynamically scalable and virtualized resources. It is scalable in the sense that you can add more virtual machines if needed and you could also remove or "kill" those virtual machines that you don not need. Instead of buying the equipment, installing, maintaining and everything that is related to hosting a server, a cloud does all of this and all you need is to deploy your application. It typically saves you a lot of money considering you no longer have expertise in IT.
Cloud camp was very fun and I admit that it was one event/seminar that I was real cozy because DevCon tends to do seminars in an informal manner and considering the venue of the event is a bar. The part that I like the most is the ever thrilling "Hackathon" where the participants get to test their skills. We were lucky to have won the second prize of five thousand pesos. We were kind of outnumbered in terms of background and knowledge of the contest. Why? because we were asked to make a Drupal application and deploy it on mCloud (By the way we were divided into four groups and divided it again between mCloud and Microsoft Windows Azure) and not one in our group knew how to use Drupal. We were more incorporated with Joomla which is also a content management system. Also we had to use a Mac laptop and the internet was slow. Luckily we still ended up bagging the second prize. I learned a lot fo things from the presenters of both Amazon and Microsoft Azure. Of course who could forget the free food and drinks. I hope there would more DevCon events here in Davao.
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