DevCon to be intended to get next level

As the title implies the first statement at all which get you heared if you attend the show in London´s very centre. To be in brief, the main big issue that flys previously around the DevCon was on how to pay the very very expensive prices in London at this time. I got a room which does explode my mine as i saw at the reception my room number - 295 …. but hey it wasnt my room number isnt it - it was the very special price per day, heyha!

Nevertheless we meet a lots of people around there and tried to get a glue what they expect from the DevCon. Indeed our friends from estonia joins us as well to tweak out their Alfresco-Expieriences. It is so impressive how many people does pain their ass as well as like us to get the long road towards London.

To get back to the main issue here - the DevCon - most of all topics goes about the next big release of Alfresco - 4.0. For me as an enterprise developer and member of a platinum-partner it was appealing to see that we get out a more stable enterprise version. We should mention the most big part of it - the SolR-Integration. With this very nice decision to “switch off” lucene 1.4 to SolR i have the opportunity to dynamically scale out the whole indexing and search-process on diferent kind(!) of servers. For instance - i could use 2 separated servers to let them search against the index. On the other side i could have twice more servers which are responsible to index new transactions completely. Afterwards i can merge the new index into my search-cluster, isnt it awesome?

Beneath the SolR-Integration and other things we had expierienced important improvements regarding Alfresco Share on using extension-points to make customizations highly maintenanceable!

To get a conclusion of all (there were a lots of more sessions) my thought is that i can apply to the argument from Jeff Pots that the 4.0 release is the most important release of Alfresco which shows us in which direction Alfresco wants to go

- to the sky or better … getting a level up to being more Enterprise!

November 11, 2011 | Filed Under Alfresco, Events