Last week I attended the Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference (#PhillyETE). It was my first time attending the five year old conference organized by Chariot Solutions. From start to finish it was a good event for software developers looking to get up to speed on some technologies that are well on their way to critical mass in the industry. Three hotel meals a day and open bar happy hour events didn’t hurt either.
A lot of the topics on the agenda weren’t news to attendees. But the chatter surrounding them indicate growing acceptance of the tools and concepts as industry standards. The elusive “enterprise” is a beast that takes time to come around. But smaller, more agile shops are tackling enterprise problems more than ever. And with that shift comes a quickening pace of the variety of tools folks are using to tackle those problems. Static, monolithic solutions are being replaced, or at the very least enhanced, one by one by quickly evolving, narrow focus options.
