CloudBurst Day 1

The CloudBurst conference kicked off in Sweden today with sessions from Mark Brown, Magnus Mårtensson, Mike Martin, Maarten Balliauw, Scott Klein and Andy Cross. It was great to see such a good line up of presenters and some excellent sessions. Just like last year we had a packed room with many developers returning after last years event, and all sessions being live streamed.

We have a great line up for day 2, and will be live-streaming all the sessions from 09:00 Central European time. You can see the session line up and link to the live stream on the.

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