Kars Veling (Q42)
Kars Veling studied Computer Science and Business School at University Twente, and founded Q42 in 2000.
Kars is currently CTO of Q42, which employs 50 engineers at the moment. He founded Q42 to create a company that would be cool and interesting enough for himself to work for (In that time, a lot of boring, accountant-steered companies were selling warm IT bodies to customers). Q42's tagline then was "The User Friendly Internet" which is still standing strong today.
Kars is both a Software Engineer and a Business Engineer. He played key roles in -amongst others- the technical architecture for the Philips HUE Project, Staatsloterij, Schooltas and D-reizen.
Philips HUE platform & App Engine - The Internet of Things
Philips invented wifi-connected lamps. All the connected lamps around the world communicate via a global online platform for changes, settings, updates and remotes. The entire back-end system is running on Google App Engine and is providing for the large scale supporting platform.
The Philips HUE case is used to show how App Engine, BigTable and TaskQueue's are used to provide the fault tolerant and effective infrastructure as it proved to be. This talk will focus on the more advanced tech details of App Engine, architecture considerations and explain how the essential parts of App Engine operate and can be used.
Introducing Philips HUE