Toru Maesaka

So I’ve been bugging Colin Charles to invite me over to Malaysia for the last couple of months and what does he offer me? an opportunity to speak at a open source conference in Malaysia

FOSS.my is a two day event (9th & 10th next month) and as stated on their conference homepage, the aim of this conference is to cover technical aspects of various OSS projects without any business/sales intervention for those that follow open source technology in South East Asia (and other regions too of course). The cool thing is that after telling mixi about this event, they liked the idea so much they decided to sponsor the event immediately. I didn’t really expect this but hey, awesome.

At this conference, I will be doing two talks where one will go over how mixi uses various OSS technologies to power the largest social networking service in Japan. The other talk will cover how the memcached internals work and latest hot topics in the development community like the upcoming binary protocol.

I’ve never been to Malaysia before so I’m totally looking forward to this trip.