Toru Maesaka

Despite almost missing my flight to Malaysia due to unfortunate reasons, I successfully managed to get on the plane and make it to Kuala Lumpur last friday. My suggestion from this experience is to not arrive at the airport 30 minutes before your flight…

It was pretty cool to arrive in Kuala Lumpur on the same day as RPK‘s release day and experiencing the delicious Ipoh white coffee at the KL airport was a great start of my conference trip.

The conference was fun and it was nice meeting new people in this region. As for my sessions, the interest in memcached was astonishing and it was great to get mixi’s name out there. Hopefully “slow” media sites in South East Asia (which shall remain nameless) will start utilizing memcached ;)

I also managed to get the word out for Drizzle in this region which was also fun with lots of questions coming my way… the funniest was being asked “hang on, is that David Axmark?” with a totally surprised look.

Here are the slides from my memcached talk though my presentation style is less words on the slides and more talking so you may not find it informative by itself. Other than that, here are my thoughts from the stay:

• People are friendly and helpful
• Hotel prices there are awesome
• Great to hear that the Malaysian Gov supports Open Source
• You can get around with just English in Kuala Lumpur
• Their curry didn’t seem hot at start but gradually kicked in
• mixi loads much faster than facebook in KL (I still love you guys)

For those that are interested, I’ve taken lots of photos and they are now up on Flickr. Thumbs up to the event organizers and thank you for taking care of me while I was there :)

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