Gregor Hohpe Track Intro The Cloud As Middle Ware

The document discusses the cloud as a new middleware platform. It notes that in the cloud infrastructure services like storage, queuing, and processing are abstracted and exposed as APIs. It also shows how applications and services can be built by combining these infrastructure services and presenting information through various interfaces like maps, portals, and plugins. The document outlines the agenda for a conference on programming the cloud, including sessions on building blocks, application services, reading/writing data, and middleware in the cloud.