At the recently concluded Fluent Conference, we were excited to welcome the man at the helm of the event, Simon St. Laurent of O’Reilly Media, to theCUBE for a live interview.  Although there’s not much media hype about Fluent, it is wildly successful as a developer conference because it focuses on what really matters most: great developers that encourages a solid following.

O’Reilly Fluent Conference is largely about Javascript, but the developer world is evolving in the broader sense, and Fluent is creating value for this widening pool of developers.   Simon is very satisfied with the outcome of the event.

“A lot of it is figuring out what sparkly bits will draw people to come to the sessions, and what solid content will actually keep them there,” Simon told theCUBE.

The key things that the conference focused on this year were:

1) The continuous explosion of the javascript language and;

2) to broaden the reach of the conference so it includes more people from the design department who are not that deeply interested in prototypal inheritance and asynchronous programming.

Simon also revealed that one of the things they figured out during last year’s event was that there were actually more enterprise people coming to Fluent than they expected, and there were even more of them this year. Enterprise people are not necessarily finding enterprise content. Rather, they are turning to web stack because it’s an easier place to get things done than the traditional enterprise stack. Fluent sees a fluctuating movement of people across the enterprise community to the web community.

For Simon, the biggest surprise at Fluent Conference — aside from the well-received selector shock that zaps presenters for saying the word ‘uhh’ or ‘uhmm’ or ‘so’ — were the conversations he heard from the developers about how much they like the sessions because it applies to them, and how developers even exchange opinions, heartily sharing their varied perspectives on a range of topics.

All in all, Fluent is striving for balance. They want to make sure that different groups of people, from developers to designers, have places to go and things to see during the conference.

Watch Simon’s full interview below.