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SRE@PagerDuty. Geek, Buddhist, husband, introvert, devop, social justice worrier, musician, vegetarian, urbanist. He/him. May all beings be free from suffering.

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    1. rich lafferty, contributing factor‏ @mendel 7 Dec 2019
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      Overall #reInvent was fine this year, and I’m getting better at choosing good talks, and it’s always a great social thing, but… there were a lot of not-so-good talks, way fewer announcements I think, the DeepComposer keyboard is just a rebrand. 1/6

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      rich lafferty, contributing factor‏ @mendel 7 Dec 2019
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      For the talks, I think it just gets harder and harder to keep the quality bar high as the attendance gets bigger and bigger. I think I'm gonna put my training budget into smaller conferences next year, like @TheLeadDev, @REdeployConf, maybe @SREcon so it's not all soft stuff. 2/6

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        2. rich lafferty, contributing factor‏ @mendel 7 Dec 2019
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          Incidentally I now believe the only way to choose good talks as a sr engineer is to look at the speakers. Principal engineers = good talk. SA, PO = ok. AWS customer or partner: no. (Also workshops continue to be terrible and you cannot convince me otherwise.) 3/6

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        3. rich lafferty, contributing factor‏ @mendel 7 Dec 2019
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          On the subject of "AWS customer = no", the weirdest talk I went to was on App Mesh; the first half was a good 300-level survey of how it works, and the second half was an engineer from Chick-Fil-A (ugh) talking about their custom k8s tooling, with no app mesh content at all! 4/6

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        4. rich lafferty, contributing factor‏ @mendel 7 Dec 2019
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          Still, I'm glad @pagerduty sends a bunch of engineers of various levels to #Reinvent, as a "rebluing" as the Air Force says, getting everyone excited about using AWS and, for product devs especially, with feeling comfortable at the infra level. 5/6

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        5. rich lafferty, contributing factor‏ @mendel 7 Dec 2019
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          But a week in Vegas with 60,000 friends is exhausting, and by Thursday I'm not absorbing much technical content anymore, and "2-4 talks per day" is a really inefficient way of going to a tech conference, so next year it's all about the small-to-midsize ones for me. 6/6

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