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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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. 2/61 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
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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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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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. 5/61 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread
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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