Conference

The year of 2020 is interesting as the COVID-19 pandemic forces everyone to really think about how they communicate and work with each other. Technology conferences are hit particularly hard. As most people cannot travel anymore, and with the constraint of social distancing, it has become impractical to organize physical conferences anymore. I just finished JuliaCon 2020 and I had a great experience. So I would like to share my thoughts here. ...

The AWS re:Invent conference is one of the largest technology conferences. I heard over 50,000 people attended the event in 2018. I was fortunate enough to attend all 5 days, and it’s one of the most rewarding experience for me at a technology conference. Workshops, workshops, workshops! It is a known trick that people attend as many workshops as possible. Why? Because they are hands-on with instructors presenting and walking through one or more AWS products. The instructors are very helpful as they make sure that you understand the subject and you can ask a lot of questions. In some cases, they will give you a temporary AWS account to play with. Alternatively, you may use your own personal AWS account for the exercise, and they will give you AWS $25 credit. ...