On the morning of June 4th, 2016 at 7:15 AM a contingent of seven padawans met at the Cognitive X Solutions offices to make the trip to Fredericton where fellow Padawans and DevJEDIs are hosting #martimtimedevcon.
After a few years hiatus, the organisers brought it back in 2015 and in 2016 the conference has already gained some astonishing momentum. Hundreds of developers and technologist congregated at the WU Centre to learn new tricks and news methods to wield the technology force and a few soft skill sessions brought in the mix.
Among the many subjects, the overarching theme seemed to be building highly available, scalable and fault tolerant solutions. Topics such as Docker, the Actor Model, and Recursive Architecture helped us peer into the world of (micro, nano)services. As a dev padawan, I just want to dig deeper and see how we can apply these techniques to what we do at Cognitive X Solutions.
On the other hand, we were lucky to see presentations on soft skills such as product management, dealing with a complex project with tight deadlines and a presentation on making a presentation. What the presentation is for the audience and not for the presenter? There were some great tidbits in each of those presentations that I will indeed adopt or adapt in my daily activities.
Kudos to the organising team, sponsors and speakers for putting on such a great conference. I would give you the titles of dev Jedi, but you're probably too humble. We'll go with high padawan, seems to fit your persona better. This conference made many dev padawans happy.