I drove down to Pasadena last Wednesday to attend SCALE. This was my third time attending so I knew a bit about what I was getting myself into: a 3-4 day (depending on if you can make it to a lot of stuff on Sunday) of workshops, talks, and meeting great people who love open source software.
For the first couple of days I bounced between the Kubernetes talks and NixCon. I’ve gone to at least one talk about Nix every year I’ve attended SCALE, but this year it might have actually convinced me to give it a try. I try to keep my OS configuration to a bare minimum, but maybe it’s going to be a better way to stand up development environments compared to using containers.
Some of my favorite stuff came from the PostgreSQL and Developer tracks. I learned a ton about the internals of Postgres which was super interesting. The developer track had some good talks, but I left SCALE thinking mostly about the Q&A session with a panel of developers around the end of the sessions. The changes in the software development industry have been coming fast and are both amazing and a bit disconcerting. It was great to get the perspectives of people who have been in this industry for a long time (some even longer than I’ve been alive!).
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