Conferences used to be cool

I remember back in 2016 I went to Amsterdam for Hashiconf (by Hashicorp) with @punnie

It was one of the most memorable trips of my life. I got to seat with other conference attendees and @mitchellh and discuss tools and our companies problems and what approaches could be best during a warm up party

We watched a great talk by @kelseyhightower (10-factor app) and could ask him follow up questions after the talk

And we met and talked with many peers and we understood that:

there was still a lot to learn but that was exciting
we were not that far behind what the top practices were
compared to most peers, we were actually quite advanced in the journey (i guess consequence of startups being able to move faster than big orgs)

It’s always a reality check when you just talk to other people in different stages of the same journey as you

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