{"id":1053,"date":"2015-05-11T09:34:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T15:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2015-05-16T22:01:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T04:01:21","slug":"openwest-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/openwest-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenWest notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past weekend, I attended the excellent #OpenWest conference<\/a>, and I presented Scaling RabbitMQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The volunteers that organized the\u00a0conference deserve a huge amount of thanks. I can\u2019t imagine how much work it was. I should also thank the conference sponsors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A local group of hardware engineers<\/a> designed an amazing conference badge<\/a>, built from a circuit board. They deserve a big “high-five”. There was a soldering lab where I soldered surface mount components for the first time in my life \u2013 holding the components in place with tweezers. I bought the add-on kit for $35 that included a color LCD\u00a0screen and Parallax Propeller chip<\/a>. It took me 45 minutes to do the base kit, and two hours to do the add-on kit. I breathed a sigh of relief when I turned on the power, and it all worked.<\/p>\n

The speakers did a great job, and I appreciate the hours\u00a0they spent preparing. I wish I could have attended more of the sessions.<\/p>\n

Among others, I attended sessions on C++11<\/a>, Rust<\/a>, Go lang<\/a>, Erlang, MongoDB schema design, .NET core, wireless security, Salt Stack<\/a>, and digital privacy.<\/p>\n

I’m going to keep my eye on Rust, want to learn and use Go, and\u00a0use the new beacon<\/a> feature of\u00a0Salt Stack.\u00a0Sometime in the future, I’d like\u00a0to use the new features of C++11.<\/p>\n

The conference was an excellent place to have useful side-conversations with vendors, speakers, and past colleagues. It was a great experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past weekend, I attended the excellent #OpenWest conference, and I presented Scaling RabbitMQ. The volunteers that organized the\u00a0conference deserve a huge amount of thanks. I can\u2019t imagine how much work it was. I should also thank the conference sponsors. A local group of hardware engineers designed an amazing conference badge, built from a circuit … <\/p>\n

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