I'm jealous of all of you who are able to write coherent, reasonable-length wrap up posts about #KubeCon and SRECon. My ADHD brain tells me that I need to either do a comprehensive, picture-filled 2000-word blog post on it, or don't do it at all.
Well screw you, brain! Here are my non-exhaustive highlights in list form:
1. Giving a talk on how Twitter on mobile went from having no perf metrics to actually gaining user-centric mobile #observability. I got a surprising number of folks coming up to me saying they enjoyed it! I was super stoked to share some brief highlights of the hard work we did, shouting out Justin Trobec, Justine De Caires, Qi Zhang, and Jeff Holliday
2. Chatting with folks in person, however briefly, whom I've only interacted with online like Hazel Weakly, Adriana Villela, Dotan Horovits 🇮🇱🎗, Daniel Gomez Blanco, Reese Lee, John Hayes, Charity Majors, Yao Yue 岳峣, Liz Fong-Jones, and others. Connecting in person is so important to me, so this meant a lot.
3. Crystalizing my thought on what user-centric mo11y actually means as I prepped and gave two talks related to it. This will be fodder for many blog posts, some I hope I actually write. I now have a working definition and I can't wait to share it (and get feedback).
4. Hanging out with David Rifkin all weekish, talking mo11y, drinking Guinness, going nerdy on baseball and other things. High IBU? Hell no. High IVB? Hell yeah!
5. Finally meeting Jamie Lynch in person and spending a couple days with him and Francisco Prieto Cardelle strategizing what's next of Embrace's Android SDK (spoiler alert: it's Kotlin, it's an API, and it's donation-bound!). The things you can get done in person is astounding.
6. Going deep on OTel with folks like Jason Plumb. I now have a much better idea of how things should converge on the mobile agent world and I can't wait to get started doing it.
Anyway, here are some pics because y'all (the algo too) likes them!