Yan Cui
I help clients go faster for less using serverless technologies.
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Time flies when you’re having fun, and we’re already into the second half of 2015!
On a personal level, it’s been a great 6 months, I have spoken at 10 conferences in as many cities and as you read this post I’m at Polyconf in Poznan! 
The great thing about being at so many conferences is that you get to learn so much from others. I’ve gotten into the habit of writing up a summary of what I learnt from these conferences (where time permits of course).
If you missed them here are my takeaways from the conferences from 2015 so far.
CraftConf
Kyle Kingsbury – Jepsen IV: Hope Springs Eternal
Michael Nygard – Architecture without an End State
Tammer Saleh – Microservice Anti-patterns
Michael Feathers – The Hidden Dimension of Refactoring
Adrian Trenaman – Scaling micro-services at Gilt
You can find the recording of all the talks by room here:
QCon London
Melissa Perris – The Bad Idea Terminator
Matt Ranney – Scaling Uber’s realtime market platform
Randy Shoup – Service architectures at Scale, Lessons from Google and Ebay
Kevlin Henney – Small is Beautiful
Adam Tornhill – Code as Crime Scene
You can find recording of the other talks here, the list is incomplete yet as InfoQ releases only one video a week.
CodeMotion Rome
Richard Rodger – Measuring micro-services
Joy of Coding
Functional Programing eXchange
You can find recording of the talks here.
What next?
For the second half of the year, I’ll exercise better restraint and limit my appearance at conferences (I have all but exhausted my vacation days this year already…).
But, that said, I’m signed up to a few more conference yet:
code.talks in Hamburg, Sep 29th – 30th
OSCON Europe in Amsterdam, Oct 26th – 28th
Oredev in Malmo, Nov 4th – 6th
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