For the last couple of year the end of August means one extra thing (other than sign of relief that soon kids will be back to school :) ): it is time to start thinking about conferences abstracts! Because sooner than later various user groups would start to collect them - and having to come up with something at the very last minute usually a really bad idea.
And this year is a really strange one - the first post-COVID conferences brought mixed feelings: it was great to see a lot of familiar faces, but... I started to ask myself - what is my audience? whom to I need to talk? You know, I have multiple "hats" - kind-of-DBA, architect, developer, performance tuning specialist... How do I position myself nowadays?
And you know... I looked back at my kids - and realized something: there will always be a new batch of kids just coming to IT industry! "Buzzwords" may change, "best practices" may mutate... But overall ways of building systems efficiently, being frank and open with yourself and your colleagues - stay the same.
So, back to basics... I will try to reexamine what I know and what I don't know - and will start sharing here various snippets and ideas. Maybe it will be useful to anybody else - maybe it will just help me thinking clearly... Who knows?!
P.s. Today is a deadline for RMOUG-2023 :) - please, don't miss it! That's a really great event!
