Talk comments

A lot of great information with good, practical examples.

As this is an introduction to CI/CD pipelines, it might make sense to tone down the "look at all of the scaling we can do" emphasis and instead focus on a smaller, single-server instance. It's great to know Elastic Beanstalk is able to handle four different deployment schemes, but it felt as though an inordinate amount of time was spent on that for a beginner-level, "why should we use CI/CD?"-type of talk.

Joseph Lavin at 15:13 on 20 Sep 2018

lot's of new features!

Jim Shannon at 14:55 on 20 Sep 2018

Great. Enjoy Cal's presentations every time.

Jim Shannon at 14:54 on 20 Sep 2018

Great talk. Good examples. Really benefited from it.

Oscar Merida at 14:42 on 20 Sep 2018

Great job making the case for accessibility and how many people are affected. I never know what tools are available and this presentation covers them well. I would have liked more screenshots of some of the tools you mentioned or even a direct roadmap for getting started. That is, use tool X to start with, then use Y to address these other things, etc...

Jesse D at 14:24 on 20 Sep 2018

covered a lot of ground, great examples

Ian Guinn at 13:59 on 20 Sep 2018

great discussion about CI pipeline, we can definitely use this information.

Joseph Lavin at 13:27 on 20 Sep 2018

Lot's of useful info. Personally I would have liked to see more refactoring code examples.

Oscar Merida at 11:57 on 20 Sep 2018

A little too much time up front talking more about tooling. I would have preferred seeing more code examples and showing how to add an autoloader.

Ian Littman at 11:45 on 20 Sep 2018

Presenter apparently cut out slides shortly before they presented, so some information (e.g. Dialogflow IDs and contexts) were missing. Delivery was also a bit rough, with a bit too much time spent setting up the answer to "what is a bot", when that time could've been allocated to getting more in-depth on Dialogflow/Telegram/BotMan.

Would've been interesting to see the meetup version of the talk, which was apparently a bit more than double the length and included live coding examples. My guess is that that version was a bit more dynamic, to the point that you could build a version with some live coding and quicker, more implementation-heavy slides, that would run about an hour.