ZendCon 2017
23 - 26 Oct 2017 at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

I only caught how "multiple clouds" could be utilized once and it was in regards to a question from the audience. As many have already stated, this was nothing more than a demo of getting a bunch of servers up and running in Digital Oceans cloud environment. Since Ubuntu Linux was used, the same thing could have been done using any servers (cloud or otherwise) running Ubuntu. I was looking for more cloud-specific technologies to be shown and specific to the deployment aspect of the process instead of getting servers ready for deployment.

This felt like it could have been done on your own as a Digital Ocean step-by-step written tutorial.

Rod's walkthrough was excellent. This was only the second time seeing the install take place on the IBM i, and the first was too fast to soak in. Following along with Rod and getting is direction and opinions as a "support" guy were very helpful.

Being new to the IBM i platform and to DB2 I didn't know what to expect but received exactly what I had hoped. This tutorial provided a lot of history about the platform and a bunch of nomenclature comparisons to what I am familiar with in the Linux world. This was my first time meeting Alan and he seems like a very patient, and curious person which, in my opinion, is exactly what makes a good expert.

Perfect talk on the basics of Composer and included some more in-depth tips/best practices on semantic versioning and how it is very useful.

Great talk. Also appreciated the personal advice provided by Cal after the talk.

Very engaging speaker. Great presentation. And, of course, the material presented was practical and useful. I appreciated the repeated insistence that the audience form their own opinions because they, too, were smart people.

Cal always provides an engaging talk. Much of the info presented here was review for me, but I needed the review. I liked that each point was concise and interesting.

The speaker disclosed upfront that this was a work in progress, so I'm grading it on a curve somewhat. I definitely would be interested in the more developed product. All the same, I still took some useful information from this. I'll be leveraging some of the tools for quality analysis that were presented.

Sadly, I did not enjoy the ending speaker. I did love the fact the talk was short! I had a hard time relating to a "buy-out" talk, especially since I heard "How to Go From Developer to Stakeholder" talk, which was excellent and highlighting things a woman faces in a buy-out situation that a man might not encounter. This keynote did have good information. I think it would have been better suited in a talk timeslot and not as a keynote.

Lots of good information. Unfortunately, I felt the talk dragged on too long and after an hour and five minutes, I had to take a break. I ended up missing the end of the talk.