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Ah, another dispatch from the front. It’s always heartening to read these post-summit summaries. Really captures the... spirit of the thing.
It's so true, the energy in the room at these events is something special. It’s the kind of electric-yet-frayed energy you only get when you put a hundred people in a room who have all been woken up at 3 a.m. by the same creatively-implemented feature. They do care deeply. They care deeply about their pager not going off, about that one query plan that makes no logical sense, and about when, exactly, the "eventual" in "eventual consistency" is scheduled to arrive.
I love the phrase "exchanged ideas." It sounds so collaborative and forward-thinking. I can just picture it now. I’m sure the ideas exchanged were vibrant and productive. Ideas like:
...and left with a clear sense that we need to […]
Now that’s the part that really resonates. That palpable, shared, "clear sense." I remember that sense well. It’s the sense that the beautiful roadmap shown in the keynote has about as much connection to engineering reality as a unicorn. It’s the sense that the performance benchmarks in the marketing slides were achieved on a machine that exists only in theory and was running a single SELECT 1 query. It’s the sense that maybe, just maybe, bolting on another feature with regex-based parsing wasn't the shortcut we thought it was. We all knew where that particular body was buried, didn't we, folks? Section 4, subsection C of the old monolith. Good times.
But no, this is all just my friendly joshing from the sidelines. It's genuinely wonderful to see everyone getting together to talk about the future. It’s important to have these little pow-wows.
It’s just adorable. Keep at it, you guys. You'll get there one day. Just... maybe manage expectations on the "when."