Another year, another FOSDEM edition. As always, since this conference grew so big (fact: if you tried to watch all videos in a row, it'll take you about 9 weeks!), chances are, every review you read from the conference will contain something different, and therefore, complementary.

This is what I was able to experience. Let's take a look.

A recurrent theme in FOSDEM seems to be the high concurrency. There were lots of people attending, which made it difficult to make it into some dev-rooms, as they were overcrowded. In addition, some very popular dev-rooms got regular-size rooms where not enough people could fit (for example the PostgreSQL one, as opposed to last year). Because of this, I missed quite a few opportunities.

These are some notes and takeaways on the recently celebrated Kafka Summit 2018 in London.

The conference was organized in three parallel tracks for sessions that were covering stream processing, pipelines, and internals. To get a good experience, I attended talks of the three types, but with a little preference towards internals and streams.

It was a two-day conference with lots of valuable technical content, awesome talks, speakers, and a lot more. Here are the highlights.