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.

FOSDEM19 it's just over, and here are my main highlights!

Saturday

After arriving to Brussels, and then to the venue, I wasn't on time for the first talk that interested me, and then I couldn't make it into the HTTP/3 talk because the room was full, so I decided to get an introduction to the conference by visiting the stands, and networking.

The first talk I attended was VNF development made easy with netmap, which was very good. Even though it's a topic different than what I usually work with, it was a really interesting talk with snippets of C code and low-level operations in the slides, deep technical insights into the details of networking, and quite enjoyable.