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.

The third day of the conference was hosted on a different venue, the Czech Technical University of Prague.

The workshops

I signed up for two workshops: search for fun (and profit), and Effectively running python applications in Kubernetes / OpenShift.

They were both great, and left me with lots of interesting topics for research and do further work.

The first one walked through the workings of elasticsearch-dsl-py, which was great not only because the explanations were superb, but also because there is probably no better way to review this than from the author himself. I was already experienced with the library, since I've used, Elasticsearch with Python, but even though, this workshop gave me a deeper understanding of the concepts behind it (there was a lot about the internals of Elasticsearch, how it works, its configuration, concepts of information retrieval, etc.), so I got new ideas. On the practical side, I'll check this project.