For the third year in a row, I had the chance to attend Devfest Toulouse. The opening word was done in the style of an Apple Keynote, to highlight how the event grew in size over the years. The thing with Devfest Toulouse is that it gathers the entire software related ecosystem in Toulouse area.
As such, it is the perfect place to catch up with former colleagues and friends. The conference really started with a keynote by Fabien Tregan , about the history of computing devices. From basic tools to help counting to more sophisticated machines, Fabien tells us a part of History.
An entertaining way to start the day. I attended several talks in the morning but only the one by Gauthier Mechling , about micro-controllers and iot really caught my attention.
Gauthier is an excellent speaker well prepared and well organized, having backups when a demo fails, uses the webcam to show us tiny chips, His talk while not at all related to work was inspiring. The other ones, were, imho not versed into code and were missing examples. A longer format would have been nice.
It was the only? I found the afternoon much more interesting in terms of content with three awesome talks. The main point was to highlight how a browser is similar to an operating system and how WASM could be the future of serverless. He highlights how error design is important and even valuable. In microservices environments, it is even more useful to contextualize errors.
