simpligility – Manfred Moser

Category: Event

  • Google doubling down on AI

    We just came back from our visit to Mountain View to attend Google IO 2024 in person. For Manfred it has been a flashback to the days of regular IO attendance as GDG leader and heavily involved Android developer and open source community member. For Lukas it was the first bigger conference as university student, and his first visit to the Googleplex, thanks to our friend, host, and guide Matthew McCullough.

    Two days of attending keynotes and sessions, and numerous chats with our peers left us with lots of impressions that we discussed and talked about and want to share with you all.

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  • Recap about DET meetup and Open Source Summit in Seattle

    It has already been over week since I got back from Seattle, where I attended the Open Source Summit NA in the beautiful convention centre. In the same trip I also presented at the Data Engineer Things group’s inaugural meeting in Bellevue. Both events were very successful for Starburst as sponsor of my trip, Trino as the open source SQL query engine I talk about, and myself as a learning participant in many talks and great conversations.

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  • Meeting old and new friends in Seattle

    Manfred at Open Source Summit NA 2023

    Wow, has it really been a year that I went to Open Source Summit NA in Vancouver? Turns out this year the event is again close to me, and across the water from Victoria, BC. With that in mind I will take the opportunity to meet many old and new friends from the open source community again at the Open Source Summit NA 2024 in Seattle.

    The summit is always an aggregation of many communities with an open source focus and extending into different topics. The range of these is truly impressive, and spans topics for everyone. I will dip into all the communities I have been involved in over the years including security and software supply chain, OSPOs and open source leadership, big data and AI, cloud, CD/DevOps and others. Mainly I will be there representing Trino and Starburst and connect to users in hallway chats. If you want to meet, just contact me.

    On Thursday, after all the action of the summit, I will hop on over to the Data Engineer Things meetup and present a Big Data Whirlwind Tour, with a Trino and personal experience perspective. I will bring some copies of my book Trino: The Definitive Guide and be available for question before, during, and after the meeting. Really looking forward to it.

  • Personal takeaways from Open Source Summit

    Two weeks ago I was asked to go to Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver on short notice. Last week I took a beautiful floatplane ride in the morning to get there from my home on Vancouver Island. Fast, scenic, downtown to downtown, and in fact a good price when you try alternatives. I arrived perfectly in time for day one of the conferences and started out with attending the keynotes. And after three awesome days I made my way back home in a Twin Otter plane again.

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  • In service of Trino and Commander Bun Bun

     

    It all started many years ago when I regularly taught virtual and in person training classes for Apache Maven and Sonatype Nexus. At some stage when working on the Takari material Jason van Zyl suggested that we use Trino (then still called Presto) as an example for a Maven multi-module project. That was the first time I got in contact with the Trino codebase.

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  • Impressions from DevOpsDays Vancouver 2016

    Interested crowd at DevOpsDays VancouverDevOpsDays are always a great event for a geek to attend. You get to chat to fellow hackers and coders and therefore people, who actually understand what you are talking about. The vibe that results from these conversations is always amazing. Presenting is definitely a challenge, but great if you can pull it off. Let’s see how I fared at DevOpsDays Vancouver 2016.

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  • CLS, OSCON and Devoxx4Kids

    This year is was time again to attend the Community Leadership Summit and OSCON. Taking my boys along I took the opportunity to attend and help at the Devoxx4Kids event as well. During OSCON I attended a whole lot of interesting session through a wide array of topics and presented myself as well. (more…)