Forgot to post earlier my favorite photo of @larsklint at #yow22 Thanks for your reminder that goals are good, Netflix is bad 😁

#yow22 nice view just now #photography Sydney from McMahons point

#yow22 nice view just now #photography Sydney from McMahons point

Lars Klint at #YOW22
Are you truly happy? What are your goals? Be intentional. Do it. (and don't watch Netflix).
https://juliangamble.com/blog/2022/12/12/yow-conference-sydney-2022/

Alison Rosewarne & Stewart Gleadow - Fighting Software Entropyat #YOW22
Insightful look at applying principles from physics in reversing entropy in product IT systems.
https://juliangamble.com/blog/2022/12/12/yow-conference-sydney-2022/

#YOW22 Alison Rosewarne and Stewart Gleadow of REA advocating good development practices including what looks similar to @kentbeck Tidy First

James Lewis at #YOW22
Whenever you see hierarchies - you expect sublinear scaling (y less than x) - whether physical or informational - this is due to the shape of the network itself.
https://juliangamble.com/blog/2022/12/12/yow-conference-sydney-2022/

Simon Brown at #YOW22 demonstrates a system for individual teams maintaining a generated diagram of their system, and then loading that into an organisation view of all the integrated systems
https://juliangamble.com/blog/2022/12/12/yow-conference-sydney-2022/

@apaipi Hi Aino! #YOW22

@apaipi Hi Aino! #YOW22

Sara Achour at #YOW22 leaves the room with their mouths open as she describes a compiler that can take an equation describing a dynamical system and output a hardware description for *non-digital logic* but still get your answer.
https://juliangamble.com/blog/2022/12/12/yow-conference-sydney-2022/

Astrid Atkinson at #YOW22
"Every single action to help with decarbonisation matters - to have an impact is full of meaning and opportunity."

"Applying the methods used to solve large-scale computing problems, like load balancing, to the challenges of the electricity grid"
https://juliangamble.com/blog/2022/12/12/yow-conference-sydney-2022/

I won't hold it against @pragdave that he didn't like Lord of the rings, even if it did inspire the name of his talk "One Rule to Rule Them All". tl;dr choose the easy to change option when you need to make a decision. #etc easy to change #yow22

Shout out to Aino Vonge Corry
@apaipi
for 20 Years of serving in the YOW, GOTO and QCON conferences. Thankyou! #YOW22

Aino Vonge Corry at #YOW22 - "Gandalf was a manager who gave a high degree of autonomy. He will leave you to figure it out, and then turn up the last minute to deal with the dragon."
https://juliangamble.com/blog/2022/12/12/yow-conference-sydney-2022/

Fred George at #YOW22
"To be a change agent - you have to be willing to create a stink. Escalate and escalate. Don't be afraid to get a consultant to do this, when they say a crazy thing, you look reasonable."
https://juliangamble.com/blog/2022/12/12/yow-conference-sydney-2022/

Michelle Gleeson at #YOW22 - you need sensible defaults for management to defend against decisions of inexperienced managers and to provide equitable decision making.
https://juliangamble.com/blog/2022/12/12/yow-conference-sydney-2022/

Michelle Gleeson at #yow22 shared her lessons learned with being a women in tech management and ways that we can use to grow diversity and inclusion at our own companies (psst her company, Tech Diversity Lab can help you 😄)

Learning about the importance of SLOs and chaos engineering with @lizthegrey #yow22

Insights from Matt Ranney at #YOW22
"If you're using the phrase 'source of truth' then I know you're not committed to an 'always on' migration'".
https://juliangamble.com/blog/2022/12/12/yow-conference-sydney-2022/