Software Engineering Leader | ProactiveOps | Helping teams use events & automation to avoid production outages | Serverless Python DevOps AWS
It can be good to stop every so often and look back at what you've achieved. Last year I did a lot of travelling and public speaking. I didn't realise quite how much it was. I visited 7 countries, attended 14 meetups and 8 conferences. From the end of April until late November I spoke at 11 events - an average of an engagement every 20 days! My talk in April was the first public presentation I'd delivered since September 2018. When Ben Ridley accepted my talk for the Canberra BevOps meetup, I had no idea where it would lead. My main message was always the same - use events to detect problems early. For every event my deck was different. I iterated on content and how I delivered it. Over the last few weeks I have restructured it again. I learn a lot from the audience each time I speak. Thanks to everyone who talked to me after a presentation, laughed at a joke, clapped when I finished or simply turned up. Without an audience, a presentation is pointless. So I don't lose track next time, I'm maintaining a public speaking page on my personal website. https://lnkd.in/ge3txJ8N
