Every little thing we Took from Attending Full Stack Europe 2022

As we begin a brand new yr we’re reflecting on a number of the occasions from 2022, a type of being Full Stack Europe in Antwerp, right here’s what they realized and why they consider attending conferences has big advantages for workers.

Each October (properly with out COVID-19) Full Stack Europe takes place in Antwerp, Belgium bringing collectively a whole lot of builders from all over the world. 

The occasion is made up of two full days of talks from a number of the main builders and engineers within the business. 

This yr we despatched 3 of our very personal builders to seek out out as a lot data as they may about varied totally different subjects from quantum computing to CSS. 

We’re dedicated to making sure our groups are capable of continuously develop their information and recognise that this isn’t all the time by finishing a web based course or watching a video on-line. 

So when Joel, our Full Stack Developer entered and gained 2 tickets by a twitter competition, we bought one other and despatched Joel, James, Senior UX Developer and Ben, Senior Developer on their technique to their first ever Full Stack Europe. 

We spoke to them on their return and right here’s what they needed to say..

Which was your favorite discuss from the occasion?

James: “For me, my favorite discuss was on Day 1 from Belgian artist Dries Depoorter on Surveillance Artwork, Dying Telephones and Faux Likes. It is because it was partaking, it was very humorous and creative. The mix of {hardware} and software program with the unique concepts made it extremely spectacular but in addition fairly scary because it highlighted prospects with trendy tech.”

Ben: “I agree with James, for me my favorite discuss was from Dries Depoorter. It was fascinating to find out about a number of the work he’s completed this yr.”

Joel: “Though Surveillance Artwork was an incredible discuss, for me mine was the discuss on Superior Git Magic from Pauline Vos, it actually gave me some meals for thought of our present processes at Adzooma round model management, visibility and debugging in case one thing goes mistaken.

What have been your greatest takeaways from FSE?

James: “There’s plenty of key takeaways I may record however to encapsulate them into one, it lets you try to open up your thoughts and contribute in direction of being a very good all spherical engineer moderately than only a succesful developer.”

Ben: “Personally, I felt like FSE gave us rather a lot that we are able to incorporate into our day-to-day growth, documentation and tradition and made me take into consideration how it’s our duty to cross that information on as effectively as potential.

Joel: “My greatest takeaway was studying that it needs to be okay to problem the choice making processes in relation to new characteristic requests and that truly we’re not alone, as a growth group, the place we’re juggling upkeep of a legacy platform, seeking to enhance it and construct new options for our customers.

What have been the primary advantages from FSE?

Joel: “Surprisingly you don’t actually suppose earlier than the occasion about how a lot downtime you’ve got and it was actually nice for sparking conversations about Adzooma such because the technical course Adzooma is headed and the issues we have to do to get the place we need to be in 1, 2 or 3 years.”

James: “Yeah, I agree with Joel on that, this was a large one and I feel the change of surroundings and totally different tradition and environment added to it, we had plenty of time for discussions to move and primarily realised we’re all on the identical web page with plenty of issues.

Joel: “One other profit for me was that the convention particularly was very broad, it wasn’t simply technical but in addition checked out mushy abilities, like how builders and designers can work together with their customers to higher perceive their wants and use these to develop higher options or enhancements to a product.

How do you are feeling attending a convention differs from studying the data on-line?

James: “For me, it’s that totally different approach of studying and as we mentioned beforehand, it offers you downtime to essentially spark some significant conversations along with your friends moderately than whenever you do a web based course alone as it may be fairly isolating. 

It additionally offers you a complete record of latest individuals to observe on social media, individuals who you may proceed to study from and construct connections with.”

Lastly, how does it make you are feeling that you simply’re capable of attend these conferences by the enterprise? 

Ben: “It’s nice, as an worker, it’s inspiring and makes you are feeling invested in by the enterprise. I personally suppose it’s a extremely enticing perk to have the ability to provide.

All in all, it appears like our group had a good time at FSE, we’re trying ahead to seeing how they’re capable of implement what they realized throughout the group and their normal everyday.