I can’t believe this was the ninth time I was a speaker at Devnexus. The last couple of years, we have sponsored and had a dedicated Jakarta EE track and the entire team present, so it was a bit different to be handling the booth as the only one from Eclipse Foundation present. This time, we shared the booth with MicroProfile in the community area. Luckily, I had great help from our community with staffing the booth. Mike, Emily, Rustam, Eudris, and Fred all helped out making it successful.
My talk, What Spring Developers Should Know About Jakarta EE, is a fairly popular talk that I have done a couple of times now. It was well attended and I received great feedback from the attendees afterward.
As always, the most important track at Devnexus is the Hallway Track. It is amazing how many good conversation it is possible to have over a few days when you hang out with 1400 attendees, speakers, volunteers, and others over a couple of days.
And, of course, we had the traditional #runWithJakartaEE morning runs. We usually run around the Mercedes Benz Stadium before finishing up the 5km in Centennial Olympic Park. The park is closed when we start running at 6:30AM, but opens up at 7:00AM, and that is about the time we return from the loop around the stadium.
