This November, I attend the AWS Community Day Indonesia in UI, Depok. The event constitutes a main event with a main speaker presentation and some parallel short talks (about 15 minutes). There 2 main talks, but I only remember the presentation of Mas Donnie, one of the legendary AWS Advocates. He talks about the evolution of computing, and how modern tools and ecosystems could fit into that. In the end, we also see a slight demo regarding Gen AI capability, plus AWS’s new Gen AI assistant, q. For me, it’s quite insightful how the relevancy of the tools depends on the business objective and context, and how from speaker’s point of view, this technology evolves.
As for the small talks, I mainly follow talks regarding IoT data and How to utilize AWS RDS Change Data Capture to do zero ETL to Redshift. One thing that I learned from this event is that one of the goals of attending events is to find out what you don’t know you don’t know. It’s to open a new insight that you might not have thinking before. I should join short talks that I’m not familiar with because, in that unknown, you could find a new insight. The entropy is higher in there, thus the chance of learning something new is also high.