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What’s common between GCP Next and the Sphere?

My impressions and insights based on attending the GCP Next event in Las Vegas on April 9-11, 2024.

GCP Next

Summary

Thanks to our Google Cloud Platform partner, I was able to attend the GCP Next conference in Las Vegas this year. This was my 2nd GCP Next; the first was in 2018 in San Francisco, when I was actually on the inside as part of the Google Cloud team, leading content for the DevOps tooling track!

The schedule and setting made it very clear that Google’s top goal for GCP Next this year was to promote AI, followed by security. There was also a prominent display of data and security platforms, but AI dominated even those vendor displays and presentations.

Bazel Community Day – Munich

On October 23 2023, the day before the first European BazelCon, EngFlow and Tweag organized the sixth Bazel Community Day at the Salesforce office, capped off with a happy hour sponsored by Gradle.

Photo from Bazel Community Day, Munich

Photo from Bazel Community Day, Munich

Bazel Community Day – Israel

EngFlow and Wix bring the Bazel community together in Tel Aviv

On February 23, 2023 EngFlow and Wix teamed up to organize the first Bazel Community Day in Israel. Wix hosted the event in its event space in the picturesque Tel Aviv Port, welcoming guests from the Google Munich Bazel team, as well as engineers from local and global companies.

Impressions from Bazel Community Day, Tel Aviv

Impressions from Bazel Community Day, Tel Aviv

EngFlow Customers & Friends Meetup

In April, Ulf and I, and a few of our EngFlow team members, traveled to San Francisco to visit and work with our customers. In the spirit of one of EngFlow's LEAP values (Loyalty -- making customers and employees better), we decided to host a workshop aimed at helping developers write better custom Bazel rules. With the help of our friends at Mux (and their high tech/high vibe office space), we were able to extend the audience to up to 40 engineers, and invited our customers and friends in the SF Bazel community. This is how the First Quarterly EngFlow Customers & Friends Meetup was born!