This article is part of the series "Around the World with Bazel in Watercolors".
The Sydney to New York route was strategically scheduled via San Francisco to connect with our customers, employees and future customers there—and do some watercolors!
This article is part of the series "Around the World with Bazel in Watercolors".
As the images hint, I was mostly inspired by the rich Tasmanian landscape, which is where we went on a family vacation. I did, however, sandwich that week between working for a week in Sydney and a week in San Francisco. In Sydney I couldn’t pass on an opportunity to meet with our customers while visiting family, and to gather local engineers passionate about Bazel (all 10 of them! 
) from Canva, Splunk, Snap, MongoDB, and more for a Bazel meetup.
This article is part of the series "Around the World with Bazel in Watercolors".
One of the challenges of leading a globally distributed company with employees and customers on 6 continents is making time for meaningful connections with people. I’ve embraced this challenge and turned it into an opportunity. That means combining travel with industry conferences, team summits, customer and future customer relationship development, and product discovery. So far this year, that includes 12 cities (Sydney, San Francisco, New York, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Boston, Munich, Berlin, Cologne, Minneapolis, Chicago, Seattle), 71 customer and future customer visits, and gathering a total of 231 engineers at our events, plus meeting up with EngFlow team members.
April 1, 2024 was no joke for EngFlow! On this humorous day, we gathered for our annual team summit, meeting this year in Barcelona, Spain. EngFlowers from 11 countries descended upon the beautiful Catalan city to deepen ties to our work and each other. A key priority for the week was our “Happy Team” principle, which serves as the foundation of our company framework: “Happy team, Happy customers, More happy customers.” The summit theme also focused on leaning into EngFlow’s core values of LEAP — Loyalty, Excellence, Adventure, and Perseverance.
My impressions and insights based on attending the GCP Next event in Las Vegas on April 9-11, 2024.
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.
To our EngFlow family — wishing you a peaceful and happy holiday. We look forward to working together in 2024!
From our early days we have set our company’s priorities in the following order: Happy Team, Happy Customers, More Happy Customers. We’d like to provide you with a few updates in that construct.
A lot has happened since our last update, so we’d like to provide you with recent and relevant insights. We welcome questions and feedback, which we’ll collect via a brief survey below.
From our early days, we have set our company’s priorities in the following order: Happy Team, Happy Customers, More Happy Customers. We’d like to provide you with a few updates in that construct.