Every little thing we Took from Attending Full Stack Europe 2022

As we begin a brand new 12 months 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 discovered and why they imagine attending conferences has enormous advantages for workers.

Each October (nicely with out COVID-19) Full Stack Europe takes place in Antwerp, Belgium bringing collectively a whole bunch of builders from around the globe. 

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

This 12 months we despatched 3 of our very personal builders to seek out out as a lot info as they might about varied completely different subjects from quantum computing to CSS. 

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

So when Joel, our Full Stack Developer entered and received 2 tickets by means of a twitter competition, we bought one other and despatched Joel, James, Senior UX Developer and Ben, Senior Developer on their approach 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 speak from the occasion?

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

Ben: “I agree with James, for me my favorite speak was from Dries Depoorter. It was fascinating to study a number of the work he’s finished this 12 months.”

Joel: “Though Surveillance Artwork was an ideal speak, for me mine was the speak 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 unsuitable.

What have been your largest takeaways from FSE?

James: “There’s a variety of key takeaways I might checklist however to encapsulate them into one, it lets you try to open up your thoughts and contribute in the direction of being all spherical engineer reasonably than only a succesful developer.”

Ben: “Personally, I felt like FSE gave us loads that we will incorporate into our day-to-day improvement, documentation and tradition and made me take into consideration how it’s our duty to go that data on as effectively as potential.

Joel: “My largest takeaway was studying that it needs to be okay to problem the choice making processes relating to new characteristic requests and that truly we’re not alone, as a improvement staff, the place we’re juggling upkeep of a legacy platform, trying 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 will have and it was actually nice for sparking conversations about Adzooma such because the technical route 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 believe the change of surroundings and completely different tradition and environment added to it, we had a variety of time for discussions to movement and primarily realised we’re all on the identical web page with a variety 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 tender expertise, 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 completely different method of studying and as we mentioned beforehand, it provides you downtime to actually spark some significant conversations along with your friends reasonably than once you do a web-based course alone as it may be fairly isolating. 

It additionally provides you an entire checklist of latest individuals to comply with on social media, individuals who you possibly can 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 means of 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 very enticing perk to have the ability to supply.

All in all, it appears like our staff had a good time at FSE, we’re wanting ahead to seeing how they’re capable of implement what they discovered inside the staff and their common day after day.