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Ask HN: What will be the best developer conferences of 2018?

15 points by jakemor 9y ago

I love attending/streaming WWDC, F8 and Google I/O, but what are some other less well known conferences to keep an eye out for?

johncoltrane 9y ago
We will see in 2019.
max_ 9y ago
Definitely Ethereum's DevCon 4
bdcravens 9y ago
What kind of apps do you build in? Those are big conferences, but if they don't apply to you, they aren't any good. (I just attended AWS Reinvent, and it was probably the best conference I've attended, but wouldn't be valuable if I wasn't working heavily in AWS)
- iends 9y ago
  I always hear reInvent is terrible because the crowds and things inevitably go wrong at that scale.
  - bdcravens 9y ago
    It was pretty miserable - walking the (Vegas) strip was faster than conference shuttles, it was hard to get into sessions you wanted, etc. Even so, I felt I got more out of it than conferences where none of those issues existed. (I learned a few tricks on how to maximize value next year - mostly boils down to better planning)
csnewb 9y ago
If you're a Java developer, JavaOne is excellent.
iends 9y ago
GopherCon in the USA is always great if you have any interest in Go.
pacuna 9y ago
This year I went to Rails conf in Phoenix and Ruby conf in NOLA. Both were great. Excellent organization and a good variety of topics (I don't develop exclusively with Ruby/Rails).
RicCo386 9y ago
In Europe, there are several great conferences regarding open source technologies: Open Source Summit: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-source-summit-europe http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-source-summit-... Euro Python: https://ep2017.europython.eu/en/ https://ep2017.europython.eu/en/ (2018 site is not yet, and will be probably somewhere else) Django Con Europe: https://2018.djangocon.eu/ https://2018.djangocon.eu/ And many cool local PyCon's, such as PyCon SK 2018: https://2018.pycon.sk/en/index.html https://2018.pycon.sk/en/index.html Disclaimer: I am part of the PyCon SK organizational team

15 points by jakemor 9y ago

I love attending/streaming WWDC, F8 and Google I/O, but what are some other less well known conferences to keep an eye out for?

johncoltrane 9y ago

We will see in 2019.

max_ 9y ago

Definitely Ethereum's DevCon 4

bdcravens 9y ago

What kind of apps do you build in? Those are big conferences, but if they don't apply to you, they aren't any good. (I just attended AWS Reinvent, and it was probably the best conference I've attended, but wouldn't be valuable if I wasn't working heavily in AWS)

iends 9y ago
I always hear reInvent is terrible because the crowds and things inevitably go wrong at that scale.
- bdcravens 9y ago
  It was pretty miserable - walking the (Vegas) strip was faster than conference shuttles, it was hard to get into sessions you wanted, etc. Even so, I felt I got more out of it than conferences where none of those issues existed. (I learned a few tricks on how to maximize value next year - mostly boils down to better planning)

csnewb 9y ago

If you're a Java developer, JavaOne is excellent.

iends 9y ago

GopherCon in the USA is always great if you have any interest in Go.

pacuna 9y ago

This year I went to Rails conf in Phoenix and Ruby conf in NOLA. Both were great. Excellent organization and a good variety of topics (I don't develop exclusively with Ruby/Rails).

RicCo386 9y ago

In Europe, there are several great conferences regarding open source technologies: Open Source Summit: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-source-summit-europe http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-source-summit-... Euro Python: https://ep2017.europython.eu/en/ https://ep2017.europython.eu/en/ (2018 site is not yet, and will be probably somewhere else) Django Con Europe: https://2018.djangocon.eu/ https://2018.djangocon.eu/ And many cool local PyCon's, such as PyCon SK 2018: https://2018.pycon.sk/en/index.html https://2018.pycon.sk/en/index.html Disclaimer: I am part of the PyCon SK organizational team