Back from DevoxxFR 2023

For those who don’t know about this conference, it’s one of the biggest and most anticipated developer conferences in France. It is a 3-day event that takes place every year at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, with nearly 3,000 attendees (which doesn’t include organizers, speakers, sponsors, etc.) and 8 to 12 parallel tracks.

Let’s cut to the chase. The main objective of these conferences is to learn new things! Obviously, with more than 200 talks, we had to make tough choices on which events to attend.And since every speaker has something interesting to share, we will only highlight a few talks here.

Hubert Sablonnière presented “Retour Aux Sources : Le cache HTTP” (Back to Basics: The HTTP cache), an interesting talk about HTTP caches. You may not know that the modern web has more cache layers than one might expect. There were a lot of examples which made the talk easy to understand.

Cyril Beslay discussed software architecture debt in “Gestion de la Dette d’Architecture dans un Contexte d’Hyper Croissance” (Architectural Debt Management in a Hyper-Growth Context). It provided a very good summary of the issues caused by technical debt and, more importantly, software architecture debt.

Cyril used specific examples, and here are the three critical pieces of advice we identified:

In the last part of his talk, he detailed the mechanisms explaining why fake stories are more popular and viral than the truth.

This year, we weren’t just attending DevoxxFR as spectators. We were honored to be selected by the CFP (call for presentation) committee for two talks.

Julien Briault presented a tool called OctoDNS in his talk “Infra : Donnez de l’Autonomie à vos Développeurs avec OctoDNS” (Infra: Empower your Developers with OctoDNS). In a live coding session; he demonstrated how easy it is to manage DNS records from multiple DNS providers in a single repository and with a common DSL (Domain Specific Language).

Networking is a big part of the conference. Many sponsors were brought in, and we each took the time to chat with some of them.

As speakers, we were also invited to the speaker dinner that took place at the Jardin d’Acclimatation in Paris. It was a privileged time to talk with the other speakers and — maybe more importantly — the organizers, as it was probably their only free time in 72 hours 😅. In particular, it was nice to see things from the other side of the fence and learn more about their organizational challenges, like managing to print tickets for 3,800 people or selecting talks for the conference (in the end, 200 sessions were scheduled out of 1,100 submissions!).

Finally, we took the opportunity to meet other attendees during the Meet and Greet (a free event that took place on Thursday evening). It was a very laid-back way to meet people and talk in real life with friends we only knew from the Internet.

We look forward to returning next year, especially since DevoxxFR have announced they are evolving and will welcome 1,300 more attendees on two floors).

So, see you there on April 17th-19th, 2024!

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