Why start a new database conference?
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It is hosted by Andy Pavlo which is of my idol in the database world.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnBsf2rH-K7pn09rb3qvkA
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But I agree with you, more conferences is nice. More opportunities for sharing knowledge and making connections with more people.
So you’re saying that 927 wasn’t relevant at all.
(Par for the course with 927 references anyway.)
Perhaps the more substantive discussion is, when you increase access to publication, does quality increase? decrease? stay the same?
An analogy would be with sellers and buyers in a market. If you make it easier to sell without decreasing the cost to the buyer of reliable information about the seller and product, what happens?
Examining Amazon might give us some clues. My belief is that it greatly shifts transaction costs onto the buyer, by forcing each buyer to do a great deal of research and credential-checking, rather than having that done by relatively few and relatively knowledgeable curators.
Someone (JWZ?) said "Linux is only free if you don't value your time". The same might be said about proliferating conferences.
927 isn’t a joke at this point any more; it’s just middlebrow dismissal.
This conference really seems to be a future of programming conference moreso than a databases conference. Maybe I'll submit something! Good luck!
Since then there’s been a pretty relentless if niche community growing around the idea. Eve is gone but the idea lives on in many different communities, and I think it’s clear the same spirit that spawned Eve motivates Jamie’s conference.
The primary venue for this kind of work has been the Live! workshop at SplashCon.
There’s also a community of people working on projects of this sort:
I think Jamie’s conference would be a good addition to this community, especially being in the spring, since Live is in the fall.
Bunch more in the pipeline that I'm excited about.
I think currently in the industry we are stuck in a hyper pragmatist, "value extraction" holding pattern and there is going to be a next generation of applications at some point that will be, at least partially, enabled by some of the advances discussed here.
In my mind at least, the actual "web3" or the next major generation of applications is not going to be this goofy decentralized blockchain gimmick factory.
It will consist of AR applications that you literally "wear" and let them enhance your reality in physical space, in real useful ways.
These applications will have a whole other level of latency and stability requirements because when they are quite literally in your face the user is going to have increased sensitivity to any latency or jitter.
Sqlite and more databases... are a solution to things. I'm excited to see what this conference turns out to be like.
According to my experience, the in-person conference is much better. A lot of eye contact, more feedback during the talk, and a more active Q&A session.
The virtual conference always ends up just like a Youtube channel...