7am Got up
715: Need to get ready for the day soon
8.30 : Met up with JC. No free breakfast at hotel, walking to the hotel with the event.
It's a pleasant walk, we're confused by how spread out everything seems to be even though there's tall buildings here. On one of the intersections we saw escooter parking on three of the four corners!
9.00 JC went to the contributor event, I'm waiting in the line for my badge. The lines are insanely long, it's crazy how long actually.
9.07 still several minutes from getting the badge
Pleasantly surprised at how open and considerate everything seems to be, by design. You can choose stickers to put in your badge to let people know how social of a mood you're in!
9.10 finally getting near the badge pickup area
10.00 Finished posting yesterday's events to slack. I need to attend the aws event but not sure if I'm signed up for it
10.10 The aws event is 20 minute walk away from where I was at. Since everything else was a paid event today, that's the only thing happening. Gonna walk to it, weathers perfect for a walk. If I'd forgotten to register for it just gonna go to the museum.
10.15 interestingly unpowered sccokters seem to be pretty popular too!
10.20 just took a bunch of photos...of cheesecake factory. Cheesecake factory like a museum lol
Have seen so many scooters Parked around and being used it's not even worth mentioning anymore
10.25 on closer inspection and in hindsight the aircraft carrier docked conveniently at a tourist location was a decommissioned tourist site and not an active ship
10.30 overheard from a tour guide that like in San Fran, the scooters are limited to 3 mph at least the commercial touristy ones. Unclear if the policy holds for personally owner e scooters.
11.05 Aws eks talk:
Intro topics on Amazon and their upcoming pipeline. They open-source their project roadmap on github, sounds interesting
11.35: They have a product called App mesh. It's getting more mature might be great in a year or so.
11.50: Progressive delivery with app mesh. They're really trying to steal Istios lunch here.
12.30 Lunch was okay, too crowded and sunny outside ate inside
1.40 Good lunch still hungry but nbd don't need to fill myself up. Machine learning with aws talk
Lots of interesting distributed computing features that make it easy for data scientists to deploy their models without knowing too much kube internals coming soon.
4.20 The workshop was a major fiasco no one got too far due to aws region-specific issues gonna come back to the hotel now. There's a talk called 'birds of a feather' which is mighty non-descriptive. Heading back to the hotel now
4.30 Almost got the lyft escooter but too stressed out by the rules of the day road to actually follow through it.
4.40 No one's actually following the recommended rules though. If I'd known that I'd most definitely get the Lyft. A bunch of girls honked and waved at me and I waved back etcetera, so I'm thinking either the guys are uglier in California or the girls have looser morals. Either way, SoCal seems to be the place to be.
5.15 Planned on going to a theater show and yeah I get how public transport is the worst here. 14 minutes by driving, an hour and thirty minutes by public transport
6.00 At La puerta restaurant outside. Just saw Fred the free ride hail app based on ads.
6.30 La puerta is popular as hell, and the restaurant next door the one with the cute hostess gets only the spillovers it seems. Their serving sizes are so strange. I couldn't finish half a really cheap veggie quesadilla and JC's three tiny tacos were extremely expensive. Perhaps I ordered the wrong thing but I'm not impressed La Puerta!
7.00 Walked back from the restaurant. We keep talking about exploring the nightlife and becoming more interesting people but there's not a lot of interest from either of us. JC says there's something happening with places that pretend to be gelato shops but are just hookah cafes. I buy it. He tells me how he and R used to spend entire days in hookah bars and do their assignments.
Compared notes about the days events with JC we agree the workshops could have been more organized. We're planning for the next day of events and my concerns that we might need to move between hotels cross-town are fortunately unfounded. We have a good schedule planned out for tomorrow.
We agree we'll meet up later in the evening if we want to explore the nightlife and go from there.
10.00 neither of us wants to go out. I'm talking to a bunch of folks.
12.00 Sweet sweet sleep finally.
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