{"id":4179,"date":"2020-09-09T12:46:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T12:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2020-09-09T12:46:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T12:46:07","slug":"talking-about-ibm-event-streams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4179","title":{"rendered":"Talking about IBM Event Streams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been running a virtual event this week to explain the capabilities of IBM&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/cloud\/cloud-pak-for-integration\">Cloud Pak for Integration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of these is Event Streams, so I gave an overview of the Event Streams Operator.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NOyqQkpub2A\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But what it really reminded me is that I miss going to conferences and tech events. I don&#8217;t want to sound ungrateful for what I&#8217;m sure has been a huge amount of work for event organisers in the pivot to online events. It&#8217;s great that we can still do events at all, and that organisers are still trying out ways to make it interactive, to enable panels and Q&amp;A sessions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->But&#8230; it&#8217;s just not the same.<\/p>\n<p>I miss getting to travel.<\/p>\n<p>I miss the chances to chat to new people in between talks and sessions and learn from them.<\/p>\n<p>I miss the buzz and vibe of watching a presentation amongst a room full of like-minded techies, instead of alone at home in my room.<\/p>\n<p>I miss being able to see the reactions of an audience while giving a presentation and being able to use that to tweak and adjust what I&#8217;m saying.<\/p>\n<p>I even miss the discussions you get from hours manning an exhibition stand, and I never thought I&#8217;d say that.<\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s not the most important problem facing the world right now. But still&#8230; I miss doing these things in person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been running a virtual event this week to explain the capabilities of IBM&#8217;s Cloud Pak for Integration. One of these is Event Streams, so I gave an overview of the Event Streams Operator. But what it really reminded me is that I miss going to conferences and tech events. I don&#8217;t want to sound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[582,583],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ibm","tag-eventstreams","tag-ibmeventstreams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}