Building Development Communities
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Runs multiple developer events in Germany, founding a Java user group, leading three streams and doing ~40 on-stage interviews, and launches Cloudland while expanding MicroExchange into a cloud‑native conference with board members from Red Hat OpenShift, Azure advocates, IBM Cloud and several Java Champions and Groundbreakers. Claims MicroExchange draws senior practitioners — 80% with 15+ years’ experience and ~60% with 4–5 years on microservices. Shows a three‑hour live coding demo that produces music on the backend with Sonic Pi.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Benjamin’s background and conference work
- 3:32Why communities matter
- 6:01Unbox Hawaii first time
- 7:48Networking at Unbox
- 9:13Benefits of slow-paced
- 10:17Traditional conferences fall short
- 11:23Diversity insights
- 13:50Closing thoughts
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