What happened in Vegas

We were at AWS re:Invent 2024 in Las Vegas where we gave demos, hosted a technical session, and sponsored social events. The conference saw around 60,000 attendees, including architecture and DevOps leaders, dev teams, decision-makers, and AWS customers. We learned about trends in cloud-native software development and the evolving partner ecosystem with AWS focusing on growth from their technology ecosystem. Generative AI is becoming increasingly important in software development, but there's a "day 2" problem where initial excitement drops off as fear, security concerns, and inertia take hold. Self-hosted and self-managed development environments are gaining attention for flexibility and security-conscious organizations. The developer stack is evolving with cloud-native solutions integrating seamlessly with CDEs, IDEs, and secure browsers. Ultimately, the focus on DevEx tools to support and track developer productivity while ensuring efficient cloud spend is driving innovation in the industry.

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