I looked at my invite and flights to AWS re:Inforce today and felt tired. I generally enjoy conferences. However, I’m starting to feel the impact of how thinly we are spread across so many communities. The future is hybrid infrastructure. However, that means we all must know a little about many different things. It also means that we have more relationships across many communities of practice.
Over the past few years, I’ve joined the AWS, GCP, and Cloud-Native communities. Within Cloud-Native, I have sub-communities based on projects I’m interested in. I’ve also had to maintain relationships in the Networking and VMware communities. I know I can’t keep pace and must let one or more of these communities go. However, I feel the pressure of the challenge. These core infrastructure technologies and communities aren’t consolidating on the customer side.
It’s not just about saying goodbye to friends but understanding the core capabilities needed in modern enterprise infrastructure.
What are you doing to consolidate your communities of practice?