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by ThorinJacobs 2886 days ago
The number one thing I love to see when I'm watching a tech talk that is focused on teaching or advertising a particular tech is the Bad Parts. Obviously you don't want to just bash the tech you're there for, but I've seen way too many demos that portray the technology as the One True Technology that will Solve All Your Problems and I usually approach tech talks from a place of skepticism.

Alice Goldfuss' recent talk on containers[1] is a really good example of what I'm talking about - she spends a good amount of time talking about what containers are, and why and when it would appropriate to use them, but she spends an equal or greater amount of time preparing the audience for what challenges they will encounter when implementing containers and talks about when you're probably better off without.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJx_emIiABk