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One of the best parts about being an analyst: you get to choose the experiential framework from which you analyze a given piece of tech or event. Events, especially, offer us a myriad of lenses. At a keynote you can choose to sit up front in a section reserved for press and watch the reactions on the faces of the executives nearby; you can also sit in the back with the rest of the crowd and see if the cheers\/jeers from the proverbial peanut gallery match those in the rest of the room. You have the option of staying ensconced in analyst program events, often with access to a special press room; alternatively, you can pop into a given session and experience it as would most other attendees. You can measure the temperature of an event based on who you end up chatting with at lunch, see what the vendors at the expo have to say, or get an often outside view of an event from non-conference meetings with clients who happen to be in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n I had all of these options available to me last month when I attended (and <\/span>spoke on a panel<\/span><\/a> at) DockerCon 2019 in San Francisco. The moment that stands out the most for me\u2014the one that provided the framework through which I evaluated the rest of the conference\u2014was my morning walk from my hotel to the first day\u2019s keynote on Tuesday. I fell in step with an attendee who was making the same trek. While I do not recall his name, his reason for attending the conference sticks out in my mind: although he looked forward to the keynotes and other talks, he was there primarily for the Thursday\/Friday training sessions. His organization had selected Docker as their path for modernizing their existing applications, and he had been tasked with learning how to make this happen. This chance interaction pushed me to view DockerCon beyond the crafted announcements and hype, the showmanship and cocktail receptions, to the business of what Docker\u2014as a company and a technology\u2014enables. From this perspective here are my DockerCon 2019 takeaways.<\/span><\/p>\n As my walking comrade indicated, many organizations arrive at Docker as a solution for legacy app modernization and\/or lift-and-shift. In a continuation of a theme <\/span>my colleague James noted from last year’s conference<\/span><\/a>, DockerCon 2019 had numerous sessions and customer case studies dedicated to legacy application transformation. Indeed, even the <\/span>Retro Gaming session<\/span><\/a> I attended included a nod to the business of legacy collateral. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt doesn\u2019t get much more legacy than this…\u201d pic.twitter.com\/jnCnaQtNAC<\/a><\/p>\n — Dr KellyAnn Fitzpatrick (@drkellyannfitz) April 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nModernization is still big business<\/span><\/h1>\n
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