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FOSS4G Nashville 2022
I attended and gave a talk at FOSS4G Nashville 2022. This was a short, 1.5 day hybrid conference with about 30 in-person attendees and an unknown number of folks watching and giving presentations online. Howard Butler gave a keynote talk entitled “Serve data, not services,” and my talk was titled “STAC software, now and looking […]
E84 at the July 2021 ESIP Meeting
We are looking forward to the ESIP Meeting this week, July 19-23, 2021. Our engagement with ESIP is deep. Element 84 (E84) has been a member of ESIP since 2014 and we have sponsored every ESIP meeting since they started their meeting sponsor program in July 2017, making this our 8th sponsorship! By supporting ESIP, […]
E84 at the 2020 AGU Fall Meeting
As we wrap up 2020, we are looking forward to the 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, the largest meeting of geoscientists in the world. #AGU20 is scheduled from 1-17 December and in this remote format will accommodate over a thousand hours of virtual content to minimize conflicts while maximizing global engagement! The theme for […]
Summer ESIP 2020
We’re passionate about Earth Science Data and helping to solve the challenges in that field. At this year’s ESIP Summer Meeting, we have four E84 team members speaking and moderating across multiple sessions. Here’s where you can find us if you want to chat! STAC and Sentinel-2 Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs (STAC) is an […]
Hosting An Online Conference: Philly Emerging Technology for the Enterprise (ETE)
Conferences are great for a variety of reasons–getting exposed to cool up-and-coming technologies, connecting with old friends, and doing recruiting and business development. For the last few years, I’ve been a co-organizer for Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise (ETE)–a fantastic developer-focused conference that has run in Philadelphia for fourteen years. While ETE was planned […]
E84 ❤️ Gatsby & JAMstack – Introducing Gatsby [Spark]
The JAMstack generally has become ubiquitous as a solid and reliable architecture for building applications for the web. As much as we didn’t know it, the JAMstack has been part of E84’s blood before the term was coined, as we worked through application challenges focusing on serving static applications and websites using AWS S3 and […]
E84 @ AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington DC
We’ve been heads down, hard at work tackling challenges in Earth Science and Disaster Response and are ready to share what we’re doing with all of you. June 11-12, we’ll be joining AWS at their Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC to talk about some of these challenges and how we’re working to solve them. […]
High Stakes, Hard Certs
Deciding to take the AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Professional exam at re:Invent. This certification is considered one of the toughest to achieve in IT, and it lived up to the hype. It was brutal. So brutal in fact, that after seeing that I passed, I questioned why I took it, whether it was worth it, and if it was worth the stress taking it in Las Vegas at Re:Invent versus a local testing center.