Gifs provide us with a way to express emotions online more effectively than static images or text.  They're particularly useful for humor online. In this lightning talk we'll explore several different types of humor, and how gifs can be used to express that.  I hope for this to be a hilarious tour through classic gifs.

You can't swing a dead cat without hitting someone who's telling you why Docker is amazing and if you're not using a microservices based architecture, you're a fool.

This talk covers why you should in fact hit them.

Often, people spend too much time finding frameworks for their project. And even after they pick one, a new one comes out the next week, so they jump to it, wasting 40+ hours of hard work on reading the docs and making a mock-up. I’ll be talking about how to instead find the best framework, that lasts the longest, is easiest to learn and use, and also works for your specific project. Also, you need to learn how to stay on one framework, and not jump around to the "latest and greatest" framework.

The UpSCALE talks are held in the style of the Ignite presentations made popular by various O'Reilly sponsored events. Participants are given five minutes to speak on a subject accompanied by 20 automatically-advanced slides, making this a fast paced, fun event for participants and audience. The UpSCALE talks will take place on Friday the 20th at 8pm in the La Jolla room. Please join us as members of the Free and Open Source community do their best to beat the clock and get their ideas out!