November 2024 in review – preview

November is not over yet, but I finished organizing my San Diego picture and wanted to share them.

San Diego

I went to San Diego for a 3-day team meeting in person with the Grafana Labs Professional Services team.

I joined the team as a Solutions Architect shortly after its creation. There are now ~35 people who are members of this team. It is about the size of the company Grafana Labs when I first joined 😄. Most people in the team joined in the past year, and so for about half of the people, it is the first time we see eachother in person.

We did presentations, process improvement work sessions, tech labs and workshops, and we learned a lot from one another. At this scale, it is almost like a trade convention. We had detailed spreadheets and documents to organize every aspects of the event, and many people prepared for 1 to 2 months.

I hosted a session on Common and standard tools and systems, a trivia game, and I organized a lab titled Building custom business applications on or around Grafana.

This was also the first time that I visited San Diego. It’s nice and big. The weather is very sunny, mild and humid. It doesn’t have a lot of pedestrian areas, unfortunately.

My favorite place was the current exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Balboa Park, followed by the Fine Arts museum, also in Balboa Park.