I’m home.  It’s over.  For me, it was a resounding success.  Here are seven interesting things I heard while in Napa, CA last week.

1. Fred Simon’s presentation on the future of DevOps as a transition from discrete releases of software increments to streaming or Liquid Software releases is spot on.
2. Nearly everyone at swampUp 2017  is either a vi or Emacs editor user.  Based on a quick glance around the room, the hands up for vi clearly outweighed the Emacs users by an unscientific 4:1 landslide victory.
3. JFrog will be releasing a stand-alone version of Bintray, putting it back on the radar for consideration as a part of the DevOps infrastructure for internal use by security-minded companies who aren’t allowed to put their proprietary code in the cloud.
4. The Google build platform, Bazel, is now available in Beta at https://bazel.build and looks like a great build project that I will be taking for a test drive sometime soon.
5. Snyk vulnerability tools are a proactive way to deal with fixing known vulnerabilities when the race is on between the dark side hackers exploiting the hole and DevOps system teams patching things up.
6. Team JFrog is proud to announce they are now “drinking their own champagne,” but I’m wondering what happened to the “eating your own dogfood”  metaphor.  Is it no longer politically correct to talk about dogfood on stage?
7. JFrog has acquired the Conan C++ package manager for publishing to the Artifactory.  This could be a great replacement tool for some custom CMake code out there publishing to the artifact repository.
8. Bonus Point:  Presenting in the last session on Friday afternoon of a 3-day holiday weekend dramatically impacted audience numbers, but didn’t seem to dampen enthusiasm for what I had to say about Continuous Pipeline Configuration.  My blog traffic pegged a new high yesterday.