{"id":107584,"date":"2022-12-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=107584"},"modified":"2022-12-12T17:56:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T01:56:55","slug":"20221213-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20221213-00\/?p=107584","title":{"rendered":"Thank you for conference announcement, but it would help if you told me what your conference was about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was an announcement of an all-day Microsoft-internal conference featuring a project I will call <i>Project Enzyme<\/i>. The announcement went like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\">\n<p>The Project Enzyme Forum is our flagship community conference that brings together engineers, project managers, data scientists, and designers from around the company to learn about Project Enzyme and get a first look at some of the exciting new improvements in the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Senior leaders will share their vision for Project Enyzme and how we can use it to create the next wave of cutting-edge products and experiences. Other senior leaders will participate in a panel discussion. Discover what Project Enzyme is, why its important, and where it can take you next.<\/p>\n<p>With access to 20+ technical sessions and hands-on labs, you will learn practical information about Project Enzyme that will help you do more today and prepare for tomorrow. Track topics include Fundamentals, Data Science, App Development, Software Dev Lifecycle, and Future of Project Enzyme. Browse the content on demand and at your leisure on the Project Enzyme Forum page after the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Expand your network and your perspective on what is possible. Our live Q&amp;A sessions with Project Enzyme experts will let you collaborate with thousands of peers from around the world, as well as with the Microsoft engineers behind Project Enzyme.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They also included an agenda:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Opening keynote: The future of Project Enzyme.<\/li>\n<li>Project Enzyme overview.<\/li>\n<li>Lunch break.<\/li>\n<li>Connect with the Experts: Live Q&amp;A.<\/li>\n<li>VP panel discussion.<\/li>\n<li>Closing remarks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nowhere in the lengthy announcement does it say what Project Enzyme <i>is<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the Project Enyzme Forum was a rousing success, because they held another one the following year. This time, they also included a link to the project home page, so I took a peek. It&#8217;s a very pretty home page, but nowhere does it say what Project Enzyme <i>does<\/i>. It appears to store data and have APIs for reading and writing that data. But there must be more to it than that.<\/p>\n<p>Oh look, they have a page where they show some sample apps. Maybe from reading the samples I can get an idea of what it actually does.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: separate;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: solid 1px gray;\" valign=\"baseline\"><b>Data processor &#8211; Type 2<\/b><br \/>\nA hello world Type 2 sample that shows how to query data and do some processing.<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: solid 1px gray;\" valign=\"baseline\"><b>Remote data processor &#8211; Type B<\/b><br \/>\nA hello world Type B sample that shows how to query data and do some processing.<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: solid 1px gray;\" valign=\"baseline\"><b>Web service &#8211; Type 2<\/b><br \/>\nA hello world Type B sample that shows how to query data and do some processing.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: solid 1px gray;\" valign=\"baseline\"><b>Container discovery processor &#8211; Type 2<\/b><br \/>\nA hello world Type B sample that shows how to query data and do some processing.<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: solid 1px gray;\" valign=\"baseline\"><b>Remote container discovery processor &#8211; Type B<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: solid 1px gray;\" valign=\"baseline\"><b>Discovery processor &#8211; Type 2<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Not only are these sample titles and descriptions unhelpful, they appear to be wrong! It seems that all of the samples have exactly the same description, except for (1) the ones with no description, and (2) the ones which say that they are Type B even though the sample title says that they are Type 2.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that Project Enzyme is just some sort of secret club that puts up posters just so they can brag about their exclusivity.<\/p>\n<p><b>Bonus chatter<\/b>: I sent email to the Project Enzyme team saying, &#8220;It would be nice if somewhere in the announcement it said what Project Enzyme was. It may be obvious to you but I bet its not obvious to a lot of people.&#8221; They were kind enough to reply: &#8220;Thanks for the feedback. Did you register yet? Hope to see you there!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently they want me to register for something just to find out what it is.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, you&#8217;re not that compelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an announcement of an all-day Microsoft-internal conference featuring a project I will call Project Enzyme. The announcement went like this: The Project Enzyme Forum is our flagship community conference that brings together engineers, project managers, data scientists, and designers from around the company to learn about Project Enzyme and get a first look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>There was an announcement of an all-day Microsoft-internal conference featuring a project I will call Project Enzyme. 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