This year, October was a pretty busy time for developers, tech enthusiasts, students, engineers and of course Charlie and his chocolate factory. Needless to say, as developers we know how valuable stickers and T-Shirts are in the tech community. If a developer was to choose between a bottle of the finest wine and a bunch of stickers, he would choose the latter.

With all that said we will focus more on the technological part of October without completely ignoring Charlie.

HactoberFest

This is probably the most famous tech fest that is well known among developers and students alike. It is a month-long celebration of open source software aimed at introducing beginners to Open Source Community, brought to us by Digital Ocean, Intel and DEV Community.

This is a great event to implement your learning on real life projects and helping the community build something useful.

Google DevFest

As they would put it ‘The Code Concert’. This is an event where global developers come together for the weekend and share their technical learning and expertise on Google Technologies. An initiative of Google, Google Developer Groups, Women Techmakers and Google Developer Experts, this event empowers developers to teach, learn, and connect with other developers.

This is a great event to learn new technologies or brush up on basics and learn new ways to implement tech. Since in the tech world everything is interdisciplinary so learning one technology empowers one to understand all other similar technologies.

#30DaysOfGoogleCloud

This is a more like a free coding bootcamp to give people an idea about various Google Cloud services and how/where to implement them with hands-on training. Generally, all the companies offer similar Cloud services so learning any one gives you control over the others too.

Halloween 🎃

As promised, here’s Charlie. Charlie knows that all the developers are exerting themselves to learn and implement their technical knowledge in the various events discussed above. Charlie also knows that chocolate and celebrations are a way to ease stress and reduce burnouts. That’s why Charlie makes a variety of chocolates and candies in his factory for the event that marks the end of October.

Charlie is smart that’s why he wants everyone to celebrate festivals and take some time out to rest and reward yourself.

Conclusion

These swags are just incentives. While participating in these events don’t forget what the idea behind that event was else that just destroys the purpose. So, while you plan your next eventful month, I will make myself some ☕