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and is a great place to meet vendors offering the latest distribution . Developers plan the next major release at this conference so you ’ ll be fully up to date on what is coming .

Interop Cloud Connect : This conference may be networking-focused , but check out the cloud computing track . Here you ’ ll hear user implementation stories , see presentations by vendors and practitioners . The level of technical content here gets deep fast . Admins , in particular , will find this event informative .

DreamForce : Salesforce . com ’ s huge confab offers cloud-focused developer and admin tracks , so much so that many developers and admin may get lost in the size and amount of content . However , if you ’ re an SFDC developer or admin , this is a must-attend event .

Amazon re : Invent : This conference is considered by most to be the major public cloud conference , and is typically sold out . This is a very technical conference that focuses many of the presentations on things that are valuable to developers and admins . AWS usually reveals a couple of big products at the event , most of which are development-focused .

Next steps : Apply what you learn

There you have it , my shortlist of some of the best learning resources for cloud . But the path to learning in the cloud space isn ’ t limited to just the items I ’ ve listed above , of course . And on-the-job training is the best way to solidify the concepts you ’ ll learn along the way .

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