I’d never heard of the DBTA Data Summit until this year. Apparently this is the 9th one, so you’d think I would have heard of it by now, seeing that I’ve been in the industry for longer than its existence. I usually attend the bigger conventions each year, but this year due to having booked vacations that I’d much rather be on, I couldn’t attend the normal PASS, Microsoft, or Databricks conferences. I was really excited to see and hear about the developments in the world of Spark in San Francisco, but I wouldn’t be able to make it there this year. After a quick google, Data Summit seemed to be my only choice. So off I went to Boston…