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My First Conference

I’m at Velocity 2008 right now. So far I’ve learned several things:

  1. Twitter can’t handle a conference.
  2. Sun might succeed in its attempt to restore its relevance.
  3. SSDs are going to be abother layer in server memory, between disks and RAM.
  4. Whenever a member of the Ops team is unavailable, something breaks.
  5. Con food isn’t remarkable, in either positive or negative ways.
  6. Arrive early to talks so you can snag a spot on the power strip.
  7. I FAIL at socialization.

At least I managed to score some Puppet schwag (whoever made these shirts has a different definition of XXL than me…) and managed to track down Luke Kanies and Andrew Shafer of Reductive Labs to say “Hi.” Haven’t socialized much with them; they look like they’re working.

About to watch a talk on measuring performance; a topic I’ve always had big questions about; hopefully I’ll learn something good. I’m kinda regretting my decision to sit towards the front, though.

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One Response to “My First Conference”

  1. Andrew Shafer Says:
    July 6th, 2008 at 1:52 am

    I’m just barely recovering from the conferences :/

    We’ll have to get you good and socialized.

    I hope we can have a Puppet conference in a year and get at least 100+ and some interesting sessions.

    Puppet is such a part of the dev fabric of a client that Luke did an onsite training with a while back, that he said the devs have to provide puppet code to manage the apps, or ops opens bugs.

    How would it be?

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