Coherent Ramblings » Conferences http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog My thoughts on everything from Operations through Parenting and beyond. Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:12:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 My First Conference http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2008/06/23/my-first-conference/ http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2008/06/23/my-first-conference/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:58:52 +0000 plathrop http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/?p=28 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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