My First Conference
Monday, June 23rd, 2008I’m at Velocity 2008 right now. So far I’ve learned several things:
- Twitter can’t handle a conference.
- Sun might succeed in its attempt to restore its relevance.
- SSDs are going to be abother layer in server memory, between disks and RAM.
- Whenever a member of the Ops team is unavailable, something breaks.
- Con food isn’t remarkable, in either positive or negative ways.
- Arrive early to talks so you can snag a spot on the power strip.
- 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.