February 17, 2015
by Evan Powell
So SCALE 13x is this week. I’m looking forward to it for a bunch of reasons.
First and foremost, I’m looking forward to fellow Stormer James Fryman holding forth on lessons learned from his time at GitHub, StackStorm, Puppet and elsewhere this Friday at 1:00 pm. James is speaking around the world on this and related topics (hello ChatOps!) and will be great.
Also, we at StackStorm gave our first public talk as a company last year when my co-founder Dmitri Zimine talked about OpenStack and DevOps from a VMware administrator’s perspective. He’s since been pinged by a variety of folks who wanted him to deliver some flavor of that talk. As he’s helped build vSphere – specifically running vSphere client for years before founding StackStorm – and now as our CTO at StackStorm which is being rapidly adopted in larger DevOps shops for event driven automation – he’s a great speaker on the subject.
And farther back Nexenta often exhibited at SCALE 13x including with friends from PogoLinux and elsewhere. So it’ll be good to reconnect with those friends.
Maybe most importantly, last year’s content in the “devops track” was good and I’m looking forward to helping sponsor that track this year.
I guess my final point about SCALE would be that it has a great feel to it. Even over lunch – I remember eating on the roof last year a box lunch with guys from Ticketmaster who were extremely knowledgeable about running at scale and also really humble – you connect with good people without a lot of BS.
If you are at SCALE this year, please do stop by booth 76 where we will be demo’ing, listening, learning, debating and… giving out free stickers! Stickers!
And don’t miss James’ talk at 1pm on Friday.
**For those of you who won’t be attending in person, the SCALE sessions will be live-streamed on their YouTube channel.