 Good afternoon, so my name is Joe Nussball, and I'm here to talk about how to dev ops days It seems kind of odd because you're already here But I wanted to give you some ideas some some hints of what you can do while here. So who am I? I'm Joe Nussball as I said I'm a principal engineer at workday I maintain some open-source cookbooks for chef and I occasionally blog not as often as I should most people Know me from dev ops days Portland where I am cowbell Joe as now pointed out I'm like the geek nerd herder where I I Tell people when it the breaks are over and when things are going on The other thing I wanted to say about dev ops days is remember this is all volunteer run The organizers have put in countless hours. There have been snafus along the way Please thank them. There's stuff going on that you don't know about it looks smooth So how do you make the most out of dev ops days? This really came to me when I talked to people and said well How was the conference and like me and I'm like well come on Let's let's think about what you could do to make it better. So the first thing I always say is relax Dev Ops is a journey some people are gonna be ahead of you on the journey some people are behind you Relax. It's a journey. It's not where you're gonna be. It's how to get there So first tip get on Twitter follow the speakers organizers projects you like Sponsors, I really like to think about Twitter as crowd sourcing information discovery People post articles and like hey, that's cool The biggest thing while here talk to people. Hopefully you struck up some conversations at lunch Where you work is not an important as what you do and Also just making those connections because you never know where your next job will be or Where your next hire will come from the big thing about this is really cross pollination That's a be up there on a sunflower. So you know getting new ideas expanding your horizons This is my big one ignore your co-workers You can talk to them after the conference unless you're sitting there Strategizing of which open spaces you're going to go to you're here to learn from other people talk to your co-workers afterwards Utilize the hallway track Continue open space discussions or you talk to the speakers the thing I like to do is to talk to the people who ask the Questions because they might be on a similar stage in the journey that you are Attend the evening event this seems a simple thing But it surprises me that you only have 40 to 50 percent attendance rate at the evening event who doesn't like bowling So continue those conversations Also, there are some of the talks and maybe you may be at a Linux only shop and there's a Windows talk Why would you attend? Take out the technique instead of concentrating in the implementation. You're trying to learn strategy This really should be DevOps friends But so take up, you know, you're having a conversation with somebody take a selfie or an Aussie With a person tag them in there so you can go back and scroll back through your feed Don't be a jerk when you're in the open spaces Comments like get a real operating system or use a real editor all those things you're using X. That's your problem That may seem funny at the time But really you're stifling the conversation if somebody says well Jeff Smith is really great But people are ripping on him about that then I can't speak up. You're stifling the conversation Don't try to be funny like that And really the other part is is having compassion, you know part of these things These decisions at your company were made before you were there or you don't have the power to change them You're really trying to be here to figure out. How can I make my life suck less? Simple math few years one mouth at a minimum. You should listen twice as much as you speak Don't dominate the conversations is really what it boils down to So obligatory we're hiring And I want to leave you with a quote from the great philosopher villain ice now. It is time to stop Collaborate and most importantly listen, so thank you very much