On Tuesday night, my meetup group (DC Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment Group (opens in a new tab)) joined forces with a number of other groups to present the most awesome gathering we have ever known. The meeting was the brainchild of Nathen Harvey (opens in a new tab), who runs the DevOpsDC (opens in a new tab) and MongoDC (opens in a new tab) user groups and works for OpsCode (opens in a new tab) as their Technical Community Manager. Nathen sent an email with the subject of 'DC Tech Ops Meetup Alliance (aka the Super Friends)'...how could I not be in.
The (opens in a new tab) meeting brought together Big Data DC (opens in a new tab), Crabby Admins - LOPSA, Baltimore Chapter (opens in a new tab), DC Agile Software Testing Group (DCAST) (opens in a new tab), DC Continuous Integration, Delivery, & Deployment Group (opens in a new tab), DevOpsDC (opens in a new tab), LOPSA DC - The League of Professional System Administrators (opens in a new tab), NOVA MySQL (opens in a new tab), Arlington Ruby (opens in a new tab) and DC Ruby User Group (opens in a new tab).
For the meeting, we brought in some great speakers. First, we had Avleen Vig (opens in a new tab) and Patrick McDonnell (opens in a new tab) from Etsy (opens in a new tab) to talk about Ops School (opens in a new tab). Here's the video:
After Avleen and Patrick, Theo Schlossnagle (opens in a new tab), CEO of OmniTI (opens in a new tab) was up next. We were lucky enough that he gave two presentations. The first was a short presentation on How to Tie Your Shoes the Right Way (I love the unicorns):
Next, Theo gave a great presentation on careers. It was spot on and definitely worth watching. Here's the video:
I want to send a special thank you to Nathen for making this all happen. It was a great night. I definitely look forward to further collaborations between DevOpsDc and my meetup. If you are looking for the original meeting invite, here it is. Enjoy the videos.