Since there are so many keynotes, some of them fly by so quickly, I'm not going to respond to all of them. There are a couple that I thought were awesome.

The first real keynote of the morning was by Theo Schlossnagle about a career in our field. It was refreshing to hear two things.

First, it was nice to hear someone saying that moving jobs every few years is not a good idea. Practice in this field is what created all the experts who are speaking at this conference. It's the time ane experience that these experts have that really sets them apart. They know their field, and they know what works.

The other things that he talked about was what I live in. That is, he broke down the line between development an operations. I carry a pager once every few months and have to support what I write. As he said, the number of things that pull you out of bed at night will quickly go to 0 when you are on the hook for supporting those systems.

All in all, it was a well-put description of how people should really approach this industry.