It's been great working within the Atlanta IT community. I've had the pleasure of working with some very talented and professional colleagues. Recently, I had the opportunity to reconnect with an old friend. This chance meeting eventually lead to the creation of the DevOpsATL meet-up group...
Earlier this year, I signed up to attend the 2010 O'Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference. As the event drew closer, I checked the conference sign-up list to see if anyone I happened to know would be going. To my surprise, there was an old name I hadn't seen in years. While catching up at the conference, he introduced another friend of his and the three of us started discussing the idea of creating a meet-up group to serve the Atlanta community. A few weeks after the conference, everyone actually followed through and created the DevOpsATL group on meetup.com.
All of the DevOpsATL organizers are great to work with and have a lot of practical experience to offer. We've had a couple of meet-ups already and I am quite impressed at the quality of people who've decided to join the conversation. We're really looking forward to giving back to the Atlanta IT community, so if you're in the area during one of our meet-up dates, stop in for some compelling conversations.
