Patrick Crosby attended a DevOps NYC Meetup where over 40 people gathered to listen to eight speakers share their experiences and insights on various topics in DevOps. Mike Fiedler discussed conventions for Chef version numbering, while Carlo Cabanilla talked about the challenges of large exports from Cassandra. Tom shared his love for working in technology, and Alex Lesser reflected on the evolution of his company from its humble beginnings. Rob Terhaar discussed the pros and cons of Puppet, and Alexis Lê-Quôc used a graph example to illustrate how graphs aid in debugging. Sam Kottler explained why contributing to an operating system is not intimidating, and Rangarajan Radhakrishnan shared Gilt's virtualization journey.