CfgMgmtCamp talks I want to see
Tags: puppet, community, devops, conference
Published: 2024-01-31 00:33:21

[CfgMgmtCamp is next week](https://dev.to/puppet/get-your-cfgmgmtcamp-puppet-community-day-tickets-before-theyre-gone-59o8), and I hope you got all your travel booked already! This conference means a lot to us in the Puppet ecosystem; we've been coming back to Ghent and seeing familiar faces each year for over a decade now (with the obvious exceptions).

We've made a lot of great memories there, from sushi boats with Toshi to drinking too much jenever at 't Dreupelkot and sleeping through my first session. I'm looking forward to seeing the ["troll bar"](http://www.trollekelder.be) again, of course.

![Front window troll display at Trollekelder](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/lds87jgu70ab5835exb9.JPG)

It's not all fun and games, of course. Every year we learn something new and exciting and spend time brainstorming and dreaming up new visionary ideas. Sometimes those ideas even get implemented and become the subject of next year's talks. Last year Adam told us that DevOps was invented to paper over the pain of traditional sysadmin tools and posits that we're now into second order tooling to paper over the pain of DevOps and I'm looking forward to hearing what's new this year.

I have a somewhat eclectic list of talks I am hoping to see. Some are because I want to learn, but some just sound fun or intriguing. This year we've even got a couple talks on how to improve the climate footprint of your infrastructure!

Michael Coté is talking about the [fear of change](https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/2024/talk/P8V7AA/) at an organizational level. Whether it's moving to (or from) GitOps or deploying a new internal developer platform or building a new career mentoring program, we all combat organizational inertia and I'm interested in learning some new tactics for dealing with it.

In most programming languages and computing platforms these days we no longer have to think to hard about registers and L2 cache or endianness or interrupt handling and jump tables. We just write our application code and let the runtime figure out all the gory details. Winglang is a higher order programming language that promises to abstract away cloud resources in similar ways so that you can declare them and use them right alongside application code and Elad Ben-Israel is going to [show how it works](https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/2024/talk/RNBK88/).

There are several others, from what to do [when automation just amplifies technical debt](https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/2024/talk/EF9BBH/), to a story of [the kids taking up mainframe systems alongside the old fogeys](https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/2024/talk/VKATZ7/) 😜.

Florian Haas is going to talk about [why he doesn't believe in simplification](https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/2024/talk/GZ3RCJ/), and while I don't think I agree with him, I'm looking forward to learning and being proven wrong.

Of course, there's a 1-2-3 from Tim and Martin and Alessandro on some of the things you can do with Puppet, from troubleshooting to writing better code. There's even a talk on event driven Ansible, which I've been meaning to read more about.

Like always, the third day is Puppet's Community Day. We'll have a couple engineers from our DevX team if you have questions or ideas about any of our developer tooling. We'll be collaborating on modules and tools and processes and such. And we'll be kicking off Vox Pupuli's annual election process.

I'm really looking forward to seeing a lot of you next week. If you haven't registered yet then [**_go do it!_**](https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2024/registration/) It's free and helps us with capacity planning. Don't forget to select the "Workshop / Fringe" option and sign up for Community Day so we know how many to expect.