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Weekly Thing comes back from summer break tomorrow morning! 😎

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Wapogasset Lake with sun coming down.

Tall pine trees on a hillside overlooking Wapogasset Lake with sunlight filtering through the canopy onto a small lakeside deck
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Music in the Park in Amery, WI! 🎶😊

Outdoor summer concert in a park with audience members seated in colorful lawn chairs facing a covered wooden stage with performers
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Violent Femmes at Surly Brewing! 🤩🎶

Outdoor concert at dusk with a band of five performing on a large lit stage before a packed crowd of hundreds
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Dilapidated grain elevator. 📷

Abandoned concrete grain elevator with cylindrical silos and deteriorating metal cladding against an overcast sky
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Tammy and I went to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood last night. Enjoyed the movie, felt like classic Tarantino.

Illustrated movie poster for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a Quentin Tarantino film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie
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DevOpsDays MSP 2019 - Day 2

DevOpsDays MSP has done a fabulous job creating an inclusive event. Hearing from so many diverse voices is refreshing. With all of that goodness, it is jarring when sponsors address the group with “hey guys”. Make sure your message reaches the entire audience.

Day 2 opening keynote for DevOpsDays MSP from John Engelman on Cascading Failure. DevOpsDays MSP

Man standing on a conference stage presenting a Target-branded slide titled A Day A Week A Month in a Cascading Failure at a DevOpsDays event.

“We were super confident in that answer, and we were super wrong.” John Engelman. I’ve been there many times in incidents. Whenever you are “super confident”, use that as a trigger for what you might be missing.

Speaker on a conference stage at devopsdays presenting a graph about cascading failure, with live captions displayed on a side monitor and an audience seated in the foreground.

Great SPS Commerce overview from Nate Anderson, Sanjesh Kumar, and Olivia Alberts sharing some of the amazing things our team does, the powerful tech we use, and our learning culture! Come join our team! #TeamSPS 🤩

Three presenters on a conference stage at DevOpsDays showing a slide featuring Fruit of the Loom, Target, Amazon, and Walmart logos Three presenters stand on a conference stage at DevOpsDays with an SPS Commerce SPS Gives Back slide projected behind them Three presenters on a conference stage at DevOpsDays, with a large screen showing an SPS Commerce Gives Back slide featuring a group photo and live captions below.

Martez Reed now sharing with DevOpsDays MSP about Intelligent Deployment Pipelines.

Speaker presenting Intelligent Deployment Pipelines by Martez Reed on stage at a DevOps Days MSP conference with live captions displayed on a side screen.

Next up at DevOpsDays MSP, Serena Tiede covering Security Logging and the keys to making it work well.

Speaker on stage at a DevOpsDays conference presenting a talk titled Timber Security Logging at UnitedHealth Group, with audience members seated in the foreground.

Alice Goldfuss bringing an awesome closing keynote “The Container Operator’s Manual” for DevOpsDays Minneapolis!

Speaker on stage at DevOpsDays presenting a slide titled The Container Operators Manual with Twitter handle alicegoldfuss, audience seated in foreground

Super engaging, enlightening, and humorous container talk from Alice Goldfuss! 🙌😁

Speaker on a blue-lit conference stage at DevOpsDays presenting a slide reading Do you want containers or a blog post, with live captions displayed on a side screen and an audience seated in the
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DevOpsDays MSP 2019 - Day 1

I’m so happy that SPS Commerce can join these amazing sponsors in support of the organizers of DevOpsDays MSP to create an amazing event for our community!

DevOpsDays MSP 2019 sponsor banner listing Platinum, Gold, Silver, and A La Carte sponsors, with attendees networking in the hotel ballroom behind it.

We have a bunch of #TeamSPS members representing SPS Commerce at DevOpsDays MSP today!

Four people at an SPS Commerce conference booth with banners reading Infinite Retail Power and Our Growth Is Your Opportunity. Four people wearing conference lanyards smile around a tall round table with stickers and drinks at a tech conference.

Bridget Kromhout kicking off DevOpsDays MSP! Bridget is such an amazing contributor to our great community!

A speaker stands at a podium on a large conference stage in front of a packed audience, with a screen displaying devopsdays MSP 2019 and a city skyline illustration. Large hotel ballroom filled with attendees seated in rows facing a stage with three screens displaying devopsdays MSP 2019

DevOpsDays MSP keynote from Liz Fong-Jones @lizthegrey on reducing complexity in systems.

Speaker on stage at DevOpsDays conference presenting slide titled Detangling complex systems with compassion and production excellence

“Heroism isn’t sustainable.” Liz Fong-Jones. This is more than an individual thing, it’s a culture thing. Always beware of hidden incentives that encourage heroism in your culture.

Speaker at a DevOpsDays conference podium beside a slide reading Heroism isn't sustainable with a cartoon superhero illustration and live captions visible.

“Lack of observability is a systemic risk.” Liz Fong-Jones. This is a strong way to position observability, and frame it in a broader context. Very good keynote to start DevOpsDays MSP!

Speaker on stage at DevOpsDays conference presenting a slide reading Lack of observability is systemic risk to a seated audience.

Yolonda Smith bringing always important security topics to DevOpsDays MSP!

Speaker on stage at DevOpsDays conference presenting a talk titled Secure Enough with live captions visible on a side monitor.

Yolonda Smith with valuable perspectives on security. Teams need to acknowledge and address all of these perspectives in order to move forward effectively to create more secure services.

Speaker in colorful dress and red headwrap presents a Perspectives on Security Venn diagram slide at a DevOpsDays conference. Slide titled Perspectives on Security showing three overlapping circles labeled security, product, and engineering listing friction points each team faces

Jessica Kerr sharing Principles of Collaborative Automation at DevOpsDays MSP.

Speaker on stage at DevOpsDays conference presenting a slide titled Principles of Collaborative Automation to a seated audience.

I learned a new word from Jessica Kerr “symmathesy”. Mutual learning in living systems. I like giving this powerful process a definition. This is key to continuous improvement. 🤔

Speaker on stage at DevOpsDays conference presenting a slide titled Symmathesy showing a diagram of interconnected learning parts, audience seated in foreground

This is a great message from Jessica Kerr, with reference to John Allspaw, success begets complexity. That complexity delivers value, and more success. Repeat. 👍

Speaker on stage at DevOpsDays conference presenting a slide showing the words success and complexity with arrows between them, audience seated in foreground.

Nivia Sedai sharing about the Ghost in the Machine, the boundaries of AI and ML in our technology systems.

Speaker on stage at DevOpsDays conference presenting Ghost in the Machine slide about programs running contrary to expectations, audience seated in foreground.

Nivia Sedai with a powerful message highlighting many examples of the negative impacts from the lack of diversity in technology teams. Also a strong message around technology ethics.

Speaker on stage at DevOpsDays conference presenting a slide reading You have agency; use it! to a seated audience in a decorated ballroom.
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Sano absolutely destroyed this ball to take the game! Twins Win! ⚾️🙌

Night game at Target Field with the Twins batting, packed crowd, Budweiser sign lit up in red above the outfield stands.
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First pitch at tonight’s Twins v Braves baseball game! ⚾️ Great night for a game.

Packed Target Field stadium during a Minnesota Twins home game, with a pitcher mid-throw and batter at the plate under evening skies.