Once again, I’m sat at Schipol Airport typing up my thoughts about a few days of refreshing Dutch DevOps Goodness! Ok, I admit one or five alcoholic beverages might have been involved too. This was my first DevOpsDays and it did not disappoint. My day started at 3am to catch a flight at 6am but because I was still awake at 1:30 and had decided sleep is for wimps, I arrived a little bit wired.

As I am sitting on the 16th floor of the Okura Hotel in Amsterdam in my Batman pyjamas and facing a large mirror, just glimpsing the paper crane that was so lovingly put on my pillow, I’m starting to reflect what has happened during the day. I was lucky enough to be a guest at the DevOps Enterprise Summit. There was certainly plenty of things to get excited about. I’d meet Gene Kim, who’s been running this conference for 10 years and who wrote the Phoenix Project.

FADE IN: INT. ABANDONED BUILDING - DAY Opay and Bart are sitting in a dimly lit room, surrounded by stacks of old newspapers and books. OPAY: (sighing) It's not their fault. They don't understand the meaning behind the words. BART: (confused) What do you mean? OPAY: (explaining) The machines were programmed to generate content based on keywords and patterns, not on the actual meaning of the words. BART: (realizing) So they just keep churning out more and more content, without any understanding of what it means.