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The curtain has lowered on another couple days of scalability lessons and "disaster porn" at this year's Surge conference. Despite my initial misgivings that the registration fees were too high, the conference organizers have once again put together an experience that is quite possibly the best among all technically-oriented events.

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Kicking off this year's Surge conference was a pair of BoF sessions. The #monitoringsucks one was packed, to the extent that a number of us had to steal chairs from the Chef BoF across the hall. I remembered to write down some of the highlights from the session. Note that I'm not quoting anyone directly and am summarizing each speaker to the best of my recollection. If you were at the event and remember things differently, please notify me in the comments section below.

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