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Nerd Days V1 Guide

What is Nerd Days?

A FREE, developer-focused, digital conference that covers a range of topics for all skill sets. Sessions include:

• Live workshops
• Live coding and demos
• Customer examples
• Panel / Q&A

This repo provides everything you need for Nerd Days 1.0, including a catalog of prerequisites and resources for all sessions presented at Nerd Days AMER.

Use this guide to prepare for your sessions so that you can follow along.

Getting Started

Nerd Days is a full-day conference with five tracks:

• Fundamentals
• Observability
• Cloud Migration
• DevOps Journey
• Open-Source Practices

Each session may have individual prerequisites that you can find using the links in the schedule below.

IMPORTANT! All Nerd Days sessions require a New Relic account. If you don't already have one, sign up for our free tier.

Agenda

Time	Title	Track	Prerequisites
9:00AM PST	Keynote: Jemiah Sius, Lew Cirne, and Special Guest Announcements
10:00AM PST	Instrumenting your service using agents	Fundamentals	Setup
10:00AM PST	New Relic CLI Wizardry	Observabiltiy	Setup
10:00AM PST	5 Steps to Kubernetes Observability	Cloud Migration	Setup
10:00AM PST	Delivering SRE as a Service	DevOps Journey	---
10:00AM PST	Building applications on New Relic One	Open Source	Setup
11:00AM PST	Exploring your data using NRQL	Fundamentals	Setup
11:00AM PST	New Relic AI	Observabiltiy	Setup
11:00AM PST	Going Serverless: Chipping at the monolith	Cloud Migration	---
11:00AM PST	Logging for Modern Organizations	DevOps Journey	---
11:00AM PST	Power up your Prometheus metrics with the Telemetry Data Platform	Open Source	Setup
12:00PM PST	Lunch with Lew
1:00PM PST	Custom Instrumentation	Fundamentals	Setup
1:00PM PST	Exploring Data with NerdGraph	Observability	---
1:00PM PST	Consolidating Your Data with New Relic’s Telemetry Data Platform	Observablity	---
1:00PM PST	Testing in Production	DevOps Journey	---
1:00PM PST	How Open Source powers the New Relic One Catalog	Open Source	---
2:00PM PST	Alerts Best Practices	Fundamentals	Setup
2:00PM PST	The Art & Science of Deciphering Perceived Performance	Observability	---
2:00PM PST	Monitoring your Cloud Usage and Spend	Cloud Migration	---
2:00PM PST	Measuring code pipelines	DevOps Journey	Setup
2:00PM PST	Reducing toil with Terraform	Open Source	Setup
3:00PM PST	True availability using Synthetics	Fundamentals	Setup
3:00PM PST	How Observability-Driven Development accelerates DevOps transformations	Observabiltiy	Setup
3:00PM PST	AWS Modernization	Cloud Migration	Setup
3:00PM PST	Writing Reliably Bad Software, AKA 'How to get paid to write memory leaks'	DevOps Journey	---
3:00PM PST	NerdStorageVault: ThirdParty Secrets	Open Source	---

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Free Tier Overview

With your new account, you get:

Perpetually free access
100 GB/month of free data ingest. 1 free full access user. Unlimited free basic users.

One data platform for all metrics, logs, events, and traces
Petabyte scale. Millisecond speed. Pennies per gigabyte (beyond free tier).

Easy visualization, analysis, and troubleshooting of your entire stack
APM, Infrastructure Monitoring, Digital Experience Monitoring, Applied Intelligence, and more.

IMPORTANT! All Nerd Days sessions require a New Relic account. If you don't already have one, sign up for our free tier.