From rnovak at indyramp.com Mon Oct 14 15:30:40 2013 From: rnovak at indyramp.com (Robert Novak) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 15:30:40 -0700 Subject: [Baylisa] BayLISA in San Francisco this Thursday - Brendan Gregg's "Systems Performance" plus Joyent Manta Message-ID: Hi folks, Don't come to Yahoo this week for the monthly BayLISA meeting... we're on the road to San Francisco for a repeat visit to Joyent on the Embarcadero. Details/RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/BayLISA/events/131371712/ (and make sure to include your real name if you don't use a normal full name on your Meetup profile) Last year's Joyent visit was our best-attended meeting in the past three years (or more), and we look forward to straining their meeting space again. Please be sure to RSVP if you're coming, and watch for waiting list openings if the seating limit is reached. Please note that we're meeting at One Embarcadero Center, one of the big buildings that gets lit up at night... and not "1 Embarcadero." More details in case you're curious before you hit meetup... o/____________________________________________________________________ o\ Joyent is happy to welcome back BayLISA for the launch of Brendan Gregg's new book, Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud. Operating system performance analysis and tuning leads to a better end-user experience and lower costs, especially for cloud computing environments that pay by the operating system instance. This book covers concepts, strategy, tools and tuning for Unix operating systems, with a focus on Linux- and Solaris-based systems. The book covers the latest tools and techniques, including static and dynamic tracing, to get the most out of your systems. Brendan will give an overview of the book, the problems and audiences it addresses, and share insights into the research and practice behind the methodologies and tools it covers. We'll also talk about Joyent's latest service offering, Manta, which combines a distributed object storage service with a massively parallel compute engine, right on the object server. Joyent Manta Storage Service is a highly scalable, distributed object storage service with integrated compute. Developers can store and process any amount of data at any time where simple web API call replaces the need for spinning up instances. Joyent Manta operates directly on objects with virtually zero data latency. Space will be limited, so please RSVP... and put your real name in so security will let you in. o/____________________________________________________________________ o\ We'll be back in Sunnyvale for the November 21 meeting, featuring Jason Cook of Fastly along with the annual BayLISA membership drive and board elections. Four of our six seats are up for re-election this year. If you're interested in getting involved with the board, feel free to contact me directly for any questions or answers you may have. Board membership is a great way to get involved with one of the oldest sysadmin organizations in the world, help shape the future of our group, and build the Bay Area sysadmin community. It takes an average of 1-2 hours a week (including meetings) to be a productive board member, and the more productive board members we have, the better the organization is for everyone. Thanks, Robert Novak BayLISA President From rnovak at indyramp.com Thu Oct 24 14:28:20 2013 From: rnovak at indyramp.com (Robert Novak) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:28:20 -0700 Subject: [Baylisa] Joyent Followup, also Nov 17 Board Elections and Jason Cook of Fastly Message-ID: Hi folks, tl;dr: Brendan Gregg's new book "Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud" plus video and slides from October meeting. November is Jason Cook of Fastly and BayLISA Board Elections/Membership Drive ------- Thanks to all of you who braved the risk of the BART strike to join us at BayLISA's October meeting in San Francisco, hosted and presented by Joyent. And thanks again as always to Joyent for their support of BayLISA. Video and slides of Brendan Gregg's introduction of his new book Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud are available. Deirdre and the Joyent team are working on Bryan Cantrill's presentation, and will post a link on the Meetup page when it is available. Brendan's Video: http://www.joyent.com/blog/systems-performance-enterprise-and-the-cloud Brendan's Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/brendangregg/systems-performance-enterprise-and-the-cloud(also linked from Video page) The book "Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud" is available (or will be soon) at Amazon (http://on.rsts11.com/1iggWZv ) - Kindle now, print very soon Safari Books Online (http://on.rsts11.com/1igh771) - included in your subscription (if you have one) Pearson InformIT (http://on.rsts11.com/1igpgIs) - 35% off print or multi-format ebook with code GREGG0094 ------- Next month: We have Jason Cook of Fastly lined up for the November 21 meeting. More details on his topic and talk coming soon to http://www.meetup.com/BayLISA/events/131371942/ - please RSVP there to help us plan. Also next month: November 21 will be our annual BayLISA Membership Drive and Board of Directors elections. Four seats are up for election this year, for two year terms. Anyone can run for the board, paying member or not, and will receive free membership for the duration of their term. Any paying member of BayLISA is eligible to vote for the board members, including members who sign up/renew at the November board meeting (arrive early if you want to do this). Annual membership is $45, $15 with a current student ID (sorry, school of hard knocks doesn't count). Corporate sponsoring memberships are available as well. More details at www.baylisa.org under "Join" on the left. Directors are critical to the operation of BayLISA, and by committing to an hour or two a week (on average) you can help BayLISA grow and benefit even more in the Bay Area system administration community. We've had a couple of rough years with missing-in-action board members, and are looking for a few people to either volunteer to help, or run for the board, to help even out the support workload and get us rolling smoother. As always, if you have any questions or comments or suggestions, feel free to reply directly to me with your feedback. Robert Novak BayLISA President