[Baylisa] September BayLISA meeting announcement

Wed Sep 14 13:45:58 PDT 2016

Greetings BayLISA members,

This months BayLISA looks to be a good one. This months meeting is
September 15.

Don't miss this months BayLISA meeting! Our speaker is David Blank-Edelman,
Technical Evangelist from Apcera, he also is the author of the O’Reilly
Otter book (Automating System Administration with Perl).  We are meeting at
Groupon in Palo Alto, Sep 15 @ 7:30pm.

See you at the meeting!

https://www.meetup.com/BayLISA/events/232799255/

Abstract: Marching Towards Production: A Talk in Two Acts

Act 1: How Can you Scale It if you Can’t Trust it?When you scale up an
infrastructure it is crucial that you can trust you have the right
resources in play, the right code deployed and that information can only
flow in a secure manner. When you scale the organization, trust is required
amongst all of the people responsible for coding, testing, deploying and
managing the applications that power the business.
With all of the chatter around scaling, you would think someone would have
told you the key ingredient necessary for creating and fostering the
required trust. Unfortunately it is very easy to get to the end of the
diving board, right on the edge of jumping into something like a hybrid
cloud deployment, before you realize you need to figure this out on your
own.
This talk can help. We’ll discuss some concrete ways you can engineer trust
into the system (complete with examples) you are building or operating so
that it works well for cloud-native and legacy applications. By the end,
you’ll have a good idea of the decision/enforcement points you’ll need to
consider to be able to create a system (and an organization) that can
scale.

Intermission: AMA (Ask Me Anything!)

Act 2: The Art of the Laptop Cluster. When Docker burst on the scene in
2013, one promise that excited both developers and operations people alike
was the idea that a dev would create a container on her laptop that could
then be shipped right up to production. Three years later, most people have
realized that it may not be that simple.
In a world where we are building microservices and distributed systems, how
can you ensure that the laptop you are typing at now is a step towards
production-ready software and not a distraction from it? Let’s get deep
down and dirty into the art of constructing useful clusters on our primary
development/operations control machines and the challenges we face in the
process.

Speaker Bio: David Blank-Edelman, Technical Evangelist, Apcera

David is the Technical Evangelist at Apcera. He has spent close to thirty
years in the systems administration/DevOps/SRE field in large
multi-platform environments including Brandeis University, Cambridge
Technology Group, MIT Media Laboratory and Northeastern University. He is
the author of the O’Reilly Otter book (Automating System Administration
with Perl) and is a frequent invited speaker at conferences in the field.
David is honored to serve on the USENIX Board of Directors. He prefers to
pronounce Evangelist with a hard ‘g’.

https://www.meetup.com/BayLISA/events/232799255/

*When*: Thursday, September 15, 2016 7:30 PM

*Where*: Groupon Inc
3101 Park Blvd
Palo Alto, CA