[Baylisa] September BayLISA meeting announcement

Thu Sep 15 17:18:31 PDT 2016

Watch the meeting tonight, Live!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs2YUhyfoXk

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Dan Mcqueen <danmcq at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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