Topic: Systems Engineering

LISA14: Syseng

Training

Sunday, November 09, 2014 - 9:00 am-5:00 pm
S1
SRE Classroom: Practical Large Scale Design

Chris Jones, Google, Inc.

Sunday, November 09, 2014 - 9:00 am-5:00 pm
S4
Tactical Capacity Planning for Sysadmins

Dr. Neil J. Gunther, Performance Dynamics Company

Sunday, November 09, 2014 - 1:30 pm-5:00 pm
S7
Introduction to Ceph

Jean-Charles Lopez, Inktank

Monday, November 10, 2014 - 9:00 am-5:00 pm
M1
Linux Performance Tuning

Theodore Ts'o, Google

Monday, November 10, 2014 - 1:30 pm-5:00 pm
M6
Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Other Data

John Sellens, SYONEX

Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 9:00 am-12:30 pm
T3
SDN Essentials I

Saurav Das, SDN Academy, Aseem Parikh, SDN Academy

Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 1:30 pm-5:00 pm
T6
SDN Essentials II

Saurav Das, SDN Academy, Aseem Parikh, SDN Academy

Invited Talks

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 11:00 am-11:45 am
The Stack Exchange Infrastructure: How We Scale Our Windows Based Stack at the World's 50th Largest Website Network

George Beech, Stack Exchange, Inc.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 11:45 am-12:30 pm
Radical Ideas from the Practice of Cloud Computing

Thomas A. Limoncelli, Stack Exchange, Inc.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 4:00 pm-4:45 pm
Finding a Good Home: Choosing the Right Data Store

Jeff Darcy, Red Hat

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 4:45 pm-5:30 pm
Five Pitfalls for Benchmarking Big Data Systems

Yanpei Chen and Gwen Shapira, Cloudera, Inc.

Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 11:00 am-11:45 am
Hardware Design for Cloud Scale Datacenters

Kushagra Vaid, Microsoft

Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 2:00 pm-2:45 pm
You Have Too Much Data

Hal Stern, Merck & Co

Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 2:45 pm-3:30 pm
Data Storage at Librato

David Josephsen, librato.com

Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 2:45 pm-3:30 pm
PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)

Jeffrey P. Snover, Microsoft

Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 4:00 pm-4:45 pm
Managing Large Scale Cloud Infrastructure at Rackspace

Jesse Keating, Rackspace

Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 4:45 pm-5:30 pm
Building a "Multi-Landlord" Public Cloud

Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University

Friday, November 14, 2014 - 9:00 am-9:45 am
Software is Eating the Network: SDN and Devops

John Willis, Stateless Networks

Friday, November 14, 2014 - 9:00 am-9:45 am
Introducing PMR, a Tool Using procfs, systemd, and cgroups to Perform Minimum-Impact daemon and Library Updates

David Strauss, Pantheon

Friday, November 14, 2014 - 9:45 am-10:30 am
Simplified Remote Management of Linux Servers

Russell Doty, Red Hat

Friday, November 14, 2014 - 11:00 am-11:45 am
Taming Operations in the Apache Hadoop Ecosystem

Kathleen Ting and Jonathan Hsieh, Cloudera, Inc.

Friday, November 14, 2014 - 11:45 am-12:30 pm
Getting a Hold of the Hype: Making Containers Useful with Project Atomic

Brian Proffitt, Red Hat

Friday, November 14, 2014 - 2:00 pm-2:45 pm
Testing Storage Systems: Methodology and Common Pitfalls

John Constable, Welcome Trust Sanger Institute

Friday, November 14, 2014 - 2:45 pm-3:30 pm
Why Test Driven Development Works for SysAdmins

Garrett Honeycutt, LearnPuppet.com

Keynote

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 9:00 am-10:30 am
Open Compute Project and the Changing Data Center

Ken Patchett, Facebook

Grand Ballroom ABC

Mini-Tutorials

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 11:00 am-12:30 pm
Examining System Crashes and Hangs

Max Bruning, Joyent

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 2:00 pm-3:30 pm
Solving Problems and Identifying Bottlenecks with strace and truss

Doug Hughes, D. E. Shaw Research, LLC

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 4:00 pm-5:30 pm
Advanced Configuration Management with CFEngine 3.6 and the Design Center

Ted Zlatanov, CFEngine

Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 11:00 am-12:30 pm
Networking in the Cloud Age

David Nalley, Apache CloudStack

Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 11:00 am-12:30 pm
Building PowerShell Commands

Steven Murawski, Chef

Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 2:00 pm-3:30 pm
Puppet for the Enterprise

Thomas Uphill, Costco Wholesale

Friday, November 14, 2014 - 9:00 am-10:30 am
Live Upgrades on Running Systems: 8 Ways to Upgrade a Running Service With Zero Downtime

Thomas A. Limoncelli, Stack Exchange, Inc.

Friday, November 14, 2014 - 2:00 pm-3:30 pm
Reliable Replicated File Systems with GlusterFS

John Sellens, SYONEX

Workshops

Sunday, November 09, 2014 - 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Workshop 1: Configuration Management

Ballard Room

Cory Lueninghoener, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Paul Krizak, Qualcomm, Inc.

Monday, November 10, 2014 - 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Workshop 6: HPC Compute Cluster Workshop

Ballard Room

Clay England, Oak Ridge National Laboratory