Ben Rockwood

LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.

The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.

Ben Rockwood is the Director of Cloud Operations at Joyent, home of SmartOS, Smart Data Center, Node.js, the Manta Storage Service, and the Joyent IaaS Cloud. He has been a system administrator since the early 1990's and has been heavily involved in the Sun Solaris & OpenSolaris communities, as well as in the DevOps & LEAN IT movements of the last several years. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his amazing wife Tamarah and their 5 children.

Linked Presentation: 
I Am SysAdmin (And So Can You!)