Kyle Brandt

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.

Kyle Brandt is the co-author of the Bosun monitoring system and the Director of Site Reliability at Stack Exchange (the company behind Stack Overflow and Server Fault). He will talk to you about monitoring until he starts to lose his voice. He also enjoys spending time with his wife and pets (2 cats and a dog), video games, weight lifting, and road trips on his Harley.

Linked Presentation: 
A New Age in Alerting with Bosun: The First Alerting IDE