Stuart Kendrick

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.

Stuart Kendrick works as a Sustaining Engineer for EMC Isilon. He has worked in software development, help desk, desktop support, system administration, and network support. He spent two decades at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in a multi-disciplinary role covering transport, network management, root cause analysis, and Problem Management. He is happiest when correlating packet traces with syslog extracts, writing scripts to query device MIBs, and facilitating hands-on classes at LISA, Cascadia, and Sharkfest.

Linked Presentation: 
Myth-Busting: The Network Layer