[BBLISA] March speaker David Blank-Edelman: How can you scale ....

[Rob Taylor]

Is anyone going to record this or have any slides?
I may not be able to make it, so I was wondering if it was going to be any way to see it later.

Thanks.


rgt

Whitehead Network/System Administrator

----- On Mar 8, 2016, at 11:19 AM, rouilj rouilj at cs.umb.edu wrote:

> Hello Everybody:
> 
> I am happy to announce that our March speaker will be David Blank-Edelman
> who will be speaking on:
> 
>    How Can You Scale It If You Don'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.
> 
> David is the Technical Evangelist at Apcera. He has spent thirty years
> in the systems administration/DevOps/SRE field in large multiplatform
> 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/organizer for conferences
> in the field. David is honored to serve on the USENIX Board of
> Directors. He prefers to pronounce Evangelist with a hard 'g'.
> 
> The talk will happen on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 in MIT E-51, Room 145
> 7:00 - Announcements & Introductions
> 7:30 - Formal presentation
> 
> Look forward to seeing you on Wednesday.
> --
>                                -- rouilj
> John Rouillard
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