Crunch Tools

05/06/2010

Introduction to DevOps

I will be giving an introduction to DevOps[1] and the DevOps Toolchain[2] at the Akron Linux Users Group (ALUG)[3], held at the New Era Restaurant at 10 Massillon Rd. Akron Ohio (See map below) Often development and operations seem to have competing goals. Development is the gas, while operations is often perceived as the brakes. [...]

05/07/2010 - 05/08/2010

Lopsa PICC Conference

I got turned onto this conference a while back because I saw that Thomas A. Limoncelli was going to be there. He was the co-author of “The Practice of system and Network Administration” Also the talk by Eben M. Haber sounds extremely interesting. The Lopsa NJ group is one to keep an eye on. Key [...]

06/22/2010 - 06/24/2010

Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference

I became aware of the Velocity just after last years conference.[1] Many of the presentations were published online and I watched several of them. They were insightful, fresh, and dead on target for web operations education. I fell in love at once. Watch/read the presentations here and here. Then check out the upcoming conference. “Web [...]

07/31/2010 - 08/01/2010

PyOhio 2010 Python Regional Conference

08/09/2010 - 08/11/2010

Splunk .Conf 2010

This conference came across my Radar a couple of weeks ago and they just released the session descriptions. Afew of the sessions look pretty interesting from a sys admin perspective. AD, LDAP, and SSO in Splunk Logging at TB Scale Using Splunk to monitor Business Transactions Check out more here: Slunk .Conf 2010

09/10/2010 - 09/12/2010

Ohio Linux Fest 2010