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# Pittsburgh Perl Workshop

**URL:** https://crunchtools.com/pittsburgh-perl-workshop/
Date: 2011-10-09
Author: fatherlinux
Post Type: post
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## Background

From the organizers:

> Originally inspired by similar workshops in Europe, The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop was established in 2006 as a low-cost technical conference for users of the Perl Programming Language. The conference emphasizes real code and immediate, pratical solutions to common issues.

This year [Duncan Hutty](http://www.allgoodbits.org/) was kind enough to me to speak at the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop in the "Ops Track". I gave a talk on how to [Design a Robust Monitoring System](http://crunchtools.com/rubust-monitoring/). Most of the material in the talk came from my experiences at [EYEMG](http://www.eyemg.com/) and [American Greetings Interactive](http://www.americangreetings.com/), which when I worked there was a whole owned subsidiary of American Greetings which ran all the web properties.

The keynote was given by [Thomas Limoncelli](http://everythingsysadmin.com/) who wrote [The Practice of System and Network Administration.](http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0201702711/tomontime-20) During his talk, I was pleased to pick up that Google had developed a similar scheme for breaking down events into three categories, Record, Action, and Critical Action. For more info, check out the [talk](http://crunchtools.com/rubust-monitoring/).

It was well worth the two beautiful hour drive and I hope to see more people at next years conference

 

## Schedule

Room Opens 6:30pm, Dinner 7-8pm, presentation 8-9pm
 

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