Linuxing In London, August 2016

Another hot month of Linuxing at Skills Matter!

Summer and Linux? What a fabulous combination!

Enthralled by Raspberry Pi? Mesmerised by Linux? Or just inquisitive?

Each month Linuxing in London has stimulating presentations from Linux vendors, experts and specialists

We are changing the format slightly, with a lightning talk then two main speakers.

In August, Ian Massingham will talk about Raspberry Pi's as IoT devices, then we are lucky to have Viktor Petersson talking Linux based Raspberry Pis in production. Our third speaker is Péter Czanik.
Agenda:

18:15 Doors open.

18:20 Introduction by Brian Byrne. The evening's MC is David Ross.

18:30 Lightning talk: Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi as an IoT Device, speaker: Ian Massingham.

18:45 Questions and answers.

18:50 Lessons learned from Screenly (and deploying thousands of Linux based Raspberry Pis in production), speaker: Viktor Petersson.

19:15 Questions and answers.

19:25 Quick break.

19:30 Scaling your logging infrastructure using syslog-ng, speaker: Péter Czanik.

19:55 Questions and answers.

20:00 Raffle and prizes.

20:05 Community slot.

20:10-20:45 Networking.

We are still finalising some details and these pages will be updated accordingly.

Please join and register at Skills Matter, (https://skillsmatter.com/meetups/8126-linuxing-in-london) as we shall be using their registration system.

Please ensure you read Skills Matter's Code of Conduct. (https://skillsmatter.com/go/code-of-conduct)

NB: A Meetup RSVP does not guarantee entry, you must register with Skills Matter. (https://skillsmatter.com/meetups/8126-linuxing-in-london)

Thanks to Skills Matter for hosting and the light refreshments.

Abstracts and biographical details:

1 - Ian Massingham is a Technical Evangelist at Amazon Web Services and has been working with cloud computing technologies since 2008.

In his role he works to increase the awareness of AWS cloud services and works with customers of all sizes, from start-ups to large enterprises, to help them benefit from the adoption of AWS.

He has a special interest in the development of Connected Device and IoT applications, and in architecture patterns for the deployment of large scale gaming platforms in the Cloud. Ian has almost 20 years’ experience in the IT industry, covering operations and engineering within hosting, telecommunications and cloud service providers.

Prior to joining AWS, he led a systems engineering team for an integrated software and hardware company that focused on the creation of cloud computing services with telecommunications and other IT service providers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

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Ian on Twitter. https://twitter.com/IanMmmm
Ian on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/imassingham
Amazon Web Services https://aws.amazon.com/

2 - Viktor Petersson

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While still in college Viktor Petersson co-founded the software company WireLoad Inc which grew into a thriving business. In 2013, Viktor took a break from WireLoad and joined CloudSigma to head partnerships and business development. In early 2015, Viktor rejoined WireLoad as the CEO to support the company’s latest product, Screenly. Today, Screenly is the most popular digital signage solution for the Raspberry Pi powering thousands of screens around the world.

Viktor's site: http://vpetersson.com/
Viktor on Twitter https://twitter.com/vpetersson
Viktor on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/vpetersson

3 - Péter Czanik

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Abstract for the Scaling your logging infrastructure using syslog-ng presentation by Péter Czanik.

"Event logging is important not only for IT security and operations, but also for business decisions. The syslog-ng application is an enhanced logging daemon, with a focus on central log collection. It collects logs from many different sources, processes and filters them and finally it stores them or routes them for further analysis.

From this session you will learn (using examples from syslog-ng) why and how to parse important information from incoming messages, and how to route logs, feeding downstream systems using arbitrary formats. We will also discuss how the client – relay – server architecture can solve scalability problems. Also, I will present some of the recently introduced “Big Data” destinations of syslog-ng, which can help to scale your infrastructure even further."

"Peter Czanik is a system engineer working as community manager at BalaBit, the company behind the syslog-ng logging daemon.

He helps distributions to maintain the syslog-ng package, follows bug trackers,helps syslog-ng users, and talks regularly at conferences (SCALE, FOSDEM, Libre Software Meeting, LOADays, etc.). In his limited free time he is interested in non-x86 architectures, and works on one of his PPC or ARM machines."

LinkedIn: https://hu.linkedin.com/in/peterczanik
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PCzanik

Please ensure you read Skills Matter's Code of Conduct. (https://skillsmatter.com/go/code-of-conduct)

**NB: A Meetup RSVP does not guarantee entry, you must register with Skills Matter. (https://skillsmatter.com/meetups/8126-linuxing-in-london)