TOPIC ABSTRACT
"Fuzzy Monkey" Methodology

One of the keys to good software is good testing. There are well-known testing suites for back end code – things like junit and py.test. There are also good front-end testing tools – things like Selenium. But for testing distributed systems there aren’t so many well-known tools – because the problem is quite different, and harder. In this talk, Alan will cover the “Fuzzy Monkey” methodology used for testing three different successful distributed systems (including the Assimilation Suite) – its history and how and why it works.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Alan Robertson 

Alan Robertson is a long-time IT professional, having managed computer systems for over a decade, and written innovative system management software for more than 20 years.
He wrote his first computer program a very long time ago, and was blessed to have participated in a number of really interesting and groundbreaking projects in his long career – having worked at Bell Labs, SuSE and IBM for much of that time.

He founded the open source Linux-HA project (sometimes called Heartbeat, now called Pacemaker) and led it for nearly 10 years. It has been incorporated into a number of commercial products, and is estimated to be used in over 100,000 systems over the world including by some of the largest companies in the world, and in critical roles like air traffic control and medical devices.
He is also a frequently requested and fun speaker on availability, monitoring, discovery, scalability, and raising Geek Girls – having spoken at over 35 conferences all over the world, and been a keynote speaker at several conferences. He connects exceptionally well with his audiences. People even ask him back (gasp!)

TOPIC ABSTRACT
Zimbra

This session will demonstrate how to deploy a cloud based, multi-tenant, open source email collaboration suite using Zimbra and Chef in minutes. We will review the tools, configuration, and simplicity of getting your email solution running the Oracle Cloud with minimal effort. A live demo will show tips, tricks and techniques including sample orchestrations, recipes and templates.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Mark Nichols

Mark Nichols is a Sr. Solutions Advisor for the Zimbra Product of Synacor. For the last 8 years, he has done implementations, migrations, architecture design, and technical sales support. Zimbra is an Open Source, extensible messaging and collaboration platform delivering email, calendar, contacts, and more. Customers include Comcast, H&R Block, the Royal Police Department of Malaysia, the Telecom Company of Macau, and many others.  He has been in the technology field since 1987 and is a graduate of Georgia Tech.

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