January meetup and formal presentations

Devs, Ops!

Our first meeting of 2013 will be on Monday, January 28th, in Santa Monica at Coloft's wonderful co-working space.

Simple Patterns for Scaling Websites - Some lessons learned at Mozilla

Brandon Burton, Web Operations Engineer, Mozilla

Mozilla has learned a number of lessons and developed a playbook of simple patterns for scaling our various web applications, as we've grown from thousands to hundreds of millions of daily active users over the last few years. Brandon Burton from Mozilla's Web Operations team is going to share a few of those patterns and lessons with you today and provide insight into scaling the many pieces of a modern web application architecture and our strategies to keep pace with this growth.

Brandon is on github and twitter as @solarce

Configuration Management for the Masses: Look, Ma! No DSL!

Aleksey Tsalolikhin, verticalsysadmin.com

Aleksey, Sysadmin Trainer and Speaker, will provide an overview of very high level configuration management using CFEngine sketches.

We are seeking at least another presenter and/or lightning talk, with priority placed on folks who are looking for a warmup talk before SCaLE 11x. We'll update this announcement as we confirm speakers, titles, and abstracts.

Food provided by EdgeCast. Drinks provided by Mozilla.

Thanks!