Operational Visibility, Concepts and Practice

Overview:

Operational visibility is more than simply monitoring and graphing. In this talk, we will discuss theory and execution of this key pillar of operational excellence. Additionally, she will be sharing Pythian's easily deployed, OpsViz stack, that is an open-source project. The project is Elk, and we are working out the necessary details now to get it to the community. It includes AWS, CloudFormation, OpsWorks, ElasticSearch with Kibana, Logstash, Grafana/Graphite and Sensu. This is already in production for customers.

Bio:

Laine Campbell has been working in production database infrastructures since 1999. She has led global teams of DBAs supporting infrastructures for some of the most active and well known e-commerce, online media and gaming companies in the last 16 years. Laine started PalominoDB in 2007 and spent 7 years focused on building a professional, proactive and passionate team of DBAs and Engineers for her clientele. In January of 2014, she formed Blackbird.io, a collaboration of DevOps and DBA services. With rapid growth and a huge opportunity ahead, Blackbird.io joined the Pythian family, where Laine continues to develop and lead the Open Source Database Practice.

Agenda:

6:30 - 7:00 -- Doors open/general socializing & food provided by Percona
7:00 - 7:15 -- Intro/announcements
7:15 - 8:00(ish) -- Main presentation
8:00 - 8:30 -- General discussion/Q&A/networking/etc.
8:30ish -- post-event socializing... aka beers someplace nearby

Sponsors:
Percona (http://www.percona.com/) is the oldest and largest independent MySQL support and consulting company, with a global 24×7 staff of over 40 people serving more than 1000 customers (http://www.percona.com/about-us/customers/) in 50+ countries since 2006. Our clients achieve breakthrough results with MySQL: cost savings, faster time to market, higher system uptime, and long-term scalability. With Percona, you can execute with confidence and clarity. Anyone can claim expertise, but we show our abilities by creating open-source (http://www.percona.com/software/) software for MySQL users, writing industry-leading books (http://www.percona.com/about-us/books/), and publishing original research on the widely read MySQL Performance Blog (http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/). We also organize the Percona Live (http://www.percona.com/live/) series of conferences to share what we know.

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