Cloud Administration

Tom Limoncelli (http://everythingsysadmin.com/) (@yesthattom (https://twitter.com/yesthattom)) has escaped the cold of the east coast and will be sharing some of the most radical ideas from his new book, The Practice of Cloud Administration (http://the-cloud-book.com/).

Tom's new book focuses on “distributed” or “cloud” computing and brings a DevOps/SRE sensibility to the practice of system administration. Unsatisfied with
books that cover either design or operations in isolation, the authors created this new reference centered around a comprehensive approach. Some of the radical advice includes: improving uptime by using cheap unreliable hardware, why you should crashing servers at random times, and that you should make peace with outages.

Tom Limoncelli is an internationally recognized author, speaker and system administrator. He's best know for books like Time Management for System Administrators (O’Reilly) and The Practice of System and Network Administration (Addison-Wesley). He works in New York City at Stack Exchange, home of ServerFault.com and StackOverflow.com. He previously worked at Google and AT&T/Bell Labs. He tweets @YesThatTom and blogs at http://everythingsysadmin.com .

This is sure to be a great talk, so come enjoy some pizza and beer and meet up with production engineers from around the Bay Area.