Release Engineering & Package Management

Phil Hollenback: In-Flight Mechanics

Phil Hollenback will be reprising his Practice And Experience Report from LISA '11, In-Flight Mechanics: A Software Package Management Conversion Project. Phil works for Yahoo! and is also actively helping the sysadmin community by participating in the 10k Serverfault Challenge (http://thenubbyadmin.com/2011/01/04/a-call-to-all-community-minded-sysadmins-join-the-serverdault-10000-point-challenge/) for which he's passed the halfway mark.

Jordan Sissel: fpm
(Effing Package Management)

Jordan Sissel will be talking about why you should build your own packages, and presenting his software for doing so, fpm (https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm#readme). Jordan is a hacker in San Jose who spends weekdays coding on his front porch for Loggly. Spare coding cycles are spent varied open source projects. (We will also be welcoming Jordan back in June for a live demo of his Logstash (http://code.google.com/p/logstash/) software)

Administrivia

The meeting will be held at LinkedIn HQ this month, but we will be meeting at the usual building--ignore earlier "new address" notifications.

For directions, point your map tool at:
2029 Stierlin Ct.
Mountain View, CA 94043

Please RSVP on meetup so we can plan for the crowds (and refreshments). Feel free to show up even if you don't RSVP though.

BayLISA includes system and network administrators across a range of skill levels. BayLISA meets to discuss topics of interest to system administrators and managers. The meetings are free and open to the public.

Recent topics have included OpenStack Nova, ISC's BIND 10, new developments in LAN/top-of-rack networking, and cloud computing at Netflix.

We always welcome presentation topics and volunteer speakers. Use the "Contact us" link on this page to get in touch with BayLISA's directors.