NYC CFEngine Meetup at the Velocity Conference

Mark Burgess, CFEngine (http://cfengine.com/)

With Mark Burgess, originator of CFEngine software, as moderator and presentations by Laurent Raufaste, of NY technology company Percolate and Mike Svoboda of LinkedIn, Inc.

Laurent Raufaste, Percolate (http://percolate.com/)

At Percolate, Laurent Raufaste has built IT infrastructure that runs on Amazon Web Services and uses EC2 Spot Instances extensively. While very cost effective, this strategy requires him to be tolerant to frequent interruptions of server availability, and be able to provision infrastructure and applications very fast. Laurent will show how he makes this work at Percolate.

Mike Svoboda, LinkedIn (http://linkedin.com/)

LinkedIn is currently the 10th largest website in the US by traffic. Mike Svoboda's operations team relies on automation to tie major parts of infrastructure together, which has allowed LinkedIn the flexibility to scale horizontally indefinitely. Mike will present how they deploy their infrastructure and how they maintain real-time inventory information from tens or hundreds of thousands of machines.