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Aaron Kimball
(Cloudera, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.29, 17 ratings)
Cloudera's Introduction to Hadoop provides a solid foundation for those seeking to understand large scale data
processing with MapReduce and Hadoop. This session is appropriate for attendees who are new to Hadoop and
are seeking to understand where Hadoop is appropriate and how it fits with existing systems.
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Jacob Kaplan-Moss
(Revolution Systems, LLC),
Frank Wiles
(Revolution Systems, LLC)
Average rating:
(4.29, 14 ratings)
So you've written a Django site... now what? Writing the application is just
the beginning; now you've got to put it into production! In this hands-on
workshop we'll walk through the creation of a full Django deployment
environment running on a cluster of (virtual) machines.
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Average rating:
(3.40, 5 ratings)
Following the planned sessions during the day, it's time for OSCON attendees to take the floor. BoFs are informal conversations that you and other participants plan. Visit the BoF page for more details and to sign up to lead a BoF of your own.
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In this track we explore the topic of cloud computing, its past, the future and the interaction with open source. The purpose of this track is to give the audience a sound understanding of the issues around cloud computing, to sort fact from fiction, to dispel some of the myths around cloud and to provide a common framework to understand what is happening in our industry.
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Joshua Timberman
(Opscode, Inc.),
Aaron Peterson
(Opscode)
Average rating:
(2.67, 15 ratings)
This tutorial will teach how to automate infrastructures using Chef, including real examples of application deployment and system integration of infrastructure components such as load balancers, application servers and monitoring systems.
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James Urquhart
(CNET)
Average rating:
(2.90, 10 ratings)
If cloud computing is one natural conclusion of open source business models, what kind of cloud ecosystem would best support open source as a whole? Join James Urquhart, author of the "Wisdom of Clouds" blog on the CNET blog network, as he explores the technology and business models that could drive the open source opportunities of tomorrow--and a few that won't.
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Moderated by:
Rob Lanphier
(Wikimedia Foundation)Panelists:
Todd Crowe
(Todd Crowe Web Design & Development),
Leslie Hawthorn
(Red Hat),
Stormy Peters
(GNOME Foundation),
Donald Smith
(The Eclipse Foundation)
Average rating:
(2.33, 3 ratings)
Many contributors to open source projects do so without financial motivation. It's still reasonable to believe that given the right financial incentives, development communities could achieve more. This panel will explore the different methods for motivating communities with financial incentives and other goodies, and discuss the thorny issues that arise when commerce collides with community.
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Mark Hinkle
(Citrix),
John Willis
(DTO Solutions),
Alex Honor
(ControlTier open source automation project)
Average rating:
(2.70, 20 ratings)
The proliferation of cloud computing is inevitable, hosted apps, software-as-as-service and now dynamic on-demand utility computing is becoming the norm. The session will be a “fire-side” chat style discussion of the types of challenges presented by IT management operations personnel and how they can manage cloud infrastructure using open source tools.
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Tim Bray
(Google, Inc.),
Chris DiBona
(Google, Inc.)
Average rating:
(2.67, 3 ratings)
Got questions about open source and Google? Come and talk with Chris DiBona, Tim Bray, and other Googlers during this free form hour of questions, answers, and general hanging out.
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Tarus Balog
(The OpenNMS Group, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.67, 9 ratings)
The idea of working in open source is appealing to many, but the question remains: how to make money doing it? This presentation will present some of the things learned by a person who has run a pure open source business since 2002 in the hope that it can help and inspire others.
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Kristina Chodorow
(MongoDB)
Average rating:
(3.76, 25 ratings)
MongoDB (from "humongous") is a high-performance, open source, schema-free document-oriented database.
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John Willis
(DTO Solutions),
Damon Edwards
(DTO Solutions)
Average rating:
(4.43, 14 ratings)
In an orchestra, people with differing talents, timing, responsibilities, and tools all somehow come together to make beautiful music. Is the task of achieving highly efficient and reliable web operations all that different? In this light-hearted session based on real world examples, we'll examine the culture and tooling of highly effective and well orchestrated web operations.
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Louis Danuser
(AT&T Labs, Inc.)
Average rating:
(2.86, 14 ratings)
If you find yourself in a position where you need to provide internally focused recycable IT resources and services, consider building our a private cloud using open source software. This discussion will outline the opportunities and challenges observed during our implementation at the AT&T Labs facility in Austin, TX.
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Trotter Cashion
(Mashion, LLC)
Average rating:
(3.08, 13 ratings)
Having trouble ensuring that all your machines are provisioned properly? Find your system of bash scripts difficult to maintain? Come meet Chef and see how easy automated system provisioning can be. We'll cover the benefits of using a tool like Chef, how easy it is to get started with Chef Solo, and how you can scale up to hundreds and even thousands of boxes without breaking a sweat.
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Teyo Tyree
(Puppet Labs)
Average rating:
(3.80, 10 ratings)
Efficient IT infrastructures must hold to several basic properties. Changes must be tracked. Automation must be maximized. Compliance against corporate standards must be preserved. Especially in days of limited resources, how can software help solve this problem? In this presentation, we'll show how Puppet can automate, enforce, and ensure sanity in the modern datacenter.
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Donald Smith
(The Eclipse Foundation)
Average rating:
(2.50, 2 ratings)
Many organizations falsely believe that more downloads, users and/or contributors means a healthier ecosystem. That is akin to saying that planet earth gets "healthier" with more population.
This session presents some measures every OS organization can employ to determine the health and viability of their ecosystem, rather than it's less important variable - size.
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Adam Jacob
(Opscode)
Average rating:
(4.79, 14 ratings)
An interactive talk covering just the key points from 16 different topics, Infrastructure Automation, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management tools, the NoSQL movement, effective Monitoring, building Open Source Communities for Systems Administrators, Startup tips, and more. Come get your questions answered, hear the 5 minute version of the talk you missed - you choose your own adventure.
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Theo Schlossnagle
(OmniTI/Circonus)
Average rating:
(3.57, 7 ratings)
Monitoring systems to collect metrics is systems administration 101. However, systems are more complicated, there are more metrics and correlation is a must to troubleshoot problems or plan for growth. As our problem got bigger, our tools didn't get better. Reconnoiter is a large-scale monitoring and trend analysis system designed to nip these problems in the bud.
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Trotter Cashion
(Mashion, LLC)
Average rating:
(3.58, 12 ratings)
Your QA cycle is broken and unit tests aren't enough to fix it. QA takes too long, is too error prone, and never covers as much as we need. To really do QA right, you need automated integration and acceptance testing tools like Cucumber. In this talk, we'll discuss why automated integration testing is a necessity, how you can do it, and why your coworkers and boss will thank you for it.
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