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1:30pm Monday, 07/19/2010
Database Server Health Check
Databases
 Location: Portland 252
Tags: database, postgresql, performance, tuneup
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Josh Berkus (PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.)
Average rating: ***..
(3.75, 8 ratings)
Have you given your database server a checkup lately? If not, you probably should. "Sick" database servers are easy to prevent if you take a few simple steps <i>before</i> your server comes down with something. Read more.
8:30am Tuesday, 07/20/2010
Using Puppet - A Beginner's Tutorial
Operations
 Location: D136
Tags: operations, tutorial, puppet, configuration_management
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
James Turnbull (Puppet Labs), Jeff McCune (Puppet Labs)
Average rating: ***..
(3.91, 11 ratings)
Puppet is a powerful configuration management tool that makes life easier for people managing systems and applications. This tutorial gives you an in-depth and hands-on introduction to Puppet that is ideal for beginners to Puppet and configuration management. Read more.
1:30pm Tuesday, 07/20/2010
Hands-on Cassandra
Databases
 Location: Portland 256
Tags: distributed, nosql, cassandra, databases, tutorial
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Eric Evans (Rackspace)
Average rating: ***..
(3.08, 25 ratings)
Moore's Law has run its course, yet despite the growing demands placed on databases, traditional solutions offer little alternative to vertical scaling. Come learn step-by-step how to use Apache Cassandra to turn a cluster of inexpensive commodity servers in to a massively scalable distributed datastore. Read more.
11:30am Thursday, 07/22/2010
Scaling your Open-Source Project Infrastructure on a Shoestring
Operations
 Location: D135
Tags: scalability
Justin Erenkrantz (The Apache Software Foundation), Lance Albertson (Oregon State University Open Source Lab), John Hawley (Linux Foundation / Kernel.org)
Average rating: *....
(1.73, 11 ratings)
Behind the scenes of many successful open source projects is a team of elves who keep the critical project infrastructure (mailing lists, websites, networks, mirrors, etc.). How does Apache run Apache? How does kernel.org run Linux? Learn some of their secrets in this session as the folks behind the curtain come out and share their experiences with the OSCON community. Read more.
  • Intel
  • Microsoft
  • Google
  • Facebook
  • Rackspace Hosting
  • (mt) Media Temple, Inc.
  • ActiveState
  • CommonPlaces
  • DB Relay
  • FireHost
  • GoDaddy
  • HP
  • HTSQL by Prometheus Research
  • Impetus Technologies Inc.
  • Infobright, Inc
  • JasperSoft
  • Kaltura
  • Marvell
  • Mashery
  • NorthScale, Inc.
  • Open Invention Network
  • OpSource
  • Oracle
  • Parallels
  • PayPal
  • Percona
  • Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
  • Rhomobile
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • SourceGear
  • Symbian
  • VoltDB
  • WSO2
  • Linux Pro Magazine

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