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Tools & Techniques
Location: Portland 251
Location: Portland 251
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Angelo Rajadurai
(Sun)
Average rating:
(4.33, 28 ratings)
As application complexity increases, observing it in action becomes harder. Traditional tools are not very useful when going across programing languages. DTrace is a revolutionary tool that allows you to observe applications in AMP stack and those written in languages like PHP, Ruby, Python, Java, C, C++ and much more. This session will teach you DTrace and demonstrate techniques of using it.
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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.
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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.
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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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Average rating:
(4.39, 31 ratings)
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Would you pitch a project? Launch a web site? Teach a hack? We’re going to find out when we conduct our second Ignite event at OSCON.
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Average rating:
(3.50, 18 ratings)
In the tradition of the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards from years past, we will continue with the O'Reilly Open Source Awards. This honor will be presented to individuals for dedication, innovation, leadership and outstanding contribution to open source. Join us to recognize this year’s winners.
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Average rating:
(4.27, 22 ratings)
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Would you pitch a project? Launch a web site? Teach a hack? We’re going to find out when we conduct our second Ignite event at OSCON.
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Allison Randal
(DrugDev, Inc.),
Edd Dumbill
(O'Reilly Media, Inc. )
Average rating:
(3.56, 27 ratings)
Opening remarks by the OSCON program chairs, Allison Randal and Edd Dumbill.
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Stormy Peters
(GNOME Foundation)
Average rating:
(3.60, 40 ratings)
We worried about making sure we had free and open source software to use, we worried about privacy, we worried about user rights. And then we handed the keys to our data to "free" web services. How can we ensure that our data is in the hands of web services that will respect our rights? How can free and open source software ideals be applied to web services?
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Brian Fitzpatrick
(Google, Inc.),
Ben Collins-Sussman
(Google, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.67, 30 ratings)
Are you the 'point' person for your team? Do you have sweaty palms, headaches, and a calendar full of meetings? You may have an affliction called 'manager'. This condition is treatable through analysis and therapy. We'll examine how you may have arrived at this state and how you can once again regain your self-respect and that of your peers. Hear real-life stories of both good and bad leadership.
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Robert Treat
(OmniTI)
Average rating:
(3.73, 26 ratings)
Database scalability means different things to different people. Vertical vs. Horizontal scaling? Federating vs. Sharding? Despite the labels database scalability tends to fall into a few common patterns that anyone can apply. In this talk we'll discuss factors for applying these patterns including the life-cycle of your database, how hardware affects your choices, and tools to help you on the way
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Alasdair Allan
(Babilim Light Industries)
Average rating:
(3.40, 10 ratings)
The iPhone platform is surprisingly powerful, capable of performing fairly advanced feats of computer-vision in (near to) real-time. The talk walks attendees through the procedure of cross-compiling the OpenCV computer vision library for the iPhone Simulator and device hardware, and building a simple application to perform face recognition using the iPhone's camera.
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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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Bradley Kuhn
(Software Freedom Conservancy),
Karen Sandler
(GNOME Foundation)
Average rating:
(3.67, 12 ratings)
Developers regularly encounter issues with the legal infrastructure of software. Co-presented by a lawyer and a software developer, this presentation is a tightly packed overview on the need-to-know issues of copyrights, patents and trademarks for busy developers who wish to simply know the bare essentials, so they can get on with their work while still remaining well-informed on legal issues.
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Average rating:
(4.00, 23 ratings)
Have a drink and mingle with other OSCON participants, and see the latest products, projects, services, and gadgets from sponsors and exhibitors in the Expo Hall.
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David Recordon
(Facebook)
Average rating:
(3.53, 38 ratings)
Keynote by David Recordon, Facebook.
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Jill Tarter
(SETI Institute)
Average rating:
(3.85, 48 ratings)
For years you've been leaving your computers turned on in order to process data packets for UC Berkeley's SETI@home - that's great! Please keep it up!
Did you ever want to get more involved?
It's time to change the humanity's point of view of who we are (individually and collectively) to one that is more cosmic and inclusive.
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Rob Pike
(Google, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.02, 52 ratings)
Object-oriented programming began, back in the 1960s with Simula, as a way to describe the behavior of interacting items - objects. It was purified through languages such as Smalltalk, in which everything is an object and every operation a message send, a clear and beautiful model. But then something went very wrong.
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Sean Sullivan
(-)
Average rating:
(3.00, 35 ratings)
WebSockets is an exciting new technology that enables bidirectional communication between web applications and server-side processes. Google's Chrome browser already provides WebSockets and developers can expect to see the technology in other browsers in 2010. This presentation will cover the WebSocket protocol, JavaScript API, and server-side implementations.
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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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Tom Hughes-Croucher
(Jetpacks for Dinosaurs)
Average rating:
(4.19, 16 ratings)
While JavaScript is ubiquitous on the web it isn't really well known outside
of the browser. All of that is about to change. Node.js is a fast,
non-blocking, event driven server that is opening the door for JavaScript on
the server. For everyone who ever wanted to use JavaScript everywhere, or
wondered just how fast a server can go, this talk if for you.
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Brian Ford
(Engine Yard)
Average rating:
(4.00, 1 rating)
In the past several years, PEGs (parsing expression grammars) have renewed interest in top-down parsing. Pegarus is an implementation on Rubinius of the LPEG pattern-matching tool for Lua. Poison is an implementation of _why's Potion programming language on the Rubinius VM using Pegarus.
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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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