[ale] [ANNC] ALE CENTRAL MTG. for Thursday, Nov. 17th, 2011

[James Sumners]

Is this going to be filmed and made available later? I'd like to hear
it, but making it downtown is tough.

Also, did the SSH presentation ever get posted?

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 02:51, Aaron Ruscetta <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:
> The feature presentation for our ALE Central Meeting at
> 7:30pm on Thursday, Nov. 17th, 2011 will be:
>
> A Pioneering Introduction to Puppet
> with Matt Urbanski
>
> Synopsis:
> -- Puppet is a configuration management tool written in ruby that
> allows a sysadmin to wield their influence and expertise over far
> more machines than one could without it.  It uses a simple but
> powerful DSL which I would like to introduce to everyone who is
> not familiar with it, and open a dialogue about how our role as
> admins is changing with the scalability problems we are faced with.
>
> Bio:
> – Matt Urbanski is a functional programmer turned sysadmin. His last
> awesome job was in high frequency trading, administrating a super
> low latency MAN and optimizing trading algorithms. He also worked for
> an advertising firm in Europe administrating hundreds of cloud based
> apache instances for serving ads where they were needed, when they
> were paid for, using puppet.
> - Matt is currently working for a medtech/bioinformatics firm, selling
> data to oncologists and the pharma industry.  He is also involved in
> a new professional group focusing on agile system administration
> tools and techniques: <http ://smartopsatlanta.org>

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James Sumners
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pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

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