Radical ideas from The Practice of Cloud System Administration

Keynote Speaker: Tom Limoncelli

Abstract

Tom will highlight some of the most radical ideas from the new book "The Practice of Cloud System Administration". The book focuses on "distributed" or "cloud" computing and brings a DevOps/SRE sensibility to the practice of system administration. Some of the radical advice includes: improving uptime by using cheap unreliable hardware, why you should crashing servers at random times, and that you should make peace with outages. Info about the book can be found at the-cloud-book.com.

Biography

Tom Limoncelli’s newest book is The Practice of Cloud System Administration (the-cloud-book.com). Tom is best known for books like Time Management for System Administrators (O’Reilly) and The Practice of System and Network Administration (Addison-Wesley). He works in New York City at Stack Exchange, home of ServerFault.com and StackOverflow.com. He tweets @YesThatTom and blogs at http://everythingsysadmin.com.