The CFEngine team is excited to present - CFEngine Week in New York City, October 14-18!
During that week we will be out in force in the Big Apple. Come meet us in one of the many events we are organizing or sponsoring:
Velocity Conference, Oct 14-16:
Most companies with outward-facing dynamic websites face the same challenges: pages must load quickly, infrastructure must scale efficiently, and sites and services must be reliable, without burning out the team or breaking the budget. Velocity is the best place on the planet for web ops and performance professionals to learn from peers, exchange ideas with experts, and share best practices and lessons learned.
CFEngine will demonstrate solutions to support such websites with continuous application deployment and dynamic infrastructure provisioning. And CFEngine founder and author, Mark Burgess, will be at the show to sign copies of his new book, In Search of Certainty.
We will be at booth 7, come see us there!
1-Day CFEngine Training, Oct 15.
Designed for System Administrators and Architects, this class will present an in-depth overview of how to use CFEngine to automate and manage large-scale IT infrastructure. Through a combination of theory, practical examples, and hands-on tutorial, our experienced trainer will demonstrate how CFEngine can be used for a wide range of common SysAdmin tasks.
The training will take place at the Velocity Conference.
NYC CFEngine Meetup, Oct 15.
We are thrilled to announce our first New York meetup - our own famous Mark Burgess will moderate and present two exciting speakers: Laurent Raufaste, of NY technology company Percolate and Mike Svoboda of LinkedIn, Inc.
At Percolate, Laurent Raufaste has built IT infrastructure that runs on Amazon Web Services and uses EC2 Spot Instances extensively. While very cost effective, this strategy requires him to be tolerant to frequent interruptions of server availability, and be able to provision infrastructure and applications very fast. Laurent will show how he makes this work at Percolate.
LinkedIn is currently the 10th largest website in the US by traffic. Mike Svoboda’s operations team relies on automation to tie major parts of infrastructure together, which has allowed LinkedIn the flexibility to scale horizontally indefinitely. Mike will present how they deploy their infrastructure and how they maintain real-time inventory information from tens or hundreds of thousands of machines.
We start at 7pm on Tuesday October 15. Pizza and drinks will be provided! Although the Meetup will take place at the same facility as the Velocity conference, it is open to all who are interested, not just Velocity attendees (who are of course also welcome!).
New York DevOpsDays, Oct 17-18.
The DevOpsDays events always attract the best minds from the DevOps world and this event in New York promises to be another of these inspiring events.
On Thursday October 17 Mark Burgess will present “What science tells us about information infrastructure”, a talk about what is weak about the way we currently run infrastructure, how to think in systems, how to deal with scale and complexity using real scientific methods (instead of guesswork). And finally, why “APIs will be our undoing” and why devops is crucial to the success of infrastructure in the future.
We all look forward to meeting you in New York!
