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Issues and Trends in Reliably Sanitizing Solid State Disks

Issues and Trends in Reliably Sanitizing Solid State Disks

Michael Wei, University of California, San Diego

The Operational Impact of Continuous Deployment

The Operational Impact of Continuous Deployment

Avleen Vig, Etsy, Inc.

Continuous deployment has significant advantages for getting code changes into production with short turnaround times. We will go over the requirements of an operations group to support a continuous deployment environment. The impact of monitoring, escalations, capacity planning, and tools on the culture and workflow of operations teams will be discussed as we enter "The Continuous Deployment Zone."

GameDay: Creating Resiliency Through Destruction

GameDay: Creating Resiliency Through Destruction

Jesse Robbins, Opscode, LLC

What Is Watson?

What Is Watson?

Michael P. Perrone, Manager, Multicore Computing, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

The Guru is In...and You!

One of the options during each of the technical sessions is called "The Guru Is In." These are informal sessions with an expert in a particular topic relevant to sysadmins. Guru sessions are a great opportunity to discuss ongoing issues that you're actually experiencing. The best part is that there's not just one guru -- the other attendees are gurus as well. Those who attend to ask questions often find themselves answering the questions of others.

DevOps: The past and future are here. It's just not evenly distributed (yet).

Kris Buytaert finished the day Wednesday on the DevOps track with his presentation: "Devops, the future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet." (slides). It was a great day with several awesome presentations on various DevOps related topics.

Friday security sessions

Two of the Friday sessions I attended were focused on the security. The first was a guru session on SELinux led by Dan Walsh, Red Hat's lead SELinux developer. SELinux is a labeling and enforcement engine developed by the NSA and released to the public. It has developed a reputation among many sysadmins for being a hassle and is often turned off quickly.

Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos

Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos

Bryan M. Cantrill, Joyent

Deployinator: Being Stupid to Be Smart

"Deployinator: Being Stupid to Be Smart", by Erik Kastner and John Goulah, Etsy, Inc.

**Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the USENIX Association.**

NewSQL vs. NoSQL for New OLTP

"NewSQL vs. NoSQL for New OLTP", by Michael Stonebraker, MIT

** Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the USENIX Association. **

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