Conference Themes

In addition to the wide variety of topics covered in the LISA ’13 program, the program committee has created six specific conference themes for those looking to focus on a key subject area. You can combine days of training or workshops with content from the technical sessions to build the conference that meets your needs. Pick and choose the sessions that best fit your interest—focus on just one topic or mix and match themes.

Training T1 Updated! Ganeti: Your Private Virtualization Cloud "the Way Google Does It"
Guido Trotter, Google, Helga Velroyen, Google

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Training W1 Linux Performance Tuning
Theodore Ts'o, Google

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Training R1 The Python Programming Language
Dave Beazley, Dabeaz LLC

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Training M1 Updated! Using and Migrating to IPv6
Shumon Huque, University of Pennsylvania

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Training F1 New! Introduction to Puppet Enterprise
James Sweeny, Puppet Labs

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Training S1 Securing Linux Servers
Rik Farrow, Security Consultant

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Training T2 The First Hundred Days
Geoff Halprin, The SysAdmin Group

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Training W2 Updated! Root Cause Analysis—Beginner
Stuart Kendrick, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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Training R2 New! Root Cause Analysis—Intermediate
Stuart Kendrick, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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Training F2 New! Hands-on Introduction to Common Hacking Tools
David Rhoades, Maven Security Consulting Inc., Steve Pinkham, Maven Security Consulting Inc.

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Training S2 New! SRE Classroom: Non-Abstract Large System Design for Sysadmins
John Looney, Google

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Training M2 New! Hands-on Security for System Administrators
Branson Matheson, SGT

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Training R3 Seven Habits of the Highly Effective System Administrator: Hints, Tricks, Techniques, and Tools of the Trade
Lee Damon, University of Washington, Mike Ciavarella, Coffee Bean Software Pty Ltd

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Training F3 New! Combined MGMT-101/MGMT-201: Effective Communication and Team Leadership for Sysadmins
Geoff Halprin, The SysAdmin Group

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Training M3 Core Skills: Scripting for Automation
Mike Ciavarella, Coffee Bean Software Pty Ltd

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Training S3 Updated! PowerShell Fundamentals
Steven Murawski, Stack Exchange

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Training T3 Next-Generation Storage Networking: Beyond Conventional SAN and NAS
Jacob Farmer, Cambridge Computer Services

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Training W3 New! Introduction to Chef
Nathen Harvey, Opscode

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Training M4 Building a Big IaaS Cloud: Building a Massively Scalable, Geographically Disparate, IaaS Cloud Using Apache CloudStack
David Nalley, Apache CloudStack

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Training T4 Recovering from Linux Hard Drive Disasters
Theodore Ts'o, Google

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Training S5 New! DNSSEC: DNS Security Extensions
Shumon Huque, University of Pennsylvania

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Training T5 Advanced Time Management: Team Efficiency
Thomas A. Limoncelli, Stack Exchange

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Training M5 Updated! How to Interview a System Administrator
Adam Moskowitz

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Training T6 New! Continuous Integration with Jenkins
Joshua Jensen, Sirius Computer Solutions

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Training M6 New! Navigating the Business World for Sysadmins: The Trusted Adviser
Nicole Forsgren Velasquez, Utah State University, Carolyn Rowland, NIST

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Training M7 Advanced Shell Programming
Mike Ciavarella, Coffee Bean Software Pty Ltd

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Training S7 New! Building Your PowerShell Toolkit
Steven Murawski, Stack Exchange

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Training M8 Networking in the Cloud Age
David Nalley, Apache CloudStack, Chiradeep Vittal, Citrix Systems

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Training S8 New! File Systems: Top to Bottom and Back
Richard Elling, Nexenta Systems

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Training M9 New! Getting to Senior: Sysadmin Level IV and Beyond
Adam Moskowitz

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Training S9 New! A New Model: Advancing Organizational Security Through Peacebuilding
Michele Chubirka, Packetpushers, Joe Weston, Consultant and founder of Respectful Confrontation method

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Training S10 New! Build a Sysadmin Sandbox
David N. Blank-Edelman, Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science

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Training M10 New! Navigating the Business World for Sysadmins: Methods
Nicole Forsgren Velasquez, Utah State University, Carolyn Rowland, NIST

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Training T10 New! Evil Genius 101
Thomas A. Limoncelli, Stack Exchange

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Training T11 High-Availability Linux Clustering
Joshua Jensen, Sirius Computer Solutions

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Papers Back to the Future: Fault-tolerant Live Update with Time-traveling State Transfer

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Papers Live Upgrading Thousands of Servers from an Ancient Red Hat Distribution to 10 Year Newer Debian Based One

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Papers Challenges to Error Diagnosis in Hadoop Ecosystems

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Panels Women in Advanced Computing (WiAC)

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Invited Talks Effective Configuration Management

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Invited Talks Storage Performance Testing in the Cloud

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Invited Talks A Guide to SDN: Building DevOps for Networks

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Invited Talks Manta Storage System Internals

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Invited Talks Managing Access Using SSH Keys

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Invited Talks A Working Theory-of-Monitoring

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Invited Talks Drifting into Fragility

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Invited Talks ZFS for Everyone

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Invited Talks Scaling User Security: Lessons Learned from Shipping Security Features at Etsy

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Invited Talks How Netflix Embraces Failure to Improve Resilience and Maximize Availability

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Invited Talks What We Learned at Spotify, Navigating the Clouds

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Invited Talks Enterprise Architecture Beyond the Perimeter

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Invited Talks Optimizing VM Images for OpenStack with KVM/QEMU Fall 2013

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Invited Talks Cluster Management at Google

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Invited Talks Leveraging In-Memory Key Value Stores for Large-Scale Operations

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Invited Talks User Space

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Invited Talks Observing and Understanding Behavior in Complex Systems

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Invited Talks Hacking your Mind and Emotions

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Invited Talks Managing Macs at Google Scale

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Invited Talks Cloud/IaaS Platforms: I/O Virtualization and Scheduling

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Invited Talks Our Jobs Are Evolving: Can We Keep Up?

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Guru Sessions *aaS: Building and Maintaining the Cloud

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Guru Sessions Time Management for System Administrators

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Guru Sessions ZFS in Depth

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Workshops 2. Women in Advanced Computing (WiAC): Recognizing and Overcoming Bias—Ways to Make Your Workplace More Successful and Welcoming

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Workshops 4. Cloud

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