Brian Proffitt

LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.

The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.

Brian Proffitt is a Community Liaison for the oVirt Project at Red Hat and helped launch Project Atomic in 2014. The author of 22 books on Linux, iOS, and even a brief work on Plato, Brian is an adjunct instructor at the University of Notre Dame, living in his native Indiana with his wife and three daughters.

Linked Presentation: 
Getting a Hold of the Hype: Making Containers Useful with Project Atomic