Dieter Plaetinck

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.

Dieter Plaetinck is a Belgian engineer living in NYC. Realizing existing metrics solutions didn't cut it while working on complicated backends and infrastructure at Vimeo, he set out to make the experience smoother via projects like the Graph-Explorer metrics dashboard and statsdaemon, a metrics aggregator. He also works on a bunch of other open source projects like anthracite, an event logging app, and uzbl, a minimalist web browser for control freaks. He maintains the metrics 2.0 spec (metrics20.org) and runs a website dedicated to proper use of standardized units and prefixes. He tweets and blogs (sometimes).

Connect: 
@Dieter_be
Linked Presentation: 
Rethinking Metrics: Metrics 2.0