Doug Hughes

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.

Doug Hughes graduated from Penn State University with a BE in Computer Engineering in 1991. He has worked for GE Aerospace at the network operations center, worked six years at Auburn University College of Engineering managing the infrastructure for the college of engineering, and spent six years at Global Crossing supporting the global IP infrastructure. Currently he works at D. E. Shaw Research, LLC where he leads a multi-national team of seven System Administrators covering all aspects of data, networking, and clustering infrastructure.

Linked Presentation: 
Solving Problems and Identifying Bottlenecks with strace and truss