Max Bruning

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.

Max Bruning began using and programming Unix-based systems while obtaining a Master's degree at Columbia University in the late 1970's. He has spent many years doing kernel development, as well as teaching Unix courses at various companies. He has done consulting and/or training work for Bell Labs, AT&T, Motorola, Sun Microsystems, HP, Siemens-Nixdorf, and various other companies. In September 2010, he started porting Linux KVM to SmartOS for Joyent. He is currently the Training Director at Joyent.

Linked Presentation: 
Examining System Crashes and Hangs