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"In a world where technology changes rapidly, it's hard to find great resources for in-depth expertise. LISA has a terrific combination of people who create the technology and people who implement it effectively for their companies."

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Training Program

LISA tutorials survey the topic, then dive into the specifics of what to do and how to do it. Instructors are well-known experts in their fields, selected for their ability to teach complex subjects. Attend tutorials at LISA15 and take valuable skills back to your company or organization. New topics are woven in with old favorites to create the most comprehensive training program to date. Register now to guarantee your first choice—seating is limited.

LISA15 mini-tutorials take place Wednesday through Friday as part of the main Conference Program and offer 90-minute overviews of new and emerging technologies. These sessions are included in the registration fee for the Conference Program.

A variety of topics are being covered at LISA15. Use the icons listed below to focus on a key subject area:

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Follow the icons throughout the training sessions below. You can combine days of conference program or workshops with training sessions to build the conference that meets your needs. Pick and choose the sessions that best fit your interests—focus on just one topic or mix and match.

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USENIX provides Continuing Education Units for a small additional administrative fee. The CEU is a nationally recognized standard unit of measure for continuing education and training and is used by thousands of organizations.

Each full-day tutorial qualifies for 0.6 CEUs. You can request CEU credit by completing the CEU section on the registration form. USENIX provides a certificate for each attendee taking a tutorial for CEU credit. CEUs are not the same as college credits. Consult your employer or school to determine their applicability.

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Training materials will be provided to you on an 8GB USB drive. If you'd like to access them during your class, please remember to bring a laptop. There will not be any formally printed materials, but print-on-demand stations will be available.

 

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Sunday, November 8, 2015 

Full Day (9:00 am-5:00 pm)
S1
LISA15: SRE/SWE

Thurgood Marshall West

Salim Virji, Google
SRE Classroom

Half Day Morning (9:00 am-12:30 pm)
S2
LISA15: SRE/SWE

Thurgood Marshall North

Chris "Mac" McEniry, Sony Network Entertainment
Go for Sysadmins

Full Day (9:00 am-5:00 pm)
S3
LISA15: Syseng

Thurgood Marshall South

Tyler Fitch, Chef
Automation Tools Bootcamp

Half Day Morning (9:00 am-12:30 pm)
S4
LISA15: Syseng

Thurgood Marshall East

Rajesh Joseph, Red Hat, Inc.
Poornima Gurusiddaiah, Red Hat, Inc.
GlusterFS: A Scale-out Software Defined Storage

Half Day Morning (9:00 am-12:30 pm)
S5
LISA15: Culture

Lincoln 4

Lee Damon, University of Washington
Professional Conduct and Computer Ethics

Half Day Afternoon (1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
S6
LISA15: Metrics

Thurgood Marshall East

David Josephsen, Librato
Neighborly Nagios

Half Day Afternoon (1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
S7
LISA15: SRE/SWE

Thurgood Marshall North

Adam Moskowitz, MathWorks
Software Testing for Sysadmin Programs

Half Day Afternoon (1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
S8
LISA15: Culture

Lincoln 4

Mike Ciavarella, Coffee Bean Software Pty Ltd
Documentation Techniques for Sysadmins
Monday, November 9, 2015 

Full Day (9:00 am-5:00 pm)
M1
LISA15: Syseng

Thurgood Marshall South

Caskey L. Dickson
Everything an Administrator Wanted to Know about Operating System Internals but Was Afraid to Ask

Half Day Morning (9:00 am-12:30 pm)
M2
LISA15: Metrics

Thurgood Marshall West

Robert Ballance, Independent
An Introduction to R for System Administrators

Full Day (9:00 am-5:00 pm)
M3
LISA15: Syseng

Thurgood Marshall North

Branson Matheson, sandSecurity
Defending against the Dark Arts

Half Day Morning (9:00 am-12:30 pm)
M4
LISA15: SRE/SWE

Thurgood Marshall East

Todd Palino, Staff Site Reliability Engineer, LinkedIn
Apache Kafka from Scratch

Half Day Morning (9:00 am-12:30 pm)
M5
LISA15: Culture

Lincoln 4

Scott Cromar, Author, "From Techie to Boss"
Survival Guide for the New Manager

Half Day Afternoon (1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
M6
LISA15: Metrics

Thurgood Marshall East

Matt Harrison, MetaSnake
Hands-on Introduction to Python Analytic Stack

Half Day Afternoon (1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
M7
LISA15: Syseng

Thurgood Marshall West

Alison Chaiken, Mentor Graphics
systemd, the Next-Generation Linux System Manager

Half Day Afternoon (1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
M8
LISA15: Culture

Lincoln 4

Thomas A. Limoncelli, Stack Overflow
Introduction to Time Management for Busy Devs and Ops
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 

Full Day (9:00 am-5:00 pm)
T1
LISA15: Syseng

Thurgood Marshall South

Theodore Ts'o, Google
Linux Performance Tuning

Full Day (9:00 am-5:00 pm)
T2
LISA15: SRE/SWE

Thurgood Marshall East

Matt Harrison, MetaSnake
Hands-on Intermediate Python

Full Day (9:00 am-5:00 pm)
T3
LISA15: Syseng

Thurgood Marshall North

Nick Feamster, Princeton University
Software Defined Networking: Principles and Practice

Half Day Morning (9:00 am-12:30 pm)
T4
LISA15: Syseng

Thurgood Marshall West

Jerome Petazzoni, Docker Inc.
Introduction to Docker and Containers

Half Day Morning (9:00 am-12:30 pm)
T5
LISA15: Syseng

Lincoln 4

Daniel Walsh, Red Hat, Inc.
Understanding SELinux

Half Day Afternoon (1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
T6
LISA15: Syseng

Thurgood Marshall West

Jerome Petazzoni, Docker Inc.
Advanced Docker Concepts and Container Orchestration

Half Day Afternoon (1:30 pm-5:00 pm)
T7
LISA15: Culture

Lincoln 4

Thomas A. Limoncelli, Stack Overflow
How to Not Get Paged: Managing On-call to Reduce Outages

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