Q: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your background?
A: I'm a Database Administrator with OmniTI, Inc. I've been working in IT since 2000 and been working with databases for the last 10 years. I specialized in PostgreSQL when joining OmniTI 5 years ago. Since then I've written some popular third party tools for it (pg_partman, pg_extractor, mimeo).
Q: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your background?
Q: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your background?
A: Hi, my name is Kir Kolyshkin, I'm originally from Russia but live in Seattle nowadays. The company I work for, Virtuozzo, works on Linux containers since about 2000, and I am mostly known within the Linux community for my role in OpenVZ project.
Q: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your background?
A: Believe it or not, I started my career as a rocket scientist, back in Russia. But it has been long forgotten. For the last 15 years I have been doing DataCenter and Cloud automation.
Q: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your background?
A: My name is Phil Dibowitz. I'm a Production Engineer at Facebook and I'm a tech
load on the Operating Systems team. I have a passion for figuring out scaling
systems - particularly as it relates to the people managing them, and open
source software.
In addition to technology I spend my time riding my Harley or following
Metallica around the world.
Dennis Rex recenly connected with Nithya Ruff. She is a repeat SCALE speaker and will be joining us to present Building Bridges across Company and Community. Ruff leads the open source practice at Comcast, and is a board member at the Linux Foundation, a SCALE sponsor.
SCALE Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your background?
Dennis Rex recently connected with Damian Wojslaw who will be delivering the session OpenZFS - a perfect filesystem for containers at SCALE 15x. Damian is a support engineer at Canonical, a SCALE sponsor and supporter.
SCALE: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your background?
The SCALE team is very pleased to announce our second keynote speaker - Christine Corbett Moran – for Saturday, March 4, as she presents "Open Source Software as Activism". Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech, Open Source and mobile app developer and NASA finalist are but a few of the achievements Dr. Corbett Moran brings to the party.
UpSCALE is a set of lightning talks held at SCALE in partnership with OpenSource.com, in the style of Ignite presentations. Speakers will get 5 minutes to enlighten the audience. Slides will auto-advance while chosen speakers deliver their message, a brief story of open source deliciousness. The format makes for a fast paced, fun event for participants and audience.
The UpSCALE talks will take place on Saturday March 4th at 8pm in Ballroom DE. Please join us as members of the Free and Open Source community do their best to beat the clock and get their ideas out!
In recent years the SCaLE program has grown to include an increasing amount of security related content including presentations, tutorials, and our long running PGP keysigning party. This year we are again growing to include a hacking competition target during the conference which aims to test the security skills of the participants in a live setting.