[NCSA] NCSA OCT 11, 2010 - AARON JOYNER - GOOGLE

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   Next Meeting:
   Topic:         Monitoring
   Speaker:       Aaron Joyner, Google Inc.
   Date:          Monday, October 11, 2010
   Time:          7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
   Place:         UNC - TV  RTP, NC
   Directions:    http://www.ncsysadmin.org/


   Aaron S. Joyner - Sr. System Administrator in the Site Reliability
   Engineering (SRE) group at Google


   Abstract:
   Monitoring is a part of the bread and butter of a SysAdmin's toolkit,
   but unfortunately it often doesn't get the attention it deserves. In
   this talk, we will attempt to provide a fresh look at monitoring from a
   system-agnostic perspective (agnostic of both the monitored and
   monitoring systems) while still being practical, and include thoughts
   on ways your monitoring can help make you more productive.
   We will start by introducing and clarifying conceptual ideas such as
   whitebox vs blackbox monitoring, historical vs realtime data, and
   monitoring vs alerting; move on to how to convince developers to
   implement good whitebox monitoring; and may even include a few tips on
   how to do it yourself if necessary. We will also include some insights
   gained from arduous experience about what types of notifications do and
   don't work in small to medium sized teams of SysAdmins.


   Biography:

   Aaron S. Joyner is a Sr. System Administrator in the Site Reliability
   Engineering (SRE) group at Google. He has been working as a SysAdmin
   for more than 12 years at companies such as Global Knowledge,
   Intrex.net, and MWG Biotech. When living in Raleigh, he was actively
   involved with the Triangle Linux Users Group, serving on the steering
   committee as SysAdmin in 2004-2005, and giving talks on DNS for NC*SA
   and TriLUG. Since joining Google in 2005, he has helped to maintain
   their internal DNS infrastructure; been primarily responsible for
   designing, implementing, and supporting Google's serial console
   systems; and most recently been leading a team of SREs responsible for
   supporting some of the production authentication systems.


   Please note:

   In order to make sure we able to accommodate all the NC*SA members and
   provide enough pizza and drinks for those attending this presentation -
   please respond if you are planning to attend to email: nschipon at earthlink.net.


   Thank you,
   Nancy Schipon