Live Webinar April 12th, 2016 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Duration: 4 Hour Credits: 1 Up to 4 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

This 4 hr online conference explores key infrastructure essentials.

Four seasoned open source technologists cover a range of infrastructure elements from popular open source cloud platforms to Linux tools. You’ll leave this online conference with new strategies and practical approaches for coping with difficult real-world challenges.

Developing Orchestration Services For A Cloud Platform

When it comes to ease of deployment, scalability, and resilience, the cloud and containers seem like an ideal match—but there are challenges involved, including some unique to popular open source projects.

Kenny looks at what’s involved in developing and operating containerized workloads using open source projects such as Apache Spark, Apache Cassandra, and Spring Cloud Netflix.

By the end of this discussion, you’ll have a solid understanding of the cloud platform ecosystem and know how to create platform-provided services from open source tooling.

Presenter: Kenny Bastani (LinkedIn profile) is a technology evangelist & open source software advocate in Silicon Valley. As an enterprise software consultant, and a passionate advocate for the popular graph database Neo4j, Kenny has supported developers from globally recognized companies who have inserted the NoSQL database into their technology stack. As a blogger / open source contributor, Kenny engages developers who are looking to take advantage of newer graph processing techniques to analyze data.

Ten Steps To Linux Survival

Prerequisite: Participants should be Windows systems administrators / programmers. Familiarity with Windows shells (CMD.EXE and PowerShell) is preferred but not absolutely necessary.

As a Windows administrator or programmer, you’ll occasionally come face to face with a Linux system that needs your attention, and you need to know your way around.

With this lightning-fast introduction to Linux and other Unix systems, Jim Lehmer makes the experience much easier for you, outlining 10 core essentials for logging into and looking at a Linux system with an aim at quick and simple diagnoses.

Jim arms you with just enough familiarity with the bash command line to be able to do some simple system diagnostics on the Linux “appliances” that may be in your environment.

Jim will focus primarily on nondestructive read-only commands, but he’ll also cover a few commands—such as restarting services or the server itself—that can alter system state.

Click to be notified when Jim’s “Ten Steps to Linux Survival” report becomes available.

Presenter:  Jim Lehmer (O’Reilly bio) has been “in computers” for over three decades. He has held various software development roles, including programmer, systems programmer, software engineer, team lead, and software architect, and worked on a variety of operating systems with a number of programming languages. Jim currently works in a Windows shop coding primarily in C#, but with his background in cross-platform development, he often gets tapped to deal with any *IX boxes that enter the environment.

tmux: A Developer’s Swiss Army Knife

 One of the greatest inhibitors to developers and system administrators embracing Unix-derivative operating systems (GMU/Linux, BSD, etc.) is having to operate, design, and provide maintenance at the dreaded command-line interface (CLI).

tmux is a terminal multiplexer that makes it easy to deal with multiple programs from the CLI. When properly understood, tmux transforms working from and within a shell prompt into a more efficient, productive, collaborative, and time-saving experience.

Boyd Stephens offers an overview of tmux that will give you a working knowledge of when and how to put it to use.

Presenter: Boyd Stephens (O’Reilly bio) is the founder of Netelysis. Boyd is a member of Netelysis’s networking services development team, where he primarily focuses on the research and design of Internet working systems & network management services. For the last 26 years, Boyd has worked with information technology, having designed and managed an array of networking systems and services for educational, corporate, and governmental entities.

AppOpps: Building Successful Deployments

AppOps, short for application operations, is a practice developed by DigitalOcean engineers to prescribe a course of actions needed to move a project from development status to production status.

In this session Bryan Liles:

• Introduces AppOpps and outlines the AppOps step
• Examines the importance of having an automated process
  • to determine if a particular code commit is able to be included in a production release, before moving on to continuous deployment,
  • getting insights into operations,
• Examines tools that can give you a comprehensive view of how your application is working.
• And … Bryan ends by discussing potential requirements for modern applications and how they can best fit in modern cloud infrastructures.

Presenter: Bryan Liles (LinkedIn profile, O’Reilly bio) works on cloud engineering for DigitalOcean writing OSS for DigitalOcean & others. Bryan helps companies move their software to the public cloud and speaks at conferences on topics ranging from machine learning to building the next generation of developers. When not thinking about code, Bryan builds robots and devices and races cars in straight lines and around very tight turns.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.2 Define Activities
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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Infrastructure Essentials
From The Command Line To The Cloud