Hi Guys. I have a question. Is anyone recording this? Would anyone have an issue if I recorded it?
Thanks. rgt Whitehead Network/System Administrator ----- Original Message ----- > > Hi Everybody: > > Our speaker for Wednesday January 13th (i.e. tomorrow) will be Thomas > A. Limoncelli, SRE at StackOverflow.com. > > The title of his talk is: > > Transactional System Administration Is Killing Us and Must be Stopped > > Transactional system administration puts sysadmins in a bad > position. When organizations replace this model with a service-centric > model the company receives better service and sysadmins gain positive > visibility and increase their value. > > The transactional model is where customers make requests and system > administrators fulfill them. It is the model of servitude. This has > been the power dynamic for decades. The service-centric model is where > sysadmins maintain the automation that does work rather than doing the > work themselves. Another way to look at it is that the best use of > human labor in an auto factory is not to build cars, but to maintain > the robots that build cars. > > Stack Exchange's SRE Team is making strides at minimizing > transactional system administration and, instead, adopting DevOps > practices that create a cooperative relationship with our users. We've > adopted this as our guiding management principle and it has greatly > improved how we get things done. > > Tom will discuss the successes and failures of these attempts and > recommend how your organization can adopt this better structure. > > Tom is an internationally recognized author, speaker, and system > administrator. His new book, The Practice of Cloud System > Administration, launched last year. His past books include Time > Management for System Administrators (O'Reilly) and The Practice of > System and Network Administration (Pearson). In 2005, he received the > USENIX LISA Outstanding Achievement Award. He works in New York City > at Stack Exchange, home of Careers.Stackoverflow.com, and previously > worked at Google and Bell Labs. His blog is > http://EverythingSysadmin.com and he tweets @YesThatTom. > > He will be speaking at MIT E-51, Room 145 on January 13 2016. > > 7:00 - Announcements & Introductions > 7:30 - Formal presentation > > Hope to see you there. > > See more about us at: http://bblisa.org > > -- > -- rouilj > John Rouillard > =========================================================================== > My employers don't acknowledge my existence much less my opinions. > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa > _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
