Ben Rockwood is Joyent’s Director of Systems Engineering. Ben will speak about adopting the new philosophy of DevOps. It is about more than what tools you use, its about people first, process second, and then and only then tools. In this talk we’ll discuss the heart of DevOps, deconstruct culture, examine the fields of study… Continue reading DevOps Demystified – An introduction to the ideas that are driving DevOps
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Enhanced OS Virtualization for the Cloud
Joyent’s Jerry Jelinek speaks at illumos Day. SmartOS is an Illumos-derived distro developed by Joyent as the base OS for their cloud. This presentation focuses on the OS virtualization capabilities of SmartOS and details the extensive enhancements made to the OS, based on real-world production experience deploying SmartOS in the Joyent cloud. You might also… Continue reading Enhanced OS Virtualization for the Cloud
Why 4K?
George Wilson at ZFS Day For over 30 years, hard drives have designated the smallest storage location as 512 bytes. In January 2011, all major hard drive manufactures began shipping their hard drive platforms using a new standard called Advanced Format. To aid in the transition, these new hard drives provide a 512 byte emulation… Continue reading Why 4K?
Building a Business on illumos
A panel at illumos Day with Rod Boothby, Joyent; Bill Roth, Nexenta; Richard Elling, DEY; moderated by Deirdré Straughan. You might also like: Joyent Retrospective
SmartOS Operations – Ben Rockwood at illumos Day
On illumos Day http://zfsday.com/about-illumos-day/, Joyent’s own Ben Rockwood http://cuddletech.com/blog/ gave us an in-depth look at the tools and techniques he uses to manage Joyent’s public cloud http://joyent.com/ on SmartOS http://smartos.org/, covering everything from monitoring to configuration management and troubleshooting. Here’s video of the complete talk: 55 minutes of deep devops goodness, packed full of knowledge… Continue reading SmartOS Operations – Ben Rockwood at illumos Day