JP Viljoen


Title: Infrastructure that goes bump in the night

Abstract:

Do you know what your infrastructure is doing? Does it sometimes end up phoning you awake in the dead of the night? This talk aims to give a whirlwind tour of some common monitoring approaches, some common mistakes, along with imparting some general hard-earned wisdom.

Speaker

JP Viljoen

JP Viljoen

@froztbyte

A computer farmer and packet herder by trade, JP spent years working in the broadcast and telecoms industries. The founder of Featherlight Consulting, JP adheres to the philosophy that things can, and most likely will, break. He spends much of his time caring about meaningful insights into systems, engineering reliability where needed, and delivering bespoke solutions in a number of problem domains. JP picks Python as the first hammer in his toolbox (although he writes whatever is necessary), learns Haskell for fun, reads filesystems whitepapers while drinking beer, and plays with IP video streams and Internet routing protocols when bored.