Dave Long


Title: Programming your infrastructure

Description:

In this talk, we will see what happens when we stop looking at our infrastructure development as just a bundle of scripts and start looking at it as an application. We will go over various concepts in the programming world that can be carried into infrastructure development, including local development, test-driven code, modular applications, and static code analysis. Out of this talk, I hope to give operations engineers a new way to build out systems and feel more confident in the stability of their infrastructure.

Speaker

Dave Long

Dave Long

@davejlong

Dave Long is the Director of Development at Cage Data, a tech consultancy servicing the New England region. He’s been writing applications in Ruby, JavaScript and Elixir for the past 8 years. Working in smaller consultancies, Dave has, often times, had to manage his own application infrastructure. In this, Dave has brought ideas and concepts from programming into his systems administration, such as managing infrastructure code like any application with tests and code analysis.