As systems grow more and more complex, new patterns are emerging to manage and control modern infrastructure. In this talk, Mike Place – the maintainer of the SaltStack project – will provide an introduction to an event-driven approach for systems management, blending traditional monitoring and configuration management techniques together to show how to build resilient and autonomous systems that can achieve automation workflows sophisticated enough for the modern data center.

Mike Place is the project maintainer of Salt — one of the largest, most active open-source projects in the world. He also runs the engineering team at SaltStack — the company behind Salt and maker of