By Kelly Tenn, April 13, 2015
Originally published on the CoreOS blog (archived copy) . Re-published with the authors' permission.
As we count down to the inaugural CoreOS Fest in just three weeks, we are thrilled to announce additional speakers and the agenda! CoreOS Fest will be May 4-5 at The Village at 969 Market Street in San Francisco and we hope you will join us.
CoreOS Fest is a two-day event about the tools and best practices used to build modern infrastructure stacks. CoreOS Fest connects people from all levels of the community with future-thinking industry veterans to learn how to build distributed systems that support application containers. This May’s festival is brought to you by our premier sponsor Intel, and additional sponsors Sysdig, Chef, Mesosphere, Metaswitch Networks and Giant Swarm.
CoreOS Fest will include speakers from Google, Intel, Salesforce Data.com, HP, and more, including:
Brendan Burns, software engineer at Google and founder of Kubernetes, will provide a technical overview of Kubernetes
Diego Ongaro, creator of Raft, will discuss the Raft Consensus Algorithm
Lennart Poettering, creator of systemd, will talk about systemd at the Core of the OS
Nicholas Weaver, director of SDI-X at Intel, will demonstrate how we can optimize container architectures for the next level of scale
Prakash Rudraraju, manager of technical operations at Salesforce Data.com, will join Brian Harrington, principal architect at CoreOS, for a fireside chat on how Salesforce Data.com is thinking about distributed systems and application containers
Yazz Atlas, HPCS principle engineer with Hewlett-Packard Advanced Technology Group, will give a presentation on automated MySQL Cluster Failover using Galera Cluster on CoreOS Linux
Loris Degioanni, CEO and founder of Sysdig and co-creator of Wireshark, will present the dark art of container monitoring
Gabriel Monroy, CTO at OpDemand/Deis, will discuss lessons learned from building platforms on top of CoreOS
Spencer Kimball, founder of Cockroach Labs, will talk about CockroachDB
Chris Winslett, product manager at Compose.io, will present etcd based Postgres SQL HA Cluster
Timo Derstappen, co-founder of Giant Swarm, will present Containers on the Autobahn
More speakers will be added at https://coreos.com/fest/.
As a part of today’s schedule announcement, we are offering 10 percent off the regular ticket price until tomorrow, April 14, at 10 a.m. PT. Use this link to reserve your 10 percent off ticket. Tickets are selling fast so get them before we sell out!
Once again, CoreOS Fest thanks its top level sponsor Intel and additional sponsors, including Sysdig, Chef, Mesosphere, Metaswitch Networks and Giant Swarm. If you’re interested in participating at CoreOS Fest as a sponsor, contact fest@coreos.com.
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