I am Jay Faulkner, an Open Source Developer and Advocate. I believe that through working with others around the world to solve problems we can make the world better. Open source is a great way to do that.

I have a long and varied contribution history in and around open source, including:

- Over a decade contributing to OpenStack, including two terms on the Technical Committee

- Over a decade as a core reviewer, and three-time PTL, on OpenStack Ironic

- Gentoo contributor

- Small contributions throughout the OSS ecosystem; including systemd, fog, and many others.

- Podcasting about open source with the GR-OSS OUT podcast.

Presentations

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OpenStack in the Real World

A fully integrated OpenStack cluster, especially one utilizing Ironic or Neutron, touches all parts of an environment. Tight integration like this comes with a price: almost any issue in your environment may be surfaced as a failure or error to an end user. In this session, we will discuss how to properly monitor your OpenStack cluster, separating real-world failures from software bugs as well as how to market your cloud engineering work to nontechnical parts of the business.

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The death of hardware knowledge

As we have simplified technology, we have abstracted away details. As time has passed, the bulk of the interaction has moved to the simplified interactions. They became the preference due to speed, efficiency, and economics. Yet much is still constrained in the lower layers. We need the context to make informed decisions. We'll talk about the trend, and what to be mindful of as we continue to simplify technology.

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