As the clock ticks approach single digit figures, the organising team
are ramping up. Everything’s coming along smoothly in time for a
kick-arse start on Monday.
One thing that makes me sad is that I’ll likely not be able to watch a
lot of the talks – but if I do get a chance, I’d see these:
clustering tdb by Andrew
Tridgell. When I first saw this proposal came in, I knew it was a
good one. Someone should make an LDAP server that doesn’t suck,
and use tdb to solve the multimaster replication problem in the
storage layer. Oh wait – that’s what he’s doing already.
Puppet by Luke Kanies.
Luke’s been working on this awesome next-generation systems
configuration management tool for a few years now. He approached
me, back in the day, to be a beta-tester – he and I were both
hitting scaling problems with cfengine. I hope every sysadmin
makes it to this talk!
There’s a few others to note: Theodore T’so always has an interesting
talk; this year he’s giving two cool subjects a run. The tutorial on
heartbeat 2 by Alan Robertson is sure to be full of good loadbalancing
fu.
There’s lots of exciting things going on in the programme, so I hope
to see you all next week!