Walt Disney's Rafael Barrero brings a decade-and-a-half of engineering experience to his SCALE 13x presentation, Cashing in on Varnish, which will be held on SCALE 13x Saturday at 11:30. Rafael spent some time talking with the SCALE Team about his presentation.
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Long-time Free/Open Source Software participant Charlie Kravetz, the former project lead for Xubuntu, makes his SCALE speaking debut at SCALE 13x. Charlie will be giving a talk on Accessibility in Software on SCALE 13x Saturday at 3. The SCALE Team caught up with Charlie to ask him about accessibility issues.
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Brendan Gregg is all about performance, and his talk on Linux Profiling at Netflix, given on SCALE 13x Saturday at 11:30, touches on this very issue. The SCALE Team caught up with Brendan for this interview.
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Attending his first SCALE, Google's Tim Hockin will give a talk on Container Management at Google Scale on SCALE 13x Sunday at 11:30. The SCALE Team caught up with Tim to talk about his presentation.
Israel Lopez tells of his experiences building a computer lab in Malawi in his presentation, Where There Is No Tech Support, given on SCALE 13x Sunday at 3 p.m. The SCALE Team caught up with Israel and asked him about his talk.
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Christoph Wagner brings together the best of two worlds: Polymer, Google's framework for web components, and pandas. His talk, "Polymer with Pandas," will be given on SCALE 13x Sunday at 1:30. The SCALE Team, curious about what would bring Polymer and pandas together, took a few minutes to talk to Christoph about his talk.
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Peter Czanik, community manager at BalaBit, makes his SCALE 13x debut, speaking on syslog-ng: from log collecting to log processing and information extraction on SCALE 13x Sunday at 3 p.m. Peter took a few minutes to talk to the SCALE team about the help he provides to distributions to maintain the syslog-ng package, follows bug trackers, and helps users.
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Light sabers and physics: This is the talk you are looking for. Brian Proffitt gives SCALE 13x attendees "Why Scale Up is Like Star Trek and Scale Out is Like Star Wars" on SCALE 13x Saturday at 3 p.m. The SCALE Team beamed down to talk to Brian about his presentation.
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The details of how cryptographic algorithms are designed, implemented, verified, and assembled into cryptosystems require expert knowledge. Good thing, says Dustin Laurence, that fortunately, the big picture of how the resulting cryptosystems are used does not. Dustin's talk on Action-Movie Crypto will be given on SCALE 13x Saturday at 6 p.m. The SCALE Team caught up with Dustin to talk about this and Thai curry delivery.
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Joe Brockmeier says you can do one or the other: You can solve the package problem or make it worse. In fact, this SCALE veteran is giving a talk based on that exact topic -- Solving the Package Problem (or Making It Infinitely Worse?) -- on SCALE 13x Saturday at 1:30. The SCALE Team caught up with him to ask the either/or question.
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