Presentations

This talk will help maximize the value of your privacy toolset for today's best options, while helping you plan for the future. Threats have changed, but so have your options for tools and services to use.

Now that California law codifies our right to check out how our personal information is shared, that means we have an opportunity to  optimize our privacy toolkits and habits, and level up by focusing where it counts. We'll cover topics including ad blocker myths and facts, recommended extensions, and how and when to use your rights under California law.

This preparation session will be led by Kenny Armstrong, Linux Professional Institute. Evan will field any technical questions and help prepare you before you take the exam. Participate to learn more about the importance of understanding the objectives prior to writing your exam, the exam structure, and why obtaining your certification will be professionally beneficial. Come prepared with questions! The Linux Essentials Professional Development Certificate also serves as an ideal stepping-stone to the more advanced LPIC Professional Certification track for Linux Systems Administrators.

Logs, metrics and traces sounds easy to go, but understanding how to solve for real your observability challenges it's a different story. Behind the scenes, data collection and proper processing are keys for a successful experience when extracting value from your data. In this presentation, you will learn how Logs, metrics and traces works behind the scenes, starting from the auto-managed standard interfaces (stdout/stderr) by the container engine, the role of collectors, the importance of the ability to perform processing and general best practices for reliability.

When making the leap from "running Postgres" to "running Postgres at scale", managing table bloat is a hurdle which many engineers trip over. By diving into topics such as Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC), autovacuum, and table design, this talk will explain what table bloat is, why it occurs, how to manage it, and (best of all) how to avoid tripping over it in the first place.