Chris Jones

LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.

The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.

A computational daemonologist, Chris works in San Francisco as a SiteReliability Engineer for Google App Engine, a platform serving over 28 billion requests per day. He was previously responsible for the care and feeding of advertising statistics, data warehousing, and customer support systems, joining Google in 2007. In other lives, Chris has worked in academic IT, analyzed data for political campaigns, and engaged in some light BSD kernel hacking, picking up degrees in computer engineering, economics, and technology policy along the way.

Linked Presentation: 
SRE Classroom: Practical Large Scale Design