If you are an junior Linux/Unix sysadmin looking to advance your technical skills, here is a list of talks, workshops, and tutorials that you should attend at Usenix LISA 2013.
These are skill-building, technical presentations. I only made exceptions for a few "soft topics" talks only if they are for junior sysadmins looking to advance their careers.
[I apologize in advance for any typo or errors. Please report any problems in the comments. The conference website has the latest information. Other lists of presentations: DevOps, Programming, Unix/Linux administration technical skills, Cloud Computing, and Women at Usenix LISA.]
Usenix LISA 2013 Presentations on Linux/Unix administration skills:
Sunday, Nov 3, 2013:
- 9:00 am-5:00 pm
- Securing Linux Servers
- Rik Farrow, Security Consultant
- Format: Full Day Training Class
- 9:00 am-12:30 pm
- DNSSEC: DNS Security Extensions
- Shumon Huque, University of Pennsylvania
- Format: Half Day Training Class
- 9:00 am-12:30 pm
- File Systems: Top to Bottom and Back
- Aeleen Frisch, Exponential Consulting
- Format: Half Day Training Class
- 1:30 pm-5:00 pm
- Build a Sysadmin Sandbox
- David N. Blank-Edelman, Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science
- Format: Half Day Training Class
Monday, Nov 4, 2013:
- 9:00 am-5:00 pm
- Using and Migrating to IPv6
- Shumon Huque, University of Pennsylvania
- Format: Full Day Training Class
- 9:00 am-5:00 pm
- Hands-on Security for System Administrators
- Branson Matheson, SGT
- Format: Full Day Training Class
- 9:00 am-12:30 pm
- Core Skills: Scripting for Automation
- Mike Ciavarella, Coffee Bean Software Pty Ltd
- Format: Half Day Training Class
- 1:30 pm-5:00 pm
- Advanced Shell Programming
- Mike Ciavarella, Coffee Bean Software Pty Ltd
- Format: Half Day Training Class
Tuesday, Nov 5, 2013:
- 9am-12:30pm:
- Advanced Time Management: Team Efficiency
- Thomas A. Limoncelli, Stack Exchange
- Format: Half Day Training Class
- 9:00 am-12:30 pm
- Next-Generation Storage Networking: Beyond Conventional SAN and NAS
- Jacob Farmer, Cambridge Computer Services
- Format: Half Day Training Class
- 9:00 am-12:30 pm
- Recovering from Linux Hard Drive Disasters
- Theodore Ts'o, Google
- Format: Half Day Training Class
- 1:30am-5pm:
- Evil Genius 101
- Thomas A. Limoncelli, Stack Exchange
- Format: Half Day Training Class
- 1:30 pm-5:00 pm
- High-Availability Linux Clustering
- Joshua Jensen, Sirius Computer Solutions
- Format: Half Day Training Class
Wednesday, Nov 6, 2013:
- 9:00 am-5:00 pm
- Linux Performance Tuning
- Theodore Ts'o, Google
- Format: Full Day Training Class
- 9:00 am-5:00 pm
- Root Cause Analysis--Beginner
- Stuart Kendrick, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Format: Full Day Training Class
Thursday, Nov 7, 2013:
- 9:00 am-5:00 pm
- Root Cause Analysis--Intermediate
- Stuart Kendrick, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Format: Full Day Training Class
- 9:00 am-5:00 pm
- Seven Habits of the Highly Effective System Administrator: Hints, Tricks, Techniques, and Tools of the Trade
- Lee Damon, University of Washington; Mike Ciavarella, Coffee Bean Software Pty Ltd
- Format: Full Day Training Class
- 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
- Enterprise Architecture Beyond the Perimeter
- Cian Synnott, Systems Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, and Jan Monsch, Security Engineer, Google Security Team, Google
- Format: Invited Talk
Friday, Nov 9, 2013:
- 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- Time Management for System Administrators
- Thomas A. Limoncelli, Stack Exchange
- Format: "Guru" Session
- 9:00 am-5:00 pm
- Hands-on Introduction to Common Hacking Tools
- David Rhoades, Maven Security Consulting Inc.; Steve Pinkham, Maven Security Consulting Inc.
- Format: Full Day Training Class
- 9:00 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
- ZFS for Everyone
- George Wilson, Delphix
- Format: Invited Talk
- 9:00 am-5:00 pm
- Hands-on Introduction to Common Hacking Tools
- David Rhoades, Maven Security Consulting Inc.; Steve Pinkham, Maven Security Consulting Inc.
- Format: Full Day Training Class
- 9:45 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- Manta Storage System Internals
- Mark Cavage, Joyent
- Format: Invited Talk
- 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
- Apache Hadoop for System Administrators
- Allen Wittenauer, LinkedIn, Inc.
- Format: Invited Talk
- 2:00 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
- Managing Access Using SSH Keys
- Tatu Ylonen, SSH Communications Security, and Inventor of SSH
- Format: Invited Talk
- 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
- ZFS in Depth
- George Wilson, Delphix
- Format: Guru Session
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