2024 SouthEast LinuxFest - System observability is crucial for issue resolution but demands significant time and resources. This talk focuses on leveraging eBPF to gather telemetry data like metrics, logs, and traces. We'll also explore tracking container activities and using telemetry for troubleshooting effectively.

2024 SouthEast LinuxFest - Interested in permaculture design? Explore free & open information sharing, traditional agricultural methods and the technologies we use to monitor production, yields, energy usage and tooling.

2024 SouthEast LinuxFest - A deep-dive into the fundamentals of concurrency on weakly-ordered memory architectures, building toward implementation of some basic lock-free data structures and their application toward very-low-latency inter-process communication.

2024 SouthEast LinuxFest - Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery are lovely concepts. Make the computer do the work! So why do all the solutions... suck? And in what ways do they suck?

2024 SouthEast LinuxFest - This talk explores troubleshooting complex systems with hundreds or thousands of services. It addresses key questions on necessary service information and dashboard structuring for rapid comprehension. Effective utilization of observability signals like metrics, logs, traces, and profiles is discussed, along with automation strategies for root cause analysis.

2024 SouthEast LinuxFest - Keeping a mall running while ripping out all of its infrastructure and replacing it with free and open source alternatives.

2024 SouthEast LinuxFest - Accessing LLMs through cloud services can be expensive and pose challenges related to data privacy and latency. To address these issues, Ollama is an open-source

2024 SouthEast LinuxFest - Amazon, Apple, and Google all have some spin on it, But they are all highly guarded walled gardens that track you, trap you, and in the end hold you hostage. I found a FOSS one that even the other less geeky members of my living arrangement are actually okay with.

2024 SouthEast LinuxFest - This workshop delves into the application of Flutter, a popular cross-platform development framework, for crafting native desktop applications specifically for the Linux platform. Participants with a foundational understanding of Flutter will gain practical experience and insights into building performant and visually appealing Linux applications.

2024 SouthEast LinuxFest - Observability is a very overloaded term. Its used in various places but the definition is not very precise from an SRE perspective