Speak! How to talk in public and not wreck your voice

Posted on Thu 24 July 2014 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, OSCON, Ignite • 1 min read

An Ignite talk I presented at OSCON 2014. Decidedly non-technical, this covers vocal hygiene and how to take care of your voice.


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Hands On Trove: Database as a Service in OpenStack

Posted on Thu 27 March 2014 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, MySQL, OpenStack • 1 min read

This tutorial covered OpenStack Trove at Percona Live 2014. If you want to recreate the experience, read on!


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Greetings from Havana: A fresh perspective on globally distributed OpenStack

Posted on Tue 10 December 2013 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, OpenStack • 1 min read

My second appearance at OpenStack Israel, this time with news on distributed OpenStack environments in the Havana release.


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Ceph: object storage, block storage, file system, replication, massive scalability and then some!

Posted on Fri 31 May 2013 in presentations • Tagged with Ceph, Conference • 1 min read

This is one of my most popular talks, co-presented with intrepid cartoonist-turned-engineer Tim Serong from SUSE.


This article originally appeared on the hastexo.com website (now defunct).


Ceph: The Storage Stack for OpenStack

Posted on Tue 28 May 2013 in presentations • Tagged with Ceph, Conference • 1 min read

My presentation from OpenStack Israel, May 27, 2013. After a brief introduction into Ceph, I dive into OpenStack specific Ceph features and outlines RBD integration with Glance and Cinder, and explains RadosGW Swift compatibility.


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