Have Data, Want Scale, Indefinitely: Exploring Ceph

Posted on Sat 15 November 2014 in presentations • Tagged with Ceph

An introduction to Ceph (with audio).


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Ceph Performance Demystified: Benchmarks, Tools, and the Metrics that Matter

Posted on Wed 22 October 2014 in presentations • Tagged with Ceph

Mystified about Ceph performance tuning and benchmarking? Don't despair!

This presentation was given at Ceph Day London in 2014.


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OpenStack High Availability: Are We There Yet?

Posted on Tue 14 October 2014 in presentations • Tagged with OpenStack, Conference

My presentation from LinuxCon Europe 2014, outlining the state of high availability in OpenStack.


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

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

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

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


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