In the desert without a camel
In the desert without a camel
By Stephen Scaffidi (hercynium) from Boston.pm, drinkers.pm
Date: Monday, 8 June 2015 13:30
Duration: 50 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: devops fpm hadoop java packaging perlbrew puppet subterfuge
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This is the tale of a DevOps journey through a wasteland where Perl is a third-class citizen. In the Hadoop world, anything that doesn't run on the JVM is not exactly, um... welcome. And while I love where I work these days, Perl is looked down upon, and often considered a tool of "last resort"...
However, despite the title of this talk, I have managed to sneak in quite a lot of Perl by means of a solid DevOps ethos and a solid philosophy of systems management from bare metal up through end-user applications. Turns out, Perl really *is* the best tool for the job in a *lot* of the situations I deal with from day-to-day.
In this talk you will learn about the fundamentals of my approach, along with details of the tools and techniques I have employed in the administration of the data warehouse infrastructure of the world's largest travel-review company. You will also learn how to make it *much* easier to use Perl and CPAN code in places other people would consider it infeasible, and fall back to more "universal" tools like awk and bash.
Attended by: Dave Rolsky (autarch), Brad Lhotsky, Andrew Griffin, Jason Hall (Jayce^), Derek Clifford, John Karr, Garth Hill, Scott Gustafson, Jared Miller, Doyle Young, Stephen Scaffidi (hercynium), Fitz Elliott, Erik Peterson, James Dwyer (Jim), Graham TerMarsch, Jordan Adler (jmadler), Ben Wasley, Mark Gardner (mjgardner), Tom Christiansen, James E Keenan (kid51), Thomas Sibley (trs), Karl Boehnker, James Morgan (Ven'Tatsu), Kenneth Graves (kag), Jan Peterson (jlp), Paul Seamons, Joe Kline (gizmo), Yanick Champoux (Yanick), Arthur Schmidt (fREW), Robert Threet (RAT), Mike Weisenborn, Thomas Stanton (tstanton), Patrick Cronin, Stuart Johnston, Joelle Maslak, Liam McNerney (Lthemick), Jason McIntosh (jmac), Andy Bach, vroom, Chas. Owens (cowens), Josh Lavin (digory), Adam Rich, Sean Quinlan (spq_easy), Rikus Goodell, morgan jones, Peter Sandin, atoomic, Michael LaGrasta, Ryan Chaudhry, Geoffrey Darling (Geoff), Paul Millard, Abigail, Samuel Smith (esaym), Armin Resch, Daya Nune, Allie Rogers, Don Silvia, Aran Deltac (bluefeet), Maxwell Cabral, Ben Grimm, Charles McGarvey (CCM), Ted Killilea, Ramchand Karumuri, James Stone, Michael South (msouth), Tim Howe (thowe), Maximilian Witte, Graham Ollis (plicease), Gabriel Munoz (gabriel), Norman Yamada, Daina Pettit, Dillan Hildebrand, Ryan Haudenschilt, Miller Hall, Joshua Miller, Drew Taylor (drewbie), Mike Greb (mikegrb), Dan Muey, Gary Norton, Chris Hamilton, Jeremy Koch, Matt Finkel,