Thomas Limoncelli is an author, activist and DevOps advocate. His best known books include The Practice of System and Network Administration, The Practice of Cloud System Administration, and Time Management for System Administrators.

In 2005, Thomas and his colleague, Christine J. Hogan, were awarded the SAGE Outstanding Achievement Award. This annual award recognizes individuals who contribute to the system administration community over a number of years.

Thomas works in New York City at Stack Exchange, home of ServerFault.com and StackOverflow.com. Previously he worked at small and large companies including Google, Bell Labs / Lucent, AT&T. While at Google, Thomas was an SRE for projects such as the web crawler, Blog Search, office IT deployments and The Ganeti project (http://code.google.com/p/ganeti).

Outside of work, Tom spent years doing grass-roots civil-rights activism both nationally and in his home state of New Jersey.

Blog: https://everythingsysadmin.com/Twitter: @YesThatTom

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KEYNOTE ADDRESS:Stealing The Best Ideas From DevOps: Applying DevOps Outside the Standard Development Life Cycle

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SESSIONS AT-A-GLANCEPlenaryRoom (Room 1310)

Morgridge Auditorium (Room 1100)

Room 1185 Room 1295 Nicholas Hall(Room 2280)

9:00am KeynoteAddress

10:15am Interoperability - Future Vision

Serverless Cloud Services

Project Management in Smart Action

What on Earth is $acronym_of_campus_IT_unit?

Two DMARCPresentations

11:15am How to CelebrateSuccess

Flash TalkSession

Access Control using JWT across Multiple Services

Patterns in Serverless Programming

Why do we need an IT Design System?

11:40am IPv6 Experiences at SSEC

Expand your Monitoring with Graphite/Grafana

Intersection of Website Performance and Usability

1:00pm Value Chain Mapping

Web Accessibility Jeopardy

RADAR: Finding Data at UW-Madison

System Categorization and Scoring Risk

Lessons Learned from Writing a Large Go Program

1:20pm SPRINT! Tackle Big Problems in a Week

Managing Databases in our Rapidly Changing Technology Landscape

Git 098: Remedial Git

1:40pm Continuous Integration: Experience with CI Quality Tools and GitLab

2:15pm Exposing Impostor Syndrome

Multi-Factor Authentication - What’s Next

Using Surveys Well

From Handrolled to 3rd Party

Docker 101

2:40pm To People Who Want To Reduce Their Server Vulnerabilities

IT Community Resource Matrix

IceCube Computing -Behind the Scenes Tech

3:15pm Developing Educational Games Across Schools at UW-Madison

3:35pm The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: IT Lessons Learned from Building-Wide Disasters

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SCHEDULE8:00–9:00am Registration, Check-in & Continental Breakfast

9:00–9:10am Welcome from Conference Co-Chairs Elizabeth Simcock and David Parter

9:10–10:00am Keynote Address - Thomas Limoncelli Stealing The Best Ideas From DevOps: Applying DevOps Outside the Standard Development Life Cycle

10:00–10:15am Coffee Break (West Atrium)

10:15–11:00am Conference Sessions 1

Interoperability - Future Vision Room: Plenary Room (1310) Presenter: Tom Jordon Serverless Cloud Services: What They Are and Why They’re Cool Room: Morgridge Auditorium (1100) Presenter: Joe Johnson

Project Management in Smart Action Room: 1185 Presenters: Xiujuan Jane Zhang & Beth Wiebusch What on Earth is $acronym_of_campus_IT_unit? Room: 1295 Presenters: Elizabeth Simcock, Sara Tate-Pederson, Mandy Morrow, Chris Poser, Jason Erdmann, Brian Deith Dave DeCoster & Stephanie Scherer-Johnson Two DMARC Presentations: Room: Nicholas Hall (2280)

10:15–10:35am DMARC Pushing the Envelope Presenter: Jesse Thompson

10:40–11:00am How to WP SES in AWS to win at DMARC Presenter: Phil Jochimsen

ALL DAY Hololens Demonstration - Room: 1140

SCHEDULE

11:00–11:15am Coffee Break (West Atrium)

ALL DAY Hololens Demonstration - Room: 1175

11:15–11:35am Conference Sessions 2a

How to Celebrate Success (11:15–12:00) Room: Plenary Room (1310) Presenter: Christopher Yue Note: This session spans conference sessions 2a and 2b Flash Talks (11:15–12:00) Room: Morgridge Auditorium (1100) Note: This session spans conference sessions 2a and 2b

History of Getting Digital Light Images into the EMR Presenters: David Lorman & Michael Hetzer

Clojure for the Win Presenter: Andrew Petro

Is it up?: A campus solution for backup monitoring Presenter: Sara Nagreen

Linked Data for Heritage Management Presenter: Tad Dockery

WordPress Users Community of Practice Discussion Presenter: Rich Gassen

Understanding the IT Project Pipeline and Services Presenter: Troy Dreyer

Access Control using JWT across Multiple Services Room: 1185 Presenter: David Schultz

Patterns in Serverless Programming Room: 1295 Presenter: Brian Hill Why do we need an IT Design System? Room: Nicholas Hall (2280) Presenter: Megan Holman, Kedar Joyner & Isaac Evavold

11:40am–12:00pm Conference Sessions 2b

IPv6 experiences at SSEC Room: 1185 Presenter: John Lalande Expand your monitoring with Graphite/Grafana Room: 1295 Presenter: Alec Sheperd

The Intersection of Website Performance and Usability Room: Nicholas Hall (2280) Presenter: Jonathan Dedering (Cont.) How to Celebrate Success Room: Plenary Room (1310) Presenter: Christopher Yue

(Cont.) Flash Talks Room: Morgridge Auditorium (1100)

SCHEDULE

12:00–1:00pm Lunch Capital Cafe

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ALL DAY Hololens Demonstration - Room: 1175

1:00–1:20pm Conference Sessions 3a

Value Chain Mapping: Visually Planning System Improvements Room: Plenary Room (1310) Presenter: Phil Jochimsen

Web Accessibility Jeopardy (1:00–2:00) Room: Morgridge Auditorium (1100) Presenter: Marsha Schwanke Note: This session spans conference sessions 3a, 3b, and 3c

RADAR: Finding Data at UW-Madison Room: 1185 Presenter: Joe Nelson

System Categorization and Scoring Risk (1:00–2:00) Room: 1295 Presenter: Stefan Wahe Note: This session spans conference sessions 3a, 3b, and 3c

Lessons Learned from writing a large Go Program Room: Nicholas Hall (2280) Presenter: Nuwan Kumarasiri

SCHEDULEALL DAY Hololens Demonstration - Room: 1175

1:20–1:40pm Conference Sessions 3b

SPRINT! Tackling Bring Problems in a Week (1:20–2:00) Room: Plenary Room (1310) Presenters: Phyllis Treige, Jess Jones, Tamra Dagnon & Chris Diorio Note: This session spans conference sessions 3b and 3c

Managing Databases in our Rapidly Changing Technology Landscape (1:20–2:00) Room: 1185 Presenter: Mike Vavrus Note: This session spans conference sessions 3b and 3c

1:20–1:40pm Conference Sessions 3b (cont.)

Git 098: Remedial Git Room: Nicholas Hall (2280) Presenter: Patrick Meade

(Cont.) Web Accessibility Jeopardy Room: Morgridge Auditorium (1100) Presenter: Marsha Schwanke

(Cont.) System Categorization and Scoring Risk Room: 1295 Presenter: Stefan Wahe

SCHEDULE

1:20–1:40pm Conference Sessions 3c

Continuous Integration: Experience with CI Quality Tools and GitLab (and a demo of Sonarqube) Room: Nicholas Hall (2280) Presenter: David Parter

(Cont.) SPRINT! Tackling Bring Problems in a Week Room: Plenary Room (1310) Presenters: Phyllis Treige, Jess Jones, Tamra Dagnon & Chris Diorio Note: This session spans conference sessions 3b and 3c

(Cont.) Web Accessibility Jeopardy Room: Morgridge Auditorium (1100) Presenter: Marsha Schwanke

(Cont.) Managing Databases in our Rapidly Changing Technology Landscape Room: 1185 Presenter: Mike Vavrus & Chuck Goehler

(Cont.) System Categorization and Scoring Risk Room: 1295 Presenter: Stefan Wahe

ALL DAY Hololens Demonstration - Room: 1175

2:15–2:40pm Conference Sessions 4a

Exposing Impostor Syndrome: Answering the 5 Ws about Impostor Syndrome (2:15–3:00) Room: Plenary Room (1310) Presenters: Matt Blasinski & Amanda Thornton Note: This session spans conference sessions 4a and 4b

Multi-Factor Authentication – What’s Next Room: Morgridge Auditorium (1100) Presenter: Tom Jordan Using Surveys Well Room: 1185 Presenter: Maria Dahman

From Handrolled to 3rd Party: Moving a client from a legacy in-house application to a complex, and expensive commercial product (2:15–3:00) Room: 1295 Presenter: Julie Zachman Note: This session spans conference sessions 4a and 4b

Docker 101 Room: Nicholas Hall (2280) Presenter: Patrick Meade

SCHEDULE2:00–2:15pm Coffee Break (West Atrium)

2:40–3:00pm Conference Sessions 4b

To People Who Want To Reduce Their Server Vulnerabilities – but Can’t Get Started Room: Morgridge Auditorium (1100) Presenter: Tomomi Imamura & Todd Neidinger IT Community Resource Matrix Room: 1185 Presenter: Alan Silver, Sara Nagreen, Laura Grady, Leah Scheide & Sarah Buszka

ALL DAY Hololens Demonstration - Room: 1175

2:40–3:00pm Conference Sessions 4b (cont.)

IceCube Computing – Behind the Scenes Tech Room: Nicholas Hall (2280) Presenter: Steve Barnet

(Cont.) Exposing Impostor Syndrome Room: Plenary Room (1310) Presenters: Matt Blasinski & Amanda Thornton

(Cont.) From Handrolled to 3rd Party Room: 1295 Presenter: Julie Zachman

SCHEDULE

3:00–3:15pm Coffee Break (West Atrium)

3:15–4:15pm Closing Conference Session Room: Plenary Room (1310) 3:15–3:35pm Developing Educational Games Across Schools at UW-Madison Presenters: Greg Vaughan & Mike Beall

3:35–4:00pm The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: IT Lessons Learned from Building-Wide Disasters Presenter: Pete Sengstock & Alan Silver 4:00–4:15pm Closing Remarks

4:30–6:30pm Post-Conference Social Event

Please join us for a post-conference drinks at the Memorial Union Terrace (800 Langdon St)!

Rain Location: Smitty’s Study Pub (601 University Ave)

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