Benjamin Black
Principal Architect, Opscode

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Benjamin Black loves building infrastructure and is currently building infrastructure automation at Opscode. Previously, he was the principal engineer for infrastructure, and ran the network engineering and information security teams at Amazon.com. Benjamin also holds several patents in routing optimization from his time at Internap and is co-author on a number of IETF RFCs for MPLS and IPv6.

Sessions

11:00am Thursday, 04/02/2009
Cloud Operations Is the New Killer Job
Web Operations
 Location: 2010
Alistair Croll (Bitcurrent), Benjamin Black (Opscode), Lew Moorman (Rackspace.com), Kevin Gibbs (Google App Engine)
There's a myth that clouds just run themselves. While clouds let us do more with less - and give us much, much more the moment we need it - cloud computing presents new challenges to operations teams.Instead of racking and stacking servers, you're clicking and dragging virtual machines. Operational chops are more important than ever now that platforms can grow and shrink within minutes. Read more.
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