Andrew Shafer

Andrew Shafer
Itinerant Idea Farmer, lulz

Website | @littleidea | Attendee Directory Profile

Some people are born to web operations and some people have it thrust upon them. Andrew Co-founded Reductive Labs and worked to help organizations build better systems with Puppet. He brings with him a background in high performance computing, computational science, embedded Linux development, web frameworks and Agile methods.

Andrew really likes to help teams navigate the technology Renaissance triple point between people, process and tools.

Andrew is interested in conversation about almost anything. His two sons and wife think he is pretty cool. He is definitely a villager.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewcshafer

Sessions

8:00pm Tuesday, 06/22/2010
Ignite Velocity
Ballroom ABCD
Andrew Shafer (lulz), Jesse Robbins (Opscode)
Average rating: ****.
(4.43, 7 ratings)
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Would you pitch a project? Launch a web site? Teach a hack? We’ll find out this year at Ignite Velocity. Read more.
3:50pm Wednesday, 06/23/2010
Change Management: A Scientific Classification
Operations, Velocity Culture Ballroom AB
Andrew Shafer (lulz)
Average rating: ****.
(4.12, 25 ratings)
Change management is the combination of process and tools by which changes are made to production systems. Approaches range from cowboy style, making changes to the live site, to complex rituals with secret incantations, coming full circle to continuous deployment. This presentation will highlight milestone practices along this spectrum, establishing a matrix for evaluating deployment process. Read more.

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  • Google
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  • Dyn Inc.
  • Facebook
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  • Tilera
  • AlertSite
  • AppDynamics
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  • CDNetworks
  • Circonus
  • Cloudscaling
  • Clustrix
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  • DTO Solutions
  • MaxiScale
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  • NorthScale, Inc.
  • Shopzilla
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  • Virident
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