IAC 2024 - IA Fast Track to Search Focused AI Solutions
Scrim Presentation
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2. Tricks, Discipline & Mastery
In Football, you are only as good as
your arsenal of moves (tricks).
Which is a similar approach to the Sys
Admin “Laziness as a Virtue” concept.
Mastery of either requires discipline in
Training
Study
Practice
3. People, Process, and
Automation
Systems need to know when they’re
healthy, when to call out for help, and
know when they’re sick.
Operations doesn’t scale unless human
intervention is minimized.
You have to demonstrate efficiency and
effectiveness to your organization, do
this be demonstrating the business
value you are adding day to day.
4. Boxo Data
David Yates, PHd
Assistant Professor, CIS
Department Head MSIT
dyates@bentley.edu
(o) 781.891.2735
Thomas A. McGonagle, MSIT
mcgonagle@gmail.com
(gv) 617.394.8660
5. Boxo Data
Boxo Data
“Box of Datacenter”
“Datacenter in a Box”
Puppet On Tracks
https://github.com/mcgonagletom/PuppetOnTracks
Puppet Jujutsu
“Puppet the Gentle Way”
Puppet Origami
“Bending the Puppet Models”
8. Greatest Football Story Ever
Amazing Everett Football Story
https://github.com/mcgonagletom/PuppetO
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13. Forget Tools, We need
Weapons
Franklin – “man is a tool making animal”
Thoreau – “men have become the tools
of their tools”
Emerson – “All the tools and engines on
Earth are only extensions of man’s limbs
and senses.
14. Jujutsu – The Gentle Art
Old Style Jujutsu Developed (1333-
1573)
The systems practiced were not
systems of unarmed combat, but rather
means for an unarmed or lightly armed
warrior to fight a heavily armed and
armored enemy on the battlefield.
15. Jujutsu’s Five Arts
The Art of Blocking
The Art of the Fulcrum Throw
The Art of the Non-Fulcrum Throw
The Art of Escaping
The Art of Stricking
19. Weaponizing Puppet
Autonomitize your infrastructure to make
it fully automated
http://www.research.ibm.com/autonomic/
http://dev2ops.org/toolchain/
20. Polymorphism &
Isomorphism
Make your Puppet models as
polymorphic as you can
Use inheritance correctly
Approach your infrastructure’s hostname
and ip address as the main data input
into your build/provisioning system
23. People, Process, and
Automation
Systems need to know when they’re
healthy, when to call out for help, and
know when they’re sick.
Operations doesn’t scale unless human
intervention is minimized.
You have to demonstrate efficiency and
effectiveness to your organization, do
this be demonstrating the business
value you are adding day to day.
24. David Yates
David Yates is an Associate Professor of Computer
Information Systems at Bentley University. His
research areas include computer networking, data
communications, sensor networks, embedded
systems, operating systems and architecture. Before
joining Bentley, he was vice president of software
development at InfoLibria – a start-up that grew to
become a leading provider of network equipment for
building content distribution and delivery networks
before it was acquired. He holds several US patents
for processes and systems related to computer
networking, content management and mobile
computing. He holds a PhD and MSc from the
University of Massachusetts and a BSc from Tufts
University.
25. What is David Working On?
“As cloud computing matures, it will
undoubtedly transform the information
technology (IT) industry, and will also
profoundly change the way people work
and companies operate. For this
promise to be fulfilled web services,
mobile apps, and system management
will need to evolve towards autonomic IT
services that are available to users
when and where they need them.
26. David’s Work cont.
The focus of our research is to connect the success
of business and IT services so that people working in
each domain can better understand and collaborate
with each other. To perform this research, we
integrate open source tools and develop additional
infrastructure to monitor and manage the
performance of IT services. The central tool in this
work is Puppet, which is designed to do configuration
management. Thus, one focus of our research is to
explore how to extend configuration management
system to directly indirectly measure the business
value of IT services.
27. David’s Work cont.
Puppet enables an IT service provider to
manage resources such as networks, web
servers, app servers, databases, and so on, in
a flexible manner. To explore potential
research questions, we are developing
techniques to highlight how hardware and
software components are being used and to
what extent they are creating value for the
business. Thus, we are using Puppet and
other tools to create the necessary
transparency to see the activities of the IT
function in action and how these activities
connect with the business to create value.”
