This month in addition to our regular meeting we will be showing "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz" starting at 5pm before the regular meeting.

At our regular start time of 7pm we will have 2 presentations this month.

Title: Salt Stack for Configuration Management

Speaker: Kevin Bowling

Abstract: Limelight is using Salt Stack to perform Configuration Management at high scale. This talk will go over why this was the best choice for us, best practices we've discovered along the way, an overview of our workflow, including developer's lifecycle, image management, git integration, and reporting.

Bio: Kevin is a systems developer at Limelight Networks and has experience with a wide range of UNIX implementations.  Current interests include OS build and release engineering for large scale clusters like Limelight's FreeBSD footprint.

Topic: The Contributor's Guide to the Kibana Galaxy

Speaker: Spencer Alger

Exploring the expanses of the Kibana galaxy alone can be daunting, but join us to discover the answer to the greatest question-- how does it all work? We will venture into the belly of the beast to discover what Kibana is, how Kibana works, and how you can modify and extend it.

Spencer Alger is a software engineer at Elasticsearch. He primarily works on Kibana as well as supporting the JavaScript client library at Elasticsearch.