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Whether building a web, VOIP, or gaming backend, Operations is using development tools to make it work.

We're interested in the built-in facilities in Linux and the BSDs to programmatically seed and deploy.  We're building traditional UNIX infrastructure with lighttpd/Nginx/Apache, Syslog, NFS, LDAP, MySQL/Postgres and BIND/PowerDNS, but doing it with modern scripting languages (Python, Ruby, Perl...) and revision-control.  Debconf in Debian and Ubuntu.  Kickstart in Redhat and CentOS.  pc-sysinstall on BSD.  A mix of cloud, hosted and datacenter-minded folks.  Expect musings on Puppet, Chef, Augeas, Fabric, CFEngine, and FAI.

 

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  • Using NLP and Pattern Matching to Detect PII with Elastic / DevOps Adaptability

    Using NLP and Pattern Matching to Detect PII with Elastic / DevOps Adaptability

    O'Briens Irish Pub, 2226 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica, CA, US

    For the October LA DevOps meetup Stephen Brown from Elastic will discuss "Using NLP and Pattern Matching to Detect, Assess, and Redact PII in Logs".

    For the second talk LA DevOps Co-host Rich Horace will present "DevOps Adaptability: My Strategy To Be The Human in the Loop"
    See the Presentation Details section below for more info.

    Sponsored by Elastic
    Thanks to Elastic for sponsoring LA DevOps.

    Event Details:
    6:00 - 6:30 Attendees arrive. Networking/Mingle
    6:30 - 6:45 LA DevOps Welcome,Attendee Introductions
    6:45 - 7:30 Using NLP and Pattern Matching to Detect, Assess, and Redact PII in Logs - Stephen Brown
    7:30 - 8:00 DevOps Adaptability: My Strategy To Be The Human in the Loop - Rich Horace
    8:00 - 9:00 Networking/Mingle

    Presentation Details:
    Title: Using NLP and Pattern Matching to Detect, Assess, and Redact PII in Logs
    Presented By: Stephen Brown
    Description:
    The prevalence of high-entropy logs in distributed systems has significantly raised the risk of PII (Personally Identifiable Information) seeping into our logs, which can result in security and compliance issues. This talk delves into the crucial task of identifying and managing this issue using the Elastic Stack. We will explore using NLP (Natural Language Processing) and Pattern matching to detect, assess, and, where feasible, redact PII from logs that are being ingested into Elasticsearch.
    About Stephen
    Stephen Brown is a Sr Principal, Customer Enterprise Specialist with Elastic for over 7 years. He is part of our Customer Engineering Specialist Team and works with some of our largest customers. He is a bit of a Data Geek with 25+ years of experience in Software and Data Engineering, Data Analytics, and IT Operations.

    Title: DevOps Adaptability: My Strategy To Be The Human in the Loop
    Presented By: Rich Horace
    Description:
    DevOps has always been about adaptability, and navigating the AI revolution is no different. The challenge is effectively merging proven DevOps practices with an AI-First strategy.
    Join me as I share my personal strategy for bridging this gap. I’ll walk you thr ough the ongoing steps I take to future-proof myself, including the three essential non-AI subscriptions that keep my core DevOps knowledge sharp and ensure I remain a valuable 'human in the loop.'

    About Rich
    Rich Horace is the Principal Consultant at SecretSauceOps. He's been passionate about DevOps since the early days, recognizing its potential to help teams work smarter and drive business success. Over his career, Rich has built and led data-driven DevOps teams for SaaS companies in online advertising (Nativo, Fox, MySpace) and gained valuable experience in Corporate IT at Nestle and EMC.

    About O'Brien's Pub on Wilshire:
    The covered patio at Obrien's Pub has been a great place to host LA DevOps meetups for our post covid revival. The food and drink are great and the staff are very friendly. O'brien's is also the LA home of Manchester United Football Club Supporters.
    You may want to bring a jacket for the cooler months.
    Regarding parking, there are meters on Wilshire and the side streets that expire at 6.

    Present at an Upcoming LA DevOps Meetup:
    If you would like to present at an upcoming LA DevOps meetup please send a message in meetup to the organizers with a proposed title and a sentence or two about the talk.

    Subscribe to the LA DevOps Meetup Calendar at lu.ma
    The LA DevOps events are also listed on lu.ma which has an interesting interface. Subscribe to LA DevOps on lu.ma at https://lu.ma/calendar/cal-F7BPqBLAe80T5nS

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