ACM Meetup "Applying Graph Theory to Infrastructure as Code with Seth Vargo"

Tuesday, October 25, 2016
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Mellon Board Room

Cost: Free

In this talk Seth Vargo from HashiCorp explores the relationship between infrastructure as code and graph theory.

RSVP at this link: http://www.meetup.com/ACM-Pittsburgh/events/232574866/

Abstract: Graphs are mathematical structures used to model relationships between objects. Modern infrastructure is a series of resources (objects) that have dependencies and ordering requirements (relationships). Thus, modern infrastructure can be represented as the mathematical construct of a graph. With just a few nodes, the relationships between resources in an infrastructure are easy to understand, but at a certain scale, the relationships become impractical to reason about.

Terraform relies on years of graph theory research to model the relationships between infrastructure resources so operators can safely manage and change infrastructure resources across bare metal, IaaS, PasS, and SaaS. Operators can avoid unforeseen consequences using Terraform.

Agenda:

7:00pm: Refreshments

7:15pm: Announcements

7:25pm - Tech Talk

8:10pm - Q&A

8:25pm - Conversations

8:55pm - Departure

Speaker:

Seth Vargo has been a member of the DevOps community for about five years. Currently, Seth is a polyglot software engineer and open source advocate at at HashiCorp. Previously, he worked at Chef (Opscode), CustomInk, and a few Pittsburgh-based startups. He is a coauthor of O’Reilly’s Learning Chef and is passionate about inequality in technology and organizational culture. When he is not writing software or working on open source, Seth enjoys speaking at local user groups and conferences. He is a co-organizer for DevOps Days Pittsburgh and loves all things bacon. You can find him on the Internet as “sethvargo.”

Location

Mellon Board Room


Directions

Here are directions to the Mellon Board Room (MBR) in Mellon Center: Come into the campus via Fifth Avenue. (GPS Coordinate: 5918 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232.) Turn onto Murray Hill Avenue. (If you are coming from Oakland, turn right off Fifth Avenue onto Murray Hill Avenue.) After following Murray Hill Ave about a half mile, turn left into the Chatham University Jennie King-Mellon Library parking lot. Parking is unrestricted after 4:30 PM. From the library lot, go up some steps to get to campus. Facing the Quad Lawn, with the library behind you, Mellon Center will be to your right, down the path. Following the downward sloping path, the Mellon Board Room will be on your left. MBR is a one-storey, brick structure with a balcony on top. You will see the Tudor-style mansion just beyond it. Enter MBR through wooden double doors from the outside.


Contact Information

Ginger Ellis-Polozoff
412-365-2975
tpolozoff@chatham.edu