This post is really late in coming. In trying to get Mahalo 4 launched on time, a few things got pushed off, so here I am trying to catch up.
Way back in November (I think), Jacob Kaplan-Moss visited the Django LA meetup at Mahalo and enlightened us regarding tools and practices for automating sysops.
Sorry for the dark videos, we tried to make the slides readable (with questionable success). The talk is still super interesting.
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