Ryan Morgan
Ryan is a Principal Engineer at SpringSource. Prior to the acquisition of Hyperic by SpringSource, Ryan was the co-founder and Chief Architect at Hyperic. In addition to his responsibilities as the technical lead on the project, Ryan is heavily involved in customer deployments of Hyperic HQ, gaining critical knowledge of how operations teams deal with the rapid technological advances in IT infrastructure.
Before Hyperic, Ryan was a Senior Software Engineer at Covalent Technologies, a provider of commercial support and add-on modules for the Apache web server. While at Covalent, Ryan was on the team that developed Enterprise Ready Server (now known as SpringSource ERS) and was the author of mod_ftp, a protocol module for Apache that adds FTP support. mod_ftp entered the ASF incubation process in 2005 and was graduated to a subproject of the HTTP Server Project in 2007.
Ryan holds a BS degree from the University of Nebraska in Computer Engineering and lives in San Francisco with his wife Amy.
Presentations
HQ Management Playbook: Your guide to a winning operations strategy
Hyperic HQ is used to monitor some of the largest and most visible web applications on the internet. This session aims to combine the knowledge gained from these deployments to provide a set of best practices for your web management infrastructure. Topics to be covered include everything from architecture and deployment of HQ, to extension areas of the product to allow for integration with other management systems and processes. We will also cover best practices for instrumentation of applications to provide a smooth transition from development to operations in the build, run, manage application life-cycle.
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