Here’s what you’ll learn at the USENIX tech conference [sponsored]

USENIX Federated Conferences Week (FCW ’14) comes to the new Hyatt Regency Philadelphia at Penn’s Landing, June 17-20, with a program filled with research presentations, intensive training sessions, networking opportunities and information-sharing on cloud computing, file storage, release engineering, autonomic computing and women in advanced computing.

The four-day conference features presentations from companies including Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP Labs, Intel, Microsoft Research, Netflix, Twitter and leading research facilities. Pennsylvania is also well-represented, with speakers from Penn State and Carnegie Mellon.

Register for USENIX FCW ’14 here.

For those not familiar with USENIX, we’re the Advanced Computing Systems Association, a non-profit organization that provides a vendor-neutral meeting ground for the presentation and discussion of technical advances in all aspects of computing systems. For over 35 years, we’ve been the leading community for engineers, system administrators, scientists and technicians working on the cutting edge of the computing world.

Five highlights from this year’s FCW conference:

1. DevOps — the hottest topic on the block! Two conference events focus on this quickly evolving movement: the USENIX Configuration Management Summit and the USENIX Release Engineering Summit. Both include talks from leading tech organizations, including CFEngine, Canonical, Docker, Facebook, Google and Netflix.
2. Hear from Facebook about lessons learned in moving to mobile; find out from Twitter about a novel technique for long-term anomaly detection in the cloud; gain insight from HP Labs about the enterprise and Big Data Systems: yesterday, today and tomorrow; and learn from Google why monitoring and automated releases are like peanut butter and chocolate.
3. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Google is sending their SRE mentors to present a full-day training session on SRE, where attendees will learn about software and hardware requirements for large system design.
4. The Women in Advanced Computing Summit includes a mentoring panel with employees from Facebook, Google, Genentech, Oracle and Qualcomm. They will share and compare experiences, and provide guidance to other women in the field.
5. Recruiters and vendors including Comcast, Berkeley Communications, HP, NetApp and VMware will also be in attendance, providing job hunters with the opportunity to network during the happy hours and reception.

Technical.ly Philly readers can receive a 50 percent discount (use code FCW14Training50 when registering) on conference training events, which cover SRE, Jenkins and Apache CloudStack.

Register for USENIX FCW ’14 here or learn more at the USENIX website.