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CentOS Dojos are one day events, organised around the world, that bring together people from the CentOS Communities to talk about systems administration, best practices in Linux-centric activities and emerging technologies of note. The emphasis is to find local speakers and tutors to come together and talk about things that they care about most, and to share stories from their experiences working with CentOS in various scenarios.

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Systems Automation and metrics at Pinterest: At Pinterest metrics instrumentation and presentation has been an increasingly vital as our systems scale. In this talk we will cover the challenges of running a high volume metrics collection system using Open Source tools. Detailed information about how the system scaled over time and the current challenges of piecing together performance data in a distributed system.

Software Collections: The power to build, install and use multiple versions of software on the same system, without affecting system-wide installed packages. Welcome to software collections. In this talk Joe will cover some of the background on software collections, how to implement them and highlight some of the scl's being shipped today in CentOS Linux.

2 years in your future: Systemd is the new kid on the block, everyone is talking about it, everyone is thinking about it, everyone is planning for it. Having run it in production for over 2 years now, I will cover some of the caveats, challenges and wins from SystemD and how everyone can get ready for it in the upcoming CentOS-7. I will also touch upon Journald and how it might impact existing setups.

Happy Tools: Happy tools! This talk will introduce three different operations-friendly tools to help make you happier. The first tool is fpm, which brings happiness to software packaging. The second tool is pleaserun, which makes running software less painful. The last tool is logstash, which helps make log management and search more awesome. All these are open source and built to help you get work done faster and easier so you can stay a happy, cheerful person.

The New CentOS Project: A new board members perspective on where the CentOS project is today and the road ahead.

Notes on MariaDB 10: MariaDB is coming along in great strides, and is now included by default in the EL7 Beta cycle. In this talk Monty will cover some of the major performance wins in the new MariaDB10 release's parallel replication, group commits etc on CentOS; He will also cover some of the reasons why MariaDB should be on the list of db's every sysadmin should include on their db consideration lists.

Running MySQL on CentOS Linux: Linux is by far the most common platform to run MySQL, and there is a lot of accumulated knowledge about which way is best to run MySQL. In this presentation we will go into a number of topics including: Choosing Hardware, Cloud and Virtualization, Choosing Linux Distribution, Choosing Filesystem and Storage Configuration, Linux Kernel Configuration, MySQL Configuration, Setting up Monitoring and Trending.