Laurie Denness

an Engineering Manager, working for Bloomberg

I graphs, clusters, hardware and scaling. Previously at Etsy and Last.fm

I tweet at @lozzd and blog infrequently here

"If it moves, graph it"

Me, 2009

Github Projects

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opsweekly
JavaScript
On call alert classification and reporting
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Nagdash
PHP
A full screen, clean interface for Nagios designed for A dashboard/NOC/monitoring screen.
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FITB
PHP
FITB is a tool that automatically polls every port on a list of switches you give it. Simple configuration, precise polling, easy searching and automatic discovery of both new ports and ports that go offline are the goals of FITB.
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AutoNmap
Shell
Automated daily scan using Nmap and report on the differences
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octopus-energy-rates-card
JavaScript
This lovelace card for Home Assistant displays the Octopus Energy rate prices per each 30 minute slot
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Naglite2
PHP
Full screen Nagios viewer intended for NOC/monitoring screens
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CactiView
PHP
An automatic rotation system for Cacti graphs to be display on a fixed monitor
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DecentExposure
PHP
A command line tool to calculate your Nagios "exposure" (that is, the maximum amount of time Nagios could take to send a notification) for your services.
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cdn_scripts
PHP
Miscellaneous scripts for monitoring and operating various CDNs
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ChefScripts
Shell
Random handy/hacky Chef scripts
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cisco-config-parse
Ruby
A gem to allow easy parsing of Cisco configuration files
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PagerdutyPHP
PHP
A collection of PHP scripts to utilise Pagerduty.com's API
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playdarwin
C#
Playdar Windows wrapper
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Twitdiff
PHP
Quick and hacky script to be cronned to give you a daily update of your followers on Twitter.
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scripts
Shell
Here lies an assortment of scripts that didn't fit anywhere else
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EtsyWebOS
JavaScript
A webOS experiment, to try and get a semi decent Etsy app.

Public Speaking

"FITB" at Velocity Europe 2011 (lightning demo)


"Integrating Multiple CDN Providers at Etsy" at Velocity Europe 2013 and Etsy Labs (Code as Craft)


"Using Managed DNS to Integrate Multiple CDN Providers" at CDN Summit 2014

Abbreviated version of the above given with Michael Rembetsy. Video available here


"Mean Time to Sleep: Quantifying the On-call Experience" at Velocity CA 2014


"Leveling up monitoring: A decade of automating and scaling Nagios" at Velocity CA 2016


Other things I've made

How can you contact me?

Email: first name at last name dot net