When I first moved to San Francisco, the PHP meetup group hadn’t had a meeting in a year. That was before [Touge][touge] took it up, and, along with [Mariano][mariano], does the hard work of actually scheduling people to come shoot the shit.

Apparently, it’s time for my shit to be shot.

[Tomorrow, I’m giving a talk][talk] at [SFPHP][sfphp] on [DevOps][devops] for PHP developers. I’ve giving this talk before as the [closing keynote][lineman phpcomcon] at [PHP Community Conference][phpcomcon] and [to sysadmins][lineman oscon] at OSCON.

> **Living without Your Linemen: The Programmer Becomes System Operator in the Cloud**
>
> If a website architect is the quarterback, then site operations is the offensive line—overworked, under-appreciated, and only noticed when it fails. They make you look good. However, four years ago cloud computing networks like Amazon Web Services and Slicehost have appeared. While deficiencies in frameworks in other languages have forced those worlds to adopt Infrastructure-as-a-Service, the PHP world—with it’s ultra-cheap shared-hosting (on one end) and tradition of dominance on some of the most trafficked websites (on the other)—has been slow to move. But as the technology continues to disrupt, modern web engineers will be expected to use their programming skills to not only build, but also provision and maintain fast, scalable websites.
>
> The efficiencies of a web-based language and experience in scalable website architecture offer a unique opportunity for programmers to transfer their skills when wearing a sysop hat. Not to mention some of the best libraries for programming them are written in PHP! When going from a small pet project to a go-live site, maybe we can learn to live without our linemen.

Trust me, you’ll like it.

[Please come][talk]!

Also, If you are an American citizen, go vote! 🙂

[talk]: http://www.sfphp.org/events/33726032/ “Living without Your Linemen: The Programmer Becomes System Operator in the Cloud—SFPHP”
[sfphp]: http://www.sfphp.org/ “The SF PHP Meetup Group—SFPHP”
[mariano]: http://twitter.com/marianopeterson
[touge]: http://www.grepmymind.com/ “Grep My Mind”
[devops]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps “DevOps—Wikipedia”
[lineman oscon]: http://www.slideshare.net/tychay/2011-07-lineman-opsoscon “2011 07 Living without your Linemen—OSCON”
[lineman phpcomcon]: http://www.slideshare.net/tychay/living-without-linemen “Living Without Linemen—PHP Community Conference 2011”
[phpcomcon]: http://phpcon.org/ “PHP Community Cpnference”