This year’s Red Hat Summit took place at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco.  Red Hat’s Performance Engineering team had it’s opportunity to showcase our contributions to products and customers with presentations on performance tuning for RHEL, databases, and Red Hat Storage (with behind-the-scenes/support data for many other talks).

Summit is always exciting, because as a company, Red Hat finally gets to reveal what we’ve been cooking.  For example, you may have seen Jim Whitehurst  announce during his keynote, a RHEL variant for containers called Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host via the open source Project Atomic.  Having witnessed the internal development velocity and excitement from customers/partners at Summit around Atomic in particular, I am just so happy for our extremely hard working development teams who are doing everything out in the open, the “Red Hat Way”, as it absolutely should be.

Red Hat made so many announcements, I’d encourage you to look at their Twitter feed to catch it all.

This year marked my 2nd turn as a partner in the Performance Analysis and Tuning presentation.  If you haven’t attended a Summit before, this 2-part session is typically (this year included) one of the most highly anticipated and attended sessions.  Our A/V team has already posted the videos for both parts:  Part 1 and Part 2.

Red Hat also announced the imminent availability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Release Candidate.  The RC includes quite a few performance improvements and important fixes (including this one, which I mentioned during one of the perf talks).  To compliment the RC, our docs team has also refreshed the official RHEL7 Documentation, which means I don’t have to keep pointing people to my blog to figure out nohz_full anymore 🙂

If you haven’t tried the RHEL7 beta, I’d strongly encourage you look at the RC when it hits RHN.  It’s also probably best that you do a fresh install.

From helping characterize RHEL7, to OpenStack, Red Hat Storage, OpenShift and Docker, it’s been just an insane few years.   The most fun I’ve had in my career, too.   #opensource rocks!