Running OpenStreetMap.org - Today and Tomorrow
2022-08-20 , Auditorium A

This session will provide an introduction to the OpenStreetMap operations team, what OpenStreetMap.org services we are responsible for building and maintaining.

Grant recently became the OpenStreetMap Foundation's first full-time employee. Grant will present how he is helping improve reliability and security of the project's technology and infrastructure.


Grant will detail how the Operations team are modernising the project's infrastructure by reducing complexity, paying-down technical debt, while reducing the need to maintain undifferentiated heavy lifting.

If you’re interested in what powers OpenStreetMap and make it tick, come to this session.


Talk keywords:

DevOps, SRE, Operations

Affiliation:

OpenStreetMap Foundation

See also: Presentation (v1.2) (3.3 MB)

Grant Slater is the OpenStreetMap Foundation's Senior Site Reliability Engineer.

Before becoming the OSMF's SRE in May 2022 he worked as a consultant DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer during the day and moonlighted as part of the all volunteer OpenStreetMap Operations Team (sysadmins)

Grant has been involved with OpenStreetMap for 16 years, 15 years of which he has in-part been responsible for running the project's infrastructure.