Grant Slater
Grant Slater is a long-time OpenStreetMap mapper (since 2006) and member of the OSM Operations Team. He has helped run the project's infrastructure since 2007 and now works as a Site Reliability Engineer for the OpenStreetMap Foundation. When not keeping servers online, he can usually be found on his allotment battling slugs.
Session
11-14
13:30
30min
Servers on Fire: Keeping OpenStreetMap Online
Grant Slater
A light-hearted behind-the-scenes look running the OpenStreetMap infrastructure. From fighting bots and scrapers to rescuing failing servers, discover how the Ops Team keeps OSM.org running smoothly.
Software and Engineering
Area