Phil Jackson (SoftLayer) Interview - OSCON 2014

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Channel: O'Reilly · 2014 · Science & Technology

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The Development Community Advocate at SoftLayer Technologies (newly part of IBM) sits down for an interview at the 2014 O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Watch more from OSCON: http://goo.gl/HlGwvP

In this interview, Jackson discusses SoftLayer's work within IBM, a tweet-based auto-scaling application, and the variety of industries using SoftLayer.

About Phil Jackson (SoftLayer):
Phil Jackson is Development Community Advocate for SoftLayer. He helps customers and partners integrate with the SoftLayer’s API. He also architects the company’s Drupal websites, writes API documentation, and maintains the developer blog. Formerly, he was a Sales Engineer building internal tools and providing technical consultation for potential and existing customers. Jackson started his career in webhosting at Ev1Servers where he led the training department. With a passion for technology that started at a young age, he has developed skills in a variety of scripting and programming languages and enjoys sharing his knowledge with the tech community.

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