I'll be giving a presentation called "Transactional System Administration Is Killing Us and Must be Stopped" at the January 2016 meeting of BackBay LISA (BBLISA). This is the same talk I presented recently at LISA, which was very well received.
It includes a preview of material from our upcoming 3rd edition of The Practice of System and Network Administration.
For more information about the talk, directions to the meeting, and so, on, visit the BBLISA website at http://www.bblisa.org/calendar.html