Brent Ashley has been involved in computer technology and its surrounding communities since 1979, contributing via online forums, local and international events, papers, articles, and speeches.
As a leader and mentor in the development community, he became recognized in the early 2000s as an early pioneer in the web technologies that are now known as Ajax.
For more than 20 years, he worked as an Internet infrastructure architect and consultant, gaining extensive experience with networked asset configuration, management, monitoring, and log analysis.
Brent is the associate vice president of infrastructure architecture at ControlCase, LLC (http://www.controlcase.com/), a global innovator and leader in the provision and development of services, software products, hardware appliances, and managed solutions. The company focuses on compliance regulations and standards, including PCI DSS, ISO, SOX, HIPAA and many other regulatory environments and frameworks. Brent takes a lead role in the management and expansion of their international technology infrastructure as they continue to grow.
He was also a technical reviewer on the following books:
Foundations of Ajax, Asleson and Schutta, APress, 2005
Enterprise Ajax, Johnson, White, Charland, Prentice Hall, 2007
David Laing is a long-time member of the Cloud Foundry community. He is a core contributor to BOSH and the leader of the open source Logsearch (ELK + BOSH: http://www.logsearch.io/) project, which brings log analysis to the Cloud Foundry platform using ELK. David's company, stayUp.io (http://www.stayup.io/), provides commercial support for Logsearch.