Scripts that access external data sources - flat files, Active Directory, IoT streams or relational databases - usually do so very well in the lab but will fail or take aeons to complete when facing real world scale. In this session, we explore information gathering techniques for large scale infrastructure data and produce recipes for your everyday automation.
In Part One we shall look at Active Directory, VMware vSphere and SQL, with an aside to SQLite.

This is a more workshoppy version of the Real-World Scale talk, with much more audience interaction intended.