Open Source Summit North America

A Practical Approach of Tailoring Linux Kernel

January 21, 2020

Today Linux Kernel is being used on various devices & platforms. So there are a lot of features in Linux kernel to support them, more than 30 architectures, 300 feature groups, 20,000 configuration op …

Choose Your Own Adventure: Finding the Right Path to Containerization

January 21, 2020

Swapping out your underlying infrastructure is one of the most stressful tasks in an organization. Tasked with modernizing your company's infrastructure, how can you get from here to there AND keep up …

Community Health Analytics Open Source Software (CHAOSS): An Open Source Community for Advancing Project Transparency - Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Bitergia;

January 21, 2020

CHAOSS is a new Linux Foundation project aimed at producing integrated, open source software for analyzing software development, together with defining implementation-agnostic metrics for measuring co …

Live Patching, Virtual Machine Introspection and Vulnerability Management: A Primer and Practical Guide

January 21, 2020

The talk covers several technologies and best practices to managing Security Vulnerabilities, which are told as interconnected stories. We will cover how the largest clouds in production came togeth …

Onto Petaflops with Kubernetes

January 21, 2020

Kubernetes is becoming the sought after platform for managing Deep Learning Applications at scale. In this talk, the speaker will present the internals of how Kubernetes manages GPUs. The talk will th …

Advances in CPU Performance Scaling

January 20, 2020

Quite significant and radical changes were made in the kernel's CPU performance scaling subsystem (CPUFreq) in 2016. Most importantly, it was switched over from using deferrable timers to a new contro …

Aim to Be an Open Source Zero

January 20, 2020

Getting started in open source communities can be daunting, which can lead to people (and companies) over-compensating to try to prove their inherent value to a project. This talk applies lessons in s …

CRIU: CRazI StUff for the Mainframe?

January 20, 2020

2012, January 12, 20:42: Linus Torvalds merges Andrew's "patch-bomb" with the first CRIU kernel patches including the comment "… a project by various mad Russians to perform c/r mainly from userspac …

Full Lifecycle Lessons from a Large Scale Government OpenStack Private Cloud

January 20, 2020

This talk will draw on lessons learnt through the full lifecycle of large scale government OpenStack private cloud, from design and implementation, through to operation and upgrade. How to bring into …

NVMe: Solid-state Drives Meet PCI Express

January 20, 2020

Did you recently replace your Hard Disk by a Solid-State Drive in your servers? Are you satisfied with the speed? What if I told you that it could go even faster? This talk will look at NVM Express, a …

The Anti-Pattern Wall of 2011 has Crumbled: Stateful Applications in Containers

January 20, 2020

The 12 factor app was written in 2011 and became a widely cited classic of useful patterns for application architecture. #6 on the list said: apps shall be stateless. There is some question as to w …

Understanding SCHED_DEADLINE

January 20, 2020

Starting in Linux version 3.14, a new scheduling class was introduced. Called SCHED_DEADLINE, this scheduling class implements Earliest Deadline First (EDF) along with a Constant Bandwidth Scheduler ( …

A Greybeard's Worst Nightmare - How Kubernetes and Containers are Re-defining the Linux OS

January 19, 2020

Containers and Kubernetes are having a deep impact on the Linux operating system (OS) that goes well beyond DevOps and cloud-native applications. The concepts of application-centric packaging, process …

Automating Access Control Lists with OpenDaylight and OpenVSwitch

January 19, 2020

Available Cloud solutions does not ever meet all requirements for company environments. With that in mind, Globo.com embraced an open cloud solutions, Apache Cloudstack, and began developing together …

Boosting Linux Performance with GCC/GLIBC Latest Technologies

January 19, 2020

As the Linux community continues to redefine the boundaries of what is possible in a server-based Linux distribution running on new silicon, both power and performance play an increasingly important r …

Building an aarch64 Linux Laptop

January 19, 2020

aarch64 processors are becoming more powerful all the time, and getting close to being comparable to x86 CPUs. Wouldn't it be nice to have a laptop with the power consumption (and battery life) of a t …

Building Open Source Project Infrastructures

January 19, 2020

With the rise of continuous tooling in development, open source projects are keen to join the new wave of tooling which allows them to replicate this within their projects, rather than depending on su …

Container & Kubernetes Networking 101

January 19, 2020

With the widespread adoption of Docker, containers have taken the DevOps world by storm. Cloud-native is the new programming paradigm. Since developers are not only the creators of these systems, but …

Gaining Influence in an Open Source Community

January 19, 2020

In the open source developer community, code is king. But who is the kingmaker?Most people are used to operating in hierarchical, command and control environments, and often expect the same rules an …

How Linux Containers can Help to Manage Development Environments for IoT and Embedded Systems

January 19, 2020

In this presentation, Yan Vugenfirer will show appropriate techniques for seamless use of containers in development process for embedded and IoT. The implementation of those techniques will be demonst …

Leading By Experience: The Unvarnished Truth about Community Leadership

January 19, 2020

As community manager for a large-scale collaborative project involving over 20 organizations, many of whom compete directly with each other, I have learned a lot of lessons and made a huge number of m …

Radix Tree, IDR APIs and Their Test Suite

January 19, 2020

Linux radix tree is a mechanism by which a (pointer) value can be associated with a (long) integer key efficiently in terms of storage, and lookups. Additional features driven by kernel-specific needs …

64-bit ARM Unikernels on uKVM

January 18, 2020

Unikernels are specialised machine images that are generated using Library Operating Systems, which have smaller footprints, no operating systems and accessing baremetal hardware directly. These desir …

Bringing xfstests to Android

January 18, 2020

Xfstests is a file system regression testing system that was originally developed by SGI to provide quality assurance testing for XFS. It has since become the standard for doing file system testing an …

Building Robust Streaming Data Pipelines with Apache Spark

January 18, 2020

There are challenges to architecting a solution that will allow for developers to stream data into Kafka and be able to manage dirty data which is always an issue in ETL pipelines. I'd like to share l …

Cognitive Workloads on the Cloud: What Clouds Need To Do

January 18, 2020

With the emergence of new powerful hardware accelerators, such as Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) and Programmable Field Gate Arrays (FPGAs), more and more artificial intelligence (AI) has appeared …

Collaboration in Kernel Mailing Lists

January 18, 2020

While there is quite a bit of data about the people and companies who commit Linux kernel code, there isn't much data about how people work together on the kernel mailing lists where they decide what …

FILEgrain: Transport-Agnostic, Fine-Grained Content-Addressable Container Image Layout

January 18, 2020

The current Docker/OCI image format uses TAR archives, which are created for each of Dockerfile RUN changesets, for representing rootfs layers. One of the problems with this format is that a contain …