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Talks & Presentations Collection

January 11, 2020

Providing Services to Cloud Native Platforms with the Open Service Broker API

In a digital world, widely adopted and easy to use APIs are the cornerstone of collaboration and interoperability. As Cloud technologies mature and become commonplace, the absence of standards surface …

Real-world serverless architecture and engineering with AWS

January 11, 2020

Mike Roberts discusses the benefits, trade-offs, concepts, and patterns of serverless architecture and then demonstrates building a serverless application using AWS technology with API Gateway and Lambda.

Resilient software design in a nutshell

January 11, 2020

Uwe Friedrichsen walks you through the foundations of resilient software design: what it is, why we need it, how to start, and where the biggest pitfalls lie, with a focus on design challenges and useful resilience patterns.

Rethinking microservices with stateful streams

January 11, 2020

Ben Stopford looks at two forces that sit in opposition: data systems (which focus on exposing data) and services (which focus on encapsulating it). How should we balance these two? Streaming offers a solution.

Scaling traditional integration in an event-driven architecture

January 11, 2020

Karun Japhet tells the tale of how one company bridged the technological divide between modern event-driven systems and traditional architectures, building a resilient platform with eventual consistency guarantees even when third parties provided no guarantees of reasonable service.

Trace Everything: When APM Meets SysAdmins

January 11, 2020

Transaction tracing is typically thought of something that only developers do when they need to troubleshoot a piece of their software. And lately, its also been used for tracing microservice-based t …

Apache ARIA - Open Source, Open Governance Multi-Cloud TOSCA Orchestration

January 10, 2020

Apache ARIA is an, open source, lightweight framework, which includes a library and CLI for implementing orchestration software using the TOSCA specification. ARIA is the core orchestration engine for …

Enabling Innovation through Cloud Composition

January 10, 2020

This session will describe the injection of cloud innovation into Mercedes-Benzs Silicon Valley Innovation Lab. As an Innovation Architect, Joe Leavers role is to be a startup scout for Mercedes-Ben …

Marketing Your Open Source Project

January 10, 2020

Building and nurturing an open source project can be challenging, with so many others competing for time, attention, and money. For your project to stand out and have its best chance of success, you ( …

Modular Overlay Networking Solutions with the Container Network Interface

January 10, 2020

The Container Network Interface (CNI) is becoming the de facto standard for implementing plugins for container runtimes, and is used by Mesos, Kubernetes, and Cloud Foundry. The same CNI standard make …

Serverless in production: An experience report

January 10, 2020

AWS Lambda has changed the way we deploy and run software, but the serverless paradigm has created new challenges to old problems around testing, CI/CD, and ops. Yan Cui shares solutions to these challenges, drawing on his experience running Lambda in production.

Smart, scalable content distribution

January 10, 2020

Distributing website content in a microservices-driven architecture is not a trivial task, and it requires solving complex problems stemming from the large number of servers involved and the variety of edge cases that need to be solved. Georgiana Gligor shares a solution to content snapshotting, distribution, and caching in a silo-based architecture involving tens of machines.

Superheroes and con artists: Abusing fictional tropes for better teams

January 10, 2020

Hiring and maintaining a software team is a challenging proposition. Programmers are among the toughest craftspeople to manage and assess. To gain a fresh perspective (and relieve the boredom), Don Kelly turns to the pulp fiction of his adolescence for inspiration, explaining how he maps teams from fictional universes into the software teams he would like to build.

The computer science behind a modern distributed data store

January 10, 2020

What we see in the modern data store world is a race between different approaches to achieve distributed and resilient storage. The IoT, genomics, and applications for any other field also raise the demand for a stateful layer. Max Neunhffer walks you through the components and the inner workings of modern open source databases like ArangoDB, Cassandra, Cockroach, and RethinkDB.

The death of Cannot Reproduce

January 10, 2020

Software practitioners believe if you cant reproduce a bug, you cant know if youve fixed it, but sometimes it's just not possible. Issue tracking systems have a special resolution type for this situationCannot Reproduce. Michelle Brush highlights principles and practices that deliver reproducibility in systems, arguing that we are getting closer and closer to the death of Cannot Reproduce.

The Set of Programmers: How Math Restricts Us

January 10, 2020

Let's start a discussion about how we are introducing new developers to programming. Most textbooks, tutorials, and trainings begin by using mathematics lessons to teach newcomers to code. Many course …

Transparent Huge Pages on Steroids

January 10, 2020

In big memory machines, hugepages can play a large role in increasing system performance. However, using hugepages manually for different segments of memory adds to application complexity. Linux has a …

A hands-on data science crash course for modeling and predicting the behavior of (large) distributed systems

January 9, 2020

Data science is a hot topic. Bart De Vylder and Pieter Buteneers offer a practical introduction that goes beyond the hype, exploring data analysis, visualization, and machine learning techniques using Python for modeling the behavior of distributed systems. You'll leave with a solid starting point to implement data science techniques in your infrastructure or domain of interest.

Blockchains and cryptocurrencies: New paradigms for shared data

January 9, 2020

Bitcoin showed us a new way of moving value around the internet without intermediaries. Neha Narula explains how this paradigm might apply to our traditional ways of thinking about databases that cross organizational boundaries. As data on the web becomes consolidated around a few key players, the blockchain might help users gain more control.

Building Trust: Testing SPDX Generation Tools

January 9, 2020

Having open source tooling that can generate SPDX documents is an important first step in automating detection and summarizing of the license compliance information found in source or binary code. How …

Data Science for Community Managers

January 9, 2020

We will present some typical community management worries about community health, productivity and visibility and how some open source tools could be used to face them. Open source development transpa …

email2git: A Cregit Plugin to Link Reviews to Git Commits

January 9, 2020

The Linux project's email-based reviewing process is highly effective in filtering open source contributions on their way from mailing list discussions towards Linus' Git repository. However, once int …

Growing Open Source Talent via Certification

January 9, 2020

Open source software has traditionally relied on individuals taking the initiative to become a developer or a user. The expectation was that people would 'teach themselves' and use fora such as IRC to …

Improved Buffer Sharing Synchronization for Graphics & Media

January 9, 2020

Isn't it time we had all new and exciting devices running mailing kernel? Robust and efficient Graphics & Media stacks are a must for most of these devices, yet mainline always fell behind in these ar …

Nightmares of a Container Orchestration System

January 9, 2020

A lot of talks will tell you how to setup a systems correctly. This talk is about what not to do with your Apache Mesos and DC/OS cluster. We will share some of our favorite/scariest support stories …

Replace Your Exploit-Ridden Firmware with Linux - Ronald Minnich, Google

January 9, 2020

With the WikiLeaks release of the vault7 material, the security of the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) firmware used in most PCs and laptops is once again a concern. UEFI is a proprietary …

Seamless Integration of Heterogeneous Automotive Busses into Linux

January 9, 2020

Information technologies and infotainment are at the heart of todays automotive innovations. Over the last two decades, numerous technologies and communication busses have been integrated in vehicles …

The move toward modularity

January 9, 2020

We must rethink how we approach the design and architecture of software for the future. Architectural modularity will be a cornerstone of these software applications. Mark Richards explores the history of architectural modularity, discusses current architecture patterns that support modularity, and explains why architectural modularity is so important (and necessary).