[TALK]@Telematika

Talks & Presentations Collection

January 1, 2020

Lightweight Containerization at Facebook

In Facebook's new container system we started to heavily utilize Btrfs, cgroups2 and systemd. The combination of these tools and some additional internal code allowed us to create a lightweight, fast …

Bringing Open Source Communities Together: Cross Community CI

December 31, 2019

In many applications of OSS, components developed by independent communities are tested only within the context of the corresponding communities without integrating the components from others. This re …

Comparison of Foss Distributed Storage

December 31, 2019

Marian will compare the performance and reliability of some of the most used distributed storage systems: - Ceph - GlusterFS - DRBD + NFS - OrangeFS - MooseFS In this talk you will not only see some s …

Everything You Need to Know About Kubernetes Persistent Storage

December 31, 2019

Applications need data. Containers remain an ephemeral technology but we don't want our data to disappear either. So how does Kubernetes do it? This session will examine all the individual pieces req …

From Zero to Hero: Scalable 4K Video Encoding with Kubernetes and Other Open Source Tools

December 31, 2019

From zero to hero: Scalable 4k video encoding with kubernetes and other open source tools (Hygo Reinaldo, Xite Networks) - Encoding 4k videos can be very challenging due to aspects like encoding time, …

gRPC: A Journey to 10000 Stars on Github

December 31, 2019

High Performance Microservices on Linux with Apache Thrift

December 31, 2019

The world is rapidly adopting cloud native approaches to software development, reaping the synergies produced by combining microservices, Linux container technology and dynamic application orchestrati …

MacroBase: A search engine for fast data streams

December 31, 2019

Sahaana Suri offers an overview of MacroBase, a new analytics engine from Stanford designed to prioritize the scarcest resource in large-scale, fast-moving data streams: human attention. MacroBase allows reconfigurable, real-time root-cause analyses that have already diagnosed issues in production streams in mobile, data center, and industrial applications.

Messaging, storage, or both: The real-time story of Pulsar and Apache DistributedLog

December 31, 2019

Modern enterprises produce data at increasingly high volume and velocity. To process data in real time, new types of storage systems have been designed, implemented, and deployed. Matteo Merli and Sijie Guo offer an overview of Apache DistributedLog and Pulsar, real-time storage systems built using Apache BookKeeper and used heavily in production.

Mistakes were made, but not by us: Lessons from a year of supporting Apache Kafka

December 31, 2019

Dustin Cote shares his experience troubleshooting Apache Kafka in production environments and explains how to avoid pitfalls like message loss or performance degradation in your environment.

Modern real-time streaming architectures

December 31, 2019

Karthik Ramasamy, Sanjeev Kulkarni, Avrilia Floratau, Ashvin Agrawal, Arun Kejariwal, and Sijie Guo walk you through state-of-the-art streaming systems, algorithms, and deployment architectures, covering the typical challenges in modern real-time big data platforms and offering insights on how to address them.

Monitoring At Scale: What was Recently Done and Whats Next in oVirt

December 31, 2019

Monitoring the state of high number of running virtual machine instances is crucial for effective management of large-scale virtual environments. It provides invaluable information for system administ …

Music, the window into your soul

December 31, 2019

Have you ever wondered why Spotify just seems to know what you want? As a data-first company, Spotify is investing heavily in its analytics and machine learning capabilities to understand and predict user needs. Christine Hung shares how Spotify uses data and algorithms to improve user experience and drive business impact.

Oh buoy! How data science improves shipping intelligence for hedge funds

December 31, 2019

Abraham Thomas demonstrates how maritime data can be used to predict physical commodity flows, in a case study that covers every stage of the data lifecycle, from raw data acquisition, data cleansing and structuring, and machine learning and probabilistic modeling to conversion to tractable format, packaging for final audience, and commercialization and distribution.

Optimizing the data warehouse at Visa

December 31, 2019

At Visa, the process of optimizing the enterprise data warehouse and consolidating data marts by migrating these analytic workloads to Hadoop has played a key role in the adoption of the platform and how data has transformed Visa as an organization. Nandu Jayakumar and Justin Erickson share Visas journey along with some best practices for organizations migrating workloads to Hadoop.

Putting data to work: How to optimize workforce staffing to improve organization profitability

December 31, 2019

New machine learning technologies allow companies to apply better staffing strategies by taking advantage of historical data. Francesca Lazzeri and Hong Lu share a workforce placement recommendation solution that recommends staff with the best professional profile for new projects.

What's in a Kernel Oops?

December 31, 2019

If you have been using Linux for some time, you must have seen at least one kernel oops or panic, because sadly no software is completely free of bugs. You probably submitted the report to a mailing l …

Applying Goals-Question-Metrics to Software Development Management

December 30, 2019

"If you can not measure it, you can not improve it". With that mantra on mind many people has tried to measure almost anything to success in their projects, and management tools usually provide tons o …

Architecturing and Securing IoT Cloud Platforms

December 30, 2019

IoT device management and multi-protocol messaging platform demands specific architectural decisions and high-concurrency approaches due to the massive number of devices we expect to be connected in t …

Contain Your Desktop Applications with Flatpak

December 30, 2019

Flatpak is the new way of packaging and running applications that is compatible across different Linux distributions. In this talk we will explore Flatpaks internal sandboxing mechanisms and see how …

CRIU: CRazI stUff for the Mainframe?

December 30, 2019

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 …

Designing and Performing Marketing Campaigns for Open Source Products

December 30, 2019

Designing and performing marketing campaigns for Open Source products must be approached differently than proprietary software alternatives. Our presentation abounds in this claim, assembling three co …

Detecting Performance Regressions in the Linux Kernel

December 30, 2019

Performance of the Linux kernel is one of the key features for its users. Despite this fact, systematic testing for performance regressions is relatively scarce because of its inherent difficulty. In …

From Dockerfiles to Ansible Container

December 30, 2019

Come and discover how you can utilize Ansible language paired with ansible-container tool for a complete lifecycle of your containerized project. This talk contains lessons learnt from turning a docke …

GPU, USB, NICs and Other Physical Devices in Your Containers

December 30, 2019

The very definition of a container is that it's a set of processes, or in this case full operating system which is sharing the kernel with the host machine. This opens a full array of possibilities as …

Mission Impossible: Open Source Compliance for 1990s Licenses in Todays World. Will the OS Communities Soon Face OSS Trolls?

December 30, 2019

This session will discuss the following: Why do 30 years old licenses cause compliance issues in todays world of IoT, embedded devices and software stacks? Why have the risks of non-compliance inc …

Mixed License FOSS Projects: Unintended Consequences, Worked Examples, Best Practices

December 30, 2019

Many projects start out with the intention of staying single license FOSS projects. As your project grows, reality hits: some components or files may need to use different licenses than originally ant …

OpenSDS and Storage Transformation for Cloudification at Vodafone

December 30, 2019

OpenSDS is an open-source project created to address the storage challenges, particularly in scale-out cloud native environments, with heterogeneous storage platforms. The project promotes the use of …