embedded

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

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 …
Practical, team-focused operability techniques for distributed systems

Practical, team-focused operability techniques for distributed systems

January 17, 2020

Matthew Skelton shares five practical, tried-and-tested techniques for improving operability with many kinds of software systems, including the cloud, serverless, on-premises, and the IoT.
Security Track

Security Track

January 16, 2020

Subject: Embedded devices (aka IoT) as a community problem Abstract: This track will focus on the volatility on the Internet caused by embedded devices of all sha …
The Many Approaches to Real-Time and Safety Critical Linux Systems

The Many Approaches to Real-Time and Safety Critical Linux Systems

January 12, 2020

Linux and Real-Time have become a widespread combination that is deployed in many industrial solutions. Real-Time requirements are often combined with safety requirements, and satisfying both is only …
Understanding the Impact of the Scheduler on Your Application

Understanding the Impact of the Scheduler on Your Application

January 8, 2020

For today's applications, one of the challenging aspects is to optimally utilize the linux task scheduler. This is because the scheduler is expected to provide optimal performance across a wide range …
Expanding data literacy with data visualizations

Expanding data literacy with data visualizations

January 3, 2020

While the value of data and its role in informing decisions and communications is well known, its meaning can be incorrectly interpreted without data visualizations that provide context and accurate representation of the underlying numbers. Julie Rodriguez shares new approaches and visual design methods that provide a greater perspective of the data.
Going Modular: Turning Legacy Docs into User-Story-Based Content

Going Modular: Turning Legacy Docs into User-Story-Based Content

January 2, 2020

Documentation is an essential part of good user experience, but traditional open-source docs are becoming unfit for the brave new world of containerized, embedded, and other specialized software deplo …
Mission Impossible: Open Source Compliance for 1990s Licenses in Todays World. Will the OS Communities Soon Face OSS Trolls?

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 …
Automation beyond Testing and Embedded System Validation

Automation beyond Testing and Embedded System Validation

December 29, 2019

Current OSS testing projects like LAVA have mostly achieved their goals: automate and simplify software testing on embedded hardware. However, the integrated automation layer is not easy to reuse for …
BoF: Embedded Linux Size

BoF: Embedded Linux Size

December 28, 2019

This "Birds of a Feather" session will start by a quick update on available resources and recent efforts to reduce the size of the Linux kernel and the filesystem it uses. An ARM based system running …
How I Survived to a SoC with a Terrible Linux BSP

How I Survived to a SoC with a Terrible Linux BSP

December 26, 2019

System-on-Chip vendors typically provide a board support package (BSP) which should be a good starting point to develop the software for an embedded Linux system. However they often seem to misunderst …
Protecting Your System from the Scum of the Universe - Gilad Ben-Yossef, Arm Holdings

Protecting Your System from the Scum of the Universe - Gilad Ben-Yossef, Arm Holdings

December 26, 2019

Linux based systems have a plethora of security related mechanisms: DM-Crypt, DM-Verity, Secure Boot, the new TEE sub-system, FScrypt and IMA are just a few examples. This talk will describe these the …
The Rise of Open Source in the Manufacturing Industry

The Rise of Open Source in the Manufacturing Industry

December 26, 2019

In the past 20 years, software has become increasingly important for industrial manufacturers. This trend is expected to continue in the future. At the same time, the share of open source technologies …
Security Features for UBIFS

Security Features for UBIFS

December 24, 2019

In the last year UBIFS gained cryptography support by implementing the fscrypt interface. The goal of this talk is to explain what kind of protection fscrypt brings to the MTD stack and how to use it. …
Linux Storage System Bottleneck for eMMC/UFS

Linux Storage System Bottleneck for eMMC/UFS

December 21, 2019

The storage device is considered a bottleneck to the system I/O performance. This thinking drives the need for faster storage device interfaces. Commonly used flash based storage interfaces support hi …
Zero-Copy Video Streaming on Embedded Systems the Easy Way

Zero-Copy Video Streaming on Embedded Systems the Easy Way

December 19, 2019

More and more graphics and video processing units of embedded SoCs are supported by drivers that are developed in the open as free software. This makes it easier than ever to build interesting hardwar …
Lightning Talk: Watch This!

Lightning Talk: Watch This!

December 15, 2019

Rippy will demonstrate Docker running on his rooted Android Wear watch. To get this working required Docker, OpenEmbedded, Yocto, and AsteroidOS which he'll explain. If all goes well with the demonst …
Standing on the shoulders of giants: Unleashing the power of scriptable load balancers

Standing on the shoulders of giants: Unleashing the power of scriptable load balancers

December 13, 2019

Once reserved for companies large enough to write a load balancer from scratch, load balancer middleware can be a powerful tool for scaling applications. Emil Stolarsky and Justin Li explain how Shopify uses scriptable load balancers to solve difficult infrastructure problems, such as sharding across data centers, handling flash sales, and responding quickly to DDoS attacks.