programming

OpenDaylight as a Platform for Network Programmability

January 22, 2020

Software Defined Networking (SDN) may have started as the separation of the control plane and the data plane, but the true power lies in the ability to communicate with the network through well define …

Secure coding practices and automated assessment tools

January 22, 2020

Drawing from their experience performing vulnerability assessments of critical middleware, Bart Miller and Elisa Heymann walk you through the programming practices that can lead to security vulnerabilities and demonstrate how to automate tools for finding security weaknesses. You'll learn skills critical for software developers and analysts concerned with security.

Segment Routing IPv6 The Network as A Computer and deployment use-cases with Comcast

January 22, 2020

Segment Routing (SR) is an architecture based on the source routing paradigm that seeks the right balance between distributed (network-wide) intelligence and centr …

Command Execution in Heterogeneous Network at Facebook scale

January 21, 2020

Facebook's global network has tens of thousands of network devices from a variety of vendors. We need to run commands on these devices for monitoring, provisioning …

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 …

gRPC and Go: Developing Efficient and Type-Safe Services - Clinton Kitson, {code}

January 17, 2020

While REST, JSON over HTTP 1.1, is ubiquitous, it is a simple text-based protocol that was not designed to handle the demands of modern cloud-native service architectures. The gRPC project, originated …

Scaling a startup with a 21st century language

January 17, 2020

Christopher Meiklejohn is building an application that helps users select a bottle of wine based on the wines that they enjoy, using a new programming language called Martinelli. Christopher offers an overview of Martinelli, highlighting the key features of this new language that allow the fault-tolerant, highly scalable operation of his application.

Network Automation at scale: up and running in 60 minutes

January 16, 2020

In this tutorial we will see how easy is today to implement the automation methodologies in our multi-vendor networks, no matter the size! We will see how to insta …

ROADM makes Multi-site DCI scale seemlessly

January 15, 2020

Open Compute Platform (OCP) has focused on disaggregation of functions within the Data Center and Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is looking at breaking up transport f …

Why Go?

January 14, 2020

Why consider Go (golang) programming language. Why did I move from Python to Go, and why you might want to. Problems I experienced with Python Features of Go: typ …

Frontend reactive architectures

January 12, 2020

Reactive programming is quickly becoming one of the hottest topics in frontend development. Luca Mezzalira offers an overview of available reactive architectures for frontend ecosystems and evaluates libraries and frameworks, such as Cycle.js, MobX, and SAM, that you can use to make your current architecture reactive.

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 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 …

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).

FTFY: Research advances in automatic bug repair

January 7, 2020

Claire Le Goues shares recent advances in academic software engineering and programming languages research that aims to bring that dream to reality, using everything from metaheuristic search to program synthesis to machine learning and search over big databases of existing code to make it happen.

Unconventional programming paradigms for the future, now

January 6, 2020

As technology advances, our systems are growing more and more complex, reaching the threshold of what we can handle and even comprehend. We need more than tools to keep it under control. We need new ways of thinking. Carin Meier explores new ways to approach systems and tame complexity for the rapidly changing future.

Classification of telecom network traffic: Insight gained using statistical learning on a big data platform

January 4, 2020

Statistical learning techniques applied to network data provide a comprehensive view of traffic behavior that would not be possible using traditional descriptive statistics alone. Amie Elcan shares an application of the random forest classification method using network data queried from a big data platform and demonstrates how to interpret the model output and the value of the data insight.

OpenDaylight as a Platform for Network Programmability

January 4, 2020

Tutorial: Using the Linux VRF Solution

January 4, 2020

Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) is a fundamental feature for a networking OS. VRF provides traffic isolation at layer 3 for routing, similar to how you use a VLAN to isolate traffic at layer 2. W …

Spark camp: Apache Spark 2.0 for analytics and text mining with Spark ML

December 30, 2019

Brooke Wenig introduces you to Apache Spark 2.0 core concepts with a focus on Spark's machine learning library, using text mining on real-world data as the primary end-to-end use case.

The columnar roadmap: Apache Parquet and Apache Arrow

December 29, 2019

Julien Le Dem explains how Parquet is improving at the storage level, with metadata and statistics that will facilitate more optimizations in query engines in the future, how the new vectorized reader from Parquet to Arrow enables much faster reads by removing abstractions, and how standard Arrow-based APIs are paving the way to breaking the silos of big data.

Serverless - Is It For Your Organization?

December 26, 2019

This talk will examine the Serverless phenomenon, popularized by AWS Lambda but now proposed by many public cloud providers such as Google and Microsoft. Well look at what Serverless is, what advant …

Training Machines to be Open Source Contributors

December 25, 2019

In the Cockpit project weve done something amazing: Weve built robot contributors to an Open Source project. Cockpituous, our projects #5 contributor, is actually our automated team members. B …

Data science at UC Berkeley: 2,000 undergraduates, 50 majors, no command line

December 23, 2019

Engaging critically with data is now a required skill for students in all areas, but many traditional data science programs arent easily accessible to those without prior computing experience. Gunjan Baid and Vinitra Swamy explore UC Berkeley's Data Science program2,000 students across 50 majorsexplaining how its pedagogy was designed to make data science accessible to everyone.

IBM LinuxONE: The Largest Scalable Linux Server

December 23, 2019

The Modernization possibilities on the Most Scalable Compute Platform for Secure Data Driven Workloads Open source has become a hub for innovation. New use cases such as containers, new classes of dat …

Open Source is Just About the Source, Isn't It?

December 18, 2019

Your project's code base is rock solid, you are rolling releases early and often, your test suite is comprehensive and running regularly, your code is well performing without any glitches. Everything …

Programming your way to explainable AI

December 18, 2019

As interactive and autonomous systems make their way into nearly every aspect of our lives, it is crucial to gain more trust in intelligent systems. Mark Hammond explores the latest techniques and research in building explainable AI systems. Join in to learn approaches for building explainability into control and optimization tasks, including robotics, manufacturing, and logistics.