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Secure coding practices and automated assessment tools

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.
Command Execution in Heterogeneous Network at Facebook scale

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 …
Virtualized service-chained security controls within a layer 2 SDN

Virtualized service-chained security controls within a layer 2 SDN

January 21, 2020

John Studarus and Cynthia Thomas demonstrate how to service-chain traffic through multiple security functions using virtualization and software-defined networking (SDN). John and Cynthia walk you through configuring and modifying layer 2 service chains with open source cloud security tools to monitor and block malicious traffic originating from a network of virtual machines.
Tutorial: Segment Routing

Tutorial: Segment Routing

January 20, 2020

Segment Routing (SR) allows network operators to direct traffic from source to destination through an ordered set of segments. The SR path may be identical to or d …
Tutorial: New and Updated - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking

Tutorial: New and Updated - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking

January 19, 2020

This popular tutorial tailored for Network Engineers has been updated to cover the latest technologies. …
Network Automation at scale: up and running in 60 minutes

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 …
Hands-On DNSSEC with DNSViz

Hands-On DNSSEC with DNSViz

January 15, 2020

DNSSEC enables the authentication of DNS responses. Despite this benefit, expert DNS operators have observed that there are challenges in understanding, deploying, …
MPLS Tutorial

MPLS Tutorial

January 15, 2020

MPLS Tutorial which seeks to dispel myths about MPLS by explaining MPLS concepts, showing use cases in provider networks, identifying MPLS features which can impro …
So you inherited a DNS server....

So you inherited a DNS server....

January 15, 2020

This tutorial will discuss the increasingly common situation where a network or system administrator inherits a legacy DNS server and explains how to migrate the s …
DDoS Tutorial

DDoS Tutorial

January 14, 2020

This Tutorial is targeted to attendees with a strong technical background but no exposure to DDOS. It explains what are the parts that break during high performanc …
Tutorial: An Introduction to Stateful Applications on Kubernetes

Tutorial: An Introduction to Stateful Applications on Kubernetes

January 14, 2020

(You can view the tutorial here). Saad and Chris will address how Kubernetes storage works in the context of supporting stateful applications. The talk will cover how Kubernetes storage is implemented …
Marketing Your Open Source Project

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 ( …
The Set of Programmers: How Math Restricts Us

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 …
From zero to distributed traces: An OpenTracing tutorial

From zero to distributed traces: An OpenTracing tutorial

January 7, 2020

Yuri Shkuro, Bryan Liles, Won Jun Jang, and Prithvi Raj walk you through implementing distributed tracing in modern applications, using the CNCFs OpenTracing project. You'll explore a set of sample applications and learn how to instrument them for tracing. You'll also use a tracing system such as Jaeger, Zipkin, or LightStep to visualize complex transactions that might span multiple processes.
Tutorial: Docker Container Orchestration: Building Clusters in Production

Tutorial: Docker Container Orchestration: Building Clusters in Production

January 5, 2020

So many of us want to take containers into production, but are unsure of the tools and best practices for doing so. This lab will have you deploying into a cluster and operate them in real-word scenar …
Tutorial: Hacking Device Drivers - How to Get into Kernel Development - Tobin Harding

Tutorial: Hacking Device Drivers - How to Get into Kernel Development - Tobin Harding

January 5, 2020

Device drivers are an important entry point into Linux kernel development. The device drivers staging branch is an environment where newbies are welcome and their efforts are fostered. In this tutori …
Tutorial: Linux Cryptographic API for Fun and Profit - Gilad Ben-Yossef, ARM Holdings plc

Tutorial: Linux Cryptographic API for Fun and Profit - Gilad Ben-Yossef, ARM Holdings plc

January 5, 2020

The Linux kernel has a rich cryptographic API which provides access to a modular implementation of symmetric and asymmetric block ciphers, hashes and digests which are either software implemented, use …
Tutorial: Using the Linux VRF Solution

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 …
Architecturing and Securing IoT Cloud Platforms

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 …
Tutorial: 'Goodbye! printf()' Hands-on with uftrace: Function Graph Tracer for C/C++

Tutorial: 'Goodbye! printf()' Hands-on with uftrace: Function Graph Tracer for C/C++

December 30, 2019

Want to look into the runtime behavior of your or other huge C/C++ programs ?Need to trace and analyze them on both the user and kernel space ?See how to efficiently do that using the uftrace tool. In …
Tutorial: An Introduction to Stateful Applications on #K8s

Tutorial: An Introduction to Stateful Applications on #K8s

December 26, 2019

Steve and Kenny will address how Kubernetes storage works in the context of supporting stateful applications. The talk will cover how Kubernetes storage is implemented now, and what's next for storage …
The Linux Cryptographic API for Fun and Profit - Gilad Ben-Yossef, Arm Holdings

The Linux Cryptographic API for Fun and Profit - Gilad Ben-Yossef, Arm Holdings

December 25, 2019

The Linux kernel has a rich cryptographic API which provides access to a modular implementation of symmetric and asymmetric block ciphers, hashes and digests which are either software implemented, use …
Technical Writing for an International Audience

Technical Writing for an International Audience

December 24, 2019

Writing in English for an international audience does not necessarily put native English speakers in a better position–on the contrary, sometimes they tend to forget that their audience might not spe …
Tutorial: Hands-on with Containerized Deployment of OpenStack

Tutorial: Hands-on with Containerized Deployment of OpenStack

December 24, 2019

This lab is part lecture and part hands-on, with exercises being used to drive home concepts covered in the lecture.Hearing a lot about OpenStack and want to check it out for yourself? See how quick a …
Application tracing tutorial

Application tracing tutorial

December 17, 2019

In the past, applications were monolithic, and tracing flows for performance and bottlenecks was straightforward, as there was likely a single code base. In today's world, with multiple processes constituting a single application, tracing becomes more challenging. Bryan Liles offers a hands-on demonstration for implementing tracing in modern applications.
Tutorial: Container Orchestration with Kubernetes

Tutorial: Container Orchestration with Kubernetes

December 17, 2019

This workshop introduces container orchestration with Kubernetes. Starting with a plain Linux systems, attendees learn how to create a on-premise Kubernetes cluster. Once having learned how to start a …
Chaos engineering bootcamp

Chaos engineering bootcamp

December 16, 2019

Chaos engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a distributed system in order to build confidence in the systems capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production. Tammy Butow leads a hands-on tutorial on chaos engineering, covering the tools and practices you need to implement chaos engineering in your organization.
Tutorial: IOT and Networking Introduction - Architecture, Requirements & Implementation - Drasko Draskovic &

Tutorial: IOT and Networking Introduction - Architecture, Requirements & Implementation - Drasko Draskovic &

December 16, 2019

Architecturing and Securing IoT Cloud Platforms,Drasko Draskovic,MainfluxIoT device management and multi-protocol messaging platform demands specific architectural decisions and high-concurrency app …