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Lightning Talk: Can you Trust that Benchmark?

Lightning Talk: Can you Trust that Benchmark?

February 27, 2020

Benchmarking is a way of uncovering what best possible performance is and how can be achieved. It helps understand bottlenecks and real limitations of your system. Optimizing benchmark is not an easy …
Putting a Microscope on Your Application Monitoring via ebpf

Putting a Microscope on Your Application Monitoring via ebpf

February 27, 2020

The problem with most of the monitoring systems and tools today is that they identify symptoms of the problem like a high cpu utilization but are unable to tell the cause. This leads to visible proble …
What's New with U-Boot?

What's New with U-Boot?

February 27, 2020

U-Boot is a widely used bootloader in embedded systems. Many users are unaware of the wide feature-set of U-Boot, particularly features added in the last few years. This talk aims to bring users (and …
Broken Fingers: A Deep Dive Into Open Source Fingerprint Authentication and its Security Issues

Broken Fingers: A Deep Dive Into Open Source Fingerprint Authentication and its Security Issues

February 26, 2020

Biometric authentication provides distinguished advantages over other techniques such as password-based ones; Biometric information is always with and unique to an individual, and hardly forgeable. On …
Internet of Things Education Outside the Computer Science Lab

Internet of Things Education Outside the Computer Science Lab

February 26, 2020

Internet of Things is now part of many high-schools or universities curricula. While for computer science students, this is just another regular course, for students studying civil engineering, fine …
Lessons Learned from the Migration to Apache Airflow

Lessons Learned from the Migration to Apache Airflow

February 26, 2020

Apache Airflow is an open-source tool for orchestrating complex workflows and data processing pipelines.In this talk, Radek Maciaszek will present his learnings from the migration of machine learning …
Lightning Talk: Using a Raspberry Pi and Linux As a Middle Schoolers Desktop Computer

Lightning Talk: Using a Raspberry Pi and Linux As a Middle Schoolers Desktop Computer

February 26, 2020

The Raspberry Pi is a popular hobbyist computer which is also capable of being a desktop computer. Running linux, a Raspberry Pi can be used to perform many tasks. As a student in middle school, I use …
Metrics - When One Size Doesnt Fit All

Metrics - When One Size Doesnt Fit All

February 26, 2020

There are different ways to assess an open source projects success, but measurable metrics (like pull requests and contributions) typically play some role. One of the challenges Uber has faced involv …
The Other Unix-like Operating System and Why We Should Work Together

The Other Unix-like Operating System and Why We Should Work Together

February 26, 2020

The FreeBSD Open Source Operating System is one of the oldest, largest, and most successful open source projects, with a long history of innovation. FreeBSD descended from Berkeley Unix back in the ea …
The Problems Emulating a Call via Breakpoint in the Kernel

The Problems Emulating a Call via Breakpoint in the Kernel

February 26, 2020

The Linux kernel is the lowest layer of software (above BIOS) and that requires it to be as efficient as possible. Recent hardware issues have arisen (Spectre and Meltdown) that caused the Linux kerne …
You may be a Linux Kernel Maintainer - and Not Know It!

You may be a Linux Kernel Maintainer - and Not Know It!

February 26, 2020

You may be a Linux Kernel Maintainer, resulting from your contributions to the kernel, or you may want to become a Maintainer. This presentation will address- how do you become a maintainer without kn …
A Million Ways to Provision Embedded Linux Images

A Million Ways to Provision Embedded Linux Images

February 25, 2020

Embedded Linux is increasingly common due to the explosion of the Internet of Things (IoT). There are countless off-the-shelf hardware platforms capable of running Embedded Linux, each with their own …
Automated run-time Regression Testing with Fuego

Automated run-time Regression Testing with Fuego

February 25, 2020

Real-time applications need to satisfy timing constraints, and we have to avoid kernel changes which might cause long delays. But we need tons of time for testing to detect those issues. So, it is the …
Connect IoT with RSocket

Connect IoT with RSocket

February 25, 2020

RSocket is an open-source reactive networking protocol that is designed to handle the challenges of communication between complex networks of IoT and cloud services. Based on the Reactive Streams spec …
Introduction to NAND Flash Aware Hibernation-based Boot

Introduction to NAND Flash Aware Hibernation-based Boot

February 25, 2020

Boot time is important for many consumer electronics. One of ways to reduce boot time is to use hibernation-based techniques, however adopting such an approach could cause reliability issues due to th …
Lessons Learned Implementing ChatOps (DevOps + Messaging)

Lessons Learned Implementing ChatOps (DevOps + Messaging)

February 25, 2020

Email overload, distributed teams and excessive meetings have caused many organizations to move their DevOps teams to messaging platforms and thus adopt ChatOps workflows. With thousands of open sourc …
Machine Learning Made Easy on Kubernetes. DevOps for Data Scientists

Machine Learning Made Easy on Kubernetes. DevOps for Data Scientists

February 25, 2020

Though machine learning and AI are immensely powerful, these solutions are by no means easy. In many cases, there are many diverse components that are not designed to work together. Additionally, thes …
Moving to a Service Mesh

Moving to a Service Mesh

February 25, 2020

Historically, Indeed has used Boxcar (Indeeds proprietary framework) to build distributed systems. Over the last year, we have been shifting several of our systems to use gRPC over anEnvoy service m …
New Container Kernel Features

New Container Kernel Features

February 25, 2020

Containers have become ubiquitous. Nowadays, the computing landscape is mostly concerned with a higher-level view on the functionality and features of containers. In this talk we will take a step back …
Peeling Layers: A Deep Dive into Kubernetes Networking

Peeling Layers: A Deep Dive into Kubernetes Networking

February 25, 2020

Kubernetes is a platform that offers great extensibility and flexibility to its users. However, like most distributed systems, managing Kubernetes comes with its own set of challenges. Ensuring resili …
Scaling Tech Stacks, Scaling Tech Teams

Scaling Tech Stacks, Scaling Tech Teams

February 25, 2020

The growth of cloud and related internet-scale technologies over the past 5 years (10 years. 20 years!) has accelerated the pace of innovation within both the technology world and among civilian compa …
Service Mesh in a Nutshell

Service Mesh in a Nutshell

February 25, 2020

Software applications have evolved from monoliths to microservices in a move towards becoming Cloud Native. The Cloud provides numerous benefits over traditional platforms. However, transitioning towa …
Creating a FOSS Study Group at my University

Creating a FOSS Study Group at my University

February 24, 2020

It's not uncommon to see students wanting to discuss or learn a topic that isn't in the course curriculum. Without the proper references, teachers or colleagues to engage in a different topic, student …
Getting to Know VDO

Getting to Know VDO

February 24, 2020

VDO is a software device layer for Linux storage, providing us with a new compression/ de-duplication facility for our data. Following their acquisition by Red Hat, Permabit built VDO to be more effic …
Privacy, Consent and Security Within Modern Applications

Privacy, Consent and Security Within Modern Applications

February 24, 2020

Rapid application innovation is characterized in part using shared code from open source components. While open source development offers many benefits, when regulators change the rules our strengths …
Stop Calling Knative Serverless!

Stop Calling Knative Serverless!

February 24, 2020

By now most people are familiar with what it means to be a serverless platform, features such as scale-to-zero, auto-scaling and source-to-build. And Knative certainly does all of that. But, by callin …
The Developer Goodie Bag

The Developer Goodie Bag

February 24, 2020

When you open source a project, you may have multiple objectives. Ultimately, driving adoption will help achieve those objectives. Without adoption, many other objectives, like getting community contr …
Welcome Back to Dependency Hell - OSS Compliance in the Age of Software Reuse

Welcome Back to Dependency Hell - OSS Compliance in the Age of Software Reuse

February 24, 2020

This talk is about meeting Open Source Software Compliance in our current state of SoftwareDevelopment. It is also a reckoning on our current state of Software Development with regards to Software Reu …