Open Source Summit + ELC Europe

Safety vs Security: A Tale of Two Updates

January 29, 2020

When developing a product, safety and security usually go along nicely : Both want a product that has no remaining bugs.However, once the product is out, the constraints of safety and security tends t …

The List is our Process: An Analysis of the Kernel's Email-based Development Process

January 29, 2020

Implementing safety-critical systems usually requires adhering to carefully defined development processes. Driven by the assumption that a disciplined approach leads to reliably high quality, they spe …

The Observatorium: Combining Machine Learning and Observability to Improve Incident Response

January 29, 2020

At DigitalOcean, a global hosting company predicated on providing building blocks for developers, the proliferation of microservices necessary to support a worldwide cloud creates a unique-yet-univers …

Adopting Linux on BMW - The Long Road to Integrate Linux as Mainline Platform

January 28, 2020

Automotive industry is in the first stages of adopt fully open source systems on their stack.Not only the software itself, but constraints on safety, security, compliance, new cultural processes compl …

AI/ML Deployment at the Edge

January 28, 2020

Arm and Linaro launched the AI initiative one year ago to collaborate on an open source inference engine common to all Arm edge devices and support SoC specific NN acceleration via a plug-in back end …

Building a Network Operating System Using Linux and Yocto

January 28, 2020

A Network Operating System puts special demands on the Linux Kernel, in terms of features and scale. John will show the size and performance issues we encountered, and tricks to overcome them.For the …

Compact C Type Format Support in the GNU Toolchain

January 28, 2020

Compact C Type Format (CTF) is a reduced form of debugging information whose main purpose is to describe the type of C entities such as structures, unions, typedefs and function arguments. It originat …

Free and Open: A Historical Perspective

January 28, 2020

Software freedom. Open source development approaches. Commercial business models that incorporate open source software in some fashion. These interrelated threads have always had points of conflict an …

Jumpstarting an OSPO and How to Measure Internal Community Success

January 28, 2020

Getting buy-in for an Open Source Program Office (OSPO) can be tough, for a successful program, you need almost the entire company to buy-in. And once you get buy-in? Be prepared to measure and prove …

Networking Electrons : Where Ohm's Law Meets Moore's Law

January 28, 2020

The grid is going through a fundamental transformation from centralized to distributed. This is a shift from a uni-directional, linear grid where we make, transport, and use fossil-fuels to a circular …

New Container Kernel Features

January 28, 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 …

Precision Timeouts in Zephyr: Past, Present, and Future

January 28, 2020

An operating system dedicated for embedded real-time applications must include precise timing infrastructure providing the same level of service regardless of the system load and state. In this sessio …

LED Subystem in Kernel

January 27, 2020

LEDs are very simple, cheap and common devices, and we have easy-to-use subsystem to handle them. Few lines in device tree are enough to drive simple LED. Unfortunately, there's little standartization …

Microservices at the Edge - Best Practices

January 27, 2020

IoT Edge processing as an architectural component emerged to meet the demands of reducing network bandwidth requirements and lowering response latency. Microservices as a software paradigm evolved to …

Model as a Service for Real-time Decisioning

January 27, 2020

Imagine a stream processing platform that leverages ML models and requires real-time decisions. While most solutions provide tightly coupled ML models in the use case, these may not offer the most eff …

Once upon an API

January 27, 2020

Back in 1997, a new system call, prctl(), was added to the Linux kernel. By now that API does many (arguably, too many) different things to a process. But to begin with, it provided just one feature: …

Profiling CPU and Memory on Linux, with Opensource Graphical Tools

January 27, 2020

Finding out where you application is allocating memory, or where it's spending a lot of CPU time – or even where it's waiting for something, has never been easier. KDAB has developed two opensource t …

Sustaining Open Source Software

January 27, 2020

The open source sustainability debate continues as companies relicense their products to proprietary. The sustainability debates seem to fall into one of several buckets:* Commercial collaborations …

The Move to Production Enterprise Blockchains: The Challenges of a Maturing Technology

January 27, 2020

Weve reached a tipping point in the enterprise blockchain space. Hundreds of production networks are now running on a number of different technologies and across a mix of industries, with more coming …

Timing Boot Time Reduction Techniques

January 27, 2020

During this talk, Michael will describe the most helpful techniques to reduce the boot time of embedded Linux systems, together with recent measures of the corresponding savings they bring, such as to …

A Story About Common Sense, Functional Safety and Software Development

January 26, 2020

Today the added value in products is shaped not so much by hardware or even mechanical parameters, but mainly software. Software allows the use of diversified sources and wide choice of variants with …

BoF: Automotive Grade Linux Developer Community

January 26, 2020

AGL provides an application framework with SMACK based security, a large number of micro services tailored for the automotive environment, and an SDK for app developers to get going quickly. AGL has a …

BoF: For Digital Transformation, the Answer is Open Source

January 26, 2020

Whether your organization wants to modernize, increase speed & efficiency, break new ground, or redefine your core business model, its success will hinge on the organization's cultural transformation …

BoF: FreeBSD, The Other Unix-like Operating System and Why We Should Work Together

January 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 …

BoF: Learning How to Learn - How Engineers can Approach Professional Development and IT Trainings

January 26, 2020

Working in IT requires lifelong learning. Yesterday everyone was into Docker. Today you definitely need Kubernetes to help your client forward. IT professionals are expected to follow trainings and ce …

BoF: RISC-V

January 26, 2020

RISC-V is an innovative project combining microprocessor ISA development with the rapid enhanced development methods that have made open source famous. This BoF provides and informal place for you to …

BoF: Securing Open-source: Dependencies, Incident Response, Vulnerabilities, and Bug Bounties

January 26, 2020

Open-source projects have a more nebulous operating model, and that also means it's harder to figure out who's on the hook when something goes wrong.In security, if you're running an open-source proje …

BoF: The Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded

January 26, 2020

This BoF provides an open forum for the embedded Linux community to ask questions and discuss issues with Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded principals. …