automation

SONiC: Open Source NOS in Data Center

SONiC: Open Source NOS in Data Center

March 4, 2020

SONiC as open source NOS empowers us to use uniform Operating System, Network Monitoring & Management tools and Life-cycle Management tools, across heterogeneous h …
Microservices migration patterns

Microservices migration patterns

March 2, 2020

The path to migrating to microservices from a monolithic or service-oriented architecture is riddled with challenges, pitfalls, canyons, demons, and even fire-breathing dragons. Mark Richards walks you through the migration patterns that allow you to easily fly over this challenging road and ease the pain associated with moving to microservices.
Powering Your Automation: A Single Source of Truth

Powering Your Automation: A Single Source of Truth

March 1, 2020

Powering Your Automation: A Single Source of Truth Introduction - How we define automation - Automation vs Orchestration Automation Overview - Ansible, Salt, Puppe …
Consolidate Real time and HMI with ACRN Hypervisor

Consolidate Real time and HMI with ACRN Hypervisor

February 29, 2020

With the increasing momentum of embedded devices getting smarter and always connected, it is prevalent to see that more and more industrial automation manufacturers (Siemens, Beckhoff, Inovance, etc) …
Transport Network Requirements and Architecture for 5G

Transport Network Requirements and Architecture for 5G

February 28, 2020

This talk will cover the core network requirements for 5G transport. I will cover the 5G architecture on high level pointing out that 5G services are all "softwari …
Extending Salt's capabilities for event-driven network automation and orchestration

Extending Salt's capabilities for event-driven network automation and orchestration

February 27, 2020

Salt is currently one of the largely used frameworks in automating network operations. Even though it has been firstly released over 8 years ago, the network commu …
FOSSology: News and Advances from the Project

FOSSology: News and Advances from the Project

February 27, 2020

FOSSology is a collaboration project of the Linux Foundation covering license compliance tasks: It is a Web server system for users and a toolkit. As a toolkit you can run license, copyright and expor …
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 …
The path to build happiness

The path to build happiness

February 25, 2020

Jenn Strater walks you through the best practices she's learned since transitioning from a software engineer at various product companies to working for a company that focuses on build automation.
Unleashing SR Traffic Engineering capabilities with SR Flexible Algorithms

Unleashing SR Traffic Engineering capabilities with SR Flexible Algorithms

February 23, 2020

Have you ever wished you could tailor IGP computation to fit your own traffic engineering needs? Such as by computing: Paths considering a subset of the routers in …
Advantages of Embedded Linux in Industrial Automation and IIoT

Advantages of Embedded Linux in Industrial Automation and IIoT

February 16, 2020

The industrial internet of things (IIoT) has been a buzzword in the industrial automation field for a while now. We can see the vision of more productive and profitable ways to manufacture and process …
Clean the swamp: Gain greater visibility, speed, and governance with data ops (sponsored by Hitachi Vantara)

Clean the swamp: Gain greater visibility, speed, and governance with data ops (sponsored by Hitachi Vantara)

February 16, 2020

According to Gartner, over 80% of data lake projects were deemed inefficient. Data lakes come and go. Swamps happen. Data agility is fleeting. Chuck Yarbrough walks you through how data ops practices and a modern data architecture bring greater visibility and allow faster data access with proper governance.
The Importance of Continuous Regression for HW & SW Development: Improving Performance Over the Lifetime of a Product

The Importance of Continuous Regression for HW & SW Development: Improving Performance Over the Lifetime of a Product

February 16, 2020

Listen to Travis Lazar from Ampere Computing - a high-performance arm-based (aarch64) microprocessor development company - talk about how innovative continuous testing techniques have driven rock-soli …
Aktualizr-lite: Be Secure and Never use /bin/dd Again - Andrew Doan &

Aktualizr-lite: Be Secure and Never use /bin/dd Again - Andrew Doan &

February 15, 2020

Life's too short to be running dd on sd cards all day. The Aktualizr project includes a new tool called aktualizr-lite that can handle secure OSTree updates in a highly scalable manner. Aktualizr is …
Managing your Kafka in an explosive growth environment

Managing your Kafka in an explosive growth environment

February 12, 2020

Frequently, Kafka is just a piece of the stack that lives in production that often times no one wants to touchbecause it just works. Alon Gavra outlines how Kafka sits at the core of AppsFlyer's infrastructure that processes billions of events daily.
Network Boot in a Zero-Trust Environment

Network Boot in a Zero-Trust Environment

February 11, 2020

Network boot is commonly used for everything from booting thin clients to using IT automation for bare-metal provisioning. Unfortunately, most network boot infrastructure is based on outdated standard …
Learning Automation Without Barriers Using Antidote and NRE Labs

Learning Automation Without Barriers Using Antidote and NRE Labs

February 10, 2020

The journey to cloud and automation is a rocky one, with many twists and turns, and often full-on roadblocks.Antidote is a new project based on the idea of "curriculum-as-code", which allows teachers …
Network Orchestration Using Blockchain

Network Orchestration Using Blockchain

February 7, 2020

Edge computing provides high scalability, fast computing to sensor nodes (IoT, WSNs and CPS) and reduces latency in term of response which is difficult in cloud computing.Orchestration provides monito …
Deep learning coming to the tire industry: Warehouse staffing with RNN-LSTMs and pricing optimizations with DNNs

Deep learning coming to the tire industry: Warehouse staffing with RNN-LSTMs and pricing optimizations with DNNs

February 6, 2020

Deep learning has been a sweeping revolution in the world of AI and machine learning. But sometimes traditional industries can be left behind. Alex Liang details two solutions where deep learning is used: a warehouse staffing solution where LSTM RNNs are used for staffing level forecasting and a pricing recommendation solution where DNNs were used for data clustering and demand modeling.
Automation of IOT Based Blockchain Solution

Automation of IOT Based Blockchain Solution

February 5, 2020

Presentation talks about automation of a blockchain based waste water management solution aimed at handling the disposal of waste water. The solution tracks the lifecycle of water disposal using block …
FOSSology: News and Advances from the Project

FOSSology: News and Advances from the Project

February 5, 2020

FOSSology is a collaboration project of the Linux Foundation covering license compliance tasks: It is a Web server system for users and a toolkit. As a toolkit you can run license, copyright and expor …
Marios Adventures in Tekton Land

Marios Adventures in Tekton Land

February 4, 2020

Tekton is a Kubernetes-native, lightweight, easy to manage CI/CD pipelines engine. Pipeline building blocks can be reused, version controlled and curated in a catalogue that embeds best practices. Tek …
Mozart in the box: Interacting with AI tools for music creation

Mozart in the box: Interacting with AI tools for music creation

February 4, 2020

Alessandro Palladini explores the role of experts and creatives in a world dominated by intelligent machines by bridging the gap between the research on complex systems and tools for creativity, examining what he believes to be the key design principles and perspectives on making intelligent tools for creativity and for experts in the loop.
Practical insights into deep reinforcement learning

Practical insights into deep reinforcement learning

February 4, 2020

Sahika Genc dives deep into the current state-of-the-art techniques in deep reinforcement learning (DRL) for a variety of use cases. Reinforcement learning (RL) is an advanced machine learning (ML) technique that makes short-term decisions while optimizing for a longer-term goal through trial and error.
Building a deployment pipeline with Jenkins 2

Building a deployment pipeline with Jenkins 2

January 31, 2020

Brent Laster offers a brief, practical introduction to Jenkins as well as a guide to leveraging its automation and integration with other open source technologies to create a simple, working build and deployment pipeline that implements principles of continuous integration and continuous delivery.
Cadence: Developer Oriented Workflow Platform

Cadence: Developer Oriented Workflow Platform

January 31, 2020

Cadence is an open source workflow platform for building reliable and highly scalable distributed applications. It is applicable to very large set of use cases from infrastructure and ML/Data automati …
Programmability of Network Devices using Google RPC

Programmability of Network Devices using Google RPC

January 23, 2020

This talk describes how gRPC can support multiple device programmability paradigms and ultimately facilitate network automation. This open-source technology can be used for model-driven device managea …
How I failed to build a runbook automation system and what I learned

How I failed to build a runbook automation system and what I learned

January 21, 2020

You're going to automate all the things, reduce toil, and make your systems smarter and recover automatically. . .except sometimes you're automating a house of cards built on the back of individual people and a well-meaning solution can fail to address the true problems in the system. Tim Bonci offers a postmortem of a solution that was designed to solve a common operational problem but failed.