governance

Beyond the technical: Succeed at leading a software architecture team

March 4, 2020

Software architects and enterprise architects work with a variety of roles; often the deep technical work is performed by other application architects or solutions architects. Maggie Carroll explores developing influence as well as skills and actionable techniques she found useful when creating a new enterprise architecture function and a tool for remaining productive as a leader.

How to Use Linux in Long Term

March 4, 2020

Linux kernel is the default choice for Cloud, Enterprise, Embedded, and many others.LTSI had been established to find the Long Term way how to use Linux by the advocacy of using LTS version. By such a …

Cultivating architecture with principles

March 3, 2020

Many organizations strive to establish independent, autonomous development teams. The goal is to achieve speed, scalability, and empowermentbut you have to decide what architecture governance looks like in a decentralized setup. Birgitta Boeckeler explores architecture principles as a way to avoid chaos, providing lessons about using them to walk the line between hard rules and helpful guidance.

Evolution of a modern cloud-based data lake

March 3, 2020

Building a data lake is a hard task. You have to centralize all the data of the company in one place, it must be easily accessible, and governance has to be done right. And, last but not least, the price has to stay reasonable. All those aspects come up as quite a challenge. But never fear. Viacheslav Inozemtsev outlines the experience of building Zalando's data lake.

The African IXP Association: Regional Status Report

March 3, 2020

A 10-15 minute presentation about the state of IXPs in the African region. This includes traffic levels, connections, governance models, pricing, staffing, and mor …

CommunityBridge: A Quick Tour of the Cloud Platform and Tooling LF Engineers are Building to Serve its Projects

February 19, 2020

Managing the legal IP, funding, IT operations, governance, security, training, events and growth of the 200+ big open source projects is no insignificant task. To provide deep engagement value to our …

Make Alexa and Siri speak with each other: Toward a universal grammar in AI

February 18, 2020

More than 50% of all interactions between humans and machines are expected to be speech-based by 2022. The challenge: Every AI interprets human language slightly different. Tobias Martens details current issues in NLP interoperability and uses Chomsky's theory of universal hard-wired grammar to outline a framework to make the human voice in AI universal, accountable, and computable.

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.

Navigating Open Source Governance

February 15, 2020

Enterprise Governance is often one of the most neglected topics in many project implementation centric organizations. As companies begin to, or broaden, their adoption of Open Source technologies the …

Executive Briefing: Data catalogsConcepts, capabilities, and key platforms

February 14, 2020

Andrew Brust provides a primer on data catalogs and a review of the major vendors and platforms in the market. He examines the use of data catalogs with classic and newer data repositories, including data warehouses, data lakes, cloud object storage, and even software and applications. You'll learn about AI's role in the data catalog world and get an analysis of data catalog futures.

Hands-on machine learning with Kafka-based streaming pipelines

February 13, 2020

Boris Lublinsky and Dean Wampler examine ML use in streaming data pipelines, how to do periodic model retraining, and low-latency scoring in live streams. Learn about Kafka as the data backplane, the pros and cons of microservices versus systems like Spark and Flink, tips for TensorFlow and SparkML, performance considerations, metadata tracking, and more.

Kubernetes in Highly Restrictive Environments

February 13, 2020

Installing Kubernetes is easy. Ensuring it complies with your organizations enterprise governance and security requirements isnt and requires a technology plan. In this technically-focused talk, Ole …

The future of stablecoin

February 9, 2020

With the emergence of cryptoeconomy, there is a real demand for an alternative form of money. Major cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have thus far failed to achieve mass adoption. Catherine Gu examines the paradigm of algorithmic design of stablecoins, focusing on incentive structure and decentralized governance, to evaluate the role of stablecoin as a future medium of exchange.

Safe and smarter driving, powered by AI (sponsored by Amazon Web Services)

February 3, 2020

Lei Pan examines how Nauto uses Amazon SageMaker and other AWS services, including Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) and Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) to continually evolve smarter data for driver behavior.

A decentralized reference architecture for cloud native applications (sponsored by Ballerina)

February 1, 2020

Asanka Abeysinghe explores cell-based architecture, a self-contained composable unit of architecture. The cell is independently scalable. Its independently deployable. Its independently governed. It's part of an ecosystem of cells. A cell-based architecture is a common pattern that any enterprise can connect architecture, implementation, and deployment by making autonomous development teams.

The Twilight Zone: The AI / Privacy Governance Dilemma

February 1, 2020

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming an important component of most business models. As a result of this technologys rise and the data collection and use AI requires, many companies find themselv …

Are Data Struggles Holding Back your AI Projects? Are you Ready for Open Metadata and the CDLA?

January 30, 2020

Data challenges are halting AI projects for multiple reasons, and open source developers are looking for solutions. Do you know how to share data sets properly? Just like software, you don't want to p …

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 …

Model as a service for real-time decisioning

January 27, 2020

Hosting models and productionizing them is a pain point. ML models used for real-time processing require data scientists to have a defined workflow giving them the agility to do self-service seamless deployments to production. Niraj Tank and Sumit Daryani detail open source technologies for building a generic service-based approach for servicing ML decisioning and achieving operational excellence.

Overview of Data Governance

January 26, 2020

Paco Nathan offers an overview of its history, themes, tools, process, standards, and morepartly based on interviewing experts in this field about issues and best practices. Join in to learn what impact machine learning has on data governance and vice versa, along with an overview of open source projects and open standards in this space.

X-Road Joint Development Cross-border Open Source Development Between Two Countries and Global Community

January 25, 2020

The Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) is an association founded jointly by Finland and Estonia. Its mission is to develop open e-governance solutions, kicking off with the X-Road …

Creating an Open Source Project in a Proprietary Industry

January 22, 2020

Creating a new project is doubly challenging when the target industry has proprietary software as the norm. Taking code written as closed source and building a community around it is never easy, but i …

Containers can actually improve your security story

January 21, 2020

Maya Kaczorowski explores how containers offer a fundamentally different, possibly better, security model than you're used to. They enable you to patch your environment more easily, identify when you're affected by a new vulnerability, and enforce governance for what is deployed in your environment.

An emerging architecture pattern for Agile integration: Cell-based architecture (sponsored by WSO2)

January 18, 2020

The number of microservices running in enterprises increases daily, and service composition, governance, security, and observability are becoming a challenge to implement and incorporate. Asanka Abeysinghe discusses how a cell-based architecture can be applied to current or desired development and technologies to address these issues.

When two-pizza teams plan a banquet: Lightweight architecture governance

January 15, 2020

There are two common architectural failure modes: hierarchical command and control from ivory-tower architects with strict approvals and rigorous control gates, and chaos with every team doing what they want with little governance. Jonny LeRoy explores the Goldilocks zone that ensures that teams handle organizational risks and opportunities while giving themselves as much autonomy as possible.

Executive Briefing: Overview of data governance

January 11, 2020

Effective data governance is foundational for AI adoption in enterprise, but it's an almost overwhelming topic. Paco Nathan offers an overview of its history, themes, tools, process, standards, and more. Join in to learn what impact machine learning has on data governance and vice versa.

Getting ready for GDPR and CCPA: Securing and governing hybrid, cloud, and on-premises big data deployments

January 10, 2020

New regulations such as CCPA and GDPR are driving new compliance, governance, and security challenges for big data. Infosec and security groups must ensure a consistently secured and governed environment across multiple workloads. Mark Donsky, Ifigeneia Derekli, Lars George, and Michael Ernest share hands-on best practices for meeting these challenges, with special attention paid to CCPA.

Leveraging metadata for automating delivery and operations of advanced data platforms

January 9, 2020

Peter Billen explains how to use metadata to automate delivery and operations of a data platform. By injecting automation into the delivery processes, you shorten the time to market while improving the quality of the initial user experience. Typical examples include data profiling and prototyping, test automation, continuous delivery and deployment, and automated code creation.