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Developing Open-Source Software RTOS with Functional Safety in Mind

Developing Open-Source Software RTOS with Functional Safety in Mind

March 4, 2020

Open-source software development and how open-source projects are run is often seen as incompatible with functional safety requirements and established processes and standards. Open-source has been us …
The Road to Safety Certification: How the Xen Project is Making Progress within the Auto Industry and Beyond

The Road to Safety Certification: How the Xen Project is Making Progress within the Auto Industry and Beyond

March 3, 2020

Safety certification is one of the essential requirements for software to be used in highly regulated industries. The Xen Project, a secure and stable hypervisor that is used in many different markets …
ACRN/KATA: A Safety Container Solution for Software-defined Cockpit

ACRN/KATA: A Safety Container Solution for Software-defined Cockpit

March 2, 2020

Nowadays, with the widespread use of intelligence and networking in automobiles, vehicles evolve into a large IoT platform. Software-defined cockpit trends to combine with entertainment system. Worklo …
Navigating in stormy waters: An approach to traffic management with Istio

Navigating in stormy waters: An approach to traffic management with Istio

March 1, 2020

History repeats itself. Some years ago, software engineers started to implement frameworks to ease the development of software applications. Laurentiu Spilca walks you through how microservices are currently delivered and what Istio can do for you in regard to traffic management.
The Road to Safety Certification: Overcoming Community Challenges to Institutionalise Changes Required for Safety Certification

The Road to Safety Certification: Overcoming Community Challenges to Institutionalise Changes Required for Safety Certification

March 1, 2020

Safety certification is one of the essential requirements for software to be used in highly regulated industries. Besides technical and compliance issues (such as ISO 26262 vs IEC 611508) transitionin …
Autoscaling in reality: Lessons learned from adaptively scaling Kubernetes

Autoscaling in reality: Lessons learned from adaptively scaling Kubernetes

February 29, 2020

Andy Kwiatkowski takes a deep dive into how Shopify saved a million dollars a year in infrastructure costs by rolling its own autoscaler.
Building high-performing engineering teams, 1 pixel at a time

Building high-performing engineering teams, 1 pixel at a time

February 29, 2020

Psychological safety is one of the leading indicators of a high-performing team. Yet, Lena Reinhard explains, forging deep human relationships and building trust can be difficult when your team is distributed or largely interacts on screens.
Scalable and Flexible Software-Platform for High-performance ECUs

Scalable and Flexible Software-Platform for High-performance ECUs

February 29, 2020

Scalable and flexible software-platform for high-performance ECUs (Philipp Viktorin, Elektrobit Japan K.K.) - The car is becoming the most complex internet device we have known so far and it will beco …
Secure Container in IoT Segment: Extend KATA to ACRN IoT Hypervisor

Secure Container in IoT Segment: Extend KATA to ACRN IoT Hypervisor

February 28, 2020

Todays connected devices are increasingly expected to support a range of hardware resources, operating systems, and software tools/applications. Workload consolidation, resource isolation and safety …
Measuring chaos: Chaos engineering and team health

Measuring chaos: Chaos engineering and team health

February 26, 2020

Once restricted to companies like Netflix, chaos engineering is becoming a common practice in organizations of all sizes. Paul Osman outlines techniques Under Armour uses to measure service health with chaos engineering. He details its operational maturity model and how the company uses it to blamelessly identify teams that need additional help and action items to improve resiliency and happiness.
A novel solution for a data augmentation and bias problem in NLP using TensorFlow

A novel solution for a data augmentation and bias problem in NLP using TensorFlow

February 24, 2020

Join KC Tung to discover a way to use TensorFlow to solve a natural language processing (NLP) model bias problem with data augmentation for an enterprise customer (one of the largest airlines in the world). KC leveraged hidden gems in tf.data and the new API to easily find a novel use for text generation and found it surprisingly improved his NLP model.
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 …
Navigating the Interface Between Open and Closed Source Software

Navigating the Interface Between Open and Closed Source Software

February 21, 2020

Organizations of all shapes and sizes face pressure to increase the pace at which they work, and open source software contributes to acceleration. Yet a huge proportion of the systems used in most ind …
Large-scale machine learning at Facebook: Implications of platform design on developer productivity

Large-scale machine learning at Facebook: Implications of platform design on developer productivity

February 19, 2020

AI plays a key role in achieving Facebook's mission of connecting people and building communities. Nearly every visible product is powered by machine learning algorithms at its core, from delivering relevant content to making the platform safe. Kim Hazelwood and Mohamed Fawzy explain how applied ML has continued to change the landscape of the platforms and infrastructure at Facebook.
Static Partitioning Made Simple

Static Partitioning Made Simple

February 19, 2020

Static partitioning is used to split an embedded system into multiple domains, each of them having access only to a portion of the hardware on the SoC. It is key to enable mixed-criticality scenarios, …
To Boldly go Where Linux Cannot with Zephyr and Eclipse IoT

To Boldly go Where Linux Cannot with Zephyr and Eclipse IoT

February 19, 2020

Linux is a versatile operating system; it can power smart watches, mainframes and everything in between. However, if a constrained device only possesses a few megabytes of memory and a CPU running at …
When to trust AI

When to trust AI

February 17, 2020

Machine learning solutions are revolutionizing AI, but Marta Kwiatkowska explores their instability against adversarial examplessmall perturbations to inputs that can catastrophically affect the outputwhich raises concerns about the readiness of this technology for widespread deployment.
Tracing Resource-constrained Embedded Systems using eBPF

Tracing Resource-constrained Embedded Systems using eBPF

February 16, 2020

Even though eBPF/IOVisor provide safe and powerful tools to trace both systems in development and in production in general, one encounters very significant problems when trying to run these tools on e …
The Road to Safety Certification: How the Xen Project is Making Progress within the Auto Industry and Beyond

The Road to Safety Certification: How the Xen Project is Making Progress within the Auto Industry and Beyond

February 14, 2020

Safety certification is one of the essential requirements for software to be used in highly regulated industries. The Xen Project, a secure and stable hypervisor that is used in many different markets …
The Linux Maple Tree

The Linux Maple Tree

February 13, 2020

The Maple Tree is a new data structure for Linux that provides an efficient way to store index ranges which map to a single pointer. It is RCU-safe and optimised for modern CPUs. For this application, …
Linux Encryption Performance is Not an Excuse Anymore

Linux Encryption Performance is Not an Excuse Anymore

February 10, 2020

Data breaches pose a threat to almost every enterprise today and are definitely getting more attention than ever before. One of the most effective ways to keep your data safe is by encrypting it, whet …
Staying safe in the AI era

Staying safe in the AI era

February 10, 2020

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are no longer science fiction, so now you have to address what it takes to harness their potential effectively, responsibly, and reliably. Based on lessons learned at Google, Cassie Kozyrkov offers actionable advice to help you find opportunities to take advantage of machine learning, navigate the AI era, and stay safe as you innovate.
Working with time series: Denoising and imputation frameworks to improve data density

Working with time series: Denoising and imputation frameworks to improve data density

February 8, 2020

The application of smoothing and imputation strategies is common practice in predictive modeling and time series analysis. With a technique-agnostic approach, Anjali Samani provides qualitative and quantitative frameworks that address questions related to smoothing and imputation of missing values to improve data density.
Address Space Separation Inside the Linux Kernel

Address Space Separation Inside the Linux Kernel

February 4, 2020

Address space isolation has been used to protect the kernel and userspace programs from each other since the invention of the virtual memory. Assuming that kernel bugs and therefore exploits are inevi …
Safe and smarter driving, powered by AI (sponsored by Amazon Web Services)

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 community of communities: Empowering maintainers to grow communities around their code

A community of communities: Empowering maintainers to grow communities around their code

February 2, 2020

Open source is about publishing code and building communities around shared problems. Ben Balter gets you a sneak peak at GitHub's efforts to empower maintainers to grow safe and welcoming communities around its code and what steps you can take to encourage constructive contributions and good online citizenship within your own community through community management best practices
IoT Solutions for Life-safety Applications

IoT Solutions for Life-safety Applications

January 30, 2020

The difference from the previous version: the previous presentation was given on the non-technical event and I had to use very basic language explaining technical details and new features we're workin …
Tracing Resource-constrained Embedded Systems Using eBPF

Tracing Resource-constrained Embedded Systems Using eBPF

January 30, 2020

Even though eBPF/IOVisor provide safe and powerful tools to trace both systems in development and in production in general, one encounters very significant problems when trying to run these tools on e …