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Automating "Network Ready for Use" Testing

Automating "Network Ready for Use" Testing

March 3, 2020

Automating Network Ready for Use Testing This tutorial will showcase an approach using the pytest open-source tool to validate operational states of the networ …
Getting Started with Modern Time Series Database and Grafana

Getting Started with Modern Time Series Database and Grafana

March 3, 2020

== Intro == Telemetry / Monitoring, also known as Observability, as been a hot topic in the software industry for few years. With so many moving pieces, the mindse …
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical

March 2, 2020

This popular tutorial tailored for Network Engineers has been updated to cover the latest technologies. …
DDoS Mitigation Fundamentals

DDoS Mitigation Fundamentals

February 27, 2020

In this tutorial the attendees will go over the basics of Denial of Service. It starts with coverage of the different parts of the stack that can be attacked and t …
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 …
Building blocks in EVPN for multi-service fabrics

Building blocks in EVPN for multi-service fabrics

February 24, 2020

Despite its growing use as a Metro Ethernet protocol, EVPN was originally conceived to enable highly flexible and scalable LANs. In this tutorial RFC7432 co-author …
Demystifying SONET/OTN Service SLAs and how to Guarantee them over MPLS

Demystifying SONET/OTN Service SLAs and how to Guarantee them over MPLS

February 24, 2020

For many years optical transport networks have been deployed using TDM technologies such as PDH, SONET and OTN providing highly performant and resilient services t …
P4 Tutorial

P4 Tutorial

February 24, 2020

This tutorial includes hands-on exercises; instructions for downloading the software is at https://p4.org/events/2019-02-19-nanog/ Download all software prior to t …
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 …
Zero to ML hero with TensorFlow 2.0

Zero to ML hero with TensorFlow 2.0

February 22, 2020

Get a programmer's perspective on machine learning with Laurence Moroney, from the basics all the way up to building complex computer vision scenarios using convolutional neural networks and natural language processing with recurrent neural networks.
Workshop: Hands On FOSSology, SW360 and SPDX

Workshop: Hands On FOSSology, SW360 and SPDX

February 21, 2020

FOSSology and SW360 are both software projects in the area of OSS license compliance. FOSSology can run license, copyright and export control scans and has a Web user interface providing a compliance …
Workshop: Zero-to-Canary With Spinnaker

Workshop: Zero-to-Canary With Spinnaker

February 21, 2020

So you keep hearing about Spinnaker, and you want to try to do something but don't know where to get started? We have the Tutorial for you!Instead of relying on a random Spinnaker 'HowTo' blog post on …
Understanding, Building and Researching Minimal (and not so minimal) Linux Systems

Understanding, Building and Researching Minimal (and not so minimal) Linux Systems

February 17, 2020

In this tutorial, we will give you the tools to build your Linux Distro, and give you the rational of the different components that make Linux.We will start with what happens when a device is powered …
Introduction to the LED subsystem

Introduction to the LED subsystem

February 14, 2020

This tutorial will cover the Linux LED subsystem and invite students to exercise what they have learned on hardware.The lecture portion of the tutorial will cover the anatomy of the subsystem from dr …
BoF: Getting Started with Node.js

BoF: Getting Started with Node.js

February 11, 2020

Learn to leverage the power of server-side Javascript with this Node.js introductory tutorial. Well dive into Nodes architecture and understand the build and dependency management systems involved. …
Using Serial kdb / kgdb to Debug the Linux Kernel

Using Serial kdb / kgdb to Debug the Linux Kernel

February 9, 2020

The Linux kernel has had an in-kernel debugger for many years, but shockingly few people are setup to use it. In this tutorial I will demonstrate how to use kgdb for debugging kernel crashes on system …
Removing unfair bias in machine learning using open source (sponsored by IBM)

Removing unfair bias in machine learning using open source (sponsored by IBM)

January 25, 2020

ML models are increasingly used to make decisions that impact lives. Ana Echeverri and Trisha Mahoney walk you through how to use the open source Python package AI Fairness 360, developed by IBM researchers, a comprehensive open source toolkit empowering users with metrics to check for unwanted bias in datasets and machine learning models and state-of-the-art algorithms to mitigate such bias.
From an Idea to a Patch in the Linux Mainline

From an Idea to a Patch in the Linux Mainline

January 24, 2020

In the tutorial we're going to cover the basics of Linux kernel development, from the idea (or a bug found!) to the change integrated into the Linux mainline.We'll start from setting up the environmen …
Untangling the knots with distributed tracing

Untangling the knots with distributed tracing

January 23, 2020

You're sick of grepping through logs, hunting down the cause of last night's outage. Your team dreams of refactoring to better architecture but struggles to get started amid the spaghetti code. Production meets all performance objectives only because you can't measure it. Join Isobel Redelmeier to learn how to apply distributed tracing for better debugging, performance analysis, and refactoring.
Systems Tracing and Trace Visualization Lab

Systems Tracing and Trace Visualization Lab

January 20, 2020

The Trace Visualization lab introduces participants to system and application tracing and trace visualizations that are an invaluable techniques to understand in-depth system behavior and reach root-c …
Continuous delivery in an ephemeral world

Continuous delivery in an ephemeral world

January 17, 2020

With systems like Travis CI, Circle CI, and CodeBuild, we're never more than a few lines of YAML away from a complete continuous delivery pipeline. However, ephemeral build systems constantly recreate the world from scratch, increasing build time and lengthening the CD feedback loop. John Chapin addresses those challenges and shares a reference pipeline using AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild.
Continuous intelligence: Moving machine learning into production reliably

Continuous intelligence: Moving machine learning into production reliably

January 13, 2020

Danilo Sato and Christoph Windheuser walk you through applying continuous delivery (CD), pioneered by ThoughtWorks, to data science and machine learning. Join in to learn how to make changes to your models while safely integrating and deploying them into production, using testing and automation techniques to release reliably at any time and with a high frequency.
Introduction to IIO and Input Drivers

Introduction to IIO and Input Drivers

January 13, 2020

This tutorial will briefly introduce the Linux IIO and Input subsystems to students. In addition, the tutorial will instruct the students in how to gather information from hardware documentation to as …
Microscopic Simulation of Urban Mobility Concepts

Microscopic Simulation of Urban Mobility Concepts

January 13, 2020

Transportation and individual mobility are key aspects of liveable cities. So integrated urban planning benefits from open tools covering the traffic side of live for instance by simulating traditiona …
Tutorial: Take a Test Drive with the Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Testbed

Tutorial: Take a Test Drive with the Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Testbed

January 8, 2020

The Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Testbed is a CNCF initiative to provide a neutral space for exploring and evaluating open source networking technologies and their interoperability. The initiat …
Recurrent neural networks for time series analysis

Recurrent neural networks for time series analysis

December 29, 2019

Time series are everywhere around us. Understanding them requires taking into account the sequence of values seen in previous steps and even long-term temporal correlations. Join Bruno Gonalves to learn how to use recurrent neural networks to model and forecast time series and discover the advantages and disadvantages of recurrent neural networks with respect to more traditional approaches.
P4 and P4Runtime Technical Introduction and Use Cases for the Next-Gen SDN Stack

P4 and P4Runtime Technical Introduction and Use Cases for the Next-Gen SDN Stack

December 28, 2019

P4 is gaining industry momentum. New language features allow describing more forwarding devices, not only programmable ones but also fixed-function conventional ones. P4Runtime was introduced as the n …
Continuous delivery in an ephemeral world

Continuous delivery in an ephemeral world

December 18, 2019

With systems like Travis CI, Circle CI, and CodeBuild, we're never more than a few lines of YAML away from a complete continuous delivery pipeline. However, ephemeral build systems constantly recreate the world from scratch, increasing build time and lengthening the CD feedback loop. John Chapin addresses those challenges and shares a reference pipeline using AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild.