Anthony Chow

The IT industry is moving in a fast pace. We may be doing software development comfortably for the last 10 years but to keep ourselves relevant and stay employed, we need to move out of our comfort zone and learn new things.åÊ This session will focus on the latest trend of the DevOps movement as well as some soft skills that a developer should have to make ourselves marketable and/or stay employed.

IoT edge device are more useful and powerful if connect with other devices, IoT Gateway or even with the cloud. MQTT is a popular lightweight publish/subscribe messaging protocol for the IoT ecosystem that sits on top of the TCP protocol stack. This session will give an introduction to what MQTT is, show how to use TLS to encrypt the data in transit for the protocol and also using OAuth2 to create a framework to authenticate and authorize which device or entity can participate in the communication.

Container is a hot topic these days.  The maturity of container orchestration is enabling container to be deployable in production environment.  It is important to make container secure in the production environment.  This session will give the audience on overview on what are the options available for securing a container such that they can know how to harden the container and the host for a more secured environment.

Contributing to OpenStack is easier than we think. This session will explain the OpenStack contribtion workflow, commit best practice and show how to get started by helping the audience to look for simple bug fix or documentation change as well as to locate the necessary resources and to connecting to the OpenStack community via IRC and/or mailing list.