Presentations

Peter Czanik
Audience: Intermediate
Topic: Big Data

 

syslog-ng is an enhanced logging daemon, with a focus on central log collection. It collects logs from many different sources, processes and filters them and forwards them to a destination. This session focuses on how syslog-ng parses important information from incoming messages and how to send this information to “big data” destinations, like HDFS, Kafka, ElasticSearch or MongoDB.

 

Noah Swartz
Audience: Beginner
Topic: Security

Modern websites incorporate large amounts of third party resources. While these third parties can provide a better browsing experience all too often they abuse their inclusion on sites to track information about your website's visitors. This type of non-consensual tracking must stop. From Do Not Track, to Firefox's Tracking Protection, to the EFFs Privacy Badger extension I will cover the ways in which users are under attack and how they can be protected from online surveillance.

Jeff McCormick, Steven Pousty
Audience: Everyone
Topic: PostgreSQL

In this talk, we'll explain why you would want to run Postgresql inside containers, provide examples of deployments, demonstrate the open source Crunchy Postgresql Manager project, and provide examples of running Postgresql on Redhat Openshift.  Details include data volume management, server pinning, and Postgresql administration.  Example code is provided on github allowing the audience to experiment and try out Postgresql containers themselves.  This will be a joint presentation between Crunchy Data and Redhat showcasing the latest cloud technologies.

Corey Quinn
Audience: Beginner
Topic: Developer

dapted from his class "The Screaming Horrors of Git," Corey takes us on a magical tour through the (mis)use of Git to do things its creators never intended. In this humorously delivered exploration of one of the open source community's more ubiquitous tools, Corey demonstrates that a finely crafted wrench makes a barely acceptable hammer if you hold it wrong.

Robert Reselman
Audience: Everyone
Topic: General

Bob Reselman has been presenting the 7 Rules for Creating World Class Technical Documentation to audiences worldwide for close to a decade. This special Version 2016 pays particular attention to the structured use of diagrams, illustrations and video when creating effective documentation.

You can view the article upon which this talk is based at: http://www.developer.com/tech/article.php/3848981/The-7-Rules-for-Writin...

 

Russell Pavlicek
Audience: Everyone

<p>Unlike some hypervisors which run within a host operating system, or containers which share an operating system base, bare-metal hypervisors enable possible solutions with ultra-light footprints.&nbsp; Many new solutions are in development to leverage this capability, from embedded systems in cars to super-dense clouds. Come hear how a true Type-1 hypervisor makes this possible.</p>

Deb Nicholson
Audience: Everyone
Topic: UpSCALE

The free software movement has always been the Rebel Alliance. (Duh!) But who is the enemy? Many of you think it's Darth Gates, but sometimes we can be our own worst enemy. Strangling people who make mistakes, insisting on homogeneity or just being mean to our own people is the dark side. We'll take a look at all the mistakes the First Order makes and hopefully, we'll resolve not to emulate them in our communities this year.

Nathan Haines
Audience: Everyone
Topic: Ubucon

Ubuntu is everywhere today: desktops, servers, clouds, phones and tablets. As its reach spreads across so many devices, work is being done behind the scenes to make sure that one single Ubuntu codebase can provide a unique experience for each form factor.

Why is this important? How much work is involved? Can a single operating system really run on phones and desktops? How will this change the Ubuntu desktop? Learn exactly what this means for you.

Lars Kurth

An important facilitator of Unikernel development, Xen Project continues to develop new and interesting technologies to support the needs of the next generation datacenter. Potentially game-changing technologies like Unikernels will never reach their full potential unless the hypervisor they rely on can handle a large number of potentially tiny VMs effectively and efficiently. In this talk, Xen Project Advisory Board Chairman Lars Kurth will discuss some of the major advances in the hypervisor produced in last year's releases (4.5 and 4.6).

Colin Charles
Audience: Intermediate
Topic: MySQL

MySQL is a unique adult (now 21 years old) in many ways. It has spawned Percona Server, MariaDB Server and WebScaleSQL. Let's deep-dive into what feature differences exist between MySQL/Percona Server/MariaDB/WebScaleSQL.