Presentations
Keeping data secure is a vital part of the operations of any enterprise. Customer expectations, regulatory requirements, contractual obligations, and competitive needs all demand that the data in the database only be sent out to those who actually have a need and right to it.
IoT is fostering collection of data related to many aspects of commerce, health, environment, and transportation.
This is poised to become the nervous system for society. It will drive control loops for commerce, transportation, and public safety - and become a target for mischief, criminals, and terrorists.
Miscreants aren’t the only threat. Open flow of information, sometimes threatens dysfunctional or totalitarian governments.
This talk will focus on the need for an architecture that keeps IoT data streams trustworthy and highly available.
Everybody knows that Ubuntu is sponsored by Canonical, but not many people know exactly what that means. In this talk we'll take a trip in the Wayback Machine to the very beginnings of the Ubuntu project to see how it and Canonical came to life. As we continue through each milestone of Ubuntu's development we will explore how that relationship between company and community, product and project, has changed over the years. Finally we'll take a deeper look as Canonical's current investments, commitments, and responsibilities to Ubuntu and all of the people that make it.
You may hear that event driven automation helps Facebook save 16,000 person-hours in operations each day. Do you ever wonder “How can I can accomplish this in my OpenStack cluster, and what tools will help me do it?" The closest answer you will find is StackStorm - an open-source, Apache 2.0 licensed, event driven automation platform. StackStorm is built on the same premises as Facebook’s FBAR, acts as higher-level orchestrations, and used by many to automate their growing infrastructure, private and public cloud deployments, network infrastructure, security, operations.
If you come from Python, JavaScript, or another scripting language, the new systems programming language Rust may seem intimidating. The learning curve is steep, but never fear! This talk will teach you the basics of Rust, and help you ask the right questions as you continue to explore Rust after the conference.
In the rush to move everything to stateless microservices, many implementors have ignored the reality that not everything can be stateless, and not everyone wants to rely on AWS for their data storage. Fortunately, there are answers, and we'll explore how to handle state in a containerized stack.
Autovacuum is often a mystical beast. I'll walk you through a simple and straightforward methodology to fine-tune autovacuum.
SysAdm is a new system administration framework that was created by the TrueOS team for managing FreeBSD desktops and servers. It is comprised of a FreeBSD-specific server component, which provides both REST and Websocket connection protocols via a public API for directly configuring and managing the system without the use of any middleware database. SysAdm also has a cross-platform graphical client which allows for connecting to and managing many systems simultaneously.
An interactive introduction into customizing and deploying OpenWRT and LEDE as sensor and information collection platforms. This talk will introduce both open firmware platforms as well as discuss how to use these platforms to your advantage. Whether you need to monitor network traffic or just run a low powered VPN, embedded devices provide a cheap and (relatively) reliable way to get systems working quickly, and easily replicated.
Technology is a major transformative force in education. Used appropriately and non-exclusively, it can enrich traditional methods, but far too often, technology is dumped in the classroom and expected to perform miracles. We must find better ways to integrate technology into schools and improve the technological aptitude of teachers, students, and parents so that they can make informed decisions themselves.