Presentations
Open Source Software is being curated to form our national critical infrastructure across Governments and nations. We'll consider how open source software got to this position, challenges and risks faced, and the needs of curation and stewardship to build critical infrastructure in 2022 and beyond.
This talk will show how the OSS Selkies project uses Kubernetes to deliver high performance containerized streaming environments to the browser. These environments enable remote development workflows without compromising performance, increasing security and isolation, and leveraging compute power beyond the endpoint device.
In 2019, non-profit La Quadrature du Net launched Technopolice: a collaborative campaign to raise awareness, investigate and fight back against so-called "smart cities": really, the application to the physical world of the privacy-invading data-collection techniques first honed online. Facial recognition, "suspicious" sounds, gait recognition, these technologies are sold by for-profit companies to security-obsessed local governments eager to answer the sirens' call.
Similarly to open source projects, the campaign provides tools to help anyone participate and reclaim their city.
While every problem has the potential to be unique, there are several we see happening over and over again. Our mission is to prevent you from experiencing the pain so many others have experienced.
Weeks to months after a routine upgrade from systemd 247 to systemd 248, engineers at Meta discovered a very gradual growth of memory usage in systemd-journald, from 20 MB to over 300 MB and growing. It's not a memory leak! What could it be? Come hear about how we detected it, how we tracked down the cause, what the root cause was, and how it was fixed.
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated a clear and present need for a complete, free-libre open-source, easily repairable, widely usable, safe and effective respiratory support medical device ecosystem. For the open source community to impactfully contribute, we need organization and cooperation. The Freespireco ecosystem of respiration support devices can intercommunicate and synergize with each other to build a democratized system of devices that, in the end, will best monolithic devices made by closed firms.
We have been talking about devops for years. Along the way, we have added various syllables to the portmanteau “devops” to include all the practices and disciplines that are key to doing this effectively. What if DevOps, DevSecOps, and all the other variants have been about the same idea all along?
In today's rapid pace development cycles, the database design is often overlooked or even dismissed entirely.
We are living in exciting times - we are finally seeing hyperscale server platforms opening up and running on open source software (with caveats still). The journey though is a road full of potholes, braking and sharp turns. Opening up hardware is not easy! Follow along and see how we enabled the Mono Lake platform that was originally created by Facebook (now Meta).
Kubernetes as a platform is spurring the growth of cloud native platforms to be built on top, often leveraging the scale and self-healing properties of Kubernetes that were initially intended for stateless applications. Cloud Native databases have had to work around some of the sharp edges of the platform however to be able to reap some of the same benefits.