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Applied, practical, & real-world deep-dive into industry adoption of OS, containers and virtualisation, including Linux on Windows, LinuxKit, and Unikernels
Ben is the founder of Ocelot Uproar and the creator behind Katacoda (Katacoda.com), an interactive learning platform for software engineers. Katacoda specialises in enabling developers to understand Cloud-Native technologies including Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift. Ben has been working with these technologies, helping both train teams and delivering projects. Ben tweets at @Ben_Hall.
by Justin Cormack
Developer @Docker
The last monolith is the operating system. There are tens or hundreds of millions of lines of code in the kernel, and orders of magnitude more in the userspace code that gets shipped with it. Not just any code, security critical code written in unsafe languages. Every other area of software has been moving towards safe languages, microservices, and agile delivery. How do we get there for operating systems?
So what is the future...
by Felipe Huici
Chief Researcher in the Systems and Machine Learning Group at NEC Laboratories Europe
Recently, several papers and projects dedicated to specialized OSes and unikernels have shown the immense potential for performance gains that these have. By leveraging specialization and the use of minimalistic OSes, unikernels are able to yield impressive numbers, including fast instantiation times (tens of milliseconds or less), tiny memory footprints (a few MBs or even KBs), and high consolidation (e.g., being able to run many instances on a single device); a...
by Rich Turner
Senior Program Manager @Microsoft
by Tara Raj
Program Manager @Microsoft
The command-line is an essential tool for many developers and administrators, on any machine and any operating system. Attend this session to learn how Microsoft has been overhauling the Windows command-line experience in Windows 10, making it easier than ever to run Windows tools alongside Linux tools in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and on containers in Docker for Windows, or in the cloud. Yes, Microsoft. THAT Microsoft. No, we're not kidding! :)
by Gilberto Bertin
System Engineer @Cloudflare London
XDP is a Linux technology which brings fast networking to native Linux.
Historically Linux required specialized patches to reduce the overhead of network packet processing. XDP fixes that: it allows packet filtering, modification and retransmission with arbitrary user logic.
The logic for an XDP program is expressed using eBPF, a byte code format for programs that run in a new in-kernel virtual machine. It allows a user to run arbitrary code in...
by Daniel Walsh
Engineer @Redhat working on CRI-O Container Runtime
by Samuel Ortiz
Principal Engineer @Intel Open Source Technology Center
Breaking down the containers runtimes into their base functionality and then building them up into a series or core libraries and tools to specialize in core capabilities. Our goal is, rather then have one monolithic daemon to do all container management, to build up a series of tools that specialize in each different function of container management.
The tooling landscape for containers is evolving rapidly--to keep things running smoothly in production, you need to keep your eye on...
Last Year's Tracks
Monday, 5 March
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Leading Edge Backend Languages
Code the future! How cutting-edge programming languages and their more-established forerunners can help solve today and tomorrow’s server-side technical problems.
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Security: Red XOR Blue Team
Security from the defender's AND the attacker's point of view
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Microservices/ Serverless: Patterns and Practices
Stories of success and failure building modern service and function-based applications, including event sourcing, reactive, decomposition, & more.
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Stream Processing in the Modern Age
Compelling applications of stream processing & recent advances in the field
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DevEx: The Next Evolution of DevOps
Removing friction from the developer experience.
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Modern CS in the Real World
Applied trends in Computer Science that are likely to affect Software Engineers today.
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Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)
Tuesday, 6 March
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Next Gen Banking: It’s not all Blockchains and ICOs
Great technologies like Blockchain, smartphones and biometrics must not be limited to just faster banking, but better banking.
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Observability: Logging, Alerting and Tracing
Observability in modern large distributed computer systems
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Building Great Engineering Cultures & Organizations
Stories of cultural change in organizations
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Topics like next-gen architecture mixed with applied use cases found in today's large-scale systems, self-driving cars, network routing, scale, robotics, cloud deployments, and more.
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The Practice & Frontiers of AI
Learn about machine learning in practice and on the horizon
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JavaScript and Beyond: The Future of the Frontend
Exploring the great frontend frameworks that make JavaScript so popular and theg JavaScript-based languages revolutionising frontend development.
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Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)
Wednesday, 7 March
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Distributed Stateful Systems
Architecting and leveraging NoSQL revisitied
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Operating Systems: LinuxKit, Unikernels, & Beyond
Applied, practical, & real-world deep-dive into industry adoption of OS, containers and virtualisation, including Linux on Windows, LinuxKit, and Unikernels
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Architecting for Failure
If you're not architecting for failure you're heading for failure
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Evolving Java and the JVM: Mobile, Micro and Modular
Although the Java language is holding strong as a developer favourite, new languages and paradigms are being embraced on JVM.
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Tech Ethics in Action
Learning from the experiences of real-world companies driving technology decisions from ethics as much as technology.
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Bare Knuckle Performance
Killing latency and getting the most out of your hardware
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Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)