Open Source Summit North America 2018

"The Art of Scaffolding" refers to an approach to agile and open development. Shelley discusses fast issue response, the ability to unblock dependent teams and how to still deliver quality solutions over the span of several open projects. She reminds us all how important it is to have fun while achieving project goals.

She draws from her own experiences and gives candid examples of ways to both enliven or destroy the social culture of an open project. Short of being a cautionary tale, through this presentation, Shelley speaks directly to those who want to make their projects buzz with activity and contributors.

The blockchain is a hyped technology. What if we could use @rustlang as a primary language blockchain technology. As Rust is out there creating a new generation of system programmers, it has a lot to offer in terms of safety and performance comparatively better than other high-level programming languages such as C++, Python, Ruby, Js.

This talk will walk the audience through an introduction of blockchain technology and RUST programming language and explain how to write, compile, deploy and interact with a blockchain application using Rust.

Spanning across 50,000 hosts on bare-metal, VMs, containers and appliances, RingCentral's infrastructure collects 10Tb of data per day on their SAAS solution, with plans to double by the end of 2018. We present the observability pipeline developed by RingCentral to collect and process application logs and telemetry for multistage and multi-tenant CI/CD. Our discussion will focus on the integration of multiple open-source applications and solutions, reflecting on the challenges and complications encountered, as well as, introduce goals for the future.

We seek to share the journey, which with Zabbix monitoring over wide varieties of metric types and little pipeline monitoring, to the current RingCentral developed CMDB, ELK and TICK stacks with standardized and automated data flow.

Technologies:
ElasticSearch
Logstash
InfluxDB
Zabbix
Ansible

 What do we know about the market for open source jobs? What regions have the most jobs specific to open source or open source technologies? Which technologies are trending up or down in terms of the supply and demand of candidates?

Every month, over 200M unique visitors visit Indeed to search millions of jobs around the world, some of which target experience with open source and open source technologies. In this lightning talk, Jack Humphrey will share some insights based on Indeed's unique view of the employment marketplace.

Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is a network protocol that offers low latency, high bandwidth, and low CPU utilization. So recently, RDMA has been expected to improve performance of applications which need frequent network communications, and there are several attempts applying RDMA to OSS. For instance, Tensorflow (deep learning framework) and Apache Spark (data analytics platform) have RDMA implementations.

However, RDMA programming offers many decisions for programmers which may affect performance (e.g. RDMA operation, application's data layout on memory region). Depending on them, extra overheads such as memcpy() will occur and reduce RDMA's benefits. To make matters more complex, they rely on target application's features.

This presentation shows overviews of RDMA, choices of design, and example of applying RDMA to MXNet, an OSS deep learning framework, by using Infiniband and its native API, ibverbs.

The first time I met Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation didn't exist and he was speaking to a small room of fewer than 20 people in Toronto. Over the last 20 years, things sure have changed. 

When someone says “documentation” they imagine a boring set of articles or API stubs hosted somewhere on a site nobody will find outside an occasional pointer from a search engine. Docs can be out-of-date, inaccurate or related to an old product version. What if we move away from traditional paradigms, to a world where creating and consuming docs is enjoyable, while making them more collaborative and interactive, ensuring there is always relevant sample code that works? Den covers the journey of swapping out the world’s largest technical docs site (MSDN), with a lean open-source cloud solution that scales for any platform, making it a key part of Microsoft products, with better reliability AND attracting a community of OSS developers helping make docs more useful for everyone. Den will also talk about ways in which products can grow their communities by encouraging contributions to docs.

Have you heard about Zowe, the new open source platform from the Open Mainframe Project? Find out more about how this simple, intuitive environment redefines the z/OS user experience aligns with the rest of the industry.