Presentations
This session will illustrate how to optimize your data platform for performance, scalability, flexibility, and reliability in OpenStack and OpenShift environments.
A lot has been made about Broadcom's price increases for VMware, and there has also been a lot of attention paid to the technological aspects of migrating to OpenStack. Instead, let's take a look at the economics of the migration and how much it actually ends up costing organizations to migrate both in terms of licensing costs, as well as switching costs.
This talk is presented by OpenInfra Days Headline Sponsor - Rackspace Technologies
Scientific progress relies on incremental improvements, famously described by Newton’s "on the shoulders of giants." While this is true for scientific literature, code-driven analysis has not kept pace. As a scientist who transitioned from fieldwork to modeling land-atmosphere exchange, I've seen how research code often lacks long-term maintenance, limiting reuse. Research teams develop code over short timescales, publish, and move on. This talk proposes a paradigm shift in scientific coding practices, incorporating software engineering for sustainable, collaborative open-source code.
Mental health is an area of interest in the tech industry. Zoë will discuss her own experience being psychoanalyzed, her sabattical working as a counselor, and her volunteer work as a counselor at a crisis hotline and as a crisis counselor for regional Burning Man affiliated events.
She will further cover how to discuss mental health with management and colleagues, seek treatment for mental health and substance use disorders, and navigate insurance. Additionally, she will discuss different therapeutic approaches and how to approach selecting a therapist.
In cloud-native development, managing vulnerabilities is essential for secure, scalable environments. This talk covers the key elements of an effective vulnerability management strategy, including asset tracking, SBOMs, and risk prioritization, and provides actionable insights on implementing monitoring pipelines to detect and address threats early.
The audience will learn about the collaboration the OpenInfra Foundation has fostered with universities to get students involved in Open Source before graduation. After reaching over 100 students, we have learned a lot and are eager to share improvements and plans for the future.
pgBadger is a widely used tool that helps to identify the exact factors slowing down the system, improve SQL for quick wins, and enhance overall system performance. But what if you could do more? Imagine the power of PostgreSQL at your fingertips, which is used for its own log analysis and performance optimization.
Explore the latest features in pgBadger and the tools we built on top of it to unlock a world of possibilities!
Join us for "Taming the Chaos: What's Next in Engineering?" where top tech leaders discuss strategies to streamline development and anticipate future shifts in the realms of open source and AI. This panel, featuring luminaries like Sarah Novotny (former director of open source strategy at Google and Azure), Michael Stahnke (VP Eng at Flox, ex VP at Circle CI) and Ron Efroni (Founder of Flox), will explore effective ways to manage the growing complexity in tech stacks and highlight how AI, open source, and security trends are shaping the future of engineering.
While x86 servers certianly dominate the landscape in datacenters, they are not the only option for running an OpenStack environment. We'll discuss some options for installation, and then examine the concrete example of how a dual architecture enivornment works in the IBM Storage Scale lab.
At the CELEHS laboratory we are particularly interested by LLM-based embeddings as BGE and BERT. As the number of models increases, we need methods to compare their clinical usefulness. While some R packages exist to leverage GPU capabilities, Pytorch is by far more used for GPU computation. In contrast, R is efficient for data management and visualization. How should one build robust and reproducible pipelines incorporating them both ? My answer is well-designed pipelines with Docker, Makefile, and Elasticsearch. In this talk I will showcase my design approaches to such challenges.