Presentations
We've all probably encountered the following scenario at least once. We start pulling a container, and have to wait a solid 4–5 minutes... Why? Oh, our colleague decided to put all the development and building tools inside the container, making it >5 GB in size. Let me show you a way to construct images that prevent this from happening, and maybe teach you a thing or 2 about Nix in the process.
VALKEY is a superfast in-memory distributed database with clustering, redundancy, and low latency. If you need a cache, then you need to look at VALKEY. The VALKEY project started when REDIS changed from an open-source license to extort money from its community. VALKEY is a much-improved fork of REDIS, and the Linux Foundation supports the project. This session briefly covers the fork's 'why,' explores some exciting new features, and shows you how to start with VALKEY.
We will examine the inner workings of container registries, such as Docker Hub and GitHub Container Registry, exploring the types of data these registries can capture. Additionally, we will discuss potential analytics that can be derived from this data, highlighting its practical utility. Lastly, we will outline how this information can benefit your project and share ways to acquire it.
KiCad has been one of those workhorse tools used by those in the know, but perhaps scary and intimidating for those who haven't tried it (and maybe some who have). It is described as "A Cross Platform and Open Source Electronics Design Automation Suite", but what exactly does that mean, and how can it help you? This session will present my trials and tribulations attempting to use it to initially to track an arduino project through to ending up with industry manufactured boards and custom 3d printed housings. Failures surely will abound so that you can learn through the pain of others.
As an anthropologist in Meta’s Infrastructure, my job is to integrate culture to applied systems analysis and to design and conduct interventions to effect positive change. This talk explores how we used anthropological research to help Meta shift from “Move Fast and Break Things” to “Move Fast with Stable Infrastructure.” I present 2 interventions where we used culture and behavioral “nudges” to drive change from the bottom up and top down. The aim is to provide actionable guidance on how engineering orgs can adopt social sciences as they scale.
AI and LLMs are all the rage these days, but the real fun stuff doesn't happen until some kind of database is involved. This talk will explain how Postgres, pgvector, and the pg_vectorize extension can transform a generic hallucinating chatbot into a trained expert savant.
Brought together by a shared frustration with the confused state of CI and local dev tools for build and test, Rebecca and Jeremy will show how to build reusable CI/CD pipelines that can be written in real programming languages (not bespoke YAML) and "just work" together using the open source Dagger project (dagger.io).
Many organizations use Kubernetes (k8s) to run their software. The OpenTelemetry (OTel) Operator can enhance observability by simplifying OTel management within k8s clusters.
In their talk, Adriana and Reese will provide an overview of the Operator, addressing common issues that new users may face, including installation, auto-instrumentation, and deployment challenges. They will offer practical solutions to these problems, aiming to empower attendees with the knowledge and confidence to effectively leverage the Operator in their k8s environments.
Contributing to an Open Source community is both challenging and rewarding but worth it!