Presentations
Adrianna Frick, head of Credentialing and Curriculum for Canonical, will discuss the importance of technical certification to the open source community, while providing information on how technical certification programs are developed. Learn how to spot the difference between certificates, certifications, and skill builders, understand the characteristics of a reputable program, and learn how to create your personal path to success.
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.
Matt and Reza will welcome you to the Kwaai Summit and introduce you to Peronsal AI
From phones to TVs to wireless routers, our lives are increasingly defined by how device makers design the devices on which we rely. But who do these devices really serve? And why can't we fix them so they serve us instead?
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).