Presentations
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).
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!
Every wonder what you and your resume look like to interviewers? Want to see tech interviews from the other side of the desk? Senior engineering leaders are coordinating this workshop that will get you feedback from your peers about your resume and an interview, as well as give you a chance to be the interviewer for several of your peers. Learn what an interview sees and how well your resume represents you and your skills.
In this talk, Jake and Pat will provide a brief user oriented overview of Sched Ext. They will then go over how to use the Sched Ext primitives discussed to author a production ready scheduler, covering interesting challenges, concepts and solutions involved they have come across while working on multiple such schedulers here: https://github.com/sched-ext/scx .