Track Overview
Operating Systems: LinuxKit, Unikernels, & Beyond
Applied, practical, & real-world deep-dive into industry adoption of OS, containers and virtualisation, including Linux on Windows, LinuxKit, and Unikernels
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Unikraft - Unleashing the Power of Unikernels
Recently, several papers and projects dedicated to specialized OSes and unikernels have shown the immense potential for performance gains that these have. By leveraging specialization and the use of minimalistic OSes, unikernels are able to yield impressive numbers, including fast instantiation...
Felipe Huici
Chief Researcher in the Systems and Machine Learning Group at NEC Laboratories Europe
The Modern Operating System in 2018
The last monolith is the operating system. There are tens or hundreds of millions of lines of code in the kernel, and orders of magnitude more in the userspace code that gets shipped with it. Not just any code, security critical code written in unsafe languages. Every other area of software has...
Justin Cormack
Developer @Docker
Optimizing For Production Workloads
Breaking down the containers runtimes into their base functionality and then building them up into a series or core libraries and tools to specialize in core capabilities. Our goal is, rather then have one monolithic daemon to do all container management, to build up a series of tools that...
Daniel Walsh
Engineer @Redhat working on CRI-O Container Runtime
Samuel Ortiz
Principal Engineer @Intel Open Source Technology Center
XDP in Practice: DDoS Mitigation @Cloudflare
XDP is a Linux technology which brings fast networking to native Linux. Historically Linux required specialized patches to reduce the overhead of network packet processing. XDP fixes that: it allows packet filtering, modification and retransmission with arbitrary user logic. The logic for an...
Gilberto Bertin
System Engineer @Cloudflare London
Making the Windows Command-Line Great Again!
The command-line is an essential tool for many developers and administrators, on any machine and any operating system. Attend this session to learn how Microsoft has been overhauling the Windows command-line experience in Windows 10, making it easier than ever to run Windows tools alongside Linux...
Rich Turner
Senior Program Manager @Microsoft
Tara Raj
Program Manager @Microsoft
Speakers from this track
Felipe Huici
Chief Researcher in the Systems and Machine Learning Group at NEC Laboratories Europe
I’m a chief researcher in the Systems and Machine Learning Group at NEC Laboratories Europe in Heidelberg, Germany. My main research and work interests lie in the areas of high-performance software systems, and in particular specialization, virtualization, and the application of machine...
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Justin Cormack
Developer @Docker
Justin Cormack is a software engineer at Docker. He works on security, developer tooling and more. He is always interested in new programming language technology.
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Daniel Walsh
Engineer @Redhat working on CRI-O Container Runtime
Daniel Walsh has worked in the computer security field for over 35 years. Dan is a Consulting Engineer at Red Hat. He joined Red Hat in August 2001. Dan leads the Red Hat Container Engineering team since August 2013, but has been working on container technology for several years. Dan currently...
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Samuel Ortiz
Principal Engineer @Intel Open Source Technology Center
Samuel is a Principal Engineer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center, where he currently leads the Kata Containers and Clear Containers project. He's also the Linux kernel NFC maintainer and one of the CRI-O maintainers. In previous lives Samuel worked on networking and connectivity,...
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Gilberto Bertin
System Engineer @Cloudflare London
Gilberto Bertin is originally from a little Italian town near Venice, and loves tinkering with low level systems, especially networking code. After working on variety of technologies like P2P VPNs and userspace TCP/IP stacks, he joined the Cloudflare DDoS team in London to help filter all the...
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Rich Turner
Senior Program Manager @Microsoft
Rich is a Senior Program Manager who returned to Microsoft in March 2016 to "Make Windows Command Line Great Again" (MWCLGA). Rich is so old he's worked on too many things to list, but highlights include the computerized weapon aiming systems, graphics accelerators, recruitment systems, UK...
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Tara Raj
Program Manager @Microsoft
Tara is a Program Manager at Microsoft working on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Previously, she worked on the V1 of new tools for SQL Server on Linux including SQL Operations Studio and the mssql-scripter CLI. Her passion for the command line and Linux has transferred over to her work on...
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Track Host
Ben Hall
Founder of Ocelot Uproar & Creator of Katacoda
Ben is the founder of Ocelot Uproar and the creator behind Katacoda (Katacoda.com), an interactive learning platform for software engineers. Katacoda specialises in enabling developers to understand Cloud-Native technologies including Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift. Ben has been working with...
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