We have been attending Linux conferences around the world for a long time and regularly. It seemed surprising to us that in Russia, a country with such a high technological potential, there is not a single similar event. That is why we contacted IT-Events a few years ago and offered to do a big Linux conference. This is how Linux Piter appeared - a large-scale thematic conference, which this year will be held in the northern capital on October 4 and 5 for the fifth time in a row.
This is a huge event in the Linux world that you definitely don't want to miss. Why? We'll talk about this under the cut.
This year we will discuss servers and storage, cloud infrastructure and virtualization, networking and performance, embedded and mobile, but not only. We will get to know each other, communicate, develop a community of Linux enthusiasts together. Conference speakers are core developers, recognized experts in the field of networking, storage systems, security, virtualization, embedded and server systems, DevOps engineers and many others.
We have prepared many new interesting topics and, as always, invited the best international experts. Below we will talk about some of them. Of course, each visitor will have the opportunity to get acquainted with the speakers and ask them all their questions.
Once upon an APIβ¦
Michael Kerrisk, man7.org, Germany
Michael will talk about how one harmless and almost no one needs a system call can provide jobs for prominent programmers from a dozen large international companies for many years.
By the way, Michael wrote a well-known book on system programming in Linux (and Unix) "The Linux Programming Interface". So if you have a copy of this book, bring it to the conference to get an autograph from the author.
Modern USB gadget with custom USB functions & its integration with systemd
Andrzej Pietrasiewicz, Collabora, Poland
Andrey is a regular speaker at Linux Foundation conferences. His report will be devoted to how to make a USB gadget from a Linux device that can be connected to another computer (say, on Windows) and used using only standard drivers. For example, a camcorder may be seen as a repository of video files. All the magic is created on the fly, with the help of existing tools and systemd.
Towards Linux kernel security: the journey of the past 10 years
Elena Reshetova, Intel, Finland
How has the approach to Linux kernel security changed in the last 10 years? New achievements, old unresolved issues, directions for the development of the kernel security system, and holes that today's hackers are trying to crawl into - you can learn about this and much more at Elena's speech.
Hardening an application-specific Linux
Tycho Andersen, Cisco Systems, USA
Taiko (someone pronounces his name as Tycho, but we in Russia call him Tikhon) will come to Linux Piter for the third time. This year - with a report on modern approaches to improving the security of specialized systems based on LInux. For example, a weather station control system can be cut off a lot of unnecessary and unsafe parts, this will enable enhanced security mechanisms. He will also show you how to properly βcookβ TPM.
USB arsenal for masses
Krzysztof Opasiak, Samsung R&D Institute, Poland
Kristof is a talented PhD student at the Warsaw Institute of Technology and an open source developer at Samsung R&D Institute Poland. He will talk about methods and tools for analyzing and reengineering USB traffic.
Multi-core application development with Zephyr RTOS
Alexey Brodkin, Synopsys, Russia
You could also meet Alexey at previous conferences. This year he will tell you how to use multi-core processors in embedded systems, since they are so cheap today. As an example, he uses Zephyr and the boards it supports. At the same time, you will learn what can already be used, and what is under development.
Running MySQL on Kubernetes
Mykola Marzhan, Percona, Ukraine
Nikolay has been a member of the Linux Piter program committee since 2016. By the way, even members of the program committee go through all stages of the selection of reports on an equal basis with the rest. If their report does not meet our strict criteria, then they will not get to the conference as a speaker. Nikolai will tell you what open source solutions exist for running MySQL in Kubernetes and analyze the current state of these projects.
Linux has many faces: how to work on any distribution
Sergey Shtepa, Veeam Software Group, Czech Republic
Sergey works in the System Components division and is developing the change block tracking component for Veeam Agent for Windows and the indexing component for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager. It will show you how to build your software for any version of LInux and what are the replacements for ifdefs.
Linux networking stack in enterprise storage
Dmitry Krivenok, Dell Technologies, Russia
Dmitry, a member of the Linux Piter program committee, has been working on creating unique conference content since its opening. In his report, he will talk about the experience of working with the Linux network subsystem in storage systems, non-standard problems and ways to solve them.
MUSER: Mediated Userspace Device
Felipe Franciosi, Nutanix, UK
Felipe will tell you how to programmatically depict a PCI device - and in userspace! It will come out like a living thing, and you wonβt have to urgently make a prototype to start developing software.
Evolution of identity and authentication in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and Fedora distributions
Alexander Bokovoy, Red Hat, Finland
Alexander is one of the most respected speakers of our conference. His presentation will focus on the evolution of the user identification and authentication subsystem and its interfaces in RHEL 8.
Secure execution of applications on modern Linux-based smartphone: Secureboot, ARM TrustZone, Linux IMA
Konstantin Karasev, Dmitry Gerasimov, Open Mobile Platform, Russia
Konstantin will talk about secure booting of the Linux kernel and applications, as well as their use in the Aurora mobile OS.
Self modifying code in Linux kernel β what where and how
Evgeniy Paltsev, Synopsys. Russia
Evgeniy will share his experience in applying the interesting concept of βafter assembly, finalize with a fileβ using the example of the Linux kernel.
ACPI from scratch: U-Boot implementation
Andy Shevchenko, Intel, Finland
Andy will talk about using the power management interface (ACPI), as well as how the device discovery algorithm is implemented in the U-Boot bootloader.
Comparison of eBPF, XDP and DPDK for packet inspection
Marian Marinov, SiteGround, Bulgaria
Marian has been working with Linux for almost 20 years. He is a big fan of FOSS and as such can be found at FOSS conferences all over the world. He will talk about a high-performance Linux virtual machine that cleans traffic to combat DoS and DDoS attacks. Marian will bring some cool open source games to our conference, which will be available in a special gaming area. Modern open source game engines are not what they used to be. Come and evaluate for yourself.
Zoned Block Device ecosystem: no longer exotic
Dmitry Fomichev, Western Digital, USA
Dmitry will talk about a new class of drives - zoned block devices, as well as their support in the Linux kernel.
Linux Perf advancements for compute intensive and server systems
Alexey Budankov, Intel, Russia
Andrey will show some special magic for measuring the performance of SMP and NUMA systems and talk about recent improvements in Linux Perf for high-performance server platforms.
And that is not all!
For descriptions of other reports, see the website. .
About preparation for the conference
By the way, you probably ask what does Dell have to do with it? Dell Technologies is the mastermind behind and one of the key partners of Linux Piter. We are not just a sponsor of the conference, our employees are members of the program committee, participate in the invitation of speakers, choosing the most relevant, complex and interesting topics of reports.
The program committee of the conference includes 12 experts. The committee chairman is Alexander Hakobyan, technical manager of Dell Technologies.
International team: Intel CTO Andrey Laperrier, BSTU Associate Professor Dmitry Kostyuk, Percona CTO Nikolay Marzhan.
Russian team: Kirill Krinkin, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Head of Department at LETI, Vasily Tolstoy and Dmitry Krivenok, Leading Programmers of Dell Technologies, Pavel Emelyanov, Virtuozzo Architect, Marina Lesnykh, Leading Marketing Manager of Dell Technologies, Denis Kalanov, CEO of IT-Events, Diana Lyubavskaya, Event Managers and Irina Saribekova.
The program committee is responsible for filling the conference with useful and relevant reports. We ourselves invite experts of interest to us and the community, and also choose the most worthy of the topics submitted for consideration.
Then work with the selected reports begins:
- At the first stage, the problems and interest of the community in the stated topic are generally assessed.
- If the topic of the report is relevant, a more detailed description is requested.
- The next stage is remote listening (by this time the report should be 80% ready).
- Further, if necessary, changes are made, and a second audition takes place.
If the topic is interesting and the speaker knows how to reveal it beautifully, the report will definitely get into the program. We help some speakers to open up (we hold several rehearsals and give recommendations), because not all engineers were born great speakers.
And only after that you hear the final version of the report at the conference.
Recording and presentations of reports of past years:
How to get to the conference?
Everything is extremely easy: you just need to buy a ticket . If you are unable to come to the conference or get access to the online broadcast, do not worry. Sooner or later (although we will not hide it sooner rather than later), most of the reports will appear on .
We hope that we managed to interest you. See you at Linux Piter 2019! In our opinion, it will indeed be very, very interesting and useful.
Source: habr.com