🥇What awaits participants in the program Linux PIter 2019

9 months preparing the program Linux Piter. Members of the conference program committee considered several dozen applications for reports, sent hundreds of invitations, listened and selected the most interesting and relevant.

Russia, USA, Germany, Finland, Britain, Ukraine and many other parts of the world, from where speakers will flock and present companies such as RedHat, Intel, CISCO, Samsung, Synopsys, Percona, Veeam, Nutanix, Dell EMC, Western Digital, Open Mobile Platform , YADRO and more…

Here are just a few names: Michael Kerrisk, Tycho Andersen, Felipe Franciosi, Alexander Bokovoy, Alexey Brodkin, Elena Reshetova and many many others.

Please note that the conference will take place 4-5 October in St. Petersburg. For those who do not have the opportunity to attend our conference in person, but would like to, there is the opportunity to buy access to the online broadcast.

Let's take a closer look at the list of speakers and topics:

Michael Kerisk /man7.org. Germany
Once upon an API…
Michael is the author of a widely acclaimed book on systems 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 it autographed by the author.
Since 2004, maintainer of the man pages project Linux, who replaced Andries Brouwer.
In his report, Michael will tell the story of how one harmless and almost no one needed system call can provide jobs for prominent programmers from a dozen large international companies for many years.
Andrzej Pietrasiewicz / Collabora. Poland
Modern USB Gadget with Custom USB Functions & its Integration with systemd
Andrzej is a regular conference speaker. Linux Foundation, represents the company Collabora.
A report on how to make a device under control Linux A USB gadget is a device that can be connected to another computer (say, Windows) and connect to it (usually using standard drivers). For example, a video camera might be visible as a storage device for video files.
Elena Reshetova / Intel. Finland
Towards Linux kernel security: the journey of past 10 years
Elena will discuss how the approach to kernel security has changed over the past 10 years. Linux, about new achievements and old unresolved issues, in what directions the kernel security system is developing, and what holes today's hackers are trying to penetrate.
Tycho Andersen /Cisco Systems. USA
Hardening an Application-specific Linux
Taiko (some people pronounce his name as Tikho, although we call him Tikhon in Russia) can truly be called our permanent speaker. This year he will speak at Linux This is Piter's third time. Taiko's talk will cover modern approaches to improving the security of specialized Linux-based systems. For example, in a weather station management system, many unnecessary and insecure components can be trimmed, allowing for the inclusion of various security mechanisms. He'll also show us how to properly "prepare" TPM.
Krzysztof Opasiak / Samsung R&D Institute. Poland
USB arsenal for masses
Kristof is a talented PhD student at the Warsaw Institute of Technology and an Open Source Developer at Samsung R&D Institute Poland.
Christoph will talk about methods and tools for analyzing and reengineering USB traffic.
Alexey Brodkin / Synopsys. Russia
Multi-core application development with Zephyr RTOS
This is not the first time Alexey has performed at Linux Piter will talk about how to use multi-core processors in embedded systems, now that they're so cheap. He'll use Zephyr and the boards it supports as an example. You'll also learn what's already usable and what's still missing.
Mykola Marzhan /Percona. Ukraine
Running MySQL on Kubernetes
Nikolay is a member of the program committee Linux PIter since 2016. Incidentally, even program committee members undergo all stages of speaker selection and are not admitted to the program if their presentation does not meet the high standards of the conference program.
Kolya will tell what OpenSource solutions exist for running MySQL in Kubernetes and make a comparative analysis of the strengths and weaknesses, as well as the current state of these projects.
Sergei Shtepa / Veeam Software Group. Czech Republic
Linux Multifaceted: How to work on any distribution
Sergey works at Veeam Software in the System Components division. He was involved in creating the change block tracking component for Veeam Agent for Windows and the indexing component for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager.
Sergey will tell you about a thousand and one ifdef replacements or how to build your software for any Linux.
Dmitry Krivenok / DellEMC. Russia
Linux networking stack in enterprise storage
Dmitry is a member of the program committee Linux Piter has been working on creating unique conference content since its inception.
In his report he will talk about his experience working with the network subsystem. Linux in data storage systems, non-standard problems and ways to solve them.
Felipe Franciosi / Nutanix. UK
MUSER: Mediated Userspace Device
Felipe will talk about how to purely programmatically depict a PCI device - moreover, in userspace! It will come out like a living thing, and you won’t have to urgently make a prototype to start developing software.
Alexander Bokov / Red Hat. Finland
Evolution of identity and authentication in Red Hat Enteprise Linux 8 and Fedora distributions.
Alexander is one of the most authoritative speakers of our conference, who will come to us for the second time.
In the report, Alexander will talk about the evolution of the user identification and authentication subsystem and its interfaces (in rhel 8).
Konstantin Karasevand Dmitry Gerasimov / Open Mobile Platform. Russia
Secure execution of applications on modern Linux-based smartphone: Secureboot, ARM TrustZone, Linux IMA
Konstantin and Dmitry from Open Mobile Platform will talk about secure kernel boot tools. Linux and applications, and their use in the Aurora mobile OS.
Evgeny Paltsev / Synopsys. Russia
Self-modifying code in Linux kernel — what, where, and how
Evgeniy will share with us an interesting concept “finish with a file after assembly” using the kernel as an example.
Andy Shevchenko / Intel. Finland

ACPI from scratch: U-Boot implementation
In his report, Andrey will talk about using the power management interface (ACPI), as well as how the device detection algorithm is implemented in the U-Boot bootloader.
Dmitry Fomichev /Western Digital. USA
Zoned Block Device ecosystem: no longer exotic
Dmitry will discuss a new class of storage devices—zone-based block devices—and their kernel support. Linux.
Alexey Budankov / Intel. Russia
Linux Perf advancements for compute intensive and server systems
Alexey works at Intel and in his talk he will talk about recent improvements in Linux Perf for high-performance server systems.
Marian Marinov /SiteGround. Bulgaria
Comparison of eBPF, XDP and DPDK for packet inspection
Marian works with Linux for almost 20 years. He's a big FOSS fan and can therefore be regularly found at various FOSS conferences around the world. Marian will talk about a high-performance virtual machine with Linux, which cleans traffic to combat DoS and DDoS attacks.

Marian will also 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.