Cooper Lees – Facebook
- Open Source at facebook
- Increase in pull requests, not just pushing out stuff or throwing over the wall anymore
- Focussing on full life-cycle of opensource
- Big Projects: react , hhvm , asyncdisplaykit , presto
- Working on other projects and sending to upstream
- code.facebook.com github.com/facebook
- Network Switches and Open Compute
- Datacentre in NZ using open compute designs
- Open source Switch
- Top of rack switch
- Want to be the open compute of network switches
- Installer, OS, API to talk to asic that runs ports
- Switches = Servers. running chef
- Wedge
- 16-32 of 40GE ports
- Internal facebook design
- 1st building block for disaggregated switching technology
- Contributed to OCP project
- Micro Server + Switchports
Carol Smith – Google
- Works in Google Open Source office
- Google Summer of code
- Real world experience
- Contacts and references
- 11th year of the program
- 8600 participated over last 10 years
- Not enough people in office to do southern hemisphere programme. There is “Google code-in” though
Mark McLoughlin – Red Hat
- Open Source and the datacenter
- iaas, paas, microservices, etc
- The big guys are leading (amazon, google). They are building on open source
- Telcos
- Squeezed and scrambling
- Not so “special” anymore
- Need to be agile and responsive
- Telecom datacentre – filled with big, expensive, proprietary boxes
- opposite of agile
- OPNFV reference architecture
- OpenStack, Open vswitch, etc
- Why Open Source? – collaboration and coopetition , diversity drives innovation , sustainability
There was a Q&A. Mostly questions about diversity at the companies and grumps about having to move to US/Sydney for peopl eto work for them
