Linux.conf.au 2015 – Day 4 – Keynotes

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

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