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SDN and Open Stack
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New routing or packet filtering/delivering mechanisms
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Internet of things protocols and concepts from the network point of view
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Linux networking APIs (best practices, limitations, performance, etc. from the application POV)
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DPDK
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Support of new hardware (SMR, NVMe, LightNVM/OpenChannel SSD, etc)
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Persistent memory in Linux (NVM, pmem, DAX, etc)
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Scalability improvements in Linux
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Open source databases
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Linux filesystems and distributed storage (btrfs, xfs, overlayfs, ceph, glusterfs, etc)
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QEMU/KVM high performance I/O (virtio, vhost, data-planes)
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Virtualization management (libvirt and project built on top of it)
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General topics (nested virtualization, live migration, QoS)
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LXC/Docker and technologies they are built on
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SocketPlane (as a new Docker-level SDN)
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Open source cloud stacks (OpenStack, CloudStack, oVirt, etc)
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Open source SDN/SDS (OpenvSwitch, GlusterFS, etc)
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