Linux Piter 2017

 Format

• 2-day conference in two parallel tracks.

• Language*: English and Russian 

• This year, PyterPy will be colocated with Linux Piter conference. Participants of any conference can attend the talks of both conferences.

* The booklet for the participant and the presentation of all speakers will be in English. In the first track speakers will perform in English with simultaneous translation into Russian; in the second track speakers will perform in Russian with simultaneous translation into English.

 Topics

NETWORK

SERVER AND STORAGE

• SDN and Open Stack 
• New routing or packet filtering/delivering mechanisms
• Internet of things protocols and concepts from the network point of view
• Linux networking APIs (best practices, limitations, performance, etc. from the application POV)
• DPDK

• Support of new hardware (SMR, NVMe, LightNVM/OpenChannel SSD, etc)
• Persistent memory in Linux (NVM, pmem, DAX, etc)
• Scalability improvements in Linux 
• Open source databases
• Linux filesystems and distributed storage (btrfs, xfs, overlayfs, ceph, glusterfs, etc)

VIRTUALIZATION

CLOUD

• QEMU/KVM high performance I/O (virtio, vhost, data-planes)
• Virtualization management (libvirt and project built on top of it)
• General topics (nested virtualization, live migration, QoS)
• LXC/Docker and technologies they are built on
• SocketPlane (as a new Docker-level SDN)

• Open source cloud stacks (OpenStack, CloudStack, oVirt, etc)
• Open source SDN/SDS (OpenvSwitch, GlusterFS, etc)

EMBEDDED & MOBILE

• Linux-based  electronic systems development
• Open source mobile operating systems
• Kernel and system software tuned for embedded application

How it was before

• Linux Piter #1 (21 November 2015): program, talks video

• Linux Piter #2 (11-12 November 2016): program, talks video

 Conference prepared by

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