Category: Conferences

There were lots of really interesting sessions that I would have loved to have seen, if parallel sessions or demand, were not an issue.  Luckily all the sessions where recorded, so in time I can check these out at my leisure.  Here are some sessions that I was also interested in seeing.

IOT

• TinyGo: Fast, Small, Concurrent: Choose Three – TinyGo on microcontrollers
• Are PWAs ready to take over the world? – Implementing main progressive web app features in practice
• Using Micropython to develop an IoT sensor platform with an Augmented Reality UI – How to marry the physical world and IoT with the virtual

Containerisation

• Kubernetes of Things – Case-study building sensors and actors as CRDs
• Code Workload Management into the Control Plane – What it means to be “Kubernetes Native”
• Ephemeral Environments For Developers In Kubernetes
• Sharing Reproducible Results in a Container – A container you can build anywhere
• Debugging apps running in Kubernetes – An overview of the tooling available
• Our road to a k8s/GKE based Closed Build Environment – A small journey to an autoscaling build env based on Jenkins.
• Below Kubernetes: Demystifying container runtimes
• Preserve Kubernetes state using heptio velero
• Fixing the Kubernetes clusterfuck – Understanding security from the kernel up
• How Containers and Kubernetes re-defined the GNU/Linux Operating System – A Greybeard’s Worst Nightmare
• Guix: Unifying provisioning, deployment, and package management in the age of containers

Android

• Extending the lifetime of smartphones with Replicant, a fully free Android distribution

Hardware

• FOSDEM Video Box – A bespoke HDMI capture device for conferences

GIS

• Apache Spark on planet-scale – Using Apache Spark to process OpenStreetMap data
• GeoServer Basics

OSX

• Homebrew: Features and Funding

Web

• Why is Django 3.0 a revolution for building websites with Python? From WSGI to ASGI and why it matters
• Building a Web App that Doesn’t Trust the Server – Securing ProtonMail

HPC

• Building cloud-based data services to enable earth-science workflows across HPC centres

Human

• Recognising Burnout

Opensource

• The core values of software freedom
• Open Source Under Attack – How we, the OSI and others can defend it

Monitoring

• Grafana: Successfully correlate metrics, logs, and traces

Collaboration

• Encrypt your collaboration with CryptPad

Databases

• MySQL Goes to 8!

Audiovisual

• Blender, Coming of Age – 18 years of Blender open source project

For the first time, I was able to join other opensource enthusiasts in Brussels for the FOSDEM conference, now in its 20th year.

From humble beginnings, this free entry and free from registration event attracts developers from across Europe.

I have made some brief note for the sessions I attended. Luckily there are recordings as there were many sessions I wish I could also have attended.