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Have you ever wanted to give an Ignite talk but didn't know where to start? Are you new to public speaking and having trouble arranging your talk? Or maybe you're a savvy speaker who needs tips to fine-tune short-form talks or just want to work on your presentation skills. If any of this sounds familiar, this workshop is for you. Read more.

Istio—an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices—provides an easy way to create a network of deployed services with load balancing, service-to-service authentication, monitoring, and more, without requiring any changes in service code. Read more.

The TensorFlow Community Day brings together TensorFlow contributors and users to share experiences, increase collaboration, and advance the state of open source machine learning. Read more.

InnerSource Day at OSCON is a gathering of industry practitioners discussing real-world implementations of this community-inspired, transformational open source approach to software development within the enterprise. Read more.

The Digital & Innovation Group (DIG) within Providence St. Joseph Health has undertaken a multiyear journey to revolutionize healthcare by building effective digital products and solutions. Soumya Sanyal explores the technology choices DIG made across the entire stack, covering the journey taken, hurdles overcome, and the road ahead. Read more.

Imagine that your storage hosting the persistent volumes serving your Kubernetes cluster is damaged by a fire. How do you recover from such a disaster? Xing Yang shares strategies for protecting critical data, using OpenSDS—an open source software-defined storage project under the Linux Foundation—OpenSDS's array-based and host-based replication feature, and policy engines. Read more.

Animesh Singh, Atin Sood, and Tommy Li demonstrate how to leverage Fabric for Deep Learning to execute distributed deep learning training for models written using multiple frameworks, using GPUs and object storage constructs. They then explain how to take models from IBM's Model Asset Exchange, train them using FfDL, and deploy them on Kubernetes for serving and inferencing. Read more.

Cloud Foundry BOSH makes it easy to deploy and maintain Kubernetes clusters on any IaaS, private or public. Adib Saikal offers a technical overview of the Pivotal Container Service (PKS), covering its architecture and how it leverages BOSH to deliver Kubernetes cluster demand. You'll see just how easy it is to use PKS and BOSH to maintain your Kubernetes clusters. Read more.

Tom Spiegelman and Lauren McCarthy share DigitalOcean's approach to tackling the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, covering what the company chose to move forward with and why. Read more.

Adrian Cockcroft details the many ways AWS participates in open source: contributing to open source projects, reporting bugs, contributing fixes and enhancements to a wide spectrum of projects ranging from the Linux kernel to PostgreSQL and Kubernetes, and managing the hundreds of projects of its own. Read more.

Yahoo! Japan has implemented an internal centralized messaging platform using Apache Pulsar. Nozomi Kurihara explains why the company chose Pulsar over other messaging platforms, such as Apache Kafka, and details actual use cases. Read more.

Alex Mejias and Jim Schreckengast discuss the intricacies of open-sourcing software for enterprise from a program and development perspective. Read more.

Cade Thacker and Jermaine Davis explain how The Home Depot built a culture of open source development. Along the way, they share perspectives on the coding, tooling, and processes that built institutional inertia to move the company into a position to disrupt retail. Read more.

Ever sat in one of the shaking cable cars in San Francisco and ordered the wrong pizza because the train was rattling so much that you pushed the wrong the button? There are many situations like this in daily life. Elena Makarenko explains why context-related accessibility is a relevant topic for everyone, whatever your specific abilities may be, and how adaptive web components can help. Read more.

Tapabrata Pal, Grant Wade, and Roger Servey explain how collaboration between Capital One, Walmart, and Verizon on an open source project, Hygieia, has enabled better management of their respective DevOps pipelines. Read more.

Apache Kafka has emerged as a next-generation event streaming system to connect distributed systems through fault-tolerant and scalable event-driven architectures. James Ward offers an overview of Kafka and walks you through some code examples to demonstrate how to begin using it. Read more.

Challenges are what make life interesting. WebOS OSE is what makes development meaningful. Joseph Park, Steve Lemke, and Lokesh Kumar Goel offer an overview of webOS Open Source Edition and explain how to use webOS OSE to create and use apps and services with Enact and Luna. Join in to see how you can get started contributing to the project. Read more.

Michael Xie demonstrates a Kubernetes implementation across multiple networks as well as enable network isolation for network functions virtualization (NFV) customers. You'll learn how physical network abstraction can enable the ability for pods to select a physical network and see how to work with a logical network in order to define network namespace and isolation. Read more.

Bex Warner demonstrates how to use GitHub's powerful APIs through GitHub Apps—specifically using Probot to automate workflows. You'll learn how to utilize existing Probot apps and create customized apps of your own that are specific to the problems your communities face. Read more.

Hari Ramamurthy and David Narayan share practical patterns Home Depot used to solve complex stream processing problems at massive scale, the technology needed, and lessons learned on the company's journey toward distributed software systems. Read more.

Tracy Kuhrt shares what's new with Hyperledger, including projects that have reached 1.0 production level and what that means. She also touches on new integrations among different Hyperledger technologies and offers a quick intro to four new projects that were accepted into incubation in 2017. Read more.

Tong Li explains the differences between Hyperledger Fabric, Bitcoin, and Ethereum and shares considerations when choosing a platform. Read more.

Community is an integral part of the success of any open source project. OpenLab is an open source community lab program that gives developers and users access anywhere, at any time. Melvin Hillsman offers an overview of OpenLab, shares how OpenLab is helping to build a vibrant app ecosystem for the cloud, and explains how you can leverage and participate in the program that lets everybody play. Read more.

Caliper is a benchmark framework that allows users to measure the performance of a blockchain system under test. Victor Hu introduces the concept and architecture of the framework, explains how to integrate it with various blockchain systems, and demonstrates how to use Caliper to define and run a test flow. Read more.

Adrian Cockcroft details the many ways AWS participates in open source: contributing to open source projects, reporting bugs, contributing fixes and enhancements to a wide spectrum of projects ranging from the Linux kernel to PostgreSQL and Kubernetes, and managing the hundreds of projects of its own. Read more.

Every month, over 200M unique visitors visit Indeed to search millions of jobs around the world, some of which target experience with open source and open source technologies. Raquel Araujo offers an overview of Indeed’s open source data analytics platform, Imhotep, and uses it to explore jobs data. Read more.

2018 is a banner celebration year for open source. Both the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and OSCON are celebrating their 20th birthdays (as is the term “open source”), and Red Hat is celebrating its 25th. Join Deborah Bryant for a brief history of open source’s major milestones and some thoughts on the next 20 years of computing. Read more.