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ApacheCon Seville 2016 – Why Apache CloudStack – Gabriel Beims Bräscher

February 19, 2017
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Why Apache CloudStack – Gabriel Beims Bräscher

Apache CloudStack is one of the most competitive and affordable alternatives to create and manage a cloud computing environment. Although CloudStack has proven to be a solid choice when compared to its competitors, it holds but a small fraction of the cloud computing orchestration market share. The reasons why Apache CloudStack is sometimes forgotten will be highlighted and discussed in this presentation, alongside the strong points of picking Apache CloudStack as your cloud computing orchestration tool.

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ApacheCon Seville 2016 – Cloudstack – Apache’s Best Kept Secret – Giles Sirett

February 18, 2017
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Cloudstack – Apache’s Best Kept Secret – Giles Sirett

CloudStack is one of the most successful Apache projects – but awareness of it remains poor. It is used to underpin the IaaS offerings of many of the worlds largest service providers and as an infrastructure automation platform to underpin the development and operations of 1000’s of organisations globally.

Giles will give an overview of the technology and explain his view on why CloudStack remains to “secret man” of Apache projects. He will talk through the history of the technology. He will discuss its use-cases (particularly as the foundation of CI/CD and dev environments) and the advantages of it being an Apache project.

He will be open and frank in his views on what he would like to see change in order that CloudStack gets the attention it deserves

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ApacheCon Seville 2016 – CI and CD at Scale: Scaling Jenkins with Docker and Apache Mesos – Carlos Sanchez

February 17, 2017
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CI and CD at Scale: Scaling Jenkins with Docker and Apache Mesos – Carlos Sanchez

As Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery usage grows, the underlying infrastructure needs to grow too, scaling horizontally across multiple hosts and dynamically provisioned as needed.

Docker is revolutionizing the way people think about applications and deployments. Apache Mesos enables fault-tolerant distributed systems and allows managing a cluster of Linux servers as a single system, running Docker containers across multiple hosts, offering elasticity and machine abstractions.

By using Apache Mesos and Marathon, an Apache Mesos framework for long-running applications, the Jenkins Continuous Integration environment can be run at scale, dynamically.

Jenkins masters can be run on Docker containers distributed on Marathon, while the Jenkins Mesos and Docker plugins allow slaves and jobs to run in containers distributed across the multiple hosts, and isolating job execution.

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ApacheCon Seville 2016 – Exploring and Integrating UX in Open Source Software Development – Victoria Bondarchuk

February 17, 2017
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Exploring and Integrating UX in Open Source Software Development – Victoria Bondarchuk

The importance of introducing usability activities into free open source software development has been acknowledged in the research and by the community, yet FOSS products have been criticized for having little or no emphasis on usability. The decentralized and engineering-driven approach of open source projects can conflict with usability methodologies. We will review existing cases of UX design contribution to open source projects, discuss how designers can become part of the community and what engineers can do to improve usability of the software they build.

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ApacheCon Seville 2016 – Introduction of a Web API Execution Environment Based on a Server-less Architecture Using Apache Camel – Tsunayoshi Egawa

February 17, 2017
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Introduction of a Web API Execution Environment Based on a Server-less Architecture Using Apache Camel – Tsunayoshi Egawa

The presentation will be an introduction of a Web API execution environment based on a server-less architecture using Apache Camel.

Although Yahoo! JAPAN has a lot of Web APIs, instead of focusing on service development, the engineers had to spend considerable man-hours in the disclosure and maintenance (setting up of servers, vulnerability response, etc.).

To solve this issue, a system was created that specializes in the Web API execution environment (UTOPIA).

Web API development in UTOPIA can be done by XML DSL and through a simple setting of information.

UTOPIA uses Apache Camel as a routine engine to develop the business logic.

Although the system is a closed internal system, this presentation will show what Yahoo! JAPAN has learnt from running the system, issues found in production use, and comparison between existing similar systems and mechanism such as OSGi and PaaS.

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ApacheCon Seville 2016 – Apache Tika – What’s New with 2.0? – Nick Burch

February 17, 2017
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Apache Tika – What’s New with 2.0? – Nick Burch

Apache Tika detects and extracts metadata and text from a huge range of file formats and types. From Search to Big Data, single file to internet scale, if you’ve got files, Tika can help you get out useful information!

Apache Tika has been around for nearly 10 years now, and with the passage of all that time, plus the new 2.0 release, a lot has changed. Not only has there been a huge increase in the number of supported formats, but the ways of using Tika have expanded, and some of the philosophies on the best way to handle things have altered with experience. Tika has gained support for a wide range of programming languages to, and more recently, Big-Data scale support.

Whether you’re an old-hand with Tika looking to know what’s hot or different with 2.0, or someone new looking to learn more about the power of Tika, this talk will have something in it for you!

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ApacheCon Seville 2016 – Distributing Configuration with Apache Tamaya – Anatole Tresch

February 17, 2017
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Distributing Configuration with Apache Tamaya – Anatole Tresch

In this talk we will show how Tamaya can be used to configure a distributed system based on Docker containers. Hereby we will use Consul or etcd as a backend for reading configuration common to all components and combine it with environment specific entries for each instance. Also we will update the configuration during runtime and trigger corresponding configuration change events to adopt our code based on the changes implied. As a result we will have a good overview about the API and SPI of Tamaya and why it should be an important component in every project nowadays.

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ApacheCon Seville 2016 – Podling Shark Tank – Roman Shaposhnik

February 12, 2017
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Podling Shark Tank – Roman Shaposhnik

Is it a panel? Is it a talk? It is a Podling Shark Tank! Back by popular demand with even sharkier judges! What is it, you ask? Well, this is just like Shark Tank TV show (think speed dating between entrepreneurs and investors) but instead of ÛÏSquirrel BossÛ and ÛÏMan CandleÛ you’ll be hearing pitches for Apache Incubator projects. Also instead of Mark Cuban and Kevin O’Leary you’ll be pitching to the panel of ASF grey beards (trying to convince them that your project is worthy of their esteemed attention and endorsement). There will be snark, there will be prizes, there will be reciting of Apache Way creed. But most of all there will be fun. We guaranteed that!

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ApacheCon Seville 2016 – Commercial Reasons Your Colleagues Should be Community First – Gregory Chase

February 12, 2017
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Commercial Reasons Your Colleagues Should be Community First – Gregory Chase

The Apache Way prescribes ÛÏCommunity over CodeÛ, asking participants to think community-first. This may seem to run counter to commercial interests of for-profit companies. Yet, many contributors in ASF participate because its part of their job.

WouldnÛªt it be nice if the rest of your company also saw the commercial benefit of thinking community-first in their work?

This session dispels the myth that open source community action needs to be separate from commercial development and sales. WeÛªll discuss how to help your coworkers increase the impact of their daily work, meeting both the needs of growing the business and the community. They can do this with very little overhead, and enhance the impact of collective work for the benefit of users and customers. We’ll discuss some theory, and explore what’s worked at my pervious companies, and what the future trends look like.

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ApacheCon Seville 2016 – But We’re Already Open Source! Why Would I Want to Bring My Code to Apache? – Nick Burch

February 12, 2017
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But We’re Already Open Source! Why Would I Want to Bring My Code to Apache? – Nick Burch

Open Source – that’s just a tick box, right? No? Anyway, we’re open source, so that’s all we need, right? No? OK, so what’s this Apache thing, and why might we want to take our existing open source project to the Apache Software Foundation? And why might we not!

Join us as we look at several real world examples of where companies have chosen to contribute their existing open source code to the Apache Software Foundation. We’ll see the advantages they got from it, the problems they faced along the way, why they did it, and how it helped their business. We’ll also look briefly at where it may not be the right fit.

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