I gave quite a few talks this year, and also organized several conference tracks.

Config Mangement Camp

It was an excellent Config Management Camp this year, and fun to speak at.

• Justin Cormack Making Immutable Infrastructure Simpler with LinuxKit

QCon London 2018

I organized the Modern Computer Science in the Real World Track at this conference, it was a great set of talks.

• Heidi Howard Distributed Consensus excellent understandable explanation of distributed consensus
• Michael Tautschnig, Formal Methods at AWS was not recorded you had to be there, was really interesting about formal methods in practise
• Gil Tene, Java at Speed on mechanical sympathy
• Martin Kleppmann, CRDTs and the Quest for Distributed Consistency everything you wanted to know about CRDTs from an amazing speaker
• Moritz Lipp, How Performance Optimizations Shatter Security Boundaries Moritz is one of the people who discovered Spectre and Meltdown.

I also spoke in the Modern Operating Systems track

• Justin Cormack The Modern Operating System in 2018

KubeCon Cloud Native Europe

• Nassim Eddequiouaq and Justin Cormack Understandable Security Controls

DockerCon

Registration required to watch videos.

• Luke Marsden and Justin Cormack A Vision of Persistence this was a great fun collaboration!
• Liz Rice and Justin Cormack Don’t Have a Meltdown as was this!

Oscon

• Justin Cormack Immutable Infrstructure: Continuous Delivery for Systems was supposed to be with Rolf Neugebauer but sadly he could not make it in the end.

All Things Open

I don’t think this was recorded.

QCon SF

I curated the Modern Operating Systems track, and spoke on it. The videos are coming out on 7 and 14 January

• Thomas Graf, How to Make Linux Microservice-Aware With Cilium and eBPF
• Alan Kasindorf, Caching Beyond RAM: The Case for NVMe
• Justin Cormack, The Modern Operating System in 2018, a somewhat changed version of my QCon London talk
• Adin Scannell, gVisor: Building and Battle Testing a Userspace OS in Go
• Bryan Cantrill, Is It Time to Rewrite the Operating System in Rust? (Don’t miss this!)

DockerCon EU

Registration required to watch videos. I helped organize the Black Belt track which had some great talks:

• Steven Follis and Israel Vega Avoiding an Identity Crisis: Authentication with Windows Server Containers
• Amn Rahman and Roberto Hashioka Categorizing Docker Hub’s Public Images: End-to-End Machine Learning Pipeline with Docker Enterprise and Kubeflow
• Sean Gillespie Programming the Cloud using containers as a building block this talk was really excellent, really excited about Pulumi
• Jaana B Dogan Monitoring and Debugging Containerized Systems at Scale
• Matt Butcher and Gareth Rushgrove Introducing Cloud Native Application Bundles
• Ian Campbell and Tonis Tiigi Supercharged Docker Build with BuildKit
• Christopher Crone Extending Kubernetes: Moving Compose on Kubernetes from a CRD to API Aggregation

I gave a joint talk on Open Policy Agent and a re-run of the earlier talk with Liz Rice

• Torin Sandall and Justin Cormack Dynamic Authorization and Policy Control for Docker Container Environments

Kubecon Cloud Native US

• with Justin Cappos Intro to TUF/Notary
• How to choose a Kubernetes runtime had fun giving this talk.

Upcoming

Don’t miss the Modern Operating Systems track at QCon London which I am curating, should be excellent.

• Jessie Frazelle on eBPF
• Avi Deitcher on LinuxKit
• Kenton Varda on Cloudflare Workers
• others TBC

I am planning or hoping to attend in 2019 at least the events below, but also no dount several other ones.

• Real World Crypto
• Monkigras
• FOSDEM
• Kubecon EU and US
• DockerCon and EU
• Risc-V Workshop
• QCon London and some other QCons no doubt