OSCON 2014
2014-07-20..2014-07-24
Portland, United States
OSCON ·
[OSCON 2008, OSCON 2009, OSCON 2010, OSCON 2010 Cloud Summit, OSCON 2014, OSCON 2017, OSCON 2019]
who it's for
frontend engineers, backend engineers, mobile engineers, engineering managers, open source program managers, computer science educators
topics
HHVM and Hack; JIT compilation for PHP; React virtual DOM; webpack bundling with JSX; Huxley screenshot testing; Buck build system; Exopackage incremental installs; Watchman remote filelog; GitHub-based student open source curriculum; repository automation with CLA bot and dashboards
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Include Hack - HHVM - PHP++ | Paul Tarjan, Sara Golemon | 42m |
HHVM claims real results: 2x–10x faster than standard PHP with an opcode cache on CPU‑bound workloads, used in production by big sites including Baidu, and… | ||
| Move Fast and Ship Things | Andrei Alexandrescu | 40m |
A concrete checklist of what changed and how it’s measured not vague promises: twice a day front end deploys, two‑week HHVM heart surgery releases with a week… | ||
| How Instagram.com Works | Pete Hunt | 40m |
Instagram.com renders almost all UI in JavaScript and the team packages code by modules not files, splitting work across 17 entry points and sharing common… | ||
| How Open Source Powers Facebook on Android | Simon Mavi Stewart | 45m |
Facebook open sources the actual build and test tooling behind Android: Buck cuts clean builds from 33s (Gradle example) to 6s and incremental installs from… | ||
| Modernizing CS Education with Open Source | Scott Chacon, Jay Borenstein | 41m |
Program plugs senior and master students into real open source projects on GitHub using git, gives academic credit, and requires mentors to spend two to three… | ||
| Rebooting Open Source at | James Pearce | 41m |
Rebooted an open source portfolio with concrete tooling and measurable results: GitHub API + Hack scripts crawl every repo, data lands in MySQL-backed time… | ||
| React's Architecture | Christopher Chedeau | 36m |
React claims a lightweight virtual DOM of JS objects that diffs two trees and emits real DOM mutations, turning a naive O(n^3) tree diff into near O(n) work by… | ||
| "The Wonders of Programming" | Shadaj Laddad | 13m |
Started programming at six using LEGO Mindstorms and later moves to Scala over Bluetooth to control robots; tools mentioned include Scratch, Cojo, Khan… | ||
| "Making a Difference through Open Source" | James Grierson, Ray Henderson | 07m |
Partnership gives validated 501(c)(3) nonprofits free web hosting and a promo code from Grassroots.org that redeems at bluehost.com/redeem; eligibility… | ||
| "Introvert? Extrovert? Klingon?..." | Wendy Chisholm | 09m |
Longtime accessibility strategist reports a practical experiment at a San Diego accessibility conference: takes a nap midweek, replaces panels with repeated… | ||
| "Bringing OpenStack based Cloud to the Enterprise" | Omri Gazitt | 05m |
HP positions Helion OpenStack as an enterprise OpenStack distribution that upstreams 99% of its engineering, runs one of the largest OpenStack clouds… | ||
| "10 Years of Google Summer of Code" | Carol Smith | 06m |
Program history and concrete outcomes: stipend rises from $5,000 to $5,500, 1,307 students selected this year from 4,420 applicants, 190 mentoring… | ||
| "Building an API for the Planet..." | Will Marshall | 14m |
Starts from a specific claim: plan to image every point on Earth every day by flying hundreds of tiny earth‑imaging satellites. Builds and flies 10×10×30 cm, 4… | ||
| Federico Lucifredi (Canonical) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Federico Lucifredi | 12m |
OpenStack faces uncontrolled growth so the foundation launches a process to pick a core project definition to keep the platform coherent while letting niche… | ||
| Karl Fogel (Question Copyright) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Karl Fogel | 15m |
Book advice updates for modern tools: Git is now the default and use Git and GitHub by default replaces earlier Subversion/CVS recommendations; modern trackers… | ||
| Rachel Nabors (Tin Magpie) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Rachel Nabors | 09m |
Started as a self‑publishing cartoonist running newsletters on Drupal and Gray Matter and using PHP mailing lists, then shifts into front‑end work to pay for… | ||
| Simon Wardley (Leading Edge Forum) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Simon Wardley | 11m |
Value chain mapping maps user needs to components and overlays a predictable evolution axis Genesis→product→commodity to give situational awareness and show… | ||
| Andy Piper (Twitter) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Andy Piper | 12m |
MQTT is invented 1999 for pipeline monitoring as a tiny, binary publish/subscribe protocol optimized for low bandwidth and battery use, not a verbose HTTP… | ||
| Mike Amundsen (Layer 7) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Mike Amundsen | 13m |
Argues that hypermedia links and forms make client-side composition of tiny services practical, showing how a RestFest hack built worker bots that actually… | ||
| Arun Gupta (RedHat) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Arun Gupta | 12m |
Description of DevOps for Kids work, curriculum and impact with concrete details: runs Scratch, Minecraft modding (400 Java classes in Eclipse for mods)… | ||
| Brian Bulkowski (Aerospike) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Brian Bulkowski | 09m |
A description of Aerospike’s engineering choices and results: a NoSQL database rewritten for flash and multi‑core that treats flash as in‑memory storage to hit… | ||
| Omri Gazitt (Hewlett-Packard) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Omri Gazitt | 09m |
HP says its Helion OpenStack distribution is the most faithful upstream distro, citing OpenStack’s >100,000 commits from >2,000 developers across >200… | ||
| Olivier Bloch (MS Open Tech) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Olivier Bloch | 11m |
Microsoft Open Technologies explains that Windows now runs free on small boards, starting with Windows on Intel Galileo, and that an open-sourced Wiring… | ||
| John Mone and Jared Smith (Bluehost) Interview - OSCON 2014 | John Mone, Jared Smith | 09m |
Company describes being a third-year premium sponsor and explains concrete developer-facing work: a one-click installer for WordPress/Drupal/PHP apps, a… | ||
| Lorna Mitchell (LornaJane) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Lorna Mitchell | 05m |
Open-source project joind.in provides instant, public conference feedback with web and mobile clients, active contributors from worldwide hackathons, and a… | ||
| Paco Nathan (Liber 118) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Paco Nathan | 10m |
Work with sensor arrays at scale — ADCs for aircraft bearings produce a claimed 12 exabytes a day for commercial flights, forcing real‑time analytics and… | ||
| Chris DiBona (Google) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Chris DiBona | 15m |
Summer of Code originates from a Google directive to keep students coding and operates as a strict one-to-one mentorship program that scales rather than… | ||
| "Something to Remember" | Piers Cawley | 05m |
Admission of being a depressed geek and a near no‑show grounds a keynote that argues the real work of programming is passed down through people not tools… | ||
| "Threats" | Tim Bray | 08m |
Argues that the real risk is account theft and mass surveillance, not abstract threats, and that engineers can fix much of it now: stop letting build systems… | ||
| "Racing Change" | Sarah Novotny | 09m |
PayPal shifts to an inner source model using GitHub Enterprise, Scala and Node.js, turns pull requests into the standard workflow after a 50-warning iOS build… | ||
| "Introduction to Value Chain Mapping" | Simon Wardley | 13m |
Argues disruption is broadly predictable and fixes are practical: build a value chain + evolution map (user needs → components → stage of evolution), use it to… | ||
| "Checking Your Privilege: A How-To for Hard Things" | Leslie Hawthorn | 13m |
Provides three concrete experiments to make privilege actionable: active listening by following and quietly learning from people unlike you (uses Twitter as… | ||
| "Technical and Cultural Revolutions" | Tim O'Reilly | 14m |
Argues that cultural change, not just code, fixes large systems: Amazon’s mandate that all teams expose their data and functionality through service interfaces… | ||
| Danese Cooper (PayPal) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Danese Cooper | 11m |
PayPal hires a head of open source to drive a cultural shift: they build an inner source workflow so engineers submit pull requests, mentor contributions, and… | ||
| Tim O'Reilly Interview - OSCON 2014 | Tim O'Reilly | 10m |
Argues that open source culture plus empathy and DevOps practices produce measurable results, not just nicer meetings: a Code for America food-stamps project… | ||
| C. Aaron Cois (Carnegie Mellon University) Interview - OSCON 2014 | C. Aaron Cois | 05m |
Node.js wins attention because JavaScript is already everywhere and its evented concurrency model fits services that must handle hundreds of thousands to… | ||
| Cat Allman (Google) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Cat Allman | 09m |
Google Summer of Code runs since 2005 and remains largely unchanged while scaling to thousands of volunteer mentors and interns worldwide; organizers now… | ||
| Ryan Vinyard (Highway1) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Ryan Vinyard | 07m |
Startups avoid publishing designs because large manufacturers can copy product and outspend them, while big brands protect brand and perceived quality more… | ||
| Phil Jackson (SoftLayer) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Phil Jackson | 08m |
SoftLayer is now part of IBM and offers IaaS with public virtual machines and bare metal servers that it owns and manages, exposing a documented API used by… | ||
| Piers Cawley (Thermeon) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Piers Cawley | 15m |
Compares code to traditional songs and argues programming languages are for humans to communicate design, cites Larry Wall and a study that says 18% coding… | ||
| Simon Phipps (Open Source Initiative) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Simon Phipps | 14m |
Federal appeals courts start applying the Alice v. CLS Bank test to stop patent suits early, ruling Digitech patents invalidated because the software adds no… | ||
| Adam Culp (Zend Technologies) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Adam Culp | 06m |
Refactoring means altering existing code to improve readability and structure without changing behavior, using object‑oriented techniques to enable safer… | ||
| Zach Supalla (Spark Labs) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Zach Supalla | 13m |
The Spark Core is a Wi‑Fi development kit that raised nearly $600,000 on a $10,000 goal from over 5,000 Kickstarter backers, revealing that backers expect… | ||
| Peter Hoddie (Kinoma) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Peter Hoddie | 10m |
A JavaScript-powered hardware kit called Kinoma Create is demonstrated: a battery-backed prototyping board with built-in touchscreen, built-in Wi‑Fi and… | ||
| "The Concert Programmer" | Andrew Sorensen | 10m |
Live-coding generates a full jazz-flavored set: code defines instruments and volumes, uses temporal recursion to schedule notes, a cosine-based arpeggio for… | ||
| "Yes, Your Refrigerator Is Trying To Kill You…" | Beth Flanagan | 10m |
Shows a concrete attack chain: compromise the home router, infer occupancy from smart bulbs, poison fridge firmware and cycle power to slowly spoil food. Cites… | ||
| "Storytelling on the Shoulders of Giants" | Rachel Nabors | 08m |
Argues the browser is an infinite canvas and demonstrates interactive comics built with SVG, jQuery, CSS animations and Web Audio, using jQuery deliberately to… | ||
| "Open Manufacturing..." | Ryan Vinyard | 08m |
argues for open-sourcing the entire manufacturing pipeline from concept to production, not just STLs, demanding native CAD files plus BOMs, work instructions… | ||
| "Open Source and Social Change — Making the World a Better Place" | Paul Fenwick | 22m |
Between 1990 and 2010 under-five mortality halves and extreme poverty falls from about 40% to 14%, with the World Bank projecting near-negligible poverty by… | ||
| Beth Flanagan (Intel) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Beth Flanagan | 11m |
Describes concrete work on embedded builds: a yocto-autobuilder based on buildbot refactor replaces a 2,800‑line mixed code/config with separate configs and… | ||
| Dustin Whittle (AppDynamics) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Dustin Whittle | 05m |
AppDynamics describes monitoring web and mobile apps and diagnosing exactly what fails. PHP projects gain most by caching effectively, moving nonblocking work… | ||
| Jason Strimpel (WalmartLabs) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Jason Strimpel | 03m |
A client-server JavaScript framework called LazoJS implements isomorphic JavaScript so the same component lifecycle runs on server and client, and it ships a… | ||
| Gleb Budman (Backblaze) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Gleb Budman | 05m |
Backblaze offers $5/month unlimited backup and will FedEx a hard drive or flash key with data, so the service focuses on low cost and simple recovery. To hit… | ||
| Jesse Vincent & Kaia Dekker (Keyboardio) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Jesse Vincent, Kaia Dekker | 03m |
Keyboardio builds an ergonomic QWERTY keyboard that reshapes keys around the hands so thumbs handle control and shift, promising longer, less tiring typing… | ||
| Scott Jenson (Google Physical Web Project) Interview - OSCON 2014 | Scott Jenson | 02m |
Project claims any object can advertise a URL so users interact without installing apps, using small Bluetooth LE module beacons that act like sophisticated QR… | ||
| John Hawley (Intel Open Source Technology) Interview - OSCON 2014 | John Hawley | 02m |
An open hardware platform called the Middle Board Max is just shipping to pre-order customers alongside the original Middle Board, exposing a full Intel x86 OS… | ||
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