Next week, OpenStack contributors will come together in Denver, Colorado at the Project Teams Gathering to discuss in-person the work coming up for the Stein release cycle. This regular face-to-face meeting time is critical: it allows us to address issues that are not easily fixed in virtual communications, like brainstorming …
Any group of humans needs some form of governance. It’s a set of rules the group follows in order to address issues and take clear decisions. Even the absence the rules (anarchy) is a form of governance! At the opposite end of the spectrum is dictatorship, where all decisions …
In the ancient times (circa 2012), as OpenStack started to grow significantly, Ken Pepple created a diagram to represent the various OpenStack components and how information flowed between them. This diagram took a life of its own, being included in one version or another in every presentation to show in …
Meltdown and Spectre are the brand names of a series of vulnerabilities discovered by various security researchers around performance optimization techniques built in modern CPUs. Those optimizations (involving superscalar capabilities, out-of-order execution, and speculative branch prediction) fundamentally create a side-channel that can be exploited to …
In less than two weeks, OpenStack upstream developers and project team members will assemble in Denver, Colorado for a week of team discussions, kickstarting the Queens development cycle.
Attending the PTG is a great way to make upstream developers more efficient and productive: participating in the new development cycle organization …
