Posts tagged: OpenStack

A framework for lightweight open source governance

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 ...

The OpenStack map

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 ...

OpenStack Spectre/Meltdown FAQ

What are Meltdown and Spectre ?

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 ...

What to expect from the Queens PTG

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 ...