Babar khan

Babar khan

Electrical Engineer | PhD Candidate | Software-Hardware Developer

DevConf 2023 in-person, Brno, Czech Republic

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During my PhD I have been working on topics related to Linux operating system (to be precise Linux storage) and open source projects. This compelled me to attend in-person DevConf.CZ in Brno, Czech Republic 2023 that is annual, free, Red Hat sponsored community conference for developers, admins, DevOps engineers, testers, documentation writers and other contributors to open source technologies. Although it was a three days event with a very interesting itinerary of technical talks, below is the list of some of the talks relevant to my research and everyday tasks:

  • Debugging memory issues with Valgrind and GDB
  • What’s new in the BPF world?
  • Open Source Benchmarking for Ceph
  • Postquantum algorithms in Fedora: now and soon
  • ublk: virtual block devices in user space
  • Asynchrnous programming in Rust
  • Current state of netlink decoding in strace
  • Developing Modern eBPF Applications
  • glibc: Seven Easy Steps to Your First Patch
  • Teaching at the university. Lessons learned.
  • Kernel Development Learning Pipeline (KDLP)

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