Linuxconf 2014 wrapped up last week, and the videos are already online!

I didn't get a chance to review all the video, but here's some of the sessions I thought were interesting:

Rusty Russel discusses virtIO standardization. I thought I knew what virtIO was but his initial explaination leaves me more confused than I started out. Nevertheless, Rusty gives a implementer's view of the standardization process, and shares how virtIO manages forward and backward compatibility between hypervisor, guest OSes, and even hardware.

Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph explains how the OpenStack Core Infra team publishes does their work in the open. We've taken a similar approach, so its nice to see other approaches and bits we might steal =). Storing Jenkins jobs in YAML in config management sounds very nice, and I will have to bring it up at my next meeting.

Bdale Garbee shares his experience losing his home to the Black Forest Fire. As a serial renter / mover, I'm already well prepared to answer the question "What would you take if you had five minutes to clean out your home?" So I would have liked a bit more in the way of disaster recovery / offsite backups / tech stuff, but but I happen to know he rescued his servers from the fire and isn't storing them locally anymore. So perhaps there is no lesson to share yet =)

Michael Still presents a third party CI approach for database migrations in OpenStack. Looks like a combo of gerrit for code reviews, Zuul, and some custom zuul gearman worker. Surprisingly little duplicate content from the other open stack infrastructure talk!

Jim Cheetham asks 'Is it safe to mosh?' The answer appears to be yes, but takes a hands off approach to the underlying cryto.

Lots of exciting talks, and maybe I need to sit down and think about writing my own proposal for LCA 2015.