Tag: Tutorial

Brief report on the ICDCS’18 conference

by Josef Spillner

The 38th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS’18) took place from July 2 – 5, 2018, in Vienna, Austria. This blog post briefly summarises from our view as participating researchers from the Service Prototyping Lab some key aspects on distributed applications and general take-away inspirations of the well-established conference.

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PyParis’17 conference report

by Josef Spillner

PyParis is a community-organised conference on all topics around the Python programming language. The expected target group are primarily practitioners and researchers in the greater capital region of France, but also international engineers and language advocates. At Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Python is taught as automation and statistics application language to more than 200 business engineering, aviation and traffic engineering undergraduates per year. It is furthermore used a lot in research, including several prototypes resulting from the Service Prototyping Lab. Therefore, it was consequential for us to attend the conference and to contribute an in-depth tutorial on one of our research topics, Function-as-a-Service, to its attendees.

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Run monitoring physical devices on devstack

by Josef Spillner

From “Icehouse” release on Openstack has been added monitoring physical devices. At this moment available only one inspector – SNMP Inspector. IPMI Inspector will be add soon.

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