Re: [Publicity] How to post the draft blog article? [Xen Project Dev Summit report]

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxx>]

Jonathan.
I like it. Thank you for puttin gthis together.

@Vanessa, @Angela, I saw photographer running around taking pictures at 
the summit. Are there maybe one or two pics I could use in the blog? 
When are the videos available?
Regards
Lars

On 31/10/2013 08:13, Jonathan Davies wrote:
> Dario Faggioli wrote:
> > Ok, I just made your user an 'Editor'. Can you try again to add a post?
> >
> > If it still does not work, ask me back, I'll look into it.
>
> Thanks Dario, that has worked perfectly.
>
> Publicity folks, you can view my draft at 
> http://blog.xen.org/?p=8238&preview=true. And I've copied-and-pasted 
> it below for convenience.
> Is this the kind of thing you had in mind? Let me know if I'm pitching 
> it in a different direction to what you had hoped. All feedback welcome.
> -------
> Last week I was in Edinburgh to attend my first Xen Project Developer 
> Summit. It turned out quite different from my expectations, so I 
> thought I'd share a bit about my experience.
> When I first saw the <a 
> href="http://www.xenproject.org/about/events/viewevent/28-xen-project-developer-summit-call-for-participation.html";>call 
> for participation</a> I wasn't sure that I had anything sufficiently 
> relevant to contribute that would be of interest to the community. But 
> I decided there wouldn't be any harm in submitting a proposal for a 
> talk, and it came as a bit of a surprise when I learned that it had 
> been accepted.
> My day job is to work on the performance and scalability of <a 
> href="http://www.xenserver.org/";>XenServer</a>, Citrix's 
> enterprise-grade virtualisation platform built on Xen. The XenServer 
> engineering team had recently made <a 
> href="http://www.xenserver.org/discuss-virtualization/virtualization-blog/entry/how-did-we-increase-vm-density-in-xenserver-6-2.html";>great 
> strides in improving VM density scalability</a> so it was natural for 
> <a 
> href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/jonathandavies-xenserver-vm-density-20131024_1.pdf";>my 
> talk</a> to be on this topic. The reason for my uncertainty over the 
> relevance of this talk was that it was all about stuff built around 
> the hypervisor and not so much about the hypervisor itself. Evidently 
> I was wrong to assume that this wouldn't be of interest.
> <strong>So who's in the Xen community?</strong>
>
> Once my talk had been accepted, I looked forward to attending and 
> seeing what the Xen community looks like. My expectation was that it 
> would be a meeting of the regulars on the <a 
> href="http://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel";>xen-devel mailing 
> list</a> verbalising the same kind of discussions as are typically 
> held on there. This wouldn't have been a bad thing, but I'd have been 
> an outsider on the sidelines, being unable to give or take a lot from 
> this.
> But I was wrong. The attendees constituted a surprisingly broad group 
> of people. There were some from academia, others from industry. There 
> were some doing research and others commercialising it. There were 
> some who were hacking on the Xen hypervisor itself and others involved 
> with construction of products built on top of it.
> <strong>What about the talks?</strong>
>
> Compared to similar-sized conferences I've attended in other fields of 
> technology in the past, the quality of talks delivered at the Xen 
> Developer Summit was generally very high; I was impressed. And there 
> was an excellent range of presentations, covering a good variety of 
> topics. I was surprised to find that there were many that were 
> relevant to my own work. I was especially interested by talks on:
> <ul>
>     <li>performance and scalability improvements in Xen (e.g. <a 
> href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/clickos_xendevsummit2013.pdf";>Joao 
> Martins' networking performance work</a>, <a 
> href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/xensummit2013-pvtcp.pdf";>Luwei 
> Cheng's research on TCP performance in VMs</a> and <a 
> href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/unlimited-event-channels.pdf";>David 
> Vrabel's proposal for supporting an unlimited number of event 
> channels</a>);</li>
>     <li>performance analyses (<a 
> href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/20131025%20-%20Storage%20Performance%20PDF.pdf";>Felipe 
> Franciosi's deep-dive into the storage datapath</a>);</li>
>     <li>tools support for performance analysis (<a 
> href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/XenPMU_XenSummit2013.pdf";>Boris 
> Ostrovsky's update on perf support</a>); and</li>
>     <li>testing (<a 
> href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/XenSummit%20TaaS%20and%20XenRT_0.pdf";>Alex 
> Brett's overview of XenRT</a> and Ian Jackson's description of 
> osstest).</li>
> </ul>
>
> But it wasn't all about performance! For those with interest in other 
> topics, there was plenty of content concerning Xen-on-ARM, Android 
> support, GPU integration, security, microkernel VMs, and a lot more.
> So I very much enjoyed my first Xen Developer Summit. There was a real 
> buzz around the Xen community. I learned a lot and made some great 
> contacts, and hope that I'll be able to return to future Summits.
> -------
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>
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