Empowering OSS maintainers in the age of AI
This talk addresses how we attempt to manage the changes to Open Source Maintainership resulting from the Agentic AI approach within the Apache Software Foundation. The Apache Way is About People — AI should free maintainers to do stuff that matters, not replace them; it should empower maintainers in the Age of AI.
Building Resilience: The Next Decade of Open Source
Over 25 years, open source has become vital digital infrastructure. However, its future relies on human resilience, not just code. To combat burnout, funding gaps, and new regulations, we must move beyond old methods and address sustainability through global policy, security, and community health.
GitOps for n8n: Treating Workflows as Code
n8n-gitops is an open-source CLI that applies GitOps principles to n8n workflows. This talk shows how workflows can be exported, reviewed, versioned, and deployed from Git instead of manually promoted via the UI. Through a live demo, we explore safer deployments, rollbacks, and lessons learned operating automation as code.
Sunset for the Wild West: Making ML disciplined by default
Many novel machine learning techniques started as clever hacks that just happened to work, but the demands of building real systems can be at odds with this creative culture. Learn about our open-source stack to improve quality-of-life for ML researchers and infrastructure teams alike — and how their concerns aren’t as different as you might think.
10x CouchDB Performance Gains for a AAA Game Launch
All software benchmarks and claims of performance are carefully crafted lies and this talk is no different. Instead of giving you a quick “do steps one, two, three for a magic speedup”, we aim to explain how we arrived at the changes we made and how we rigorously tested those changes to make sure we understand their impact.
Streamling: Lightweight, Extensible Streaming on DataFusion
Apache DataFusion is moving beyond batch into streaming. We built Streamling, a Rust streaming engine that uses DataFusion planning and Arrow RecordBatch streams for real-time SQL/WASM transforms. This talk covers how we built it, highlights key features (FFI plugins, WASM transforms, and dynamic tables), and shares production lessons.
Floe: Policy-Based Table Maintenance for Apache Iceberg
Iceberg maintenance procedures work. Orchestrating them across hundreds of tables is the problem. Floe is an open-source system that treats maintenance as policy: glob patterns, schedules, and health-driven triggers that gate operations on real table metrics. Supports 7 catalogs, executes via Spark or Trino.
Escaping the Cloud: High-Performance AI in your Browser
Server-side inference is the bottleneck of modern AI, creating costs and privacy hurdles. But what if the solution is scaling down to the browser? This session investigates Client-Side AI using WebGPU, ONNX Runtime, and Transformers.js. We’ll explore the reality of hardware access, model size, and the 2026 trade-offs of browser based execution.
Observability’s Sixth Sense: Detecting Anomalies in Metrics
In this talk, we look at anomaly detection as a complementary way of working with metrics. Instead of relying on predefined limits, anomaly detection focuses on identifying behavior that deviates from what is normally observed over time. The focus is on how developers can interpret these signals, where anomaly detection is useful, where it is not.
What you should know about constraints in PostgreSQL 18
This talk explains how constraints work in Postgres by exploring the pg_constraint catalog and core concepts like table vs. column constraints, constraint triggers, domains and constraint deferrability through SQL queries. It then covers what’s new in Postgres 18 including temporal keys, NOT NULL as a first-class constraint, NOT ENFORCED and more.