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The Wellcome Sanger Institute, a global centre of excellence for genomic research, leads the scientific advancement of areas such as cancer, infectious diseases and cellular genetics. With a need to collaborate and share data with other centres around the world, The Institute has to store, process and share vast amounts of data.

Roblox is a gaming platform for 100 million kids all over the world, and to serve them must deploy edge compute globally for low latency gaming experiences. This means imaging, managing and rebuilding thousands of servers. In this talk, Rob Cameron, Roblox Technical Director for Cloud Services, shares how they migrated servers from Windows to Linux for approximately 200k containerised workloads in a seven day timeframe, leveraging MAAS for the path to full orchestration.

How do you support a diverse infrastructure that spans six data centres, three continents and the public cloud? In this talk given at Ubuntu Masters Conference, Joe Sandoval, SRE Manager at Adobe Ad Platform, talks about how Adobe uses open-source technologies, including Ubuntu, Kubernetes and OpenStack, to craft a feature-rich platform that developers can build on to best serve their customers.

BPF changes a long-standing model of operating systems, adding a new interface that exists in parallel to syscalls and is used by new kernel-mode applications. Brendan Gregg, Senior Performance Architect at Netflix, talks about the highlights of his keynote given at Ubuntu Masters Conference.

Joe Sandoval, SRE Manager at Adobe, gives an overview of his keynote discussion from Ubuntu Masters Conference. Hear how Joe and his team support a diverse infrastructure to create a feature-rich platform to best serve customers.

Roblox moved its game servers from Windows to Linux to reduce costs and create a better player experience, including the migration to containerised workloads. Rob Cameron, Technical Director for Cloud Services at Roblox, gives an overview of his keynote discussion from Ubuntu Masters.

Extended BPF is a new type of software and the first fundamental change to how kernels are used in 50 years. Major companies like Netflix and Facebook already use it. In this talk given at Ubuntu Masters Conference, expert Brendan Gregg, Senior Performance Engineer, Netflix Performance and OS Team, explores the past, present and future of BPF, and describes use cases.

Ubuntu Masters are IT change drivers solving complex challenges. Hear why they want to share their stories through the Ubuntu Masters platform.

Security is critical for both the public cloud and private infrastructure stories. A Linux based application stack on IBM Z and LinuxONE infrastructure provides unrivaled security. Ubuntu is found in 2/3 of all clouds, and represents the majority of the growth workloads from legacy to cloud environments. Learn more about IBM infrastructure running on Ubuntu.

By leveraging Open Source innovations, Intel and Canonical are addressing the challenges telcos face as they roll out technologies to remain carrier grade and realize performance, cost, compliance, security and reliability benefits. Whether implementing 5G, managing the complexities of operations across a highly distributed edge network, or determining the right cloud-native approach and containerization strategy, Intel and Canonical provide the design patterns for operators that reduce the time to deployment and cost of ownership with validated solutions as they deliver for today and the future.