Company
Date Published
Author
Alexis Lê-Quôc
Word count
483
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The OSCON conference, now in its 15th edition, has attracted a large crowd of open-source users and authors, showcasing the pervasive impact of open-source software. Datadog, which relies heavily on the open-source community, contributed to the event and shared its software with attendees. Keynote speakers discussed innovative approaches to computing, including Open Compute's efforts to optimize data center design and costs by 30%. Google further emphasized the growing popularity of Go programming language, while a session on overcoming the challenges of ensuring processes stay up and running was presented as a solution to a long-standing problem in Unix systems. The conference concluded with a positive note, emphasizing the excitement for next year's event.