All Systems Go! 2026

Luca Boccassi

Software engineer at Microsoft by day, open source developer involved in various projects by night (systemd maintainer, DPDK LTS maintainer, ZeroMQ project co-lead, ...)


Sessions

09-30
11:25
25min
systemd: state of the project
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Luca Boccassi

Same as every year, a lot has happened in the systemd project since last year's
ASG. We released multiple versions, packed with new components and features.
This talk will provide an overview of these changes, commenting on successes and
challenges, and a sneak peak at what lies ahead.

Loft
09-30
11:55
25min
systemd: round table
Lennart Poettering, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Daan De Meyer, Luca Boccassi

Let's have an open discussion with systemd developers who are at ASG and users in the audience. We will open with the developers saying what they plan to work on in the near future, and then allow questions / comments from the audience.

Loft
09-30
17:30
5min
systemd services as microvms
Luca Boccassi

What if we could run systemd services on top of virtual cpu/memory, to get hypervisor/cpu protection of memory pages? Demo of a very much work-in-progress proof-of-concept

Loft
10-01
12:10
25min
systemd: reducing impact of servicing interruptions on restart/reboot
Luca Boccassi

When a machine/server/node is serviced and experiences a downtime, that results in a service interruption, customers or users tend to get quite sad. This talk will explore two recent additions to systemd that aim to make these service interruptions as minimal as possible.

Loft