Embracing Open Source: The Ninth China Open Source Hackathon
On April 18-20, 2019, the Ninth China Open Source Hackathon was held at the Shenzhen Pengcheng Laboratory, bringing together a community of technical experts for a 3-day assembly of innovation and collaboration. This event was guided by the China Open Source Cloud Union, China Electronics Standardization Institute, Tencent, Intel, Huawei, and other leading organizations in the industry.
A Community of Collaboration
The hackathon was jointly organized by the Pengcheng Laboratory, with the support of OpenStack, Linux, CNCF, Apache, Ceph, and other international open-source foundations. Over 100 open-source developers from more than 20 domestic and international communities participated in the event, including teams from Tencent, Huawei, Intel, Ali, wave, Jingdong, China Mobile, China Unicom, ZTE, Antfin, OSF, CMSS, PCL, Ret hat, Huambo, and pingcap.
Tencent Cloud’s Commitment to Open Source
In his speech, Wu Pei-Jun, the director of the Tencent Cloud TStack product line, emphasized the company’s commitment to the open-source community. “Tencent has invested heavily in the open-source community in recent years, joining foundations such as OpenStack and Apache,” he said. “We believe that open-source is the future of technology, and we’re committed to making it a reality.”
Tencent Cloud TStack’s Contributions
During the hackathon, the Tencent Cloud TStack team was involved in two key groups: Kubernetes and Ceph. In the Ceph group, members from Tencent and Red Hat collaborated on the Luminous version, discussing the performance decline of small objects in Bluestore Filestore. The figure below shows the test results for Levin’s problem (for reference only):
Test Environment Description:
- 3 nodes, each node:
- 1 system disk
- 10 HDD
- 1TB NVMe SSD
- Metadata stored in SSD
- Business object data stored on HDD
- Gateway, index, and osd db stored in SSD
- Journal stored in SSD
Kubernetes Group Results
The Kubernetes group achieved some exciting results, including:
- A rapid deployment of a high-availability transparent client Redis cluster on Kubernetes
- An innovative small project to achieve automatic reload of a Web application when the ConfigMap changes
A Legacy of Innovation
The China Open Source Hackathon has been held annually since 2015, with a total of over 800 bug fixes in open-source projects. Tencent Cloud TStack has always insisted on the open-source philosophy, encouraging developers to innovate and collaborate. In the future, the team will continue to contribute to the open-source community, working together to build a more open and collaborative cloud ecosystem for government and enterprise users.
Conclusion
The Ninth China Open Source Hackathon was a resounding success, bringing together a community of technical experts to share ideas and collaborate on innovative projects. As we look to the future, we’re excited to see what the open-source community will achieve next.