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From YouTube: Tech Talks @ Kinvolk: An Introduction to casync by Lennart Poettering

Description

Lennart Poettering, creator of PulseAudio, Avahi, systemd, and currently a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, stopped by the Linux Technologies Meetup on July 13th to give a debut talk about his new project, casync. casync is an instrument used for efficient image synchronization for IoT, containers, VMs and backups.

This new tool combines the rsync algorithm with the idea of git's content addressable filesystem, in order to implement fast and efficient disk image and file system tree synchronization, taking benefit of the similarity of data. With a focus on simplicity, reproducibility, security, efficiency and metadata minimalism it's supposed to become a useful tool for everybody who needs to synchronize disk images or file system trees over IP networks in high frequencies, for example to implement IoT, container, VM or backup systems. The tool is designed to be friendly to HTTP for data delivery, in particular when used with CDNs.

Speaker: Lennart Poettering
Lennart is currently Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat. He is a German free-software engineer known for his work on PulseAudio, a sound server, Avahi, an implementation of the zeroconf protocol for network device discovery, and systemd, an alternative to the System V init daemon.
Company: Red Hat, Inc., https://www.redhat.com/

Meetup: Linux Technologies Meetup
Event: https://www.meetup.com/linux-technologies-berlin/events/240909087/

Host: Kinvolk
Web: https://kinvolk.io
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kinvolkio