Title
Building rocks from ground up
Speaker(s)
Marcin Konowalczyk
Date and time
2025-10-23T16:25:00Z
Session type
Lightning talk (05 minutes)
Abstract
Rocks are Canonicals take on OCI-compliant container image, but how are they made, and what to do when something does not go according to plan? In this lightning talk I will briefly outline the anatomy of a rock and invite people to the ‘unconference’ section at the end of the day for in-person demos and fun challenges involving rockcraft.
Speaker(s) bio
By training I’m a chemist, but by passion I’m a software engineer. During my academic years I found a niche in programming custom machines and data analysis pipelines. I’ve never had a good head for complex maths, so writing little programs and simulations turned out to be my way into understanding more theoretical subjects. Following my interest in programming I’ve gone on to work as a data scientist, and then as systems/data engineer. My main programming languages are Python and Go, but I’ve engaged in a few fights with the (in)famous borrow checker. On a hobbyist front I’m particularly interested in programming language design and computational art. My favourite algorithm is the unconstrained optimisation using a simplex method.
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