As my background is different than others (Mona is in security, ITL in security as well, Chia-Che and Don are researchers) we complement each other well.

My contribution to Graphene is basically bringing my Kernel knowledge to the project and make the engineering great, and the project sustainable as an Open Source project. I say “sort of” because many things need to be re-implemented in a clean way. For me, this is a chance to implement Library OS sort of “from scratch”. Graphene is a promising candidate to be one of the most popular ones. There are just a few Library OS projects out there.

Sometimes there were things implemented in rudimentary or “hacky” ways, just to make it work, or get the benchmarking going - but in practice, they were not really working correctly.Īs my background is in Linux Kernels and detailed kernel implementation, the robustness of Graphene and for it to be correctly built from an engineering perspective is a core task that I have to look after. When Intel OTC joined, many things needed to be improved or redone with good engineering practices. Graphene was originally developed by academic researchers, not really usable in a robust way, and my role is to actually make it deployable. IY: My team actively contributes to open source projects and we were approached by Intel Labs to help stabilize Graphene. Q: What brought you to Project Graphene? Mona mentioned the pivotal role that Graphene had when OTC took in the project - what is your role in the project? I joined Intel in 2013, working on the open stack too, and after two or three years I started to work on Graphene. In my early days, I worked on NetBSD and Linux kernel, storage/filing systems and then I moved into working on hypervisor and KVM.Īfter that, I moved towards networking and later open stack. I started to play with Linux Kernels during the early days, versions 1.0 and 1.2, and then I started to work on open source. IY: My background is in open source software engineering, and most specifically OS Kernels and Hypervisor. Q: How did you get started in tech? Would you tell us more about your background? Today we’re interviewing Isaku Yamahata, one of the most prolific contributors to the project and part of the Intel’s Open Source team. On this edition of our series featuring the contributors for Project Graphene we’d like to introduce one of the people that played a key part in shipping the September release, Graphene v1.0.Īs mentioned by Mona in her interview, the Intel Open Source Technology Center (OTC) played an instrumental role in transforming Graphene from a project into a product - from its beginnings in the academic world. But first, let us open this interview with some good news… Graphene v1.0.1 was just released! The new version contains multiple bugfixes and a long list of sample application integrations - including web servers, databases and more.