Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 17, 2018

• Reporting from the 2018 Python Language Summit. The first three articles from this event are Subinterpreter support for Python, Modifying the Python object model, and A Gilectomy update.
• An introduction to MQTT: Tom Yates reports on a FLOSS UK talk about the MQTT messaging protocol and its implementations.
• Using user-space tracepoints with BPF: BPF isn't just for tracing the kernel.
• Supporting multi-actuator drives: how should a new spinning-disk technology present itself to the kernel?
• XFS online filesystem scrubbing and repair: an exploration of the best way to expose scrubbing and repair features to user space.
• Two reports from KubeCon Europe: Autoscaling for Kubernetes workloads and Updates in container isolation.

This week's edition also includes these inner pages:

• Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

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