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##About the conference and topics for submitting talks:
The Fifth Elephant is rated as India’s best data conference. It is a conference for practitioners, by practitioners. In 2018, The Fifth Elephant will complete its seventh edition.
The Fifth Elephant is an evolving community of stakeholders invested in data in India. Our goal is to strengthen and grow this community by presenting talks, panels and Off The Record (OTR) sessions that present real insights about:
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##Target audience:
You should attend and speak at The Fifth Elephant if your work involves:
##Perks for submitting proposals:
Submitting a proposal, especially with our process, is hard work. We appreciate your effort.
We offer one conference ticket at discounted price to each proposer, and a t-shirt.
We only accept one speaker per talk. This is non-negotiable. Workshops may have more than one instructor.
In case of proposals where more than one person has been mentioned as collaborator, we offer the discounted ticket and t-shirt only to the person with who the editorial team corresponded directly during the evaluation process.
##Format:
The Fifth Elephant is a two-day conference with two tracks on each day. Track details will be announced with a draft schedule in February 2018.
We are accepting sessions with the following formats:
##Selection criteria:
The first filter for a proposal is whether the technology or solution you are referring to is open source or not. The following criteria apply for closed source talks:
The criteria for selecting proposals, in the order of importance, are:
No one submits the perfect proposal in the first instance. We therefore encourage you to:
Our editorial team helps potential speakers in honing their speaking skills, fine tuning and rehearsing content at least twice - before the main conference - and sharpening the focus of talks.
##How to submit a proposal (and increase your chances of getting selected):
The following guidelines will help you in submitting a proposal:
To summarize, we do not accept talks that gloss over details or try to deliver high-level knowledge without covering depth. Talks have to be backed with real insights and experiences for the content to be useful to participants.
##Passes and honorarium for speakers:
We pay an honorarium of Rs. 3,000 to each speaker and workshop instructor at the end of their talk/workshop. Confirmed speakers and instructors also get a pass to the conference and networking dinner. We do not provide free passes for speakers’ colleagues and spouses.
##Travel grants for outstation speakers:
Travel grants are available for international and domestic speakers. We evaluate each case on its merits, giving preference to women, people of non-binary gender, and Africans. If you require a grant, request it when you submit your proposal in the field where you add your location. The Fifth Elephant is funded through ticket purchases and sponsorships; travel grant budgets vary.
##Last date for submitting proposals is: 31 March 2018.
You must submit the following details along with your proposal, or within 10 days of submission:
##Contact details:
For more information about the conference, sponsorships, or any other information contact support@hasgeek.com or call 7676332020.
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Regunath B
Submitted Mar 14, 2018
Building scalable systems is not easy. It is not as simple as deploying on a cloud and expecting it to scale alongwith the cloud’s elasticity. Many systems and solutions that claim elasticity of scale often indirectly limit their claims to stateless services.
Building and scaling stateless systems has far fewer challenges over stateful systems. That said, stateless services are limited by data centre infrastructure and begs attention at large footprints - at tens of millions of requests per second. It is therefore seemingly easier to scale stateless services and adds credence to claims of almost limitless elastic scale. Serverless architecture offers the convenience of zero server deployments while preserving elasticity of scaling.
In reality, there is little truth in a truly stateless service, in fact it is a case of state being pushed to another service/system. The challenges therefore shift to scaling stateful services - something harder to achieve.
In this talk I will start with an overview of typical application workloads - online vs offline, interactive vs batch, sync vs async etc. and commonly used patterns and libraries to build these systems. We will also evaluate each of these examples to identify critical stateful services/systems and the challenges in scaling them. We will then take the Flipkart Flux open source project as an example to understand the design of a highly scalable stateful system that offers serverless computing for deployed applications, similar to AWS Lambda. The talk will cover various design and tech choices that enables millions of stateful, data-driven workflows/computes to run on the Flux system.
Regunath is an open source developer, engineer who built Aadhaar and currently works on Retail and Marketplace systems at Flipkart. He is also a core contributor on the Flux project discussed in this talk.
https://www.slideshare.net/regunathbalasubramanian/scalability-truths-and-serverless-architectures
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