May 2014
12 Mon
13 Tue
14 Wed 10:00 AM – 06:30 PM IST
15 Thu 10:00 AM – 06:30 PM IST
16 Fri 09:30 AM – 10:30 PM IST
17 Sat 09:30 AM – 06:15 PM IST
18 Sun
As Developers / Managers we almost everyday think and talk about faster / shorter Software Development cycles to increase our market presence/reach. Is there a way to measure how fast we are ?
Speaking of cycle: In Cycling a term “Cadence” is used, which simply means the speed at which you pedal. Cyclists measure this in revolutions per minute, or rpm. Similar to Cadence in Cycling, the cadence of a software team is measured by how fast and how frequent you can take your software live. Can you do this on every day, every week ? Do you have the tools for the same to Scale UP ?
While we try to improve the cadence of the team we have many challenges around Infrastructure Scaling, Test Integration, Configuration Management, Monitoring for uptime, Log Management, Security of Servers, Dev-Test-Prod setups, Maintaining single source of truth for your assets, etc… And how does these changes impact team dynamics ? If you have adopted some strategies have you noticed that your team has improved? do you need more QAs or do you need more sysadmins ? do you really need those many routers, servers or backups?
Rootconf is a conference which tries to address some of the challenges we face when we fine tune our infrastructure to be able to appropriately respond to a business need, while we Scale UP our Cloud or Web Infrastructure.
Developing a good Continuous Integration/Deployment/Testing/Delivery strategy is critical to improve the cadence of your team. Infrastructure and DevOps is an upfront investment human, time & money. The challenge always is whether you’re willing to make that investment right away, or in the future at a much higher cost and effort.
Rootconf is a conference which will help you to plan and develop a strategy map for infrastructure and devops. It will show you the building blocks for reaching a strategy for Infrastructure Scaling, Continuous Integration, Deployment and Delivery.
Rootconf is targeted at individuals, teams and companies that are seeking to scale the effectiveness of their developer teams and performance of their web stacks, thereby increase the Cadence of their software delivery.
Organizations which need a CI and CD strategy to achieve the above will find a substantial headstart in doing so, by attending Rootconf.
14th and 15th May 2014
The Energy and Research Institute,
4th Main Rd, Domlur II Stage,
Domlur, Bangalore
16th and 17th May 2014
MLR Convention Centre,
J P Nagar 7th Phase,
Brigade Millenium campus,
Bangalore
For questions about submissions or the conference, write to support@hasgeek.com
For Rootconf 2014, we are accepting proposals for Full Talks, Crisp Talks & Flash Talks for the Conference, and proposals for hands-on 3 hour workshops on the below topics. For more information on the types of talks, please checkout the Format tab.
Talks can submitted for the following OSes:
Shekhar Gulati
@shekhargulati
Submitted Apr 21, 2014
Its Friday night and my friend said he would like to watch a movie released today. I don’t want to watch that movie so I have to convince him to watch cricket match instead. My friend said you have time till morning to convince me. Being a web developer, I decided to build a web application that would parse the tweet stream about the movie and give us the overall sentiment about the movie. If more that 60% people have positively tweeted about the movie then we would watch the movie otherwise we would watch the cricket match. To help others like me I decided to host it in the public cloud so that I can share the application URL with others.
To build this publicly accessible web application, we need application stack that includes language runtime, server, database, version control system, public DNS,etc. Configuring and setting up all these myself would consume all my night. Is there an automated solution that can help me get away from doing low level stuff so that I can focus on application development? PaaS or Platform as a Service is an awesome sauce for developers that can automate all the above mentioned and give you a template application that you can hack on.
In this session, we will first take a look at what is platform as a service and why you need PaaS with OpenShift as an example. We will look at different OpenShift components like gears, SELinux, etc. that help us achieve maximum utilization of our hardware. It is also feasible to run OpenShift on your own hardware by using either OpenShift Origin or OpenShift Enterprise. We will cover how you can get OpenShift Origin running on your hardware.
After covering OpenShift internals, we will look at the application source code I developed to convince my friend. Finally, we will look at how OpenShift can help us automate all the low level stuff and help us build scalable web applications.
Shekhar Gulati is a developer and OpenShift evangelist working with Red Hat. He is evangelizing about OpenShift for last two years and regularly speaks at various conference and user groups around the world to spread goodness of OpenShift. Also, Shekhar has written many technical articles for IBM DeveloperWorks, Developer.com, and JavaLobby.
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