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:
Gaurav Gupta
The objective of this session is to discuss an architecture to scale and manage the database tier by introducing a database abstraction layer. We will discuss various challenges of database scalability and then discuss few solutions.
We will be taking few references from the Facebook’s WebscaleSQL project, Google’s spanner paper and MySQL proxy.
When an application goes viral it not an easy feet to scale the infrastructure to support it. It requires some crafty deployments, constant improvement in the application stack and a lot of automation in the infrastructure to serve the growing business.
For the past couple of years, I have been looking at the problem of scaling the database tier efficiently. Database (especially relational database) remains an interesting frontier to scale up in the multi-tier architecture. NoSQL offers promise of scale for certain use cases, but there a large ecosystem for SQL that remains and will continue to grow. I propose a database abstraction layer that offers great potential to scale, optimize, perform and manage the traditional database tier. This layer will virtualize the databases from applications and provides a single interface to DBAs, DevOps and Developers to manage, test and develop their database tier.
I will be talking about certain common optimization techniques that can be offered from this layer:
Inquisitiveness
I am currently the VP of Engineering at ScaleArc, where we are building a solution like I described above. For the last 12 years, I have been working on building high-performance sub-systems on Linux in file systems, storage and networking domain. Most recently I was the founding engineer at CloudVelocity, where I helped build a hybrid cloud platform. Before that I worked as a Principal Software Engineer at Symantec, Cisco Systems and NeoPath Networks, and a contributor to OpenStack. The time I spent in these startups was a great experience and I hope I can share some of these learnings with fellow engineers.
In short, I enjoy sharing ideas on innovation, engineering and product development. I am looking forward for all the interesting sessions proposed on this conference.
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