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Rootconf 2015

DevOps and scaling infrastructure

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Accepting submissions till 02 Jul 2019, 02:31 AM

MLR Convention Centre, J P Nagar

In today’s technology world, operational efficiency is pivotal. It is time to focus on measuring, learning and improving different aspects of infrastructure scaling and development cycles. Not to forget the the culture of DevOps and team dynamics.

Rootconf 2015 focuses on four key aspects of DevOps and scaling infrastructure: virtualization, managing infrastructure at scale, new technologies, and team management.

Target audience:

  1. Rootconf is aimed at DevOps, CTOs, and teams and companies.
  2. Organizations developing a Continuous Integration and Continous Deployment strategy. You will get a headstart by attending Rootconf.

Conference and workshop topics:

  1. Virtualization.
  2. Managing infrastructure at scale:
    • Scaling processes for enterprises – log monitoring, security, data management.
    • Scaling tools for enterprises – such as using Graphite, logstash and other tools at scale.
  3. Upcoming technologies such as Salt.
  4. Team management / DevOps as culture.

Format:

This year’s edition spans two days of hands-on and conference. We are inviting proposals for:

  • Full-length 40 minute talks.
  • Crisp 15-minute talks.
  • Sponsored sessions, 40 minute duration.
  • Hands-on Workshop sessions, 3 hour duration

Selection Process:

Proposals will be filtered and shortlisted by an Editorial Panel. We urge you to add links to videos / slide decks when submitting proposals. This will help us understand your past speaking experience. Blurbs or blog posts covering the relevance of a particular problem statement and how it is tackled will help the Editorial Panel better judge your proposals.

Proposers must submit presentation drafts as part of the selection process to ensure that the talk is in line with the theme of the conference, and to help the editorial panel build a strong line-up for the event.

We will notify you about the status of your proposal within two weeks of submission.

There is only one speaker per session. Entry is free for selected speakers. As our budget is limited, we will prefer speakers from locations closer home, but will do our best to cover for anyone exceptional. HasGeek will provide a bursary to cover part of your travel and accommodation in Bangalore. Bursaries are limited and made available to speakers delivering full sessions (40 minutes or longer).

Commitment to Open Source:

HasGeek believes in open source as the binding force of our community. If you are describing a codebase for developers to work with, we’d like it to be available under a permissive open source license. If your software is commercially licensed or available under a combination of commercial and restrictive open source licenses (such as the various forms of the GPL), please consider picking up a sponsorship. We recognize that there are valid reasons for commercial licensing, but ask that you support us in return for giving you an audience. Your session will be marked on the schedule as a sponsored session.

Important dates:

Last date for submitting proposals: 15th April

Shortlisting process: 31st March onwards

Pre-conference workshops: 13th and 14th May

Conference dates: 15th and 16th May

##Venue:
Rootconf will be held in the MLR Convention Centre, J P Nagar.

##Contact:
For more information about speaking proposals, tickets and sponsorships, contact info@hasgeek.com or call +91-7676332020.

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Rootconf is a community-funded platform for activities and discussions on the following topics: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Infrastructure costs, including Cloud Costs - and optimization. Security - including Cloud Security. more

Accepting submissions till 02 Jul 2019, 02:31 AM

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Pooja Shah

Does your product work fantastically everywhere !

Scaling Test Automation Across Platforms and exploring Continuous Integration more
  • 1 comment
  • Rejected
  • 03 Mar 2015
Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate

Kamalika Majumder

Environment on Demand - Building Blocks to your own private cloud

Overview of infrastruction automation, how it plays a key role in any organisations environment, how it can be achieved. At the end of this session we will have a good idea of how to build a scalable and automated environment on demand. more
  • 3 comments
  • Submitted
  • 05 Mar 2015
Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate

Venu Murthy MK

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Cloud Bursting -- Hybrid Clouds!

To start off with we will discover the economics of hybrid clouds and what is the reality behind statements such as “69 percent of companies agree that implementing a hybrid cloud will be one of their biggest areas of focus in 2015” by Forbes. Following this, I will demonstrate on how this has been made possible using OpenSource software like OpenStack and demonstrate the “real” Auto scaling in a… more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 05 Mar 2015
Technical level: Intermediate

Shanker Balan

Using RancherOS to Run Microservices on Docker at Scale

Docker is an excellent platform for organizations interested in running microservices. It offers portability and consistency between development and production environments, quick provisioning times, and a simple way to isolate services. This presentation will walk through these and other benefits of using Docker to run microservices, and provide an overview of RancherOS, a minimialist distributi… more
  • 0 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 06 Mar 2015
Technical level: Intermediate

Utkarsh Pandey

Automating Windows Infra on AWS using Puppet & Chocolatey: Troubles, Tricks and Triumphs

Objective for this presentation is to make DevOps in windows much more creative and fun task than it used to be. We will do so by automating most the pieces involved right from infrastructure to configuration till deployment. Doing things right the first time is going to be easier than having to go back and fix it, that’s where automation at each layer will be the next big thing. Automation invol… more
  • 1 comment
  • Submitted
  • 07 Mar 2015
Technical level: Intermediate

Akshay Mankar

Contain It Yourself

To build a linux container using basic tools and utilitis, so that we understand what is under the hood of containers. This will help us debug our setups better and if required take charge from all the fancy wrappers. more
  • 0 comments
  • Cancelled
  • 09 Mar 2015
Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate

Pankaj Kaushal

SaltStack Fundamentals

This will be a hands on Workshop. Attendees will come away from this training with an understanding of the SaltStack core architecture and core modules, when to write custom execution modules, grains, and runners; how best to use the Salt Reactor, Salt Orchestrate, and more. Trainees will learn how to install SaltStack from scratch in both master / minion and masterless architectures, run command… more
  • 2 comments
  • Cancelled
  • 10 Mar 2015
Technical level: Intermediate

Abhishek Kona

Rewriting for Scale @ Parse.com

Scaling a successful developer service is hard. It is not about silver bullets, but about the process. This talk will walk people through how a team at Parse.com dealt with scaling software, procesess we adopted, tools we built to slay the beast. more
  • 0 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 11 Mar 2015
Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate

Kiran Darisi

How We Scaled Freshdesk To Take 65M Requests/week

As a startup we did multiple things to scale the infra. It is best to share so that it will be helpful for te newbies where to start. more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 11 Mar 2015
Technical level: Advanced

Amit

Why is my system slow ?

This talk aims to discuss tools and techniques that can be used to root cause performance problems. Key take away will be, a good know how of where to start looking when a performance issue crops up. more
  • 0 comments
  • Cancelled
  • 13 Mar 2015
Technical level: Intermediate

Ankit Jain

Build your own Dynamic CDN

Build your own Dynamic CDN which can handle more than 10K reqs/sec per node more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 17 Mar 2015
Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate

saurabh hirani

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Inframer - know thy infra

Every DevOps team manages infrastructure distributed across different databases - chef, icinga, vmware, etc. The information in each database is queryable through their APIs but there isn’t one roof under which you can look at all the information about a node. Neither can you do a diff of different databases and answer questions like - How many cheffed nodes are not being monitored through icinga… more
  • 1 comment
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 20 Mar 2015
Section: Crisp talk Technical level: Intermediate

Alan Joseph

Build your own AWS / Digital ocean / Heroku for QA / Dev environment with Docker, Haproxy and NodeJS

Demo of a project for building inhouse Heroku like Dev / QA environment for our company. more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 21 Mar 2015
Technical level: Beginner

Aditya Patawari

Running your containers in a sane environment, Project Atomic

To demonstrate and understand the various components of Project Atomic more
  • 0 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 21 Mar 2015
Section: Crisp talk Technical level: Beginner

Gaurav Chaturvedi

Coping with burnout

The objective of this talk would be to help identify the symptoms and few tips on coping with burnout. more
  • 0 comments
  • Shortlisted
  • 23 Mar 2015
Section: Crisp talk Technical level: Beginner

Steven Deobald

Scientific Concept Robbery

I’ll be detailing some specific examples of concepts across various organizations which can be stolen, reused, tweaked, and experimented on. The goal will be to express not only the individual examples I’m familiar with, but the overarching theme of “stealing” ideas to make your team as effective as possible. more
  • 0 comments
  • Cancelled
  • 23 Mar 2015
Technical level: Beginner

Mayank Joshi

Fog + Ruby + Chef + Robocop + Monit = Awesomeness

Help people leverage on APIs provided by Cloud service providers (accessible using Fog), Chef and Robocop, to build scalable, robust and self healing infrastructure. more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 24 Mar 2015
Technical level: Intermediate

Gourav Shah

Blueprinting your Infrastructure with Ansible

Get introduced to Ansible as a configutration managment, orchastration and parellal command execution tool all in one. Understand Why you should use it, how it works i.e. playbooks, roles, tasks, modules etc. Also learn how it fares against other configuration management tools. Finally, see it in action (demo). more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 24 Mar 2015
Technical level: Beginner

Anshu Prateek

Getting bare metal performance with AWS

To discuss best performance optimization techniques with AWS EC2 more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 25 Mar 2015
Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate

Anshu Prateek

Using bcache to get a performing persistent storage in AWS

To get a high performance persistent storage up and running in AWS environment - one which gives the performance of direct attached ephemeral SSD disks along with the persistence of EBS. more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 25 Mar 2015
Section: Crisp talk Technical level: Intermediate

Nitin Sharma

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Jenkins as the Test Reporting Framework

Very few and matured companies are able to invest on the development of the Test Reporting Frameworks. At Komli we realised the benefits & value it offers. Instead of buying some commercial tools we went with the approach of extending Jenkins for the same. This talk is about our experience regarding the same. more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 25 Mar 2015
Section: Full talk Technical level: Beginner

Shyam Sundar C S

How we run 100’s of Enterprise Rails applications

Overview on the Automation Practices and Continuous Delivery principles we follow to run 100’s of Enterprise Rails applications. more
  • 1 comment
  • Rejected
  • 26 Mar 2015
Section: Crisp talk Technical level: Intermediate
Vaidik Kapoor

Vaidik Kapoor

Vagrant for Effective DevOps Culture

Learn about how Vagrant can be used for improving development work and operations work individually, improve collaboration between developers and operations teams and bring in a better DevOps culture that leads to more stable systems and products. more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 26 Mar 2015
Technical level: Intermediate

Praveen Kumar

JJB to Manage Jenkins Job Effectively

Learn about Jenkins Job Builder(JJB) which takes simple descriptions of Jenkins jobs in YAML format, and uses them to configure Jenkins. You can keep your job descriptions in human readable text format in a version control system to make changes and auditing easier. It also has a flexible template system, so creating many similarly configured jobs is easy. more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 27 Mar 2015
Section: Full talk Technical level: Beginner

Yahya Poonawala

Migration from a DataCenter to the Cloud : What you need to know

In this session, we will walk through the challenges and solutions faced by enterprises while migrating from the data center to the cloud. We will cover several aspects from tooling, security to testing. We will drive the talk based on experiences from real migration stories. more
  • 2 comments
  • Rejected
  • 27 Mar 2015
Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate

Arun Narayanaswamy

Dev-Oops to Dev-Ops

How cultural shift is required to enable efficiency and help bring in DevOps mindset. more
  • 1 comment
  • Rejected
  • 27 Mar 2015
Section: Crisp talk Technical level: Intermediate

alok singh

Unikernel based deployments

This session is meant to show how applications can be built for unikernels and show an actual deployment scenario. more
  • 0 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 27 Mar 2015
Section: Crisp talk Technical level: Advanced

Anand Karthik

Cosmos - Centralized Monitoring Service @ Flipkart

Gain insights into building large scale monitoring infrastructure more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 28 Mar 2015
Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate

Bharath Kumar

Autoscaling Application Using OpenStack

In this talk I would like to explian how to deploy Auto Scaling Web Applications using OpenStack. more
  • 1 comment
  • Rejected
  • 30 Mar 2015
Technical level: Intermediate

Amit Shah

Live Migration of QEMU/KVM Virtual Machines

Live migrating virtual machines is one of the key benefits of virtualization. Knowing the constraints of networks, storage and hypervisors helps in designing and deploying workloads. This session wil help people understand what goes in migrating a virtual machine, and how they can help by getting the configuration right. more
  • 0 comments
  • Shortlisted
  • 30 Mar 2015
Technical level: Beginner

Aditya Patawari

BrowserStack Security Breach. Lessons Learned.

To discuss and discover our learnings and ways to mitigate and avoid security breaches. more
  • 0 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 30 Mar 2015
Section: Crisp talk Technical level: Intermediate

Atin Mukherjee

Managing distributed file system with consistent distributed store & leader based algorithm

The objective of this presentation is to bring awareness to the people about how to achieve consistency, availablity and fault tolerance in distributed system in an efficient way. more
  • 5 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 30 Mar 2015
Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate

Devdas Bhagat

Building a devops culture

The audience is expected to learn the basic ideas of what it takes to build a successful IT organisation. more
  • 1 comment
  • Rejected
  • 30 Mar 2015
Technical level: Beginner
Bernd Erk

Bernd Erk

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Why favour Icinga over Nagios

This talk will give a detailed introduction into the advantages of Icinga compared to Nagios. It will also show how to use Icinga in flexible and scalable enviroments and how to integrate with popolar Open Source DevOps Tools. more
  • 1 comment
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 31 Mar 2015
Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate

Neependra Khare

Setting up PaaS with OpenShift Origin V3

How to setup on premise/cloud PaaS with OpenShift V3(http://www.openshift.org/). more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 31 Mar 2015
Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate

Meghana M

Highly available NFS server using Pacemaker/Corosync

This session mainly aims to explain how a highly available active-active NFS servers can be deployed using Pacemaker/Corosync. more
  • 1 comment
  • Rejected
  • 31 Mar 2015
Technical level: Intermediate

Himanchali

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Logstash, statsd and graphite combo for PostgreSQL log monitoring

The session (full length talk of 40 mins) will aim to explain the use case of log monitoring done for Postgres DB server with the help of logstash, statsd and graphite. The same combination can be used for other logs as well. more
  • 1 comment
  • Rejected
  • 31 Mar 2015
Section: Full talk Technical level: Beginner

Anand Chitipothu

10 reasons why you should prefer PostgreSQL to MySQL

To provide in-depth comparison of MySQL and PostgreSQL, highligihting the advanced features of PostgreSQL. more
  • 1 comment
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 31 Mar 2015
Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate

Cyrus Dasadia

A quick primer on http2

This talk is meant to introduce you to HTTP 2.0 protocol specs. more
  • 2 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 01 Apr 2015
Section: Crisp talk Technical level: Beginner

Abhinav Modi

Managing a Network Switch with Ansible

This session will focus on demonstrating the use of Ansible with the Cisco Nexus series of Data Center Switches. more
  • 0 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 01 Apr 2015
Section: Crisp talk Technical level: Intermediate

Reeshna R

Docker as a self-serve platform for database backup/restore

This session will focus on demonstrating how to the use Docker to provide a ‘Self-Serve’ platform for Database restore with zero dependency and a quicker turnaround. more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 01 Apr 2015
Technical level: Beginner

Pracheta Budhwar

On demand Cloud - 5 must dos on Azure to ensure it

Learn how to build resilient environment for your VMs on Azure. more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 02 Apr 2015
Technical level: Intermediate

Mike Place

Introduction to SaltStack

The objective of this talk will be to provide an introduction to the SaltStack platform. more
  • 1 comment
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 06 Apr 2015
Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate

Mike Place

SaltStack Workshop

This provides a chance for attendees to have hands-on experience with SaltStack, in addition to being able to ask more in-depth questions and discuss particular topics at greater length. more
  • 1 comment
  • Confirmed
  • 06 Apr 2015
Section: Workshops Technical level: Intermediate

Arunkumar S Jadhav

Mad Over Growth: Handling Scale At FreeCharge

Audience will learn, at a high level, about what goes into building a highly scalable and secure transactional system. more
  • 0 comments
  • Cancelled
  • 08 Apr 2015
Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate

Sahil Muthoo

Security Containers: how Snap CI leverages containers to safely run thousands of builds a day.

A deeper understanding of how container based virtualization works. more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 09 Apr 2015
Section: Full talk Technical level: Advanced

Shanker Balan

Migration From AWS To Google Cloud - Lessons Learnt

To share the first hand experience in migrating an existing AWS workload to Google Cloud. more
  • 2 comments
  • Rejected
  • 09 Apr 2015
Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate

Mohit Thatte

What can DevOps learn from sports teams

Understand that DevOps is not just about technology, its about culture and organization. These ideas have been tried in various disciplines in different forms. more
  • 4 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 09 Apr 2015
Section: Crisp talk Technical level: Beginner

Ravi Kumar

Designing the Devops Culture - Marching towards the promised land

The audience will lear the key aspects of designing the devops culture. 1)Setting right expectations. 2)Embrace flow & lean techniques as an enabler for Devops teams. 3)Organising code base 4)No frills devops using new architecture paradigm. 5)Devops in the Enterprise - Managing more
  • 1 comment
  • Rejected
  • 10 Apr 2015
Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate

Vishal Uderani

Automating AWS infrastructure and code deployments using Ansible at WebEngage

The objective of this talk will be to highlight how system and code deployments are done at WebEngage using Ansible more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 10 Apr 2015
Section: Crisp talk Technical level: Intermediate

Neependra Khare

Docker Workshop

Hands on with Docker. Outline Installing Docker Getting an image more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 10 Apr 2015
Section: Workshops Technical level: Intermediate

Dhananjay Sathe

Let’s Talk About Time - Data Driven Organic Monitoring @Directi

Describe a radical rethink of how we perceive alerts and monitoring and the profound implications it has on how we describe and interact with our infrastructure. more
  • 1 comment
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 10 Apr 2015
Section: Crisp talk Technical level: Intermediate

Aditya Upadhyay

How to Create a Low Cost, Self Healing & Immutable Infrastructure using AWS EC2 Spot Instances

Reduce AWS bills significantly, automate maintenance using Auto Scaling & understanding spot instance failover more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 10 Apr 2015
Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate

Vipul Sharma

How resilience testing of infrastructure is the path to achieve stable,fault-tolerant and self healing infrastructure

Most of us use certain types of backups and failovers when one or more component fails but are you sure these backups will kick when failure happens We will talk about Resilience Testing and how we can use popular tools like Simian army or manual interruptions and attacks; to test and prepare our infra to be resilient to failures. more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 10 Apr 2015
Section: Crisp talk Technical level: Intermediate

Manivannan Selvaraj

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How to Train your Jenkins?…to Use Your Resources Effectively and Get More Value for Each Buck Spent on Resource

We would like to share the story on how we built our cloud based Continous Integaration solution and how it helped us to save resources while preserving the user experience. We have already presented this at Jenkins User Conference held at San franciso on 23rd October 2014. more
  • 0 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 13 Apr 2015
Section: Crisp talk Technical level: Intermediate

Abhishek Singh

How do you deploy your code in production while sleeping?

This talk will provide information about how we implemented CI & controlled CD infrastructure using Jenkins, Chef and other open source tools to manage releases on thousands of servers in the AWS cloud infrastructure. more
  • 1 comment
  • Shortlisted
  • 14 Apr 2015
Section: Sponsored session Technical level: Intermediate

Muzammil Rehman

How LinkedIn is leveraging kafka for log aggregation and monitoring

Understanding log aggregation and monitoring for a large scale web infrastructure. more
  • 0 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 15 Apr 2015
Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate

sajan Tharayil

Moving Intuit Mint to AWS – the last mile

Understand what it takes to architect and a large scale financial SAAS application for AWS more
  • 0 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 08 May 2015
Section: Sponsored session Technical level: Intermediate

Arunkumar S Jadhav

Sneak peek into the cloud deployments at FreeCharge & Snapdeal

Understand and learn about scaling of systems. Outline more
  • 0 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 08 May 2015
Section: Sponsored session Technical level: Intermediate

Mark Lavi

Container Infrastructure Strategy

Mapping the transition from virtual machines to containers more
  • 0 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 08 May 2015
Section: Crisp talk Technical level: Intermediate

Vinay Y S

Scaling Flipkart cloud: a million virtual machines and Tbps network!

E-commerce traffic patterns with it’s huge spikes (>5x of usual) are brutal on any elastic cloud architecture. We will discuss Flipkart’s latest cloud infrastructure that can scale to a million virtual machines and handle multiple terabits/sec of network traffic. more
  • 1 comment
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 08 May 2015
Section: Sponsored session Technical level: Intermediate
Make a submission

Accepting submissions till 02 Jul 2019, 02:31 AM

MLR Convention Centre, J P Nagar

Hosted by

Rootconf is a community-funded platform for activities and discussions on the following topics: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Infrastructure costs, including Cloud Costs - and optimization. Security - including Cloud Security. more