Rootconf 2016
Rootconf is India's principal conference where systems and operations engineers share real world knowledge about building resilient and scalable systems.
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Bernd Erk Working in and with Open Source CommunitiesAttendees benefit from leasons learned, failure culture, community work and paths to enhance working with others in a better way. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Beginner
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Philip Paeps DNSSEC workshopAt the end of this course, participants will be familiar with the Domain Name System and Security Extensions to the Domain Name System (DNSSEC). The course is taught “hands-on” in a virtualized FreeBSD environment using the BIND, NSD and Unbound name server implementations. Participants will configure authoritative and recursive domain name servers and will learn to analyse and debug common misco… more
Section: Workshop
Technical level: Advanced
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peter de schrijver A software view at power managementLearn the commonly used software techniques for controlling power consumption in computers. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Advanced
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nithish B Uninterrupted service delivery at peak loads without any downtimeThis session will provide some insights into how to stress test your cloud infra and/or application and plan on autoscaling which helps in dealing with high traffic. This session is most helpful for e-commerce sites, and other providers who have to deal with high traffic. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Shreyansh Pandey What the Docker? Building High Availability Infrastructures for Modern Web AppsThis talk will primarily focus on something really simple: how do you setup a Docker-based environment for scaling web applications. The current articles, etc. out there give a rather vague description of the process, leaving a tonne for the reader; if the fate is, and he doesn’t know DevOps, it might be a problem for him. In this presentation, I will give a rock-solid guide as to how you’d want … more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Pracheta Budhwar Building for Disasters - approach to robust Systems !While we wish systems never go down,its prudent we build robust systems for all possible eventuality. in 40 mins, the objective isn’t to tell-you-all, rather just focus on 4 most important aspects to plan Disaster Recovery scenarios. more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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brijrajsingh Mesos - Your DataCenter OS - Build Fault Tolerant and elastic distributed systems as one unitBuild and Run Fault Tolerant and elastic distributed system, using Apache Mesos. Learn how you can deploy and work with your web apps over the cloud on a cluster of machines but treat the cluster as rather a single compute unit, and keeping the cluster in cloud as a fault-tolerant unit. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Advanced
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Vishal Uderani Learning from Human and Organisational Failure in OpsNot much is spoken about how we as humans tend to deal with failure especially us Ops folks . Given the ever distracting nature of our jobs which pushes and pulls us in multiple directions each day mistakes/failures are bound to happen. I’d like to share my experience of one such incident and the ways/methods I used to deal/cope with failure and hopefully inspire others to adopt similar methods a… more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Beginner
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Premshree Pillai Continuous deployment at ScaleLearning about optimizing everyone’s productivity and happiness while building products at scale, through software tooling and culture. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Anshu Prateek Openstack - getting it all up magically - and when the magic fails.To discuss the experience of openstack setup and testing using CI/CD based on puppet, what all we did and when and where does it fail. At the end of the session, the audience will know about what all works and helps to setup an openstack cluster with no manual intervention. And what all can go wrong in the same openstack production cluster. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Aravind GV Proposing Continuous Monitoring and Faster Service Restoration (CM and FSR)How to Continous Monitorning of 100’s of services and take auto remediaton of services if it failes. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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saurabh hirani  The transition: Manual => Automated => Distributed monitoringEveryone talks the benefits of having an automated monitoring system in place - one which can discover infrastructure components as they are added, monitor them while they are alive and stop monitoring when they are moved out. But no one has chronicled their journey through the process of automating a manually maintained monitoring system and showcased their battle scars for others to learn from.… more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Intermediate
Session type: Demo
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Leena S N Merge Hells?? Feature Toggle to the RescueFeature Toggle is one of the key practices for Continuous Delivery, but not enough has spoken about the same. This session is to give an intro about Feature Toggle and explain the advantages it has over Feature branching and share my experience while using it for the last few years. more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Srihari Sriraman Of the building of a Postgres clusterLearn about the problems we will encounter while building or using postgres clusters for high availability, and how to solve them. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Anil G  Automated and objective prescreening for devops/sys-admin positionsThe sudorank framework defines a simple method of evaluating a prospective candidate’s knowlegde and hands on experience. This is a large improvement on the current ad-hoc methodology, which is a mix of Q&A and pairing. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Soumyadip Das Mahapatra CFEngine @ LinkedInThis talk will be geared towards how linkedin leverages CFEngine to operate at high-scale, challenges with CFEngine and how we solved it. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Advanced
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Aveek Misra Evolution of MonitoringThis talk will focus on the various innovations in some of the monitoring solutions of today and how monitoring systems have evolved tremendously in the past few years. Also given the changes in application landscape today, we will talk about what are really the important things to monitor and why more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Shailesh Hegde Goblin - Automated Resiliency TestingTo discuss resiliency testing challenges in large scale cloud deployments and how to automate them (think Chaos Monkey, but with a few key differences). more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Rajvel MP Orchestration in IaaS & things around itWe all are consumers of services in some form or other, Consider cloud computing, it is easy to use; less hassle; zero maintenance. But what happening on the other side, how are they managing to keep the lights on. How are the cogs arranged and who controls its movements !! more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Shahnawaz Saifi Apache Helix: Simplifying Distributed SystemsModeling a distributed system as a state machine with constraints on states and transitions has the following benefits: more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Arjun Shenoy Simoorg - A failure induction frameworkThose attending will get the basic idea of the concept of failure induction, An architectural overview of Simoorg the failure induction framework developed at LinkedIn and the features provided by Simoorg. more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Beginner
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Kishore Yerrapragada Learnings from web app traffic managementMake audience leave with understanding issues in web application traffic management and best practices to apply to avoid those. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Raj Shekhar Lessons in moving from physical hosts to MesosThis talk is for people who are thinking about the moving to Mesos and will help them understand what to expect and how to do the migration. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Sai Kothapalle One-click Deploy/ Self-service QA, Dev teams using RundeckLearn how Rundeck can be levaraged to do one-click Deploys/integrated into CI pipeline. If you are using cloud environments, you will be dealing with large number of servers, Rundeck provides UI/API interface to simplify deployment on cloud/on-prem. We will also looking into writing rundeck jobs to self-service other teams. more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Madhu Akula Monitor your Infrastructure like Ninja !This workshop contains how we can make ELK stack to replace the traditional SOC. Apart from ELK participants will create their own custom filters and parsers. We also integrate with alerting system for visibility and better understanding of attacks & statistics of infrastructure resources and attacks by kibana. more
Section: Workshop
Technical level: Beginner
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Harsh Internals of Hadoop, Hive and Hbase, and how we made it scalable and Highly available.To discuss the internal architecture of Hadoop(hdfs),Hbase and Hive. I will also discuss, how we Designed our Data in Hive and Hbase based on our need, what problems we faced in production cluster and how we made it scalable and highly available. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Beginner
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Spencer Krum Openstack for HumansThis talk will introduce OpenStack to people who haven’t heard of OpenStack or haven’t kept up with what OpenStack is and what it provides. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Beginner
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Sachin Mengi Deep dive into sucessful implemention of devops for a legacy settlement system in 15 minsLearn one of the approaches of successful implementation of devops in capital markets Learn how to approach devops for a legacy application more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Beginner
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Deepak Jain 7 Pitfalls for DevOps in EnterprisesLearn about why DevOps would fail in a large enterprise more
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Technical level: Beginner
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Aditya Patawari Comparing how different container orchestration tools scale to productionTo setup and understand scaling pratices of various Docker Orchestration tools more
Section: Workshop
Technical level: Intermediate
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Vinay Nadig HTTP/SPDY/HTTP2To explain the state of the HTTP protocol right now. Going through a bit of history, the evolution and the current HTTP/2 implementation. A small demo of performance improvements at the end. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Anukalp Desai DevOps and QAExperience of QA team in learning and implementing DevOps and failure due to lack of collaboration and communication. more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Beginner
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Arpit Mohan Good to GoComing from a traditional LAMP stack, this talk focuses on how & why we decided to re-write our core platform in Golang. I’ll also stress upon the learnings and heartbreaks through this journey. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Beginner
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Soham Chakraborty Preparing for failure - resilient system architectureSystems do fail. There are multitude of components that could fail any time. Therefore, one could think of introducing factors that might lead to failure and thus eliminating one angle of a possible future failure. This talk aims to provide some such ideas. more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Beginner
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BASAVAIAH THAMBARA MySQL to Hadoop incremental data ingestionTalk focuses on how we are doing data ingestion from MySQL to Hadoop in an incremental fashion to make the data on hdfs more upto date more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Ayyappadas Ravindran Nair Troubleshooting Kafka's socket serverUnderstanding life cycle of Kafka-request Understanding how a trivial (metrics addition) change caused a Kafka cluster to crumble under high load causing frontend user impact. (KAFKA-2664) more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Yagnik The webscale peace agreement or how Snapdeal is ending the battle between operations and developersThe talk is intended to help understand how to scale operations and developers with the help of cultural and process changes that allow you to innovate faster with higher accountability and reliability. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Beginner
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Siddharth Malhotra Using Powershell & Teamcity for Windows based Deployments on AWSTo accomplish continious integration and best practices for Windows based applications. more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Beginner
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Sid Ramesh Handling logs, events and metrics using HekaIntended to benefit folks building and operating distributed systems more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Beginner
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Saprative Jana Hackathon NightmaresDisussing the problem that I faced in making webservices go live in a hackathon and the workflows I adopted to push apps to the server really fast. I mean really really really fast !!!!!! more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Beginner
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Abhishek Tiwari On when we opened RESTful APIs to houses OR stories around devOps on the tiniest of scaleWhile developing systems, we make assumptions about the environment that the system would run in. These are stories about how the real world broke our assumptions, the road(s) to debugging and how my server side devOps experience fit right into fixing low power wireless IPv6 mesh networks so that we could eventually- more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Beginner
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Spencer Krum Openstack Advanced TopicsIn this talk I will provide a survey of these more non traditional services, I’ll give my honest opinion on which ones I think are ready for production, and I’ll provide a live demo of using one or two of them. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Advanced
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Thejdeep Install Architecture for a Distributed Bare-Metal Networking HardwareSharing all the bits and pieces of learnings gained while I interned at Cisco in the summer of 2015 where I worked on building an open-source install architecture for distributed bare-metal hardware that would be generic enough to be used by other big players. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Beginner
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Mohamed Imran K R Common Availability/Scalability Mistakes and how to avoid themTo get an overview of what are the impediments for a true application availability/uptime and how to fix it more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Beginner
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Zubair Sharief A case for using FreeBSD to build a resilient container(Jails) infrastructure.To get an idead on how FreeBSD helps in building a resilient container infrastructure for web applications. Skipping CARP(Cisco VRRP) which is required for HA firewall, as this is going to be a crisp talk. more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Walter Heck War story: Implementing Puppet on 15000 servers in a traditional enterpriseThe objective of this talk is to tell people about our experiences with implementing a large puppet deployment in a very traditional enterprise, and to give them tips and pointers on how to do this succesfully. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Walter Heck Workshop Puppet in ProductionThe objective of this workshop is to show attendees how to run a puppet setup in a production environment. The workshop will include setting up a puppet code respository from scratch, checking it into a git repository and making sure it can be deployed properly. more
Section: Workshop
Technical level: Advanced
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Kushal Das Failure at Cloud & rescued by PythonThis talk will go through the issues we faced in the Fedora Cloud SIG while testing the cloud imgaes, and how we solved the issues in record time with help from a programming language called ‘Python’. I hope this talk will encourage people to use more of Python as a tool to solve problems. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Baiju Muthukadan Miles to Go: Golang WorkshopThe primary objective of this workshop is to teach fundamentals of Go programming language. The workshop will include setting up environment for Go development, explanation about syntax & concepts and solving problems. The participants will be able to write idiomatic and effective Go code after the session. All participants will get chance to work on a small project. more
Section: Workshop
Technical level: Intermediate
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Ratnadeep Debnath Nulecule - Packaging multi container applications for the cloudHighlight shortcomings of the current way to ship containers more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Antoine Grondin Happiness through Crash Only softwareteach the benefits of designing software in a crash only fashion, with examples from large scale deployments at DigitalOcean. how to design for graceful handling of failures. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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@diptanu Chaos Engineering and design patterns for building highly available servicesThe talk introduces Chaos Engineering to the audience, and talks about how complex distributed systems fail in large scale internet services. The talk also goes into discussing design patterns for making higly resilient distributed systems which can heal from transient failures. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Advanced
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Umang Dhawan DevOps for Big Data infrastructure on the cloudTo discuss the challenges faced in managing and deploying to hadoop clusters on the cloud and how to tackle them more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Beginner
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Piyush Verma  Design patterns in Microservices using GilmourMicroservices are a talk of the town and the newer tools, frameworks like Kafka, Consul, grpc convinces us to be armchair architects. But let’s take a step back to understand the common design principles of a services architecture and the commonality between Unix and microservices. more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Sriram Power up your infrastructure with preemptible docker applicationsUnderstand how to achieve maximum efficiency from your infrastructure using pre-emption friendly docker applications and load-aware container scheduling. more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Advanced
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Raghdip Singh Panesar Bits and Bytes behind Flipkart.comWhat are chalanges associated with designing a large scale Datacenter Networks and how we at Flipkart took at stab at countering those. more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Spencer Krum 20 Bash Tricks in 5 MinutesThis will cover a number of neat tricks Spencer uses on the command line to make his life easier. more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Beginner
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Colin Charles Best Practices for MySQL High AvailabilityThe MySQL ecosystem is 21 years old which means there are plenty of solutions for you to use, or stuff that you may have used. Learn from best practices over the years, and use tools that are current for your next deployment. more
Section: Workshop
Technical level: Intermediate
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Colin Charles Lessons from database failuresRunning MySQL? Replication is easy to setup. But how do you handle failover? How do you keep running smoothly over time. Learn best practices from the failures of others. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Anand Prakash How i could have hacked all Facebook accounts!Little bit security awareness for developers. Outline more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Kamala Sripada How TV newsrooms work and what you can learn from themThe objective of this talk is to help other industries benefit from the knowledge of the real-time work flow in a TV newsroom. While industries are distinct in their content and area of specialization, I believe that work-flow knowledge systems cut across these barriers. Such knowledge systems when shared can enable industries to learn new skills, trigger thought processes on existing practices a… more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Beginner
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Aditya Patawari Multi Host Docker cluster via Docker Swarm, Network Drivers and ComposeTo build and run a multihost Docker cluster and to make the containers talk to each other over the network without using any external Software defined network (SDN). more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Rohit Gupta Deserialize JSON configuration with #golang InterfaceThe objective of this workshop is to highlight the challenges of generic JSON parsing in a strongly typed language such as #golang. At the end of this talk, participants will be able to design config driven applications, with strong validation and friendly error logs. more
Section: Full talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Tod McQuillin DTrace: Live tracing for Unix systemsAttendees will learn the history and current status of DTrace, as well as a technical overview of how DTrace works and a selection of use cases where DTrace provides valuable debugging information. A number of examples and sample commands will be presented. more
Section: Crisp talk
Technical level: Intermediate
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Tod McQuillin Introduction to DTrace (half day Tutorial)The tutorial’s objective is to provide an overview of DTrace and show the student how to become proficient with using DTrace to formulate queries about system behaviour and get the desired answers. more
Section: Workshop
Technical level: Intermediate
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