About Rootconf 2019:
The seventh edition of Rootconf is a two-track conference with:
- Security talks and tutorials in audi 1 and 2 on 21 June.
- Talks on DevOps, distributed systems and SRE in audi 1 and audi 2 on 22 June.
Topics and schedule:
View full schedule here: https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2019/schedule
Rootconf 2019 includes talks and Birds of Feather (BOF) sessions on:
- OSINT and its applications
- Key management, encryption and its costs
- Running a bug bounty programme in your organization
- PolarDB architecture as Cloud Native Architecture, developed by Alibaba Cloud
- Vitess
- SRE and running distributed teams
- Routing security
- Log analytics
- Enabling SRE via automated feedback loops
- TOR for DevOps
Who should attend Rootconf?
- DevOps programmers
- DevOps leads
- Systems engineers
- Infrastructure security professionals and experts
- DevSecOps teams
- Cloud service providers
- Companies with heavy cloud usage
- Providers of the pieces on which an organization’s IT infrastructure runs – monitoring, log management, alerting, etc
- Organizations dealing with large network systems where data must be protected
- VPs of engineering
- Engineering managers looking to optimize infrastructure and teams
For information about Rootconf and bulk ticket purchases, contact info@hasgeek.com or call 7676332020. Only community sponsorships available.
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Sessions
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Learnings from running my Home Server (and why you should run one too)
Abhay Rana (Nemo), software engineer at Razorpay
This talk will cover the important bits:Jun 21, 2019, 9:30:00 AM
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Tutorial: Shooting the trouble down to the Wireshark Lua plugin
Shakthi Kannan, senior DevOps engineer at Aerospike
ObjectivesJun 21, 2019, 10:05:00 AM
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Building reproducible Python applications for secured environments
Kushal Das, interest technologist at the Freedom of the Press Foundation
Introduction - 1 minuteJun 21, 2019, 10:05:00 AM
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Let’s talk about routing security
Anurag Bhatia, network researcher at Hurricane Electric
This talk covers how (in)secure in the routing at the global scale, covers about IRR in detail. Includes examples, tools and challenges with IRR...Jun 21, 2019, 11:05:00 AM
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Building a 100% remote workplace
Ratnadeep Debnath, Aravind Putrevu, Ramya A T
Speaker bioJun 21, 2019, 11:05:00 AM
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Deploying and managing CSP: the browser-side firewall
Lavakumar Kuppan, co-founder at Ironwasp Security
Introduction to client-side Data Exfiltration attacksJun 21, 2019, 11:45:00 AM
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Tutorial: Onion services (Tor Project) for Devops
Kushal Das, public interest technologist at the Freedom of the Press Foundation
Introduction to Tor projectJun 21, 2019, 12:05:00 PM
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Using pod security policies to harden your Kubernetes cluster
Suraj Deshmukh, software engineer at Kinvolk
This talk will start with current state of Kubernetes security and how folks are setting up their clusters. How folks are using shortcuts to get...Jun 21, 2019, 12:25:00 PM
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Keynote: How convenience Is killing open standards
Bernd Erk, CEO at NETWAYS
All the technical diversity we enjoy in our industry is the result of internal evangelism 20 yers ago. Now all three major cloud providers have...Jun 21, 2019, 2:00:00 PM
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How do you keep your secrets and how much does it cost?
Anand Venkatanarayanan
Discussion StructureJun 21, 2019, 2:40:00 PM
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SSH Certificates: a way to scale SSH access
Pulkit Vaishnav, DevOps engineer at Moengage
Traditional Public key (asymmetric key) cryptography authentication(2 min)Jun 21, 2019, 2:40:00 PM
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Sponsored talk: Implementing security from day one at a fintech startup
Himanshu Kumar Das, security at CRED
Information security domain has become vast with lots of industry standards, frameworks, tools, etc. However, all business at the end of the day...Jun 21, 2019, 3:10:00 PM
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Securing infrastructure with OpenScap: the automation way
Jaskaran Narula, satellite engineer at Red Hat
Audience will learn about Openscap. Tools used by openscap along with profiles and components of openscap. I will also through some light on how...Jun 21, 2019, 3:10:00 PM
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OSINT for proactive defense
Shubham Mittal, co-founder at RedHuntLabs
Below is an outline of the presentation: - Overview of OSINT - Why Security Teams should use OSINT - Continuous Discovery and Monitoring of...Jun 21, 2019, 4:20:00 PM
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Devil lies in the details: running a successful bug bounty programme in your organization
Shadab Siddiqui, head of Information Security at Hotstar
Agenda of this talk is to give a glimpse into the actual world of bug bounty and just not from what we read in news. These will be some points of...Jun 21, 2019, 5:00:00 PM
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OLTP or OLAP: why not both?
Jiten Vaidya, co-founder and CEO at Planetscale
Vitess historyJun 22, 2019, 9:40:00 AM
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Sponsored talk: SRE -- culture and strategy
Talina Shrotriya, software engineer at Trusting Social
The work of an SRE team is to serve a single purpose of shipping code in a fast, reliable and economical manner. Keeping these 3 factors in mind,...Jun 22, 2019, 9:50:00 AM
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Defensive and offensive applications of open source intelligence
Karan Saini, Shubham Mittal, Vandana Verma
This Birds of a Feather session does not have a particular decided flow for discussion. All inputs, including questions, techniques, experiences,...Jun 22, 2019, 10:20:00 AM
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Scale MySQL beyond limits with ProxySQL
Ratnadeep Debnath, SRE at Zapier
Setting up the scene: MySQL database flooded with connections, more than it can handleJun 22, 2019, 10:30:00 AM
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Log Analytics with ELK Stack (Architecture for aggressive cost optimization and infinite data scale)
Denis Dsouza, DevOps engineer at Moonfrog Labs
Business Requirements/Use Cases - Log analysis platform (Application, Web-Server, Database logs) - Data Ingestion rate: ~300GB/day -...Jun 22, 2019, 10:30:00 AM
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Birds of a Feather: DevSecOps
Neelu Tripathy, Lavakumar Kuppan, Vandana Verma, Shadab Siddiqui
We are looking to bring forth the following issues:Jun 22, 2019, 11:30:00 AM
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Sponsored talk: Functional programming and Nix for reproducible, immutable infrastructure
Brian McKenna, SRE at Atlassian Marketplace
Why functions?Jun 22, 2019, 11:40:00 AM
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Network automation with Ansible
Trishna Guha, senior software engineer at Red Hat
The talk will cover the key features like provisioning, configuration management of Networking devices and How Ansible becomes one Solution for all of it.Jun 22, 2019, 11:40:00 AM
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Software/site reliability of distributed systems
Piyush Verma, head of SRE at Trustingsocial.com
Consider a sample application: A number that user sends an SMS text to of the form “Remind <date format> about <y>.” When it’s due, a service...Jun 22, 2019, 12:20:00 PM
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Load Balancing : an in-depth study to scale @ 80K TPS
Shrey Agarwal
Referencing the 13 yr old article of willy tarreau ( 2006 )Jun 22, 2019, 12:20:00 PM
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Birds of a Feather: Security paranoid OS
Sayan Chowdhury, Kushal Das
In the wake of one data breach after another, and in this age of surveillance, security has become serious business. The trust on the big giants...Jun 22, 2019, 2:10:00 PM
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Sponsored talk: Decomposing a monolith -- engineering and operational strategies we have gleaned from our experience at Endurance
Sudheer Kumar Meesala
Our APAC story in identifying and addressing the key issues around moving ~$70 million dollar monolithic Domain provisioning & Billing platform to...Jun 22, 2019, 2:10:00 PM
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Virtuous Cycles: Enabling SRE via automated feedback loops
Aaditya Talwai, SRE at Confluent
In pictures we will show a journey of instrumentation - how one can use app-level telemetry and tracing to build confidence that your...Jun 22, 2019, 2:10:00 PM
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Scalable distributed systems from grounds up in Elixir
Udit Kumar, software engineer at Nilenso
The outline of the talk would be roughly as follows: 1. Discussion of the erlang/elixir process model 2. Discussion of GenServers (other OTP...Jun 22, 2019, 2:50:00 PM
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Virtual nodes to auto-scale applications on Kubernetes
Vivek Sridhar, senior product marketing manager at Microsoft
Let’s see a demo application using ServiceMonitor for Prometheus, a HPA, and a custom container that will count the instances of the application...Jun 22, 2019, 2:50:00 PM
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Kafka streams at scale
Deepak Goyal, software engineer at Walmart Labs
Problem Statement: Stateful Realtime Processing of multi-million events.Jun 22, 2019, 3:40:00 PM
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eBPF: exploring use case of BPF kernel infrastructure
T K Sourabh, performance engineer at Redhat
Introduction to eBPFJun 22, 2019, 4:00:00 PM
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POLARDB architecture
Øystein Grøvlen, senior staff engineer at Alibaba Cloud
See link to slides from an earlier presentation.Jun 22, 2019, 4:50:00 PM
Videos
Log Analytics with ELK Stack (Architecture for aggressive cost optimization and infinite data scale)
Denis Dsouza, DevOps engineer at Moonfrog Labs
Building reproducible Python applications for secured environments
Kushal Das, interest technologist at the Freedom of the Press Foundation
POLARDB architecture
Øystein Grøvlen, senior staff engineer at Alibaba Cloud
Virtual nodes to auto-scale applications on Kubernetes
Vivek Sridhar, senior product marketing manager at Microsoft
Network automation with Ansible
Trishna Guha, senior software engineer at Red Hat
Sponsored talk: Decomposing a monolith -- engineering and operational strategies we have gleaned from our experience at Endurance
Sudheer Kumar Meesala
Automate your IX’s RS Config
Anurag Bhatia, network researcher at Hurricane Electric
Securing infrastructure with OpenScap: the automation way
Jaskaran Narula, satellite engineer at Red Hat
Sponsored talk: SRE -- culture and strategy
Talina Shrotriya, software engineer at Trusting Social
OSINT for proactive defense
Shubham Mittal, co-founder at RedHuntLabs
Scalable distributed systems from grounds up in Elixir
Udit Kumar, software engineer at Nilenso
Sponsored talk: Implementing security from day one at a fintech startup
Himanshu Kumar Das, security at CRED
Devil lies in the details: running a successful bug bounty programme in your organization
Shadab Siddiqui, head of Information Security at Hotstar
Virtuous Cycles: Enabling SRE via automated feedback loops
Aaditya Talwai, SRE at Confluent
eBPF: exploring use case of BPF kernel infrastructure
T K Sourabh, performance engineer at Redhat
Software/site reliability of distributed systems
Piyush Verma, head of SRE at Trustingsocial.com
Load Balancing : an in-depth study to scale @ 80K TPS
Shrey Agarwal
Sponsored talk: Functional programming and Nix for reproducible, immutable infrastructure
Brian McKenna, SRE at Atlassian Marketplace
OLTP or OLAP: why not both?
Jiten Vaidya, co-founder and CEO at Planetscale
Let’s talk about routing security
Anurag Bhatia, network researcher at Hurricane Electric
Using pod security policies to harden your Kubernetes cluster
Suraj Deshmukh, software engineer at Kinvolk
Scale MySQL beyond limits with ProxySQL
Ratnadeep Debnath, SRE at Zapier
Keynote: How convenience Is killing open standards
Bernd Erk, CEO at NETWAYS
Kafka streams at scale
Deepak Goyal, software engineer at Walmart Labs
SSH Certificates: a way to scale SSH access
Pulkit Vaishnav, DevOps engineer at Moengage
Learnings from running my Home Server (and why you should run one too)
Abhay Rana (Nemo), software engineer at Razorpay
Venue
NIMHANS Convention Centre
NIMHANS Convention Centre
Hosur Road, Lakkasandra
Bangalore - 560029
Karnataka, IN