Rootconf Mini 2024 (on 22nd & 23rd Nov)

Geeking out on systems and security since 2012

Rootconf Mini 2024, Bangalore | Coming on 22nd & 23rd November

Overview

Rootconf is a forum for conversations around systems engineering and infrastructure, a theme that is frequently overlooked among the hype and excitement that higher level agendas attract. In reality, none of those agendas is achievable without the right infrastructure choices, which are intrinsically and deeply linked to our business, technology and product landscapes.

Hybrid event - Participate in-person, or join via the conference live stream (coming soon) 🎟️

Note: This event is open to current Rootconf members and ticket holders only. Please Register.

At this mini conference we:

  1. Discuss aspects of system performance, quality, reliability, availability and people issues that affect deployments even beyond costs and ROI concerns.
  2. Have experienced practitioners sharing insights and experiences of both successes and failures with their real-world case studies and war stories.
  3. Evaluate strategies and tools that can help make better decisions regarding cost optimization, resource allocation, monitoring and automation for projects and organisational infrastructure.

What’s “Mini” about it? 🏋🏽

While the Rootconf annual conference has usually been held at a largish scale, we’ve had several discussions in the community about making it a more intimate space, which isn’t packed to the brim without time to mingle and converse.
This year’s edition of Rootconf is therefore an experiment with a new format. It’s “Mini” only in comparison, allowing for a little more relaxed pace between sessions. But worry not, it’s still going to be a whole lot of awesome!

The Mini conference agenda 📆

➡️➡️ See the full conference schedule

Main conference tracks and sessions (Nov, 22nd at BIC, Indiranagar) 📚

Track A - Systems engineering to manage and deploy complex systems

Systems Engineering Track featured sessions

Track B - Security engineering

Security Engineering Track featured sessions

The workshops (Nov 23rd, at Thoughtworks, Koramangala) 📚

The workshops

Sign up for the Rootconf workshops

Workshop #1: Deploy & Forget: Mastering Flatcar Container Linux 🔗
Workshop #2: Hack the Kernel: Contributing to the Linux Mainline 🔗

What’s different at Rootconf?

If you are an operator, interested in understanding what is new in technology, or discovering patterns to solve problems at your work, Rootconf 2024 will help you become productive, and most importantly, work smarter!

  1. Get exposure to the internals of systems inside organizations, with real experiences and insights.
  2. Relate to problems by learning from case studies that touch your everyday life - payments, cricket/sports, food, etc.
  3. Discover many security and systems’ communities and practitioners to find your tribe.

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Who should attend?

  1. Core systems developers - such as kernels, infrastructures, networks etc
  2. Productivity engineers
  3. Infrastructure teams
  4. Cloud platforms teams
  5. SystemOps
  6. Security engineers

The audience at Rootconf consists of people who are:

  • Engaged - practitioners and members of communities.
  • Attentive - to solutions and approaches.
  • Problem solvers - seeking to automate systems, optimize on solutions/costs, and leverage experiences.

Why do people love Rootconf?

Vibe and signal that resonates with software engineers working in the trenches.
Suraj Nath, engineer at Grafana; coordinator of Failure Modes meet-up

Meet old friends, and make new friends with people who geek out on systems, complexity and problem solving.
Swanand Pagnis, PWL Bangalore meet-up coordinator

An open and safe space - to discuss success and failures of building engineering orgs and culture.
Pramod Biligiri, founder at Bitken Technologies; editor at The Fifth Elephant Annual Conference 2024

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How you can participate

1. Participate - buy your ticket 🎫 today.
2. Speak - at Rootconf. Make a submission. 💭💭
3. Sponsor - for branding and visibility in a high engaged, influential and attentive community.

Contact information

📞 Call Rootconf at (91) 7676332020
📧 Email info@hasgeek.com
💰 For sponsorship inquiries, email sales@hasgeek.com

Featured submissions

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  • Vaidyanathan S

    Vaidyanathan S

    Moving your Databases to Kubernetes - Flipkart's DBaaS journey.

    Abstract When most companies talk about Kubernetes adoption, they talk about the stateless aspect. However most of them shy away from Kubernetes when it comes to the stateful part. In this talk we will explore why Flipkart chose to move to stateful K8s for databases, the challenges we faced in this journey and the road ahead. more

    24 Sep 2024

  • Achal Shah

    Achal Shah

    Rebuilding Tecton's Realtime Compute stack (twice)

    Overview: This tech talk proposes to dive into the evolution of Tecton’s real-time compute stack, a journey that started with sidecar processes, moved through serverless architecture, and ultimately matured into a native service deployed on virtual machines (VMs). The session will (hopefully) outline the challenges, lessons learned, and engineering decisions made at each stage. more

    05 Oct 2024

  • Jatin Katyal

    Jatin Katyal

    Cricket Match from a Devops Lens

    Tsunami Traffic, Traffic Avalanche, Hockey Stick Curve are some of the common terms laid out as the benchmark for developing systems at scale. As the first hire for the Jiocinema Devops team @ Viacom18 I got the opportunity to work on breaking these benchmarks while maintaining our Infrastructure on a cluster of Kubernetes clusters ;) more

    27 Sep 2024

  • Abhimanyu Dhamija

    Abhimanyu Dhamija

    Github Action CI Security with BOLT

    Abstract: CI systems are the security orchestration centre of the SDLC but CI itself has become an attack surface as Solarwinds and Codecov attacks have shown. more

    11 Oct 2024

  • Siddharth Balyan

    Siddharth Balyan

    Chatting with Logs: An exploratory study on Finetuning LLMs for LogQL

    Abstract Monitoring and observability tools are a cornerstone in debugging processing for any large organization. more

    12 Oct 2024

  • Sachin

    Malicious Hallucinations: Hidden Threats with Indirect Prompt Injection

    Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate unintended inaccurate responses, often called hallucinations. Most of these are harmless mistakes, like Google AI Overview suggesting to eat a rock a day. There’s a more concerning possibility: what if an attacker could deliberately cause specific hallucinations? This could allow the stealthy spread of targeted disinformation. more

    15 Oct 2024

  • Abhisek Datta

    Abhisek Datta

    Paving the Path for Secure Software Engineering for Startups

    Startups must move fast. Does this mean compromising on security? Everyone will choose security but no startup will have the resources to establish a matured security program from inception. How do you move fast while staying secure even when you have code contributions from interns, software engineers of different experience levels and multi tasking founders? more

    15 Oct 2024

  • Amod Malviya

    Amod Malviya

    Revisiting Abstractions for Fun & Profit

    Abstractions are great! They help us think without being overwhelmed by details. But sometimes they can come at the cost of understanding, where they become a wall that we don’t wish to climb. That limits us, because when they change, a lot of us can’t keep up. more

    29 Oct 2024

Videos

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Wrap-up session - Systems Engineering Track

Wrap-up session - Systems Engineering Track

32 minutes22 November 2024
Re-imagining data reactivity: the story of DiceDB

Re-imagining data reactivity: the story of DiceDB

Arpit Bhayani, Creator of DiceDB

38 minutes22 November 2024
Security engineering track - wrap-up

Security engineering track - wrap-up

32 minutes22 November 2024
ABC of LLMOps: what it takes to run self-hosted LLMs

ABC of LLMOps: what it takes to run self-hosted LLMs

Jaideep Khandelwal, Co-founder and CTO at One2N Consulting

31 minutes22 November 2024
Sponsored Round Table - Running infrastructure with data centres versus cloud

Sponsored Round Table - Running infrastructure with data centres versus cloud

Jay Chawda (Head Of Engineering - SRE), Prathap Varma (Head Of Engineering - SRE), Srijon Biswas (Head Of Engineering - Engineering Development); moderated by Sujaikumar J (Nutanix)

1 hour22 November 2024

Venue

Bangalore International Centre

7, 4th Main Road, Stage 2,

Domlur

Bengaluru - 560071

Karnataka, IN

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