Rootconf 2025 Annual Conference, Bangalore | Coming on 16 and 17 May 2025

Servers, system architecture and security.
What are we without them?
An intranet?
An open invitation to chaos?
Or is chaos how you get your caffeine in the morning, running sudo su on production servers to deploy the laravel application written in 2012?

If you ever walked into a heavy metal concert and hoped to find some bare metal geeks there, you’re heading in the right direction. For those about to kubectl apply, we salute you.

Rootconf 2025 is here again, so if you’re the sort to think about mdadm when an MMORPG fan mentions a raid, or if you like programming in highly secure languages because you trust no one, or if your Raspberry Pi cluster’s passphrase is at least 36 characters long and generated by Bitwarden, you’ve got to check Rootconf out!

Hybrid event - Participate in-person, or join via the conference live stream 🎟️

Buy a ticket to Rootconf 2025 Annual Conference. Or sign up for the Rootconf annual membership, and enjoy round-the-year benefits of weekly peer reviews, monthly meet-ups, and access to the annual conference.

Tracks and curators

1. Platform Engineering track, curated by Safeer CM aims to help those who work as internal service providers of reusable services, components and tools to share their know-how to their peers.
2. AI, GenAI for Security curated by Vikram Mehta brings together folks who want to share their learnings in the rapidly-changing space of AI and GenAI, with a focus on security-related applications and services.
3. Distributed data systems curated by Aniruddh Rowjee is for anyone who wonders how companies manage really, really large-scale data systems, (in the order of peta or exabytes).

💬💬 Speak at Rootconf

Submit your talk at https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/rootconf-2025-cfp/sub

Attend Rootconf

At Rootconf 2025 you can look forward to:

1. Hearing industry experts from startups and Big Tech discuss the nitty-gritties of systems, how they perform under niche load conditions that no one has predicted, and learn how the apps and services you might be using every day are designed.
2. Learn through the best teacher the world has to offer - the failure of systems through real-world case studies - discovering how to pick up after and prevent repeated events.
3. Discover how to assess cost and resource allocation when building your services, learn when to build inhouse (did we hear someone say never!?) and when to use ready-made libraries and tools.
4. Listen to seasoned developers talk about the stuff that matters, why they stuck to their choice of deployment, and discover how new developers often overlook how deployment is a really important part of the process.

What sets Rootconf apart?

There are plenty of conferences, but we, at the Rootconf community, pride ourselves at setting it apart in terms of content, curation and community involvement.

• All submissions undergo thorough curation, ensuring that by the time the speaker reaches the mic, the material has been through multiple revisions and has won the approval of several experts.
• We aim for topic diversity, ensuring that we provide a platform for multiple domains, viewpoints and technologies.
• And, most of all, what’s a conference if it isn’t something with a bustling corridor of technocrats who have strong opinions waiting to be tested between the halls?

Who should attend?

Funny you should “bring up” this topic IYKYK, 😉

• Core systems developers - such as kernels, infrastructures, networks etc
• Productivity engineers
• Infrastructure teams
• Cloud platforms teams
• SystemOps
• Security engineers
• And, of course, anyone who is curious about how massive-scale systems operate.

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?

Although my talk was nicely poised, it didn’t feel like a story. After the feedback from the editors, I rewrote my entire talk and restructured it such that the flow felt very natural. The editorial feedback was the highlight of Rootconf for me.
Arpit Bhayani, creator of DiceDB; Staff Software Engineer at Google

Three things that come to mind when I think of Rootconf:

• In-depth - knowledge.
• Passionate - editors, crew, everyone was passionate about what they were doing.
• Patient - when organizing a community event, you have to adjust to everyone’s schedules. The Rootconf team was very patient with all the speakers.
  Jatin Katyal - senior DevOps engineer at JioStar

I came to Rootconf to hire people who have a mindset similar to the audience at Rootconf. While my primary motivation was to hire from Rootconf, I ended up sitting in on the talks. I found the talks to be relatable to the problems I am solving at Swiggy.
Vivek Garg, Head of Systems Engineering team at Swiggy

Rootconf feels like a close knit community for me, unlike a commercial tech conference. The quality of the talks is exceptional. I highly recommend the community and the conference.
Aparna Subramanian, Technology Leader @Shopify

Attend, Speak, Sponsor

1. Participate - buy your ticket 🎫 today.
2. Speak - at Rootconf 2025 Annual Conference. Make a submission. 💭💭
3. Sponsor - for branding and visibility in a high engaged, influential and attentive community.

Contact information

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