Miniconf on Cloud Server Management (New Delhi)

On costs, scaling and securing cloud servers

##About the event

Cloud server management brings with it as many challenges as it offers conveniences. It is time to unbundle questions about:

  1. Resource allocation: how best to allocate manpower, time, money and infrastructure capacity?
  2. Scaling: how best to utilize capacity in the present, and factors involved in planning for the future?
  3. Security: which scenarios must you plan for, and how best to secure your data, applications and systems?

##Who should submit a talk

If you:

  1. Work with cloud servers,
  2. Plan and manage infrastructure,
  3. Make decisions on technology and architecture for your organization,

submit a talk for any of the three events in this series.

##Format

Each event is single-day, with about 4-5 short and long talks, 2-3 demos, one BOF, and a three-hour workshop on configuration management.

We are accepting proposals for:

  • 30-minute talks – which cover conceptual topics and case studies.
  • Crisp 15-minute talks – on new tools and techniques in cloud server management.
  • 5-10 min demos.
  • Birds of Feather (BOF) sessions, led by 1-3 persons from the community, on a relevant topic.
  • 3-hour hands-on workshops on configuration management.

##Selection process

Proposals will be shortlisted and reviewed by an editorial team consisting of practitioners from the community. Make sure your abstract contains the following information:

  1. Key insights you will present, or takeaways for the audience.
  2. Overall flow of the content.

You must submit links to videos of talks you have delivered in the past, or record and upload a two-min self-recorded video explaining what your talk is about, and why is it relevant for this event.

Also consider submitting links to:

  1. A detailed outline, or
  2. Mindmap, explaining the structure of the talk, or
  3. Draft slides

along with your proposal.

##Honorarium for selected speakers; travel grants

Selected speakers and workshop instructors will receive an honorarium of Rs. 3,000 each, at the end of their talk. Confirmed speakers and instructors also get a pass to the conference and networking dinner. We do not provide free passes for speakers’ colleagues and spouses.

Travel grants are available for domestic speakers. We evaluate each case on its merits, giving preference to women, people of non-binary gender, and Africans.
If you require a grant, request it when you submit your proposal in the field where you add your location. Rootconf Miniconf is funded through ticket purchases and sponsorships; travel grant budgets vary.

##Important dates

Cloud Sever Management Miniconf in Chennai: 25 November, 2017
Cloud Sever Management Miniconf in Mumbai: 8 December, 2017
Cloud Sever Management Miniconf in Delhi: 20 January, 2018

##Contact details:
For more information about speaking, Rootconf, the Miniconf series, sponsorships, tickets, or any other information contact support@hasgeek.com or call 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

Prateek Gupte

@superprat

Continuous Integration at Haptik : Our Journey to Hourly Releases

Submitted Nov 19, 2017

This talk encompasses is a narrative of our journey from manual releases to an entire CI pipeline that allows us to release code hourly. How the CI Pipeline was modified to help move data and machine learning models across environments and the learnings along the way.

We have empowered our team to deploy code several times a day, as well as their chat flows and data. It encompasses a pipeline for both code deployments as well as ETL, tagging and data movement for machine learning models.

This talk is not a deep dive into technicals of Jenkins, Ansible etc but a high level overview of system, the thought process and the business value derived from the system.

Outline

The talk is presented as a narrative of our journey. Our initial architecture that involved manual releases and the challenges therewith. The challenges in building a testing framework for chat flows and the evolution of the full pipeline.

Note: The talk in the video given earlier is not up to date with improvements we have made to the machine learning data pipeline and the data tagging.

Speaker bio

Prateek Gupte is currently the Director of Engineering at Haptik, India’s first conversational commerce platform. He has held engineering leadership positions at his previous startups - BYOF Studios and Code Red, and has built technology solutions for a variety of domains such as gaming, healthcare, pricing solutions and artificial intelligence.

Slides

https://www.slideshare.net/PrateekGupte/continuous-integration-haptik

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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