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How does the submission process work
Every submission receives feedback via an online review. Submissions made between 1 March and 20 April 2025 will be considered for Rootconf 2025 Annual Conference.
Online reviews take place during evenings on weekdays, where two reviewers give feedback to each submission on validity (correctness), whether the solution worked for the organization or not, and if there is any novelty factor proposed in the talk/approach.
The track curators will select talks from reviewed submissions - as per fit with their respective tracks.
Follow the guidelines shared in the submission form to make a solid submission. Here are some examples of well-written Rootconf submissions:
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Shruthi Chittanooru From SIEM to AI: Automating Security Operations with GenAIIn this talk, we will showcase how GenAI-powered security automation can revolutionize threat modeling, threat detection, incident response, and log analysis compared to traditional SIEM(Security Information & Event Management) systems. We begin by demonstrating a real-world security incident where a system logs multiple failed login attempts followed by a successful one, indicating a possible br… more
Topic of your submission: AI/GenAI for Security
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Deepam Kanjani The Shadow Supply Chain: Protecting Your Software from Invisible Open-Source ThreatsThis session sheds light on the hidden risks lurking within indirect or transitive dependencies—the “shadow supply chain”—that quietly introduce vulnerabilities into your applications. Explore how invisible update hijacking and dependency graph poisoning can silently compromise software integrity, leaving teams unaware and vulnerable. more
Topic of your submission: Supply chain security
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Neel Shah Platform Engineering - From MVP to Enterprise-grade: Strategies, Challenges, and Best PracticesDescription: In today’s dynamic landscape of software development, platform engineering plays a crucial role in ensuring developer efficiency, operational scalability, and business agility. This talk explores the journey from establishing a Minimum Viable Platform (MVP) to scaling it effectively to support enterprise-wide adoption. We will begin by defining what constitutes an MVP in platform eng… more
Topic of your submission: Platform engineering
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
Type of submission: 15 mins talk
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Abhiram R Editor Web Development with Flask 3.0Web Development with Flask 3.0 Introduction This workshop introduces beginner programmers to Web Development with Flask 3.0. It walks through the creation of a money management application and demonstrates Flask 3.0’s async capabilities as well. more
Type of submission: Hands-on workshop - 2.5 hours
Topic of your submission: Other
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Raj Suvariya Behind the Scenes: Automating TiDB Maintenance with K8s Magic{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} Modern distributed databases like TiDB offer unparalleled scalability and reliability, but managing their planned maintenance in a production-grade environment can pose significant challenges. At Flipkart, we automated this critical process using Kubernetes Operators, enabling seamless management of TiDB clusters with no downtime. This talk will expl… more
Topic of your submission: Databases
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Prachi Jamdade Why Repo Grokking is Important for Software Development and it is the Future of Coding with AIWith so much hype around AI tools, developers can now build and ship faster. Tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor make it super easy to write code and vibe with it. But sometimes, these tools fail to understand the context and intent behind prompts. When you provide them with the code and details first, they can finally answer your queries. However, the code they generate might not align with t… more
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Topic of your submission: AI infrastructure and operations
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Bharath Nallapeta RRR: Rapid, Resilient, Reliable - Cluster Provisioning with k0rdentAbstract MLOps isn’t just about deploying AI models - it’s about building a scalable, repeatable, and automated AI platform. Setting up GPU-powered clusters, model-serving, and monitoring for AI workloads can be a nightmare of manual configurations, slow iteration cycles, and fragmented tooling. more
Topic of your submission: Platform engineering
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Sparsh K  The Firewall Project: Open Source, Shift-Left, Security PlatformAfter becoming immensely frustrated and experiencing all the emotions that come with the struggles of implementing application security into our organization’s SDLC, we finally reached a breaking point. That’s when we decided, “That’s it!” more
Topic of your submission: Supply chain security
Type of submission: Demo - side project; open source project; something I have built in my org
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Achanandhi M CodeGate: Consume AI Coding Assistants tools in Confidence{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} AI coding assistants are significantly increasing developers’ productivity. However, despite their many benefits, there is one major problem—these assistants rely on LLMs as their knowledge base, which comes with knowledge cutoffs. As a result, AI coding assistants sometimes generate buggy code and include vulnerable packages. In my talk, we will exp… more
Topic of your submission: AI/GenAI for Security
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Jinu Rose John Building Reliable Services with SLOs and Error BudgetsSession Overview: In this session, we will delve into the essential concepts of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Error Budgets within the framework of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Attendees will learn how to effectively establish structured SLOs that align with user expectations and business goals, allowing for a strategic balance between maintaining high system reliability and enabling… more
Topic of your submission: SRE
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Anudeep Cache Me If You Can: Building a Lightning-Fast Analytics CacheThis session will talk about how we build an ETL free, asynchronous, on-demand, analytics results caching platform to power our CNAPP and XDR platform. In this session we will also talk about what were our unique challeneges in terms of performance, scale, usability, access control and most importantly state and nature of the product that necessitated buildling the solution we did. Some of which … more
Topic of your submission: Platform engineering
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Anudeep Transactional Bottlenecks to Lightning-Fast AnalyticsThis Session we will talk about how we used change data capture as a means to scale up perfromance and reliability of analytics when combined with scaleable state management like HUDI and powerful OLAP engine like Trino, increase database reliability by offloading analytics workload and cater to our data governance needs. more
Topic of your submission: Distributed data systems
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Kamalika ISO Compliant Datacenters - How I figured a GCP region was not DR readyDescription: Most cloud providers boast about their compliance certifications, but are they really compliance ready. Ex: GCP boasts about their global fiber optic networking, but in reality one of their regions in one of worlds most disaster prone countries dint meet the compliance standards for disaster readiness, data localization or resilient connectivity. So how do we solve this? more
Topic of your submission: Supply chain security
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Kamalika A Bank On CloudDescription: This session is based on one of my real life projects of designing and developing a DevOps driven modern infrastructure for a fully cloud-native digital banking application. An Indonesia based banking company wanted to build a fully digital mobile banking application that would help them to become a strong tech-based bank embedded in Indonesia’s digital ecosystem. They wanted a moder… more
Topic of your submission: Platform engineering
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Srinivas Anant Observability in Kubernetes: The good, the bad, and the uglyOverview With every Kubernetes cluster, observability has become a daunting task. Understanding complex, distributed workload performance, health, and behavior is critical for ensuring reliability and efficiency. This talk will explore best practices for observability in Kubernetes environments, covering logs, traces, metrics, events, and uptime. more
Topic of your submission: Observability
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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raja nagori  Nightingale: Docker for PentestersNightingale is an innovative open-source tool designed to simplify and streamline the process of penetration testing. Addressing the complexities and time-consuming setup required for effective vulnerability assessments, Nightingale leverages Docker to provide a consistent, repeatable, and resource-efficient testing environment. This tool eliminates the need for multiple installations, making it … more
Type of submission: Demo - side project; open source project; something I have built in my org
Topic of your submission: Other
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Sandesh Kumar Gupta  The Right 'AIR' Mix: Fueling High-Performance PlatformsAt Flipkart, the widespread adoption of our homegrown managed platforms across engineering teams operating at an enormous scale has positioned our platforms offerings as mission-critical infrastructure. Supporting this scale across a multi-cloud environment necessitates high availability, uncompromising resilience, sustained performance, and continuous optimization. Recent press release about our… more
Topic of your submission: Platform engineering
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Saurabh Mishra [Navigating Kubernetes Challenges with Observability Insights]complexity often brings operational challenges. Observability—encompassing logs, metrics, and traces—plays a critical role in identifying, diagnosing, and resolving issues in real-time. This session delves into how observability insights can help teams navigate common Kubernetes challenges, including performance bottlenecks, resource mismanagement, and unpredictable failures. Attendees will learn… more
Topic of your submission: Observability
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Keshav Malik Building and Scaling Open Source Security Pipeline @ LinkedInIn this session, we’ll learn how LinkedIn has engineered and scaled an open-source security pipeline to secure millions of packages across its expansive ecosystem. With a platform that serves over a billion members and processes millions of daily interactions, LinkedIn requires an efficient system to manage both internal and third-party packages securely. more
Topic of your submission: Supply chain security
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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kabilesh PR Scaling TiDB for Large-scale ApplicationsScaling databases for large-scale applications is no easy feat. As data volumes grow, ensuring seamless horizontal scalability, high availability, and performance becomes a challenge. TiDB, a powerful distributed SQL database, is designed to handle these demands efficiently. more
Topic of your submission: Distributed data systems
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Balamurugan Periyasamy Consensus : Lessons from the IPL for Distributed Systems{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} Distributed systems and IPL teams both operate under pressure, in unpredictable environments, and rely heavily on coordination. Picture a captain making a quick decision, players reacting mid-noise, or the third umpire resolving a dispute — it’s not far from Raft electing a leader or Paxos coordinating across unreliable nodes. more
Topic of your submission: Distributed data systems
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
Type of submission: 15 mins talk
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Mallikarjun Architecture of Apache HBase BalancerDescription Apache HBase is an open-source non-relational distributed database modeled after Google’s Bigtable and written in Java. It is developed as part of Apache Software Foundation’s Apache Hadoop project and runs on top of HDFS, providing Bigtable-like capabilities for Hadoop more
Topic of your submission: Distributed data systems
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Mallikarjun Designing database client wrappersDescription The Wrapper pattern generally encapsulates complex or non-expressive libraries within the specific domain of an application. Wrapper proves to be highly valuable when the default responses provided by these libraries are not sufficiently useful in their original form. more
Topic of your submission: Distributed data systems
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Mudit Verma IT-Bench: A First-of-a-Kind Extensible Open-Source Framework for Benchmarking AI Agents in IT OperationsDescription IT Operations (ITOps) underpins modern cloud-native infrastructure, ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of applications deployed across container orchestrators and distributed environments. As organizations embrace GenAI-powered ITOps—developing agentic solutions for failure detection, root cause analysis, remediation, and more—a significant challenge arises: the lack … more
Topic of your submission: SRE
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Srujan A Deceptive Edge: Cloudflare Honeypots and HoneytokensThe talk demonstrates how implementing honeypots and honeytokens through Cloudflare provides an accessible, low-cost security layer that dramatically improves threat detection. more
Topic of your submission: Cloud security
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Anuvrat Parashar Apps without crazy scale: Phoenix to the rescueMost web apps never see a tenth of the load that befalls a social media app or the spikes that a streaming service for IPL encounters. However, we can find many teams using the same tools for their app with a (comparatively) tiny footfall. Is that like bringing a bazooka to swat a mosquito? more
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Topic of your submission: Other
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Neel Shah Cilium and eBPF: The Ultimate Duo for Kubernetes Network SecurityTalk Description: Cilium, powered by eBPF, is revolutionizing Kubernetes network security and observability. In this session, we’ll explore how eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) enables high-performance, programmable networking within the Linux kernel, allowing Cilium to deliver unparalleled control and visibility for containerized environments. Discover how Cilium enforces fine-grained netw… more
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Topic of your submission: k8s
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Hitesh Kumar Rawat From Nginx Bottlenecks to Nexus: Our In-House Service Mesh for Scale and SavingsDescription As our microservices architecture expanded, manual Nginx configurations and lack of service discovery created bottlenecks. We built our own service mesh using Envoy as a proxy, and the impact it’s had on our company has been incredible—improving observability, lowering the tail latency, saving 95% NIZE costs, improving success rates, at the scale of 7.5 million requests/sec in product… more
Topic of your submission: Kubernetes
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Siddhant N Trivedi Disaster Recovery for Stateful K8s Workloads with Portworx DRAbstract Disaster recovery (DR) is no longer optional—especially when dealing with stateful workloads in Kubernetes environments. In this talk, I’ll dive into how Portworx DR makes it easier to build a resilient infrastructure by enabling efficient disaster recovery strategies tailored for Kubernetes. more
Topic of your submission: Platform engineering
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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saurabh hirani Scaling Gunicorn with KEDA: Hard Lessons from ProductionA customer running a Python Django app with Gunicorn on Kubernetes faced growing complaints about slow response times. more
Topic of your submission: SRE
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Snehasish Roy Clockwork: The Backbone of PhonePe’s 2 Billion Daily JobsOverview Have you ever had an alarm fail to wake you up, causing a ripple effect of chaos in your morning? At PhonePe, we understand the criticality of such ‘alarms’ in our digital ecosystem. more
Topic of your submission: Platform engineering
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Anudeep Legos, Bogeys, and K8s: How We Rewired Our Cloud{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} At Uptycs, we’ve spent years scaling a cloud-native security analytics platform to handle Trillion+ events (1+ petabyte) per day, across cloud and on-premise deployments. This talk traces the architectural evolution that made it possible — from our early SU-based deployment model to a modern, Kubernetes-optimized system. SU (Scaling Unit) clusters, w… more
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Topic of your submission: Deployment architecture
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Somesh Koli Scaling alert rules, platform to platformScaling alert rules might come up with some challenges, consistency, ownership, access control, notification policies etc. With this talk, I wanna talk about how we scaled hundreds of alert rules with in house framework, which allows us to cleanly manage these rules across platforms like newrelic, coralogix, grafana, sentry etc more
Topic of your submission: Observability
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Speaking at Rootconf meetups
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Anshul Sao ClickOps with LLMs Won't Scale: Why You Need AI-Powered Platform-Led OrchestrationAbstract LLMs generating Terraform sounds magical until pipelines fail, environments drift, and your infra becomes unmanageable. This talk critiques the limitations of AI-based ClickOps and proposes a better approach: AI-powered platform-led orchestration. Learn how to structure internal platforms using APIs, reusable modules, and environment-aware workflows that deliver velocity without sacrific… more
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Topic of your submission: AI infrastructure and operations
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Shubham Dhal Building a Scalable Realtime Communication Framework: Architecture, Challenges and LearningsOur Realtime Communication Framework powers millions of concurrent connections across multiple applications, handling over 1 B+ messages per day and scaling to 5 million connections at peak. This talk delves into how we built and scaled this system using Server-Sent Events (SSE) technology, the architecture decisions that enabled this scale, and the challenges we encountered. more
Topic of your submission: Platform engineering
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Pravin Bange The Hidden Complexity of Text-to-SQL: A Case Study from Cyber SecurityAt Uptycs, we tackled a massive challenge in data discovery accros security data lake with over 12,000 denormalized tables. While most Text-to-SQL systems perform reasonably well with a few well-structured tables, we found they struggle as schema size scales—resulting in incorrect table selection, missing joins, and hallucinated queries. Our solution, Ask Uptycs, leverages a combination of Retrie… more
Topic of your submission: AI/GenAI for Security
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Shantanu Building realtime video transcoding and recording platform for livestreamsSession description ShareChat’s Livestream platform connects millions of users and creators, requiring a high-performance media infrastructure. To gain greater control, reduce operational costs previously associated with vendor RTMP generation for HLS, we built our own in-house media processing pipeline. This session details our journey leveraging the open-source GStreamer framework to ingest raw… more
Topic of your submission: Platform engineering
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Enu Mittal Unlocking Developer Potential: Mastering Productivity and ExperienceSynopsis: In the rapidly evolving tech landscape, developer productivity and experience are crucial for driving innovation and achieving business success. This session will explore a comprehensive approach to enhancing developer productivity, drawing from industry best practices and proven strategies. We will delve into the integration of AI-powered tools like GitHub Copilot, which have transform… more
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Topic of your submission: Other
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Ajinkya Wadekar From Legacy Chaos to Modern CI/CD: Our Journey to Developer Empowerment at ScaleAbstract In this session, I’ll share the transformative CI/CD journey we undertook within the Enterprise project. An ecosystem of over 200 Java7 based legacy services, hosted across VMware managed VMs in the US and Europe. These services were tightly governed by InfoSec and Compliance constraints, making any change a significant challenge. more
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Topic of your submission: CI/CD
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Varuni Graph based Auth Systems : ReBAC, Zanzibar & the Quest for SpeedThis is a journey through distributed auth, graph indexing, and the rising role of ML in access control . Description more
Topic of your submission: Distributed data systems
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Aditya Kamath Leveraging IBM Power Systems and AIX for High-Performance Matrix Multiplication{My talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs.} At the Rootconf 2025 annual conference, I want to talk about Matrix Multiplication Assist on IBM’s Power platform and how we integrate the same into the open-source world/AIX toolbox for the enterprise server platform. My submission is for the platform engineering track for building infrastructure. more
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Topic of your submission: Performance engineering
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Preeti Reducing Alert Fatigue: AI Agents for Improved ObservabilityIntroduction Imagine being the on-call engineer for a high-traffic system. Every alert that comes through might be important, or it might just be noise. Over time, that constant stream of notifications becomes overwhelming. Critical issues get buried, engineers burn out, and the system’s reliability suffers. We’ve come to treat this as a normal part of working with distributed systems. But it doe… more
Topic of your submission: Observability
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Harsh Mishra From Zero to Zero-Code Observability: A Journey with OpenTelemetryFrom Zero to Zero-Code Observability: A Journey with OpenTelemetry more
Topic of your submission: Observability
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Rahul Binjve Adventures with GenAI in the Security Automation LandAbstract In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, automation has long been a cornerstone for scaling defenses and improving incident response. With the emergence of Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), we are now witnessing a new era of possibilities—where intelligent systems can not only automate mundane tasks but also assist in building, extending, and reasoning about… more
Topic of your submission: AI/GenAI for Security
Type of submission: Tutorial (lecture style) - 60-90 mins
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Rohan Vadaje The Zen state with HUDI{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} In this session, we’ll talk about how we tackled state management at scale, achieving the benefits of both OLTP and OLAP systems (real-time updates with fast analytical queries ) all while handling billions of records. We’ll walk through how we leveraged Apache Hudi and Apache Spark to power a platform that ingests over 500GB of data per minute, mana… more
Topic of your submission: Distributed data systems
Type of submission: Other
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Devashish Patil Editor Terraform In The Multiverse: Building Applications at Scale with Infrastructure from Code (IfC)Abstract What if your applications could automatically provision their ideal cloud environments? Explore new possibilities with Infrastructure from Code (IfC), where development meets effortless infrastructure management and governance. Discover how to build applications that run seamlessly, while orchestrating their own infrastructure using Terraform and securely managing secrets with Vault. Joi… more
Topic of your submission: Platform engineering
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Vikas Chahar A custom BPlusTree for databases, built on top of the standard collection BTreeMapA huge dataset needs efficient reading and writing logic. This talk is about why BTrees/B+Trees are the preferred choice in databases, what all operations do we do on these and how do we squeeze the most juice out of them. more
Topic of your submission: Databases
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Yash Mehrotra  Spawning isolated on-demand developer environments in kubernetesI developed a tool jango-fett which is a kubernetes controller that allows developers to create an exact replica of prod environments for development and a rapid feedback loop more
Topic of your submission: Kubernetes
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Mrinal Paliwal Apache Iceberg: Under the hoodDescription In this talk, we will explore the internals of Iceberg table format. We examine the past, present, and future of analytics data systems, and reason with first-principles why open table formats, such as Iceberg, exist. more
Topic of your submission: Distributed data systems
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Jaideep Khandelwal Building Platform Engineering Teams for Organizations of 10 to 500+ EngineersThe talk is about my experience building platform teams for a 10-member engineering organization to teams of 100+ and working with a team of 500+ engineers in an organization. more
Topic of your submission: Platform engineering
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Ajshal Strengthening Assurance in the Supply ChainStrenghtening Security in the Supply Chain Security practices in software development are often inconsistent and fragmented across teams. Many developers lack formal security training, and secure coding is deprioritized in favor of delivering features quickly. This creates systemic vulnerabilities that can propagate across the supply chain, especially in open-source environments where external de… more
Topic of your submission: Supply chain security
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
Type of submission: 15 mins talk
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Kumar Ashwin Unreferenced, Not Unreachable: The Security Risk of Dangling CommitsDescription At some point, every developer has force-pushed to tidy up commit history. Whether it’s removing secrets, cleaning up messy merges, or rebasing for clarity—it’s all in a day’s work. But what if those commits you “removed” never actually left? more
Topic of your submission: Supply chain security
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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pratik Beyond Billions: Our Zero-Downtime Journey from INT to BIGINT in PostgreSQLPostgreSQL databases often start with standard INT data types, but what happens when your application outgrows those 2.1 billion limits? Our team faced this challenge head-on when our rapidly scaling platform began approaching integer constraints across multiple critical tables. more
Topic of your submission: Distributed data systems
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Aseem Manna BYON: Bring Your Own NAT gatewayAbstract Cloud networking costs, especially related to NAT gateways, can quickly spiral out of control. In this session, I’ll share how I tackled this issue by implementing a self-hosted NAT gateway at DeepSource, reducing our GCP cloud networking costs by 93%. more
Topic of your submission: Platform engineering
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Saumya Vishnoi Global AI Regulations: Navigating the Evolving LandscapeAI is currently a focal point of interest, with many seeking to leverage its potential while others express concerns about its implications. Governments worldwide are responding with regulatory measures aimed at controlling this rapidly evolving technology. These regulations pose significant challenges for businesses looking to launch AI services, making it crucial for companies to understand the… more
Topic of your submission: AI/GenAI for Security
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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pratik Factlib: Bulletproof Microservices Messaging Using the Outbox Pattern and PostgreSQL WALBuilding Reliable Microservices at Scale with Factlib more
Topic of your submission: Distributed systems
Type of submission: Demo - side project; open source project; something I have built in my org
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Vandana Verma Sehgal Cracks in the Code: Security & Privacy Challenges in LLM-Powered AppsAs large language models (LLMs) increasingly integrate into real-world applications—from querying internal databases to enabling autonomous agents that conduct online transactions, their potential seems limitless. In this session, we delve into the critical challenges organizations face when embedding LLMs into modern systems, such as prompt injection attacks, accidental API key exposure, and una… more
Topic of your submission: AI/GenAI for Security
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Robin Streaming Data Lakehouse at Scale: Learnings from building a 100TB+/Day Near Real-Time Lakehouse with Apache Flink and IcebergHow do you stream large amount of data into Apache Iceberg tables from multiple data centers and cloud providers — and make it queryable in under 15 minutes? At Flipkart Data Platform, we have gone through this journey and would like to share our learnings and practical challenges of solving this at scale. more
Topic of your submission: Distributed data systems
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Abhinav Upadhyay Writing Code the CPU Loves: A Practical Guide to Hardware-Aware Optimization Why does one piece of code run faster than another, even when they do the same thing? Often, the answer lies in the hardware. This talk is a practical introduction to the core CPU architecture concepts that influence software performance, designed especially for engineers who don’t have a background in computer architecture. more
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Topic of your submission: Systems internals for SRE and performance
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Shubham Patil Sub-Second Decisions: Design Principles for Real-Time Go Workflow Engines on GCP for Martech ScaleDescription: Processing massive event streams for real-time Martech decisions, like session personalization, DCO, NBA, personalized ad targeting etc., frequently requires complex, stateful logic best modeled as workflows under strict sub-second latency, but traditional engines can introduce unacceptable overhead. Building such systems on modern cloud platforms presents challenges: how do you orch… more
Topic of your submission: Serverless architectures
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Shriram Balaji Frozen in Time: Implementing Snapshot Isolation in a Tiny KV StoreOverview MVCC powers most modern databases by giving each transaction its own immutable snapshot and eliminates read‑write contention and also guarantees repeatable and consistent reads. more
Topic of your submission: Databases
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
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Abhinav Upadhyay ASIDs, TLBs, and Context Switching: A Closer Look at Linux on x86-64Description: Modern CPUs offer features like ASIDs (or PCIDs on Intel) that allow the system to retain TLB state across context switches, potentially improving performance. But how these features are used in practice depends on the operating system, and in Linux, the implementation is intentionally more conservative than what the hardware allows. more
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Topic of your submission: Linux internals
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Yella Krishna THE NEED FOR TRUE SHIFT LEFT SECURITYProblem Statement: Today’s security tools only show up after you have merged, or even deployed code. By then, fixing vulnerabilities means costly rework, missed deadlines, and frustrated teams. more
Topic of your submission: Supply chain security
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Praveen Kumar Bolt: PhonePe's Low latency Data Streaming Platform over WebsocketsThis talk dives into the engineering behind Bolt, PhonePe’s low-latency, high-throughput data streaming and communication platform built over WebSockets. Designed to handle real-time market data distribution for share.market, Bolt today supports ~2 million concurrent connections, 100k messages per second at peak, and 2 billion+ message deliveries per day. more
Topic of your submission: Platform engineering
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Akanksha Vyas Developer Experience - The Startup Grit Edition{Describe your talk/session in 2–3 paragraphs} When we talk about developer experience and productivity, words that often come to mind are automation, tooling, documentation, and knowledge sharing. These pillars are key to building a strong engineering culture. But in chaos-filled days of a startup, when there are only a few developers juggling product deadlines, customer issues, and infrastructu… more
Topic of your submission: Platform engineering
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Rajesh KSV Breaking Up with Legacy Monitoring: A Seamless Auto Migration Story Supercharged by GenAIMigrating a large-scale legacy monitoring system is notoriously painful—riddled with complexity, downtime risks, and resistance from users. In this talk, we’ll share the behind-the-scenes journey of one of the most seamless monitoring migrations done at scale more
Topic of your submission: Observability
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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Ishan Peak Performance Parquet: Building a Data Streaming for Trading SystemsAbstract Trading systems need to process hundreds of GBs of data within minutes for backtesting strategies. In this talk, I’ll take you through the journey of Nautilus’s data streaming layer from reading records at 300k/s to 6M/s. more
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Topic of your submission: Performance engineering
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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chinmay Rate Limiting at Warp Speed: How Nginx, Lua & Redis Keep Your APIs Alive{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} Modern distributed systems demand rate limiting that’s both consistent and performant, but traditional approaches—like in-memory counters or siloed cloud tools—struggle with scale. Static limits fail in dynamic environments, while centralized solutions risk bottlenecks. The challenge? Enforcing global quotas across nodes without sacrificing speed or … more
Topic of your submission: Distributed systems
I am submitting for: Speaking at Rootconf meetups
Type of submission: 15 mins talk
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Anirudh Saksena DNS Lookup Deep Dive: Resolving Names from Linux to Kubernetes{Describe your talk/session in 2–3 paragraphs} DNS lookups are fundamental to how systems communicate, yet they’re often treated as a black box , until something breaks. In this session, I’ll walk through how DNS resolution actually works in a typical Linux environment. Starting from local mechanisms like /etc/hosts, and moving through configuration files like resolv.conf and nsswitch.conf, I’ll … more
Topic of your submission: Linux internals
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
Type of submission: 15 mins talk
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Mradul Natani Real-Time Configuration Management Using Consul and confd{Describe your talk/session in 2-3 paragraphs} In a cloud infrastructure, configuration management stands out as one of the most critical and complex challenges especially in scalable environments with hundreds or thousands of distributed servers. Static configuration files and manual updates not only lead to inconsistencies but also introduce operational overhead, human error, and a lack of resp… more
Topic of your submission: Distributed data systems
I am submitting for: Speaking at Rootconf meetups
Type of submission: 15 mins talk
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Attack Surface Management at Internet Scale: Achieving High Scalability with Cost EfficiencyDescription Managing attack surfaces effectively demands comprehensive, continuous scanning of internet-facing assets at an unprecedented scale. Each organization’s needs differ vastly—there is no one-size-fits-all solution. To overcome these challenges, we engineered a highly scalable, distributed platform leveraging cloud infrastructure, guided by the Single Responsibility Principle. more
Topic of your submission: Platform engineering
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025
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