Rootconf submissions

Topics

• CI/CD:

  • Case studies of CI/CD
  • Advances in CI/CD pipeline automation, including use of new tools and techniques to streamline deployments and reduce the time to market

• Core OS engineering

• Distributed systems

  • Testing for distributed systems

• Cloud security

• Container orchestration

• Deployment architecture of control plane plus data plane - why your organization adopted this approach.

• Detection engineering - detecting security issues and vulnerabilities in production

• Experience reports from using open source and proprietary tools for security

• Databases in production, including:

  • Why and how you arrived at the choice of which database to use?
  • Comparison of choices; trade-offs you have made for your architecture/use case

• FinOps

• High availability

• Infrastructure engineering to manage and deploy complex systems

• Kubernetes in production, with focus on real-world experiences and lessons from running Kubernetes in production,

  • Best practices for scaling
  • k8s security
  • k8s troubleshooting
  • Getting started with k8s, including technical challenges and/or decision challenges

• Incident management, including:

  • Case studies of how you/your team did it
  • Documenting incident - how your team and you do it
  • Tools used for incident management and reporting
  • Root cause analysis

• Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies, including:

  • Case studies of managing and optimizing multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments
  • Interoperability challenges and wins
  • Cost management
  • Security
  • Multi-cloud strategies to avoid vendor lock-in and improve redundancy
  • Complexity in management and security

• Observability, including:

• Best practices for observability in modern applications
• Tools and techniques used for tracking what kind of metrics
• Logging
• Tracing to gain insights into system performance and reliability

• Reliability

• Resiliency, including:

• Techniques for building and maintaining resilient systems
• Chaos engineering - experience reports
• Fault tolerance
• Disaster recovery planning

• Securing systems running in production - incorporating security practices earlier in the software development lifecycle, commonly referred to as “shifting left” in DevSecOps

• Security for AI systems - tools, case studies.

• Serverless architectures: costs, benefits (such as reducing operational overhead) and challenges (such as cold starts and monitoring).

• AI security products - experience reports

• Software delivery management

• Software architecture, including:

• Decision journeys
• Case studies
• Failure stories

• Workflow management using Temporal