CTO fwdays'24
2024-11-16
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as the organisers put it
CTO fwdays'24 — the conference by Fwdays, where technical leaders from product and outsourcing companies will exchange experience and expertise
who it's for
CTOs, engineering managers, product managers, platform engineers, devops engineers, site reliability engineers, startup founders
topics
hosted private infrastructure offerings; CNCF Kubernetes manager; Minio S3 cost model; frontend build tool migration (Gulp->Webpack->Vite); microservices and micro-frontends on GKE; Terraform and canary deployments; OpenTelemetry and Sentry observability; PDPs with SMART goals; reserve staffing and forecast-driven hiring; RAG pipelines with embeddings and vector DBs
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Ukrainian Cloud and AWS/Azure/GCP: Smart vs Porsche | Hennadii Karpov | 35m |
Compares global hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP) with Ukrainian local cloud providers, analyzing costs, unpredictable billing, and limited budgets. Reviews… | ||
| Technology Roulette | Oleksandr Kovalchuk | 48m |
Oleksandr Kovalchuk, co-founder and CTO of Cargofy, describes how his logistics startup repeatedly tried adopting new technologies (a “technological… | ||
| Slow but Faithful vs Fast but Crooked: The Modern Development Dilemma | Kyrylo Melnychuk | 51m |
A CTO from Uspacy discusses balancing rapid feature delivery against technical quality and managing technical debt, using their startup’s development as a… | ||
| Strategies and Approaches to Building a PDP (Personal Development Plan) | Ihor Zakutynskyi | 52m |
Igor Zakutynskyi (Head of Engineering, FORMA, Universe Group) presents strategies for creating Personal Development Plans (PDPs) for technical specialists that… | ||
| How to Effectively Manage and Motivate People in the Company Reserve, Avoiding Layoffs | Serhii Harntsarik | 49m |
Serhii Harnczarik of Leobit explains managing a company reserve (bench) without layoffs, covering how to form and operate a reserve correctly, common mistakes… | ||
| Secrets of Scaling a Product from 2 to 30 Teams | Ihor Drozd | 55m |
Igor Drozd, CTO of Silpo, explains how Silpo’s e‑commerce and ecosystem product scaled from 2 teams to 30 teams in under three years. He describes the… | ||
| 5 Years at RozetkaPay in 30 Minutes: Fit It All In | Oleksandr Tarasenko | 55m |
A fintech CTO recounts building RozetkaPay over five years, covering technology, regulatory challenges, and market growth in Ukraine. The talk describes… | ||
| Optimizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for eCommerce | Oleksandr Marholin | 46m |
Optimization of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for eCommerce, focusing on reducing AI hallucinations and improving answer accuracy by fine-tuning RAG… | ||
| Reducing Incident Scope. Practical Case Studies | Dmytro Dziubenko | 46m |
Concrete incident case studies from a B2B environment are presented with techniques to reduce incident impact. The talk covers building resilient, scalable… | ||
| How to Get $200,000+ Investment in a Startup in a Year in Ukraine Without Giving Equity? | Yehor Herasymchuk | 49m |
Practical guide to raising $200k+ for a Ukrainian startup without giving away equity, based on Dots Platform’s experience. Covers when startups actually need… | ||
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