Rootconf 2015
2015-05-16
Bangalore, India
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as the organisers put it
Rootconf: Conference on devops and infrastructure automation in Bangalore, India
who it's for
site reliability engineers, devops engineers, system administrators, platform engineers, software developers, security engineers, network engineers
topics
http2 primer; unikernel deployments; kafka log aggregation and monitoring; distributed file system scaling; container runtime environments; data driven monitoring and time-series; network switch automation; security breach postmortems; microservices architecture; capacity planning and resource management; refactoring for scale; team dynamics and incident response
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Rewriting Parse.com for scale | Abhishek Kona | 48m |
Parse.com is a BaaS used by 300K apps and traffic grows by 10x per year so the team rewrites a Ruby monolith into Go and measures 5–7x faster in Go. Deploy… | ||
| Introduction to | Mike Place | 58m |
SaltStack claims fast, scalable control: a master/minion model that handles remote execution across 100 minions in ~0.26–0.27s and manages tens of thousands of… | ||
| Moving Intuit Mint to AWS – the last mile | Sajan Tharayil | 32m |
Moves Mint from self-hosted datacenters to AWS, migrating ~70 TB of customer financial data for 22 million users and building encryption at three layers… | ||
| Why favour Icinga over | Bernd Erk | 46m |
Claims a forked rewrite that actually scales: Icinga 2 is multi threaded, runs checks across zones with SSL, and benchmarks running 1 million services (dummy… | ||
| Let’s Talk About Time - Data Driven Organic Monitoring | Dhananjay Sathe | 27m |
An internal platform called Slant ingests immutable event streams into Elasticsearch via an async pipeline and exposes a REST API; it models incidents as a… | ||
| security breach - lessons learned | Aditya Patawari | 19m |
BrowserStack got breached and the team publishes a white paper detailing what went wrong and what fixed it. The useful specifics are multi‑location monitoring… | ||
| How to scale a distributed (file) system | Atin Mukherjee | 47m |
Claim: avoid n×n config gossip by delegating coordination to a small leader set m (recommendation: m = 3 or 5, i.e. m << n), run a consensus-backed config… | ||
| Unikernel based deployments | Alok Singh | 17m |
Claim: unikernels (MirageOS and peers) shrink images to megabytes or kilobytes, raise density and cut attack surface while exposing tricky resource-isolation… | ||
| A quick primer on http2 | Cyrus Dasadia | 20m |
HTTP/2 replaces text with binary frames and multiplexes many streams over a single TCP connection so handshakes and connection overhead disappear; the RFC… | ||
| How LinkedIn is leveraging kafka for log aggregation and monitoring | Muzammil Rehman | 45m |
Apache Kafka is publish-subscribe messaging rethought as a distributed commit log. It is used within LinkedIn for metrics and intra-application queuing.
Will… | ||
| Building micro services with | Shanker Balan | 48m |
Demo shows a real stack: Docker + RancherOS + Rancher with Docker Compose, private registry support and snapshots to S3, and the UI actually deploys… | ||
| Managing a Network Switch with | Abhinav Modi | 20m |
Concrete workflow and result: Nexus switches expose a NX API sandbox (RESTlike JSON RPC) so automation uses HTTP/HTTPS instead of installing Python on devices… | ||
| Running your containers in a sane environment | Aditya Patawari | 23m |
Project Atomic provides a minimal, mostly immutable OS built from RHEL/Fedora RPMs with OSTree-based atomic upgrades and rollbacks, writable only at /var and… | ||
| 10 reason why you should prefer PostgreSQL to | Anand Chitipothu | 44m |
Claims ten concrete reasons to prefer PostgreSQL over MySQL and demonstrates them: MyISAM silently truncates values (ate the cake), InnoDB vs MyISAM storage… | ||
| large scale with low tech | Kiran Jonnalagadda | 25m |
SaveTheInternet.in is a static page served from Heroku that lets users BCC a single inbox netneutralityindia@gmail.com and send mail themselves which scales… | ||
| How to Train your Jenkin to Use Your Resources Effectively and Get More Value | Manivannan Selvaraj | 14m |
A legacy model issues one Jenkins VM per developer but only 20% of VMs are used and active instances sit idle for less than 25 minutes per day, wasting… | ||
| What can DevOps learn from sports teams | Mohit Thatte | 15m |
Argues that DevOps is teamwork that speeds the business reliably and extracts concrete practices from sports: teams spend ~75% of time training so adopt… | ||
| know thy infra | Saurabh Hirani | 18m |
A concrete tool named inframer collects and correlates node data from Chef, Nagios, VMware, AWS and Device42, built in two hackathons (48 hours) using Python… | ||
| The Phantom of the DevOpera | Gaurav Gupta, Arun Jadhav | 46m |
If deploying applications efficiently at scale is not challenging enough, technology organizations today are expected to cater to exponential growth and… | ||
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