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Comprehensive overview of various aspects of building a highly scalable fintech startup with a product-led strategy. In this talk, Aleksei Popov shares insights on different problems and solutions for tackling the inevitable growing complexity during the scaling of a fintech startup. He will also discuss the role of technology in enhancing customer experience and streamlining operations.
Alex is a dedicated Software Engineering Manager with a specialization in the .NET environment and software architecture. Currently serving as the Engineering Lead at a prominent fintech company in London, Alex has led the development and deployment of critical products that have made significant impacts on the fintech landscape. His initiatives have directly led to the enhancement of payment systems, the introduction of innovative financial solutions, and the strengthening of security measures. These contributions have not only propelled the company's growth but have also set new standards in the industry.
How to deploy a reproducible environment on bare metal with Talos Linux. Our experience in developing an open platform designed for on-premise. How we ensure component stability on any hardware.
Linux and Open Source fanboy. Developer Advocate and crazy idea generator. I like to find non-standard solutions and promote them to the community.
Over the years, I've gathered a lot of experience with free virtualization platforms and software-defined storage. Currently, most of the technologies I work with are Kubernetes, LINSTOR and KubeVirt.
Explore adidas e-commerce's shift from monolithic to microservices in this talk. Uncover the challenges and insights faced by SREs – from scalability to incident response. Join us for practical lessons, best practices, and success stories navigating SRE in the microservices era.
Andreia Otto, leading the adidas Digital SRE team. Hailing from Brazil and now residing in Germany, she oversees the reliability of adidas e-commerce. Implementing DevOps practices and SRE principles daily, Andreia ensures seamless operations in the dynamic world of digital commerce. When not working, she is usually outdoors with her dogs or eating cheesecake with a cup of coffee!
Zero Trust Security Framework deployed as guardrails to verify every request as if it originates from an open network and anticipates that threats can be both internal and external using Enterprise Solutions like Hashicorp Sentinel and Open-source tools like Kyverno and Open Policy Agent.
My name is Anthony Ekpechue, and I work for Globallogic UK&I as a Lead Cloud Delivery Consultant. I have several years of experience as a DevOps Engineer and have a track record of delivering cloud solutions, with a focus on cloud adoption and migrating from monolithic to microservice architecture. I have also successfully implemented Zero Trust Solution across serverless workloads in a multi-tenant environment.
All of us have attended lots of talks with the premise “from Zero to Hero…”, but what does it take for a real Rock Star, a real Ninja, a magical Unicorn, a superhero to become a complete Zero?
How can we destroy those heroes in a way that every supervillain on every film has dreamt about every day?
Antonio is an Agile enthusiast with more than 20 years experience in the IT industry and specialises in Agile methodologies. He comes from a technical background, starting his career as a Java Developer in Spain in 2000, moving to different roles within IT in three different countries. Antonio is passionate about creating and implementing the best solution while continually seeking to improve work methodologies. He is convinced that most of the problems in IT are due to lack of communication! He usually speaks about Agile, DevOps,Team management and mental health at conferences across Europe and US, such as DevOps Days, Agile Tour, JSConf, Codemotion and Voxxed Days.
Imagine a product made of a number of microservices on Kubernetes and dozens of devs working on them. Now imagine multiple environments, where they must be deployed, tested and demoed at the speed of light. Let's put all of this together in a design that satisfies devs, customers and SRE's nights!
In SreCON19, Todd Underwood from Google gave a presentation with the title “All of Our ML Ideas Are Bad (and We Should Feel Bad)”. Let’s see a few ML ideas, implemented in the open-source Netdata, that may not actually be that bad.
Hi! I am Costa Tsaousis, the Founder and CEO of Netdata. Since 1995, I have been actively working on internet related startups. I have been a co-founder and C-level executive of many successful projects, including Internet Service Providers, Cloud Hosting Providers and Fintech startups. I have a passion for innovation and open-source and I now lead Netdata, a monitoring solution aiming to simplify and modernize infrastructure observability for all of us.
I am a cat person and we have a whole tribe of them at the office constantly walking on our keyboards. We try to keep them out of the room when we are pressing the release button ;)
Lies, damned lies and statistics. But statistics allow you to lie to yourself. Statistics can trick us into believing things that are less than true, though not on purpose. Learn how data choice, event focus and scale change perspective. See how graphs mislead and correlation can cause confusion.
Currently providing technical evangelism for NGINX, Dave works with DevOps, developers and architects to understand the advantages of modern microservice architectures and orchestration to solve large-scale distributed systems challenges, especially with open source and its innovation. Dave has been a champion for open systems and open source from the early days of Linux, through open distributed file systems like XFS, GFS, and GlusterFS to today's world of clouds and containers. He often speaks on topics such as the real-world issues associated with emerging software architectures and practices, on open source software and on creating new technology companies.
Dave has spoken on technical topics like distributed request tracing, modern monitoring practices, open sources projects from both corporations and foundation views, and on how open source innovations powers todays world.
Dave was named as one of the top ten pioneers in open source by Computer Business Review, having cut his teeth on Linux and compilers before the phrase "open source" was coined. Well versed in trivia, he won a Golden Penguin in 2002. When he's not talking, you can find him hiking with his trusty camera, trying to keep up with his wife.
We all have been mesmerised by GenAI's powers. How does GenAI blend in the SRE context? Would it be a pillar to a stronger SRE type? A new GenAI+SRE genetics? Well it might be just a fantasy until we actually practice with it and apply it in the real world.
Diana is a Site Reliability Engineer at Elastic and she focuses on Observability. She is passionate about serverless, generative AI and machine learning.
Perses is to Prometheus as what Grafana was for graphite. And even though Grafana has become so much more, Perses is an extremely interesting new entry into the dashboad/visualisation space. This talk will have an up to date demo and some of the unique advantages Perses offers over alternatives.
Erwin is a DevOps Engineer at Fullstaq. He loves educating people what it means to build cloud native applications (and it’s not just using the “cloud”). Using the Cloud Native landscape to make application delivery and lifecycle simple and reliable. At home he is always looking for sidequests; monitoring his power usage to send notifications when his washing machine is done, connecting the garage door to the internet (securely) and adding music to his elevator are just a few examples. His experience makes him a very practical engineer, finding the simple solution is more important than having a modern, shiny solution.
SRE are Google's specialists for designing, building, and running complex services that are reliable, scalable, efficient, and maintainable. The SRE Engagement Model describes how the collaboration between developers and SREs works and how reliability engineering can be applied early in development.
George is a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) currently working as a technical lead for the Google Ads SRE team in London, UK. With a background in software engineering and product management, he is passionate about understanding all aspects of tech product development and developer productivity.
Prior to joining Google, George gained valuable experience through his work at CERN, Pivotal, and startups, where he gained expertise in virtualization, Cloud Foundry PaaS, on-prem Kubernetes, and Python app development. He has also had the opportunity to share his knowledge at conferences such as PyCon UK, Cloud Foundry Summits, Open Source Summits, and computing for high-energy physics conferences (CHEP).
Adding new functionality to Terraform can be daunting: it’s written only in Go (which you may not know) and you have to understand the architecture and work through less than welcoming documentation. I’ll provide a walkthrough from my experience with it, going from zero to publishing a provider.
Harel Safra is a Data Platform Engineering Team Lead at Riskified, a Fintech company focusing on fraud prevention. His team manages the online data platform supporting real time fraud detection systems. He has worked in various Data And Infrastructure roles throughout his career, always striving for simpler ways to achieve scalable, optimally performing systems
Virtual Kubernetes cluster is a new approach to dealing with Kubernetes multi-tenancy pain. With virtual k8s clusters, each tenant has what feels like a full-blown, dedicated cluster inside a shared host cluster.
Let's learn how you can use a virtual cluster to save costs and improve productivity.
Hrittik is currently a final year undergrad and a CNCF Ambassador, who has previously worked at various startups helping them scale their content efforts. He loves diving deep into distributed systems and creating articles on them and has spoken at conferences such as Azure Cloud Summit, UbuCon Asia and Kubernetes Community Days - Lagos and Chennai among others! His best days are when he finds ways to create impact in the communities he’s a part of either by code, content, or mentorship!
If you need to define a road map to build more reliable products through SRE building ways of workign adoption, you need to make an strategy to have a solid why and a road map to reah outcomes itertively while you follow SRE road map adoption at your company, in this talk we share a real experience
Jorge is an agilist, Agility & Digital Transformation Lead Coach, QA Manager, DevOps Program Manager, and global speaker who feels passion for Testing Automation, Agile, DevOps and business agility. He enjoys research and learning about business agility and working with cutting-edge technologies. He has been learning continuously for more than 12 years and is still learning new ways to foster enterprise agility and team greatness. He has worked in several roles (developer, tester, IT program manager, Software engineering in Test manager, QA manager, agile coach) which helps him to see the big picture and operational and team members dynamics happening inside organizations. This experience lets him help teams design, build, and implement digital, DevOps and agile transformation strategies. He encourages focus on: People, Productivity, Continuous improvement, Innovation and having fun to enjoy success in our agile journeys. Jorge has been a speaker in Agile and DevOps events organized in Peru, Canada, UK, Netherlands, India, Germany, Mexico, Colombia, Nigeria, Panama, Azerbaijan, Australia, US among other countries.
We run declarative systems built on top of an imperative operating system. It’s time we simplified our interface for Linux with a declarative API.
Justin is the director of developer relations at Sidero Labs. He helps companies simplify their Kubernetes and Linux infrastructure. He previously helped create Oscar winning movies at Disney, built infrastructure for Disney+, and improved Amazon EKS as part of the product team. In his spare time he builds modern-retro computers and streams Moana on repeat.
Would you like to do something more than just create prompts for ChatGPT? How about building an application? An application that utilises the power of generative AI. From scratch! All you need is Python knowledge, your laptop, and an open mind. We will cover the tricky bits and pitfalls as well!
Specialising in monetising big data for clients since the 07's, Marcin is leading a team of seasoned data engineers specialised in everything data: Data Engineering, ML, ML-ops, and Cloud. Marcin is an expert in non-standard issues and those more run-down-the-mill that must be solved quickly and conveniently. His experience spans industries and various project sizes. But his speciality remains the area of AI, Ml and deployment. Marcin's professional journey boasts collaborations with industry titans such as Apple, Spotify and Telia, as well as, nurturing startups. Such rich expertise makes him an excellent speaker.
You will see the advantages of using the k8s provider for terraform instead of helm to manage the k8s objects ("yamls"). It allows you to see and confirm exactly what changes will happen in your cluster. Later we'll see how to integrate that with the AWS ALB and forward traffic directly to pods.
Bachelor in Computer Science, open source developer (some apps with more than 100k downloads), has experience working in Germany, Switzerland and United States, AWS Certified and currently working full time as DevOps. I have a reasonable number of open source contributions, including more than 20 to the k8s dashboard, ansible, terraform, AWS Load Balancer Controller for k8s, minikube and fluentd.
Join our session led by AWS DevOps experts! Dive deep into Infrastructure as Code, focusing on AWS CDK. Write less code, ensure consistency, reuse components, and stay in your IDE. Perfect for developers simplifying infrastructure management
Mateusz is a seasoned professional with a diverse background in technology. He is a DevOps Architect with AI/ML background. His expertise lies at the intersection of ML and DevOps, specializing in crafting robust infrastructures for AI/ML applications in the cloud, particularly within the automotive sector. Prior to this, Mateusz honed his skills as a full-stack developer, proficient in Django and React. Beyond tech, he brings a unique perspective as an aerospace engineer and avid sailor. This rich blend of skills and experiences empowers Mateusz to drive innovation and efficiency in the ever-evolving tech landscape.
Sometimes you delete production, you drop tables, you change a conf and everything breaks but what if you upgraded the wrong environment, to the wrong version, of the wrong customer (that also happens to be the bigger your company has)?
And what if you did it right before going to a long lunch?
This is a tale of compliance, regulations, unauthorized deployments and ethical questions! Solved more through diplomacy than with coding. Memes included*
We're developer productivity obsessed, worse, developer productivity METRICS obsessed. Deployment frequency! MTTR! eNPS! It's become a delightful distraction. Besides, who really benefits from this focus? This talk makes the case that we should focus more on actual craft and less on metrics.
Michael Coté studies how large organizations get better at building software to run better and grow their business. His books Changing Mindsets, Monolithic Transformation, and The Business Bottleneck_ cover these topics. He's been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, done corporate strategy and M&A, and was a programmer. He also co-hosts several podcasts, including Software Defined Talk. His daily-ish newsletter is at newsletter.cote.io.
The session would focus on the importance of Engineering Portals to accelerate Developer Experience by letting them "Create" Reusable Patterns, "Manage" their software catalog in a centralized inventory, and "Explore" the software ecosystem in a unified Single Pane of Glass.
Nishkarsh is a DevSecOps expert and an International GitHub Star. Nishkarsh is an ardent supporter of open-source, GitHub, DevEx, and DevOps. Nishkarsh serves as StatusNeo Inc.'s Principal Evangelist & Consultant. Over the years, he has been actively GitHubbing and contributing to open-source. By giving talks at conferences, organizing meetups, and encouraging people to take on the #100DaysofCode challenge, he has encouraged many brilliant minds to embark on their journeys in open-source projects and preach the significance of collaboration to aspiring developers.
Have you encountered a project where every single app reads a config file on startup? Have you struggled to find those files or change them?
Did you feel that there is something off with this approach?
Look no further! We will discuss when flags can solve all of these issues (and when they can't).
I'm Oleg. I like memes.
Discover Debezium: Real-time database change streaming made seamless. Say goodbye to vendor lock-in with the innovative Debezium Server. Learn about parallelization and Kubernetes deployment using the Debezium Operator and supercharge your application performance.
My name is Ondrej, and I am passionate about almost everything related to IT. I spend most of my free time watching, fixing, or driving cars, so we will have a lot to talk about if you are a car or bike person.
Besides that, I have a beard and am pretty tall, so I suppose I am easy to find. I am open to conversing with anyone, learning something new, or giving anybody some advice.
I have been working in Red Hat as a Senior Quality Engineer and Team Lead for almost 6 years now on various projects: * Enmasse * PatrIoT * Apicurio Registry * Debezium
Currently, I have two main projects that I am interested in: * Debezium project, which I find very interesting, and I love working with the whole community around it. * Skodjob project: this project was created some years ago by my colleagues David Kornel and Jakub Stejskal. It contains various tooling for long-running test environments on the Openshift environment and database performance tooling.
Other than that, I am still trying to find time to work on some of my older projects, like Rust MQTT, the first Async Rust MQTT client for embedded devices at the time.
DevOps is not a trend that has come and gone. It's a cultural shift that has fundamentally changed how software is developed and deployed. While emerging practices like Platform Engineering may seem to be taking over, they are not meant to replace DevOps; instead, they are complementary to it.
Principal Engineer, SRE at FanDuel/Blip.pt. MSc in Computer Science by the University of Porto. CK{AD, A, S} by Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) | Linux Foundation. {Terraform, Consul, Vault} Associate by HashiCorp. Working daily to build high-performance, reliable and scalable systems. DevOps Porto meetup co-organizer and DevOpsDays Portugal co-organizer. A strong believer in culture and teamwork. Open source passionate, martial arts amateur, and metal lover.
Kubernetes Dynamic Admission control can be used for advanced validation and error correction of workloads. If you've ever wanted to make sure workloads in your clusters are conforming to security best practices, this talk will show you how!
Richard Tweed is a Kubernetes specialist at Thought Machine. Over the last five years he has been ensuring security, scalability and compliance across all major Kubernetes cloud platforms. He's also the lead maintainer of kube-audit-rest
Imagine a system designed to process millions of events per day, but as use grows, data mysteriously seems to disappear, only to re-appear later. We’ll talk about the what, why and how we investigated the symptoms, overturned some assumptions and finally delivered a resilient, serverless solution
Starting out in a very traditional background in the data-centres of the fabled M4 corridor, Simon eventually realised it was time to give up on the problems of manually babysitting servers, racks and UPS's and migrated to the Cloud (and in the process, the Scottish Highlands) and now works to enable clients to transition their workloads, processes and swag requirements to the same route.
Simon is a member of the AWS Community builder program, and these days enjoys coaching and mentoring as much as get hands-on with code, automation and head-scratching.
Join me as I transition from football to tech, focusing on Kubernetes. Learn how teamwork, discipline, and strategy from sports influenced my tech career. Discover my journey into building developer platforms and the parallels between leading a sports team and orchestrating cloud-native environments
Steve Wade was one of the founding engineers at KSOC, a Kubernetes security startup. Before his current role, Steve held Platform leadership roles at UnderWrite Me and Mettle. During these roles, he leveraged the concept of GitOps to provide self-service platforms to developers. He has also provided Kubernetes consultancy and training worldwide as a Consultant at Apprenda. Steve has served in leadership roles across many verticals, including real estate, gaming, and the UK parliament. Steve has a BSc in Computer Science and is passionate about cloud-native software development and distributed computing. He can be found as @swade1987 on Twitter and GitHub.
The presentation explores how observability can improve service quality down to the database level. The speaker will discuss how OVHcloud refined the efficiency of their information system databases. The talk shares a recipe for getting the most out of your DBMS and how to get rid of slow queries.
In his position as the leader of a SRE team, Wilfried focuses on prioritizing sustainability, resilience, and industrialization to guarantee customer satisfaction.
Imagine a canvas where chaos reigns supreme, but in its depths a jaw-dropping order emerges. Witness chaos transformed into art and order into a masterpiece. In this talk, we will explore how to organise chaos in a controlled manner and create chaos scenarios with k6 fault injection.
I'm a Lead QA Engineer at OpenPayd, and I've been rocking the testing area for six awesome years. My main game? Nailing observability and automation. I've weaved automated testing into our processes, making things faster and minimizing the room for the human fallibility factor. It's all about achieving optimal outcomes. Besides, I'm all about building systems that give us the lowdown on our apps' behaviour. It's like having a superpower to spot and fix issues in no time. When I'm not diving into the testing quests, I'm a lifelong learner who loves teaming up with others. Tackling challenges together and sharing knowledge is my kind of fun.
Feature flags allow you to enable and disable code without changing or deploying any source code, as well as letting you selectively route traffic to certain users or a percentage of certain users, along with other great tricks. It’s powerful stuff … but when you combine it with observability (the ability to understand the inner workings of your complex systems and other unknown-unknowns), what you get is a supercharged, superpowered version of both. With observability and feature flags, you and your teams get deep technical and business insights in real time about how your code is working, what changed with your last deploy, and how changes are impacting different users, apps, or groups.
