Quarterly Large Scale Production Engineering (LSPE) meet up

Event Agenda and Speaker info

10:45 - Registration

11:00 - Tea

11:15 - Opening and keynote

Internet of Things: Implications on Production Engineering - Radhakrishna Ayyappanaicker, Director- Production Engineering Yahoo!

As a PE and OPs personnel, our goal has been upkeep and running of production systems as smooth as possible. While this goal has been same for years, no change in it, but we had to continuously evolve the way we do things and adapt to new technologies as system needs to scale further. This would become much more complex with smart phones and mobile technology increasingly becoming available to a larger number of people and a sudden spurt in growth of internet of things in our daily lives. Let us get the glimpse of what that trend is all about and what are the challenges ahead for us in building and managing reliable systems at scale.

Radha has been working in IT industries close to 17 years, worked on both software development and production engineering roles. He has been with Yahoo for about 11 years. He is part of Advertising and Data platforms group, leading production engineering to upkeep and running of large footprint of Oracle/MySQL database clusters and Data analytic systems.

11:30 - Managing Openstack with Puppet - Sanay, Devops, Reliance

We use Openstack to manage bunch and bunch of VMs with bunch of hypervisors. How about managing Openstack itself with a popular CM system ? Sanjay does the same at his workplace. In his talk he would explain how he does it with a demo to fire your mind and set you up in experimenting path.

Sanjay : Sanjay works at Reliance Jio as a devops guy. He has been busy in laying out the infra for the Reliance Jio Cloud setup and mostly engaged with openstack provisioning via puppet. With +15 years of Sys Admin background he has worked with large setups including managing multimedia search frontends and Hadoop clusters at Yahoo. I am father to three kids and love traveling by road.

12:15 - Apache Helix: Simplifying Distributed Systems - Shahnawaz Saifi, SRE @ LinkedIn
Apache Helix is a generic cluster management framework used for the automatic management of partitioned, replicated and distributed resources hosted on a cluster of nodes. Helix automates reassignment of resources in the face of node failure and recovery, cluster expansion, and reconfiguration. In this talk Shahnawaz will cover Helix Introduction, concepts and putting concepts together to work.

Shahnawaz is part of Site Reliability Engineering - Distributed Data Systems at LinkedIn. He has 6+ years of experience playing around large scale environments. Prior to LinkedIn, he was associated with Clickable and Guavus. He believes in "When you get, Give. When you learn, Teach!"

1:00 - Lunch

2:00 - Processing large data in near real time with Apache Spark - Ravi, Tech Lead, Cisco
In this session, Ravi will cover Apache Spark overview with its unique features using in large data systems. I will get more details into Spark EcoSystem,Architecture, Elements and comparison with MapReduce. He will also touch up on its languages support with working demo session.

Ravi is in in IT industry for 11+ years. Ravi works for Cisco as Technical Leader and part of Cisco service team .He completed MS from BITS and BE from University of Madras. He has well experience in building highly distributable systems using multi-tier architecture. His interest on exploring new technologies and tools.

3:00 - Voldemort - A distributed key-value storage system - Akhil Ahuja, SRE @ LinkedIn
In this session Akhil will cover Voldemort overview and architecture. All aspects regarding replication, consistency, availability will be covered. The talk will end with short demo of important aspects of setting up a sample instance of voldemort.

Akhil works with LinkedIn as a Site Reliability Engineer for the past year. He has joined the distributed data storage team @ LinkedIn immediately after passing out of college. He has previous internship experiences with Juniper networks and Amazon. He has completed B.Tech in Information and Communication Technology. His interests are to know in-depth the various data solutions available out there and what distinguishes them from each other. 3:45 - Open forum

4:00 onwards - Tea, snacks and networking.

Parking directions

Enter the Embassy Golf Links Business Park from Koramangala Indiranagar intermediate ring road. The second building on your right is the venue, Yahoo!. This is the Torrey Pines building. Ask the security for help and tell them that you have come for the #LSPE-IN event at Yahoo and they will help you park and check in.