Develop Smarter: How to Avoid Hidden Financial Cloud Risks in 2022

Join us for Riskified Technology, Finout and Singular meetup with Boris, Yizhar and Ofir, who will speak about How to Avoid Costly Mistakes and Taking Control of Your Cloud Cost.

Agenda:
18:30 - 19:00 - Mingling, Beer and Snacks.
19:00 - 19:20 - Boris Cherkasky, Software Engineer, Riskified.
19:20 - 19:50 - Yizhar Gilboa, Co-Founder & CTO, Finout.
19:50 - 20:20 - Ofir Nir, Head of DevOps, Singular.
20:20 - 21:00 - More Beer and Mingling.

The talks will be in Hebrew.
This is an in-person event and will take place in accordance with the Green Pass.
You will be required to present a Green Pass or a negative Covid test from the past 24 hours at the entrance.

*Due to the uncertain situation caused by COVID-19, the event might change to another date.
We will provide relevant updates here.

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//(Over) Pay As You Go For Your Datastore - Boris Cherkasky, Software Engineer, Riskified.

No movie is complete without an inspiring hero and a thrilling conflict.
In this blockbuster, the hero is a hard-working small startup developer who adds some managed solutions into their stack. The conflict arises six years later when the company is successful, and that same developer is sitting in endless meetings with engineering, product, and finance, trying to figure out what is burning a hole through the infrastructure budget.

But this doesn’t need to be a nail-biting cliffhanger, with an understanding of basic assumptions and increased awareness, this action-packed thriller can become an informative documentary explaining how the product is so cost-efficient.

This talk is focused on developers and will explain the pitfalls and the possible misuses of managed datastore solutions in large software systems with suggestions on how to minimize spending on them.

Boris is a software engineer with a passion (some say obsession) for observability, charts, and dashboards. Over the past decade, Boris has done everything from low-level safety-critical control logic to high availability cloud applications and is currently enabling e-commerce as an engineer and production advocate at Riskified.
Amateur tech blogger, mediocre cook with a slight Scuba diving addiction.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cherkaskyb
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cherkaskyb/

//The Challenges of K8s Cost in a Multi-Tenant Environment - Yizhar Gilboa, Co-Founder & CTO, Finout.

Kubernetes is quickly becoming the de-facto standard in the deployment and execution of code in production environments. However, it also brings a lot of new challenges in analyzing costs. How can we attribute kubernetes resource costs to their business units, how can we handle shared resources in a kubernetes environment in that regard, and why should we care at all? This talk will address all these interesting questions and challenges.

Yizhar is the CTO and Co-Founder of Finout. He created and now manages the construction of the Finout Cloud Cost Observability platform.
He has more than a decade of extensive experience in data science and data architecture and his last position before Finout was Head of Data Science at Planck. Outside the professional sphere, he enjoys listening to scientific lectures, working out at the gym and spending quality time with family and friends.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yizhargilboa/

//Mastering Snowflake Performance & Cost Optimizations - Ofir Nir, Head of DevOps, Singular.

Charles Darwin famously said: “It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives, but the species that survives is the one that is able to adapt to the changing environment in which it finds itself in.” Surprisingly (or not?) it’s not far off from the race tech companies face daily.

Hyper-growth companies often migrate between data providers, data warehouses and data lakes due to ever-shifting workloads and needs. That presents a considerable amount of challenges for cost & performance optimizations that must be addressed.

In this talk, we’ll share our challenges after migration to Snowflake, and what we did in order to optimize costs and performance, including:

• Data Ingestion tips & tricks
• Schema design considerations
• Cost observability
• WH management
• Serverless engine

Ofir is the head of DevOps and Data Infrastructure for Singular, for 7 years.
Ofir has more than 14 years of extensive experience in DevOps methodologies and data architecture, always pushing Singular towards the latest technology in the data processing scale.
Outside the professional sphere, he enjoys swimming, watching soccer, reading about history and thinking of trips to Israel.

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/ofirnn