#43 Large Scale Production Engineering India (LSPE-IN) meet up

Event Agenda and Speaker info

10:45 - Registration & Tea

11:00 - Introductions

11:15 - Keynote by CRED

11:30 - Caterpillar - The CodePipeLine that looks like a caterpillar : Mitesh Singh Jat, CRED

At CRED, CaterPilLar CodePipeLine is a continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) service, which is being used to model, visualize, and automate the steps required to release the software. Mitesh will explain how it can quickly model and configure the different stages of a software release process, automates the steps required to release software changes continuously. CaterPilLar has helped to achieve not only CI/CD as a Code, but also Infrastructure as a Code.

12:15 - Performance advantage of Graviton processors in AWS : Santosh Kumar, Sr. Cloud Engineer, AWS

In the talk Santosh will walk us through the architectural differences of Graviton, suitability of it for different application classes run on AWS. He would also show a demo of how easily one can test the performance of it in one's own AWS account at any point.

Santosh works with AWS Support Engineering team as a Senior Cloud Engineer. He is subject matter expert in multiple services under compute domain.

13:00 - Lunch at CRED

13:45 - Large Scale Ephemeral Test Infrastructure : Prabhat Tyagi, Shreehari Mohan. Myntra

Myntra is able to deliver multiple major projects to their customers at the same time because of the in-house ephemeral test infrastructure solution that hosts more than 200 test environments with around 4000+ microservices. During this talk, we will walk you through the concepts involved while setting up such a large scale infrastructure to enhance developer productivity.

Sreehari is a Senior Engineering Manager at Myntra focusing on the development of cloud-native products and integrations to improve developer productivity. Prabhat Tyagi is a Senior Software Engineer at Myntra. In his current role, he is building tools to make the lives of developers easier using new-age technology like Golang, Kubernetes, and React.

14:30 - Patronus - Static vulnerability scanning at scale : Ashwin Shenoy & Akshansh Jaiswal, CRED

Patronus is a fully dockerised and config driven comprehensive Security Framework which helps to detect security vulnerabilities in the Software Development Life Cycle. The framework introduces the concept of shift left early on in the SDLC and inculcates a highly automated approach for vulnerability identification and management. With Patronus’s fully whitebox approach, the framework currently covers four major verticals; Secrets Scanning, Software Composition Analysis, Static Application Security Testing and Asset Inventory. Patronus automatically identifies the latest code commits and focuses on the major aspects of the application source code to identify and detect key and high severity vulnerabilities within the application and aims for minimal false positives in the reports.

15:15 - Tea & Networking