Quarterly Large Scale Production Engineering (LSPE) meet up

Event Agenda and Speaker info

10:45 - Registration

11:00 - Tea

11:15 - Opening and keynote by Grab

11:30 - How Simpl built it's own Heroku - Senthil V Sundaram, Jeechu, Simpl

Simpl is rewriting money for the internet. The platform is built with microservices that are implemented in different tech stacks. It handles millions of requests with 10s of milliseconds of latency. It powers >150 merchants checkout at their web and mobile apps. It's released to production daily, multiple times. This is built by a team of seven engineers.
Senthil and Jeechu will explain how they took a unique approach to DevOps that's not heavyweight as using tools like Chef, Ansible but scales very well. He will share many learnings from this journey. This talk is about sharing the approach, best practices and more importantly the scars it left on them.
Senthil is a developer, tech-lead with experience of over a decade. Worked on multiple tech-stacks and on DevOps. Believes Dev+Ops as a single org instead of DevOps as a separate org. Loves building and running mission-driven teams. ex-ThoughtWorker. Leads the engineering at Simpl.
Jeechu, an ardent geek is the first engineer at Simpl. He loves writing code in Ruby and Python. Insists on great UX on tools and systems. Developer and DevOps at Simpl.

12:10 - Kubernetes networking - Ashutosh Sharma, Srinivas Sutrave, VMware
This talk will be about internal networking fundamentals in Kubernetes. It will cover networking from container level to Kubernetes services including overlays
Srinivas is a seasoned PE/SRE/Devops who has seen an evolving IT industry from single node 386 and DOS to thousands node search clusters serving the world's second most popular search engine traffic. Before joining VMWare Srini worked for Oracle, Yahoo and AoL.
Ashutosh has 13+ years of experience in the domain of PE/DevOps/SRE and currently leads a team of DevOps engineers at VMware. Prior to VMware he worked for Samsung R&D Institute and Yahoo.

12:50 - Lunch

1:50 - The benefits of Open tracing with demo - Chandresh Pancholi, Lead One Concern

Chandresh is working as Software engineer and leads the India office for One Concern. He has 6+ years of experience in field of Quality Assurance, Software Development, Infrastructure engineering. He started his career with Flipkart and worked for a startup owned by Textile giant (Arvind Group). He has been an open source contributor and committer to Apache software foundation. He regularly speaks in meet-ups, conferences about Container technologies (Kubernetes, FluentD, Prometheus, Istio, ... )

2:25 - GTID nightmare - MySQL to Aurora - Kiran Vittalapur, Santhosh Stalin, Samsung Research

In this talk Kiran and Stalin will explain how they approached the problem to solve a specific business case.

3:00 - Distributed Consistency with CRDTs - Kishan Sagathiya

CRDTs are data types that can be updated independently, but it is mathematically possible to resolve inconsistencies. This property makes it very useful for achieving distributed eventual consistency. CRDTs can be used instead of a consensus mechanism. One interesting use case is collaborative text editing platform like Google Docs as well.
It will be an introductory talk. He will go through mathematics required to understand CRDTs and explain a basic Convergent type CRDT with example. He will talk about where they are being used.
Kishan works on an open source project called ipfs-cluster(https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-cluster) which does pinset orchestration for IPFS nodes. They were using raft as their consensus mechanism, but are replacing that with CRDTs because of limitations with raft. CRDTs work is almost done and the team has gained good knowledge over the subject.

3:35 - Open forum

4:00 Onwards - Tea, snacks and networking.

Venue: Salarpuria Adonis. This is the building to the left of Haiku Honda ( before Haiku Honda) on Old Madras Road. Please follow the Map. Take the lift to third floor
Registerations on 3rd floor.