Cloud stories by Pipedrive, Kiwi.com and Storyous with HUBHUB

One evening, 3 cloud stories, all worth hearing. In collaboration with HUBHUB Prague, join us for an evening of learning, sharing and networking.

Agenda:
18:00 - Doors Open, snacks and drinks

18:30 - Storyous - Message API by Stanislav Gurník

Super reliable messaging protocol ready the cloud. In other words, you don’t want to mess with ultras from Sparta Praha when they want their beer after a football match.

KeyWords: NodeJS, MongoDB, MariaDB, AWS, Heroku, Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry, Loggly

19:00 - Pipedrive - Microservices & Anarchy by Kristo Kaiv

We moved to microservice architecture and docker based application layer a while ago.

Quickly the number of services we run in production reached a number where nobody was able to tell how many we have and what exactly they do. This was not the goal but it enabled the goal what we had been thriving for which was the independence of the product teams. We wanted the teams to depend on other teams code bases as little as possible, deploy often and move quickly.

At the start all teams were writing code in a relatively similar manner and used the same practices as they had gotten used to, this, however, started differing between teams more and more as time passed. We had entered a new world where a lot of discussions did not revolve that much about how to run microservices but if and how much we should regulate on the common standards, coding styles, frameworks or even languages. This talk reflects the paths we have chosen and the compromises and reasoning behind it.

KeyWords: OpenStack, Docker, Consul, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Github, Jenkins

19:30 - Break - drinks and snacks

20:00 - Kiwi.com - How we do it by Tomas Papez and Yurii Kyrychynskyi

Our talk will be about Kiwi.com infrastructure and developers experience. Were are we today and how our tech stack looks like? As you maybe know we're on bare metal (Hetzner) and AWS but we decided to migrate most of our workloads to GCP/OVH and we will talk about our reasons and how are we preparing for this migration - from planning to tooling and how it helped us in simplifying team and service onboarding.

KeyWords: Terraform, Vault, Kubernetes, Cloud, GCP, GKE, Rancher, Docker, Gitlab CI, Cookiecutter

About Storyous:
We change gastronomy through technological innovation. At the beginning a small start up, now no. 1 point of sales provider for Gastronomy in the Czech Republic. Our secret? We work as a team. We recpect individuality, but pull it together when needed. We have flexible working hours, fusball table, great coffee and fruits in the office and we know how to enjoy common time when work is done. We learn and grow together.

About Pipedrive:
Pipedrive is the tool of choice for salespeople in scaling companies – the sales CRM pipeline platform that makes selling simple. Founded by seasoned sales professionals, Pipedrive launched in 2010. It is one of the fastest growing cloud-driven SaaS companies worldwide, having raised $80m in funding from investors including Insight Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Atomico, Rembrandt Venture Partners and Paua Ventures. Today, 80,000 customers in 170 countries, and across 100+ industries leverage Pipedrives' award-winning software to manage their sales process.

100 words about Kiwi.com:
CEO Oliver Dlouhý together with Jozef Képesi founded Kiwi.com in 2012 to provide users with the cheapest flight itineraries and combinations. Kiwi.com serves customers across the world with 24/7 support. Today, the company sees more than 90 million flight searches every day and employs over 2400 people worldwide. The site makes travel accessible and easy, by allowing consumers to book everything from individual flights to complete flight itineraries across multiple airlines (both low cost and full-service) in a straightforward and cost-effective way. Kiwi.com has recently incorporated trains and busses into the web search getting closer to its goal of creating a one-stop-shop for travelers.