DevOps September meetup

Talk 1️⃣ Sirius Ivlev 🔗 LinkedIn
Sirius, Lead of the DevTools SRE Team 🛠️
AI in Engineering: The Trial-and-Error Method 🤖⚡

For almost three years now, we’ve been waiting for AI to replace us. But until that glorious day arrives ✨, what real value can it deliver? Let’s take a closer look at the pros and cons ⚖️, review research findings 📑, and share the results of our own experiments 🧪 in integrating AI tooling into our daily workflows.

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Talk 2️⃣ Evgeny Arhipov 🔗
Head of scheduler services at Nebius 🌐
Managed Soperator: A modern, democratic approach to Slurm-based supercomputing 💻🚀

Pretraining and fine-tuning tasks often require a significant amount of interconnected processing power 🔋, also known as supercomputing. Go-to tool of choice in the industry is Slurm 🧩, a project dating as far back as 1994 📅. We will discuss how we made this traditionally very expensive 💰 and complex endeavour of running a Slurm cluster at scale -- a breeze 🌬️. The result is a managed solution built on top of a modern tech stack 🏗️, using open source tools 👐, either existing or newly built and contributed back by Nebius to the community 🤝.