Passioned with microservices and all related things to them. He knows how to split monolith application into microservices and build continuous integration process for these purposes.
BOF: Kubernetes operators: What? When? How?
Nov 10th
This BOF session is devoted to very hot topic in Kubernetes community – operators. Group of Kubernetes professionals will discuss what operators are, when and how to use them and does every team need to implement their own operator. Come and join this hot discussion!
Lego from Containers
Oct 11th
Containers, microservices, cloud read applications – every developer heard about them. We know how to build services to be container ready, how to manage Docker/Kubernetes and so on.
What is often being missed is a composability aspect of containers. There are thousands of ready to use images which, when properly composed, can solve the problems that are usually solved by writing code.
In this talk Serhiy discuss few design patterns based on containers, that allow to reduce the complexity and time to market for your services.
100 deploys per day
Oct 7th
At Preply we have adopted the culture of quick iterations as a central part of our delivery process. The approach impacted both developers’ culture and organization’s ability to deliver value to the end customers.
This talk will be focused around the evolution we went through with our delivery approach, and the benefits and challenges daily releases have thrown up. We will also discuss tooling around daily releases(CI/CD tools, logging, monitoring), infrastructure(k8s, aws) and the best practices(feature switchers, architecture, ab/testing).
We will also share insights on the role of the performance optimizations to make daily releases viable.
Dmytro Voloshyn
Oct 7th
Dmytro has been working as a developer for over a decade and combines a solid background in programming with marketing experience. From 2012 Dmytro, as a technical co-founder of Preply.com, is changing the global landscape of education by making personalized tutoring affordable and accessible for everyone. His CTO position at Preply allows Dmytro to fully realize his entrepreneurial potential and technical skills.
What we’ve learned once processed first 150k production incidents
Oct 3rd
We develop a software which helps multiple companies worldwide to work with IT incidents. Our daily routine is to talk with them, learn about their incident management and process their data. I’ll tell about insights we’ve got on such a scale. How different companies and teams do it and what works for them.
Need for testers is a lie
Oct 2nd
It is a widespread conception that QA resources in the team are a necessity and vast majority of projects place them in their teams – both functional and automation testers. I’ll try to debunk this by presenting examples of two successful projects of different size, domain and using different methodologies that succeeded without having a single tester on the team. Finally, we will discuss a few hypotheses attempting to explain why QA presence is so prevalent and what we could learn of it.
DataKernel : Mastering Ukrainian highload framework
Oct 2nd
Creating a full-stack Java framework from scratch is a comprehensive and challenging task on its own. But creating a framework which outperforms Spring, Vert.x and Javaspark may sound even above attainment. Yet, the new DataKernel framework proves it is possible. We want to share our experience, and speaker will tell how you about the results were achieved and will bolster them with numerous benchmarks and implementation insights.
Build optimization mechanisms in Gitlab and Docker
Oct 2nd
For each tool, I’ll describe available optimization mechanisms that help to reduce build times. I’ll analyze their trade-offs, provide guidance on which & when to use, mention common pitfalls and workarounds. The talk is aimed at developers who already use Gitlab / Docker and want to learn lesser-known facts in order to achieve faster builds.
Dmytro Patkovskyi
Oct 2nd
Dmytro is a backend software engineer at Grammarly with 9 years of industry experience. Previously worked at Ciklum and Amazon. Obsessed with build tools and their impact on developer productivity. Mostly writes in Java these days.
Academic interests: spellchecking and dictionary compression.
How to build a large clusters in GKE/On-Prem
Sep 26th
Topics which we’ll discuss:
1. Typical issues within designing a large Kubernetes cluster on GKE/On-Prem.
2. Pitfalls and possible tricky areas in elaboration.
3. Consider existing solutions consistent with real-life and best practice cases.
30 minutes to Prod
Sep 26th
This talk is about Engineering Practices and engineering transformations during the last 3 years in Infra R&D department and company in general. Infra is a core department, which handles core services and infrastructure for all Playtika games.
– Deployment time decreased 100 times.
– Incident ratio decreased 10 times.
– The number of deployments increased 10 times.
– Strong, productive and happy teams.
Playtika DNA, small teams (triplets) which correlate with microservices architecture, gatekeeper institute: 24/7 support.
Vasyl Strutynskyi
Sep 26th
R&D Director at Playtika leading the most technological department for the last 3 years. Broad management experience for more than 10 years including both setting up the R&D teams from scratch as well as evolving already existing departments. Joined IT in 2003 as a C++ developer.
In love with building strong motivated teams and achieving common results.
Effectiveness tips from Kubernetes trenches by Captain Obvious
Sep 25th
Nowadays almost everybody knows about Kubernetes, some teams are using it and some are only dreaming about it. Despite the popularity, Kubernetes is not simple and there are so many ways of abuse this peaceful technology. In this talk I would like to present quite obvious set of tips, based on failures and ineffectiveness at different companies I have worked with during last several years.
Site Reliability Engineering: How-to
Sep 25th
Site Reliability Engineering is an approach for DevOps pioneered by Google. This talk focuses to share Yegor’s experience in building SRE organization inside EPAM. The presentation is a road map for architects, managers and developers to introduce and transform DevOps culture and processes based on real world example using modern cloud-native technologies.
Yegor Chumakov
Sep 25th
Yegor is a professional Architect and Team Leader from Kyiv. He is a strong advocate of cloud native technology and agile people over processes approach. Currently leading transformation for EPAM products from traditional operations to DevOps and cloud native stack. He is also active in local Go community and gave several talks on monthly meetups.
Saga about distributed business transactions in microservices world
Sep 25th
Most of people nowadays think microservices architecture is a great way to build any system. They visit conference talks, read books and review tutorials, where ‘hello world’ applications are built just in several minutes using microservices approach. But the reality is not so wonderful and one of the biggest pain is hidden inside distributed business transactions. In monolith application this topic is almost completely covered with DB level transactions. In distributed world you have to face many issues trying to implement reliable and consistent business logic.
In this talk we will review different types of problems related to distributed business transactions, popular SAGA pattern, frameworks and techniques to simplify your life without compromising quality of the system.
Discovery on Terra Incognita
Sep 25th
This story is about engagement of a Solution Architect into absolutely new and complex business domain – life science, where a client wants to modernize his legacy platform, which itself is a unique technological offering on the market. Sounds challenging already? Let’s have a look on how a Solution Architect can be successful in such project.
The value of observability in production microservice ecosystem
Sep 25th
Today system observability is a much discussed term, which is often treated as “nice to have” during development, but becomes crucial once your system gets into production. It becomes even more important in case of distributed systems, where one can’t just spin up a local server and debug it end-to-end.
I’m going to share a experience of a development team, working in production microservice ecosystem, providing 24/7 support for the owned services, and how observability best-practices helped us to survive. We’ll touch the holy triad of observability: monitoring, log aggregation and distributed tracing, discuss some general best practices of how to make them work together and look at how we attempted to apply those best practices to real life.
The Zen of logging. How to face the worst day of your life.
Sep 25th
Action! Where do I begin to tell the story of how your architecture is done, you have a logging framework, you know where to store logs. Where do you start writing it clear and useful?
Put the matter another way, during my talk I will try to share my’ experience with the audience on the following subtopics:
– What are logs in common and wherefore.
– Stuff you should never see in logs.
– Patterns and AntiPatterns.
– Logs within a distributed chaos.
– What to do to spend minutes and safe hours while surfing through a considering amount of data.
After all, I do not guarantee that your worst day ever will never happen. You’ll have a log at least. Don’t panic and carry a towel. Always!
Kubernetes vs DCOS
Sep 25th
Kubernetes is the most popular orchestrator for large microservices system. It provides possibility for automating application deployment, scaling and management. But does it really a magic wand, which may solve all your problems, or it would be better to use another solutions? We will compare two giant players in the orchestration and clusters building area: DC/OS (aka. Mesosphere) and Kubernetes from the developer point of view. Can you predict who will win? So, let the fight begin!
The authors of this “battle” have come a long way from DC/OS to Kubernetes and will try to convey their experience to the audience.
Building a security program at Grammarly. Integrating security in product development.
Sep 25th
You are a software developer or engineering leader in a typical internet product or service company. You have web, mobile, or native apps for different platforms, and your backends run in the cloud. You embrace test-driven development, rapid iterations, infrastructure as code, continuous delivery, and monitoring.
But what about security? Someday your users, your clients, or your CEO will ask this question. Maybe there is another breach in the news. Or someone has sent you a vulnerability report to security@yourcompany.com. Wait—do you even have security@yourcompany.com mailbox?
In a big enterprise, someone takes care of security for you. In a growing product internet company, you must implement it from scratch.
In this talk, I’ll show how to begin focusing on practical things that worked for us at Grammarly. We will talk about:
– How much “security” is enough?
– When to build a security team and how to establish roles and structure.
– Working with external consulting and penetration testers.
– How to launch a bug bounty program and make the most of it.
– How a security team interacts with development teams in a non-blocking way.
– What if your DevOps (or NoOps) teams release features and experiments multiple times per day?
– Infrastructure, tools, monitoring, and automation for DevSecOps.
Premature automatization
Sep 25th
Automatization is an obviously good, right? I’m not so sure. It can be premature and harmful. It can take your time, harm processes and other teams. I want to share some examples from private practice and overview some trends in premature automatization and optimization.
Practical GitOps on Kubernetes with ArgoCD
Sep 25th
We’ll talk about the pros and cons of using GitOps approach on Kubernetes, with an evaluation of major open-source players on the market to eventually come to ArgoCD with practical use cases and real-world demo.
Running MySQL on Kubernetes
Sep 25th
Running databases in Kubernetes attracts a lot of attention today. Orсhestration of MySQL on Kubernetes is no way a straightforward process. There are several good MySQL based solutions in the open source world, made by Oracle, Presslabs, and Percona. Having common base, they differ in self-healing capabilities, multimaster and backup/restore support, etc. So let’s make a fair comparison to figure out the pros and cons of their current state.
Consul: Service Mesh
Sep 25th
Dynamic infrastructure and microservices is good, but with them come many challenges that can be fixed in many ways. For choose best way we deep dive into causes of problems and understand how we can fix it.
In search of Domain-Driven-Design in the world of microservices
Sep 25th
Every team has concerns about using the domain-driven design (DDD). What kind of benefits does it offer? Why is it better than everything they used before? What if we want to use microservices architecture right now or we plan to migrate to microservices architecture any time soon? How Domain Driven Design can help to find answers on all of these questions? Does DDD have anything available out of the box that helps us to deal with microservices and components in our architecture? What about bounded contexts and aggregates and some other options available in DDD? And finally, if we are well prepared right now and use all of the best practices from DDD, how can I migrate to microservices architecture when it is needed? What kind of anti-pattern all teams can face in their journey to Domain Driven Design?
As one of the key drivers of this process, an architect must be able to answer any questions coming from developers, business analysts, and even Scrum Masters. Architects must be ready and well prepared for any type of questions.
I will help you find the best answer to all these questions. I am going to share my team’s journey with DDD from the very beginning of a project and outlines the many problems we faced. I will also cover some anti-patterns to be afraid of and how to deal with them, DDD best practices, and how DDD and microservices ideas can leave together.
I am testing my micro-services and let others test theirs
Sep 25th
Today it is very common to hear that micro-service architecture is a way to solve all problems. Scalability, fast release cycle, controllable code evolution, testability etc. Micro-services are well known to be a heaven for developers, QAs, PMs, and business owners. However, those who have already worked with such architecture usually are not that doubtless of the statement. Moreover, when it comes to the real thing – each company has to overcome enormous amount of technical challenges to make it work.
I would like to shed light on testability aspect. How we (at Wix) are testing integration of our micro-services, why it works, and what do you need to know before dive into it.
Pain of ops. Designing for operations.
Sep 25th
Operations engineers still complain about the unsupportable applications: it takes forever to move apps to kubernetes; is this app dead or alive?… But developers don’t see the problem. I was on opposite sides of the barricades. This talk is about lessons we learned and how to push the best practices for developers.
Fault tolerant event-sourcing With RDBMS
Sep 25th
Have you ever expirienced the situation, when you’ve already persisted data in some popular RDBMS datastore, tried to send message to a message broker, but it’s unavailable at the moment? Sure, you can try to code your own infrastructure – store messages somewhere, wait for the message broker availability, etc… But in such approach you squander money of the project) In this talk I will show you more cheap and robust, in terms of development, approach for fault tolerant event sourcing with examples in C# – so you could focus on the domain of your app.
Observability – the good, the bad and the ugly
Sep 25th
We like to collect metrics, possible traces, logs, but there is a lot of failures and anti-patterns in this way. How large enterprises made it wrong and right? How to avoid common pitfalls and how to adapt machine learning to your monitoring.
First secret delivery for modern cloud-native applications
Sep 25th
In this talk we’ll see how Authentication and Secrets delivery work in distributed containerized applications from the inside. We’ll start from the theory of security and will go through the topics like Container Auth Role, Static & Dynamic secrets, Env vars/volumes for secret delivery, Vault & K8S secrets. After this talk you’ll get an understanding how to securely deploy your containerized workloads.
The movement steps to the high-load tolerant and scalable infrastructure based on the AWS and Kubernetes
Sep 25th
How to move to the scalable and high-load tolerant architecture from the almost monolithic based environment. For the past almost 2 years I have been working as a head of engineering and during this time my company attracted 2 rounds of investments, grew from 30 to 150+ employees, our product covered most of the EU and the infrastructure of course changed a lot too. I want to share a practical experience how to build reliable, scalable and what is even more important – manageable cloud based infrastructure. Ansible, terraform, kubernetes and many of the AWS services are our current reality. This topic is really huge and I think that it may take much more than one conference session to uncover it, but even the concept can be very helpful to those who are at the beginning of their journey.
Low Latency Data Processing in the Era of Serverless
Sep 25th
We have entered the Era of Serverless. Do you want to spend time on growing the complex infrastructure and its administration or you focus on validating your hypothesis and delivering what’s needed right here and right now? This is a question you should ask yourself in 2019. Effectiveness is the answer. In this talk, we will see how easily you can build a low-latency processing layer for the Lambda Functions using the Hazelcast Cloud – a fully managed Hazelcast IMDG service.
Cowboy dating with Big Data or evolution of data platform in action
Sep 25th
Story of one project where people used big data with no idea how to cook big data. We will run through pitfalls and bad practices to find right path.
Why startups need SRE practices
Sep 25th
In Prisma we process more than 500k photos per day on the server. I would like to present why SRE practices are needed in a small company, how to implement them without pain, why it pays off, and how we reduced the number of incidents.
Seven Cloud Sins of DevOps
Sep 25th
Cloud computing is widely used by industry for more than a decade. There are many patterns, best practices and tools around it including DevOps, despite that, they do not prevent from shouting yourself if misused.
This talk is a summary of practical experience and observations about top-most misuse of DevOps practices when applied to cloud software engineering and operations. AWS Cloud provider is used for cases examples.
Self-healing in prod do you really need AI for that?
Sep 25th
When you deal with production, idea of self-healing sounds really attractive, or maybe your VP is claiming that all his peers already doing AI, and we should do the same.
Doesn’t matter what is the reason – but there are big chances that you don’t need AI/ML, did you consider “control theory” already? Do you already have closed loop controllers and PID-controllers?
After the this talk you will get an idea of why AI is not really necessary, and in some cases it can even harm.
Support as a service for development. United we stand.
Sep 25th
True story of the year-long successful applying “Support as a service for development” strategy in Product company with split US/UA teams. It is not surprising, that most significant part of the success story was understanding of the problems in relationships between the teams and finding the root causes to fix it. Almost like with the bugs. 😉
Hiring support-minded persons, understanding the main values and goals, building T-shape communications will de also covered. I will share my experience with the tools used to provide constructive feedback to developers. Pain points and insights during the journey are included.
Javatar declarative pipeline for continuous-delivery – Jenkins pipeline shared library
Sep 25th
Build quality into your µServices with jenkins declarative pipeline. Session has lots of demos with open source jenkins shared library, that aims to help you with quick setup of your project delivery lifecycle.
Attendees will learn how to build open source and free of charge CI/CD pipeline that could help many projects to speed up CI/CD integration using Jenkins. Pipelines works fine with different build tools & languages, from npm (angular, viewjs) to maven/gradle (java). Javatar declarative pipeline is Jenkins shared library that ease integrates securely with your infrastructure.
How to build & support high load REST API
Sep 25th
I would like to tell the story of our experience of building the HighLoad REST API that has the following parameters:
* Intuitive.
* Scalable.
* Fault tolerant.
* Protection from attack.
* Perceptive.
* High bandwidth.
Also I would like to describe:
* how we did LoadTesting;
* how we survived a lots of DDoS attacks;
* how we did deployment without downtime.
The following list of technologies were used: .NET Core 2, ASP.NET Core 2, Consul, Fabio, Orleans.NET, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Serilog, xMetrics, Grafana, ELK.
Tracing for Java Developers
Sep 25th
You are already using logs and metrics to monitor your applications. Why should you be adding tracing or Application Performance Management (APM)? This talk gives a hands-on overview of:
* What you can (not) do with tracing.
* How you can easily add tracing to your Java applications.
* What OpenTracing (or soon OpenTelemetry) adds to the landscape.
The demo is using the open source Elastic APM agent with its OpenTracing bridge, so the general concepts widely apply.
Zero-downtime deployment with Kubernetes, Spring Boot and Flyway
Sep 25th
Kubernetes allows a lot. After discovering its features, it’s easy to think it can magically transform your application deployment process into a painless no-event. For Hello World applications, that is the case. Unfortunately, not many of us do deploy such applications day-to-day.
You need to think about application backward compatibility, possible rollback, database schema migration, etc. I believe the later is one of the biggest pain point. In this talk, I’ll demo how to update a Spring Boot app deployed on a Kubernetes cluster with a non-trivial database schema migration with the help of Flyway, while keeping the service up during the entire update process.
Changing The Game: Leveraging Game Theory to Transform Your IT Organization
Sep 25th
As organizations begin the process of digitally transforming they will often struggle after initial efforts at automation (the dreaded J-curve). In this session we’ll discuss why the J-curve phenomenon occurs and define the concept behind the Pareto Inefficient Nash Equilibrium through a game show called “Golden Balls”. In this entertaining segment we’ll discuss how you can introduce this concept to effectively change the game and push past the low-end of the J-curve.
The journey doesn’t end there, as organizations begin shipping changes more often, introducing new features, services, and dependencies complexity begins to rise. This often results in teams forming centers of excellence around reliability and availability. We will talk about how Site Reliability Engineers enable organizations by accelerating into the upper end of the J-curve through leveraging observability to effectively establish error budgets, SLOs and SLIs. We’ll discuss how SRE teams can leverage distributed tracing aggregates, system metrics, and log analytics to effectively measure “all the things” and the value this measurement brings to engineering teams through visibility, communication, and accountability.
Joining the Mob
Sep 25th
Software engineers historically have largely worked alone and in a vacuum on key projects. This has caused problems with transparency, creates knowledge towers, increases technical debt, and stifles innovation. Mob Programming has given Clearlink solutions to all of those problems and created benefits that have been unforeseen during our first two years of adopting the practice. From our experiences, we outline some best practices that will be beneficial to all those who wish to also adopt this technique.
Complex Application Design
Sep 25th
It is pretty simple to design a back-end API, a demo UI for the API or wrap an existing web app into a mobile app. However, building a complex consumer solution requires much more. In this talk we will walk through the steps of design of such complex solution based on real-life examples from personal experience. This will be a no-code session. We will be focused on the work of an architect in the life-cycle of the product, spanning to various areas that should be covered in order to gain success.
Securing applications and infrastructure with Vault
Sep 25th
Making sure our systems are secure has become a huge priority for companies but not everyone actually dedicated the time to making it happen.
In this session, Paul will demonstrate examples of how to secure infrastructure and applications to have end to end TLS using Vault.
He will be able to prove to attendees that by investing a little time upfront, we can ensure that our development and production environments have TLS throughout and will allow us to not get surprised when our systems go to production.
Can TypeScript really make infrastructure management easy?
Sep 25th
In this talk, Paul will demonstrate why TypeScript is a great language of choice for infrastructure management. Pulumi is an open source tool that allows users to write their infrastructure code in TypeScript, Python or Go.
TypeScript allows infrastructure code to have integrated testing, compile time checks as well as being able to create infrastructure APIs. This will show why a real language is more suited to infrastructure management than DSLs, JSON or YAML. In addition, he will cover how to build infrastructure that manages Serverless, PaaS and IaaS systems across multiple cloud providers.
Igor Kochetov
Sep 24th
DEV in OPSy world. Building software with .Net and Python since 2007, focused on delivering scalable and flexible cloud-based apps and services. Good engineering practices evangelist, religious about team culture and processes automation. Conference rat. Speaker at international and local tech events. Currently building internal tools for Unity Technologies to enhance productivity of R&D and QA teams.
Alexander Syrotenko
Sep 24th
A Ukrainian software engineer who is fond of software optimization, especially since he does it on the job all the time. In love with compilers and runtimes. He enjoys writing d2d tools, formal verification, and extensive application of Computer Science to real-world projects.
Yevgen Mospan
Sep 23rd
Yevgen has been in IT for 15+ years, currently being an expert at Java Competence Center and also often assigned as a Solution Architect to production projects. He has been involved in different projects in many business domains such as insurance, e-commerce, billing and logistics. His main interest is modern Java trends for building scalable, robust, highly available applications with focus on effective architecture.
Maksym Govorischev
Sep 23rd
Java engineer with primary experience in Java and adjacent technologies. Participated in design and implementation of various types of systems, from MVP’s and prototypes for startups to big corporate applications, API platforms and microservices ecosystems.
Stanislav Kolenkin
Sep 23rd
16+ years of professional experience in the Information Technologies (IT) industry.
I have received much experience in quick problem solving and not standard issues (last 4 year in DevOps/Deployment engineer). I have done many Kubernetes projects with different plugins on OpenStack, AWS, GCP, and Bare-Metal. Last 4 years I am working with Docker, Kubernetes, Calico, etc.
Philipp Krenn
Sep 23rd
Philipp lives to demo interesting technology. Having worked as a web, infrastructure, and database engineer for over ten years, Philipp is now working as a developer advocate at Elastic — the company behind the Elastic Stack consisting of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. Based in Vienna, Austria, he is constantly traveling Europe and beyond to speak and discuss open source software, search, databases, infrastructure, and security.
Eugene Safonov
Sep 23rd
Senior software engineer with 10+ years of development experience and tremendous desire to share professional expertise to all the world and his dog. I am interested in the world of Microservices, superficially full of mysterious creatures as .Net Core services, PerconaDB, RabbitMQ and others – scary, tough and always funny.
Ivan Zhuravel
Sep 23rd
Ivan is a Software Engineer who worked freelance, during which time he built his own startup. He has wide and deep experience in different technologies guiding and informing his current position, where he is helping carry out the migration from DCOS to Kubernetes.
Ihor Khlaponin
Sep 23rd
Ihor is a Software Engineer with 3 years of experience in Java and 2 years’ experience in the DevOps stack. In addition, he is intimately familiar with K8S and DCOS. He is currently interested in using K8S in AWS as well as in building complex microservice systems.
Sergii Zaskaleta
Sep 20th
4 years in management, currently play pre-sales delivery manager role on a financial services account where I’m responsible for winning and then starting up all the emerging business with this client.
Believer in the fact that quality assurance (with QA and AQA) is generally a good thing and we should all invest in it, but am yet to see a project where presence of QA made a tangible impact in a software project success.
Dmitry Tiagulskyi
Sep 20th
For many years, Dmitry has been a tech lead at Grammarly, where he has developed cloud services for millions of users. As an on-call warrior, he is interested in making software simple and reliable. Now he is mostly focused on security and privacy engineering.
Dmitry works with Java, AWS, and natural language processing. He still remembers programming in BASIC on a Soviet PC “Korvet” with nostalgia.
Serhiy Kalinets
Sep 19th
Serhiy is a professional developer and software architect living in Kyiv. Heavily advocates XP practices and strives to automate everything. TDD addict, console lover and containerization evangelist. Despite being .NET guy for years he tries to stay up to date with other technologies. Currently helps teams in Playtika to build cool stuff.
Nicolas Fränkel
Sep 19th
Developer Advocate with 15+ years experience consulting for many different customers, in a wide range of contexts (such as telecoms, banking, insurances, large retail and public sector). Usually working on Java/Java EE and Spring technologies, but with focused interests like Rich Internet Applications, Testing, CI/CD and DevOps. Currently working for Hazelcast. Also double as a teacher in universities and higher education schools, a trainer and triples as a book author.
Vsevolod Poliakov
Sep 19th
Linux system administrator and devops engineer, also worked as developer, team and teach lead and architector. Company I worked with: Grammarly, Ring, Kunasystems and others. Founder of largest devops community in Ukraine – ukrops.club.
Igor Borodin
Sep 19th
Random no name infrastructure guy who prefers to solve business cases using modern open-source tooling and occasionally fix or enhance that tooling with his amateurish spaghetti code.
Mykola Marzhan
Sep 19th
Mykola is Kubernetes and Clouds lover and, currently, his goal to bring databases into Kubernetes world. Since 2004, most of his career has focused on development of monitoring, update and deployment systems.
Maksym Vlasov
Sep 18th
Yet another Engineer at Thomas Cook. Likes to ride bicycles, preferably not self-writed. Time to time writes in https://t.me/catops about various Devops and cultural things. Also, has been developing various IT communities for 7 years, most recently – Hashicorp User Group Kyiv.
Anuar Nurmakanov
Sep 18th
Anuar Nurmakanov is a software craftsmanship practitioner with more than nine years of experience in mobile, web, enterprise development, architecture, Scrum, and XP approaches and who likes public speaking and knowledge sharing.
Viktor Polishchuk
Sep 18th
Software developer at Wix.com. Production experience counts more than 15 years. Expert in Java and JavaScript. Smartass.
Dmytro Parkhomchuk
Sep 16th
I’m skilled software engineer and so insipired by DDD practices of designing enterprise apps. During recent projects I’ve been working with lousely coupled microservices using CQRS and Event soursing design patterns.
Aleksandr Tavgen
Sep 16th
Aleksandr Tavgen is a Software Architect from Playtech with a more than 18y industry experience. He has worked in diverse fields at all levels of abstraction, from micro controllers to high level declarative programming and all points between. From Developer to SRE Engineer. Now we as a group working on an open source time series streaming engine in cooperation with community (InfluxDB, Grafana) Hobby projects related to Music and Theatre where we try to mix this field with IT.
Vladlen Fedosov
Sep 16th
Passionate T-shaped engineer that worked as Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Head of the technical stream, Solution and System Architect and DevOps. I know how to build software that solves people’s need and know how to manage this process.
Volodymyr Tsap
Sep 15th
At 19 applied for a Senior Technical Support Engineer position at Genesys, a leader for omni-channel customer experience & contact center solutions. Supporting Java and .NET SDK’s, handling Tier 3 cases for worldwide customers (Apple, Vodafone, T-mobile, Bank of America, etc..). After 3 years become a Staff TSE.
At 23 become a Chief Information Security Officer at the largest ukrainian internet holding company Bigmir-Internet.
In 2009 has founded and become CTO at the SHALB. The company delivers full infrastructure support, security consulting and DevOps services for more than 30 high-load projects worldwide. Now managing Linux Support and DevOps teams, providing architectural planning and private clouds design consulting.
Kevin Crawley
Sep 15th
Kevin works for Instana, a managed service provider that specializes in observability and monitoring production systems, as a Developer Advocate. He has traveled the globe speaking on topics including DevOps, Docker, Observability, and Culture Transformation at conferences and such as DockerCon, SREcon, Open Source Summit EU/US, Velocity and DevOpsDays including Tokyo and Houston. He is passionate about educating engineers about the benefits of observability, distributed tracing, and control theory.
In addition to his work at Instana, Kevin is the founder and core organizer for the local Docker meetup in Nashville and was the lead organizer for DevOpsDays Nashville in 2019. He has been distinguished by his peers as a Docker Captain for his work both professionally and within the DevOps community. He has been working in software development roles almost his entire career and enjoys learning about how fellow peers are leveraging modern practices and tooling.
Torrey Powell
Sep 15th
I have been leading software engineering teams for 19 years. My focus has always been to create highly efficient teams that create great products with scalable and maintainable code bases. I am very passionate about engineering and I thrive in dynamic environments that create a culture of collaboration and team work. For these reasons, I have been drawn to Mob Programming. Through the course of my career, I have been part of some pretty amazing teams. However, I have never experienced a team dynamic that Clearlink currently has. It is fun, energetic, highly efficient, and every team member genuinely cares about the overall performance of the team. I am excited for what Mob Programming has done for Clearlink, the engineering team, and for me personally as a leader.
Ievgen Demchenko
Sep 15th
Experienced engineering leader with over 15 years of expertise in the tech. Entrepreneur, adherent of the agile approaches, a real follower of the MVP building ideas as well as ideas of delivering the high-value products in a lean way. Certified Scrum master and Scrum product owner, PMP. Currently, a head of the Engineering at the fast-growing and successful, German based startup.
Nazarii Cherkas
Sep 15th
Nazarii Cherkas works as a Hazelcast Cloud Developer at Hazelcast – a company which develops the open source projects Hazelcast IMDG and Hazelcast Jet. Nazarii has many years of experience working at different positions from Java Engineer to Team Lead and Solutions Architect. He was involved into various projects for different industries: from Startups, Telecom, and Healthcare to the critical systems serving the infrastructure for one of world-biggest Airlines. Passioned about the Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing, Nazarii is currently working on a managed service for the Hazelcast IMDG.
Boris Trofimov
Sep 15th
Passioned follower of [scala]ble architectures, big data architect and consultant, #odjug coorganizer.
Aleksei Andreev
Sep 15th
For 4 years I have worked as a network / linux administrator at Saratov State University, after that I wrote a backend from scratch for online game, worked at ozon.ru and for the past six months I’ve been working as SRE and Go developer at Prisma.
Taras Slipets
Sep 15th
Passionate Cloud Native Software and Big Data Engineer,
Conferences Speaker,
Guitar Player,
Skier.
Orkhan Gasimov
Sep 15th
I am digital architect with over 16 years of experience in software engineering and consultancy. I love to motivate people, I love technology, and I’m proud to take part in technological shifts that transform the world around us.
Yaroslav Molochko
Sep 15th
I’m a system architect by heart, big scale and high load are my every day challenges. Failed state is the only constant in my world. I can talk about control theory, SRE, architecture of big projects. I bring theory and practice into mix of actionable steps, following that may or may not lead you to success.
Yuliia Bentsa
Sep 15th
5 years in IT. Experience in managing split teams. Passionate improver, crazy investigator, product defender.
Borys Zora
Sep 15th
Currently working as Tech Lead at PitchBook and architect at Javatar. I have worked as architect on 4 projects, 2 of them as full time employee, 2 as a consultant. Having 8-9 years development experience, my primary language is Java, but also I use Groovy and bash. I passionate about continuous-delivery. With Javatar team we open source CI/CD solutions and security library for µServices: https://github.com/JavatarPro. I have worked with different orchestration tools like Mesos/Marathon and Nomad, have used different pipelines for CI/CD like Jenkins declarative pipeline and Gitlab CI.
Andrey Vinda
Sep 15th
More than 14 years of experience in the development of applications, the last three years running the team at SBTech. The main activity is the development of highly loaded APIs based on ASP.NET Core 2. In addition to .NET, I have a practical experience of using different JavaScript frameworks. Currently I lead several projects related to high-loaded APIs that are using a micro-service architecture, supporting and improving the internal search engine and back-office solution.
Paul Stack
Sep 15th
Paul Stack is an infrastructure coder and has spoken at various events throughout the world about his passion for continuous integration, continuous delivery and good operational procedures and why they should be part of what developers and system administrators do on a day to day basis.
He believes that reliably delivering software is more important as its development. Paul’s passions are the DevOps and Continuous Delivery movements and how they help the entire business and its customers.
Mikalai Alimenkou
Sep 15th
Senior Delivery Manager, Java Tech Lead and experienced coach. Expert in Java development, scalable architecture, Agile engineering practices and project management. Having almost 15 years of development experience, specializes on complex distributed scalable systems. Active participant and speaker of many international conferences. Founder and independent consultant at training center XP Injection. Organizer and founder of Selenium Camp, JEEConf and XP Days Ukraine conferences.
Andriy Shtukaturov
Sep 2nd
Experienced engineering leader with over 18 years of expertise in the tech and professional services industry. Aficionado of engineering excellence and maturity, toil/silos automation (SRE) and agile approaches. Focused on delivering value leveraging transparent, simple and bidirectional goals (OKR). GCP Cloud Architect / Data Engineer certified.
Volodymyr Tsap
Aug 25th
At 19 applied for a Senior Technical Support Engineer position at Genesys, a leader for omni-channel customer experience & contact center solutions. Supporting Java and .NET SDK’s, handling Tier 3 cases for worldwide customers (Apple, Vodafone, T-mobile, Bank of America, etc..). After 3 years become a Staff TSE.
At 23 become a Chief Information Security Officer at the largest ukrainian internet holding company Bigmir-Internet.
In 2009 has founded and become CTO at the SHALB. The company delivers full infrastructure support, security consulting and DevOps services for more than 30 high-load projects worldwide. Now managing Linux Support and DevOps teams, providing architectural planning and private clouds design consulting.
Think Big, Start Small, Learn Fast: from small R&D to Cutting Edge, implementing Continuous Innovation
Dec 3rd
Long story short, every work has its begging and the end. Every project begins with something and ends up at some point. In case we don’t want to follow the stream, – we should create innovations and start new directions. Let’s make a journey and reach all the checkpoint we need to make the continuous innovation happen. Step by step we will solve different cases in the state of uncertainty to achieve our goal being the leader of innovations.
Kubernetes CI-CD Frameworks Case Study
Dec 3rd
A set of flexible and comprehensive operation principles to cover all stages of a modern application life cycle.
Almost any Customer wants the Setup to be compatible with existing infrastructure. It assumes a Bare Metal, Private or Public Cloud. In special cases even offline setup, for example, Airports, Fintech sector or Telecom operators. The main requirements are: Scalability, High Availability, Security Compliance, Professional Service.
So, we should cover all three tiers: Infrastructure, Control Plane and Application Plane. Market leaders are Drone, Argo and Knative. And our story we called Cloud Flex Framework.
Learning the Three Types of Microservices
Nov 27th
Microservices is a popular, but vague term. And — it turns out — definitions of microservices can vary, depending on what you want them to accomplish and how you want them to communicate with each other. So, just what are the three types of Microservices, what makes them unique, and when do you deploy each of them?
In this wide-ranging talk, you’ll learn the difference between Stateless, Data-Centric, and Aggregator microservice models, how to identify which one you need to build, and the challenges to keeping each of the up and running in a complex distributed system. You’ll also learn how to apply Nygard’s Stability Patterns (from his book, “Release It!”) to ensure your Microservice components are stable and resilient throughout the software lifecycle.
Whether you are new to Microservices or a veteran, a software developer or enterprise architect, this talk will help you get a handle on how to design and build successful Microservice components for you organization.
Continuous API Management
Nov 22nd
A lot of work is required to release an API, but the effort doesn’t always pay off. Overplanning before an API matures is a wasted investment, while underplanning can lead to disaster. This practical guide provides maturity models for individual APIs and multi-API landscapes to help you invest the right human and company resources for the right maturity level at the right time. How do you balance the desire for agility and speed with the need for robust and scalable operations?
Based on the newly-released O’Reilly book “Continuous API Management”, this talk covers :
* Learn which API decisions you need to govern and how and where to do so
* Design, deploy, and manage APIs using an API-as-a-product (AaaP) approach
* Examine ten pillars that form the foundation of API product work
* Learn how the continuous improvement model governs changes throughout an API’s lifetime
* Explore the five stages of a complete API product life cycle
* Delve into team roles needed to design, build, and maintain your APIs
* Learn how to manage your API landscape—the set of APIs published by your organization
Mike Amundsen
Nov 22nd
An internationally known author and speaker, Mike Amundsen travels the world consulting and talking about network architecture, Web development, and intersection of technology and society. He works with companies large and small to help them capitalize on the opportunities APIs and Microservices present for both consumers and the enterprise.
Amundsen has authored numerous books and papers. He contributed to the O’Reilly Media book, “Continuous API Management” (2018). His “RESTful Web Clients”, was published by O’Reilly in February 2017 and he co-authored “Microservice Architecture” (June 2016). Amundsen’s 2013 collaboration with Leonard Richardson “RESTful Web APIs” and his 2011 book, “Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node”, are common references for building adaptable Web applications. His latest book “Design and Build Great APIs” for Pragmatic Publishing is scheduled for release in early 2019.
CI/CD Infrastucture as a Code
Nov 14th
This talk is about how we integrate Jenkins with LDAP, Nexus, Nginx, Docker Swarm, Terraform to bring re-usable self-service CI/CD development platform delivered strictly from sources and why we use this set as a single point of integrations. Some insights on our open source project “DJEG”: https://github.com/shalb/djeg.
DevOps Types and Anti-patterns
Nov 12th
This Topic is based on true story and originates from a number of circumstances that served the birth of what we call devops today.
In June 2009, at the O’Reilly Velocity conference, John Allspaw and Paul Hammond presented the speech “10 Deploys a Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr.”
The presentation had a amazing effect. Allspaw and Hammond in roles play a controversial interaction between design and operation. The usual deployment scene of application deployment with all the stuff like, “This is not my code, these are your servers!”.
Only rational way forward is when application development and operation are seamless, transparent and fully integrated. Over time, this presentation has reached legendary status and is historically regarded as an important moment that brought to the IT industry the methods that we now know as DevOps.
In 2013, Matthew Skelton presented us the work of web.devopstopologies.com. This is a kind of collection of anti-patterns and best practices for building communication in teams.
I offered to grant the right to use the materials and make a report adapted to Ukrainian realities and my personal experience. Matt kindly agreed.
Speech format was made more interesting than just a set of slides and a retelling of the source: graphics and characters from Ukrainian artists, javascript animation, high-performance http server in pure assembler, Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi. I hope you will enjoy it.
Denys Vasyliev
Nov 12th
Focused on Cloud Native Solutions Architecture, Development and Operations 10+ years in Telecom industry: network engineer, technical manager, operation team and unit lead, CTO. IP transit operators, Internet Providers and Mobile Network Operators: Beeline, Kyivstar, MTS , Velcom, Mobicom, Azerfon, Azercell, Astelit 2 Startups: manager positions and system architect/software engineer role. 5 years as Co-Founder cloud b2b/b2c web application project: VoIP Roaming Solution. Today: lead software engineer in Cloud Native Media Project.
Sustainable system testing with Chaos
Nov 5th
Chaos Engineering is methodology that experiments on a distributed system in order to build confidence that the system will work well in production. Essentially, we experiment by trying to break our system to uncover system weakness.
In this talk, Paul will cover the basics of Chaos Engineer, give some case studies of companies that currently do this in production and give an introduction to some of the open source tooling that currently exists so that you can maybe try this at your company. Paul will also show that, by following good infrastructure management practices, that you can recover and scale the system when necessary, easily!
DIY Kubernetes identity provider. The Hard Way with Dex and LDAP.
Nov 5th
The idea is to help Kubernetes users to understand basics of authN and authZ, OIDC flow, mechanics under the hood, and to show how to build production-ready identity management and audit log of Kubernetes clusters, combining tools from both worlds – the old one (LDAP) and the brave new one (Dex, dex-k8s-authenticator).
Igor Borodin
Nov 5th
Passionate geek with various hands-on experience in cloudy stuff. 12-factor app apprentice and fan of Martin Fowler in general, likes to quote SRE and Continuous Delivery books. Nowadays hooked on Kubernetes and its ecosystem.
On the road to 6.9k. How to succeed in technical interview.
Nov 4th
The talk about the technical knowledge that is required for modern DevOps and SRE engineers. It’s based on more than 100 technical interviews performed last year. The questions and answers that could be useful to identify experience on each technology field. What is the “required minimum” in each stack? What books blogs and articles should be studied to become DevOps professional?
Good Service: Detect and avoid errors in the world of microservices
Nov 4th
Nothing is worse for your service’s reputation than being unwittingly down.
The developers at FINN.no are building and operating four hundred microservices to power Norway’s largest online classified ads site. There is no dedicated operations team, yet almost every major incident is limited to a few minutes of reduced service.
After a long road filled with adjustments and various initiatives to introduce monitoring across teams and domains, we have found a solution that works for us.
Learn how FINN.no builds nuanced real-time monitoring into a fleet of several hundred services; what to measure, and how to detect and isolate errors within seconds; and how to respond when something goes wrong.
Martin Lehmann
Nov 4th
Martin spends most of his time writing JavaScript for browsers and servers, and got involved in FINN.no’s monitoring efforts due to his passion for delivering good quality in all layers of the service — from uptime and response latency to a good and accessible user experience in the browser.
He has worked quite a bit on establishing good metrics to monitor the services by, and then monitoring them using various free, open source tools. He has also been part of FINN.no’s on-call group, so he has experienced the chosen monitoring solutions from several perspectives.
BOF: Web Security. Level Up^
Oct 27th
With exponential growth of internet usage and impact it has for our lives nowadays the importance of security becomes extremely more and more valuable, especially if we take into account number of users with closed to zero experience in IT and with limited knowledge in security.
That means we’re as engineers who create modern applications should take responsibility to make them more robust and secure.
In this talk I’m going to explore security topic for broader developers audience and share simple but yet useful strategies, tactics and techniques to help to make applications we create more secure.
Izzet Mustafaiev
Oct 27th
Software Engineer working in EPAM Systems with Java as primary programming language, exploring FP with Erlang/Elixir/Elm, infected by AI disrupting power. Participated in different projects as a developer and architect. Advocating XP and Clean Code and DevOps habits and practices. Sharing his experience through talks at different conferences. In real life he is a happy husband and father.
DevOps ICU: Improving DevOps Results by (Correctly) Integrating UX
Oct 27th
UX is driving you crazy, a black throwing off timelines and killing ideas. UX doesn’t seem Lean or Agile. Can’t anybody make wireframes? Can’t we circumvent or exclude these people?
DevOps is about so much more than how developers connect with IT, how infrastructure is managed, and how frameworks can be improved. It’s about recognizing how many teams are truly involved in the software development process and finding better ways to make sure everybody is at the table.
This session will explain how the UX process fits into Agile; saves companies money; augments DevOps goals; and increases customer satisfaction.
Debbie Levitt
Oct 27th
Debbie Levitt, CEO of Ptype UX & Product Design Agency, has been a UX strategist, designer, and trainer since the 1990s. As a “serial contractor” who lived in the Bay Area for most of this decade, Debbie has influenced interfaces at Sony, Wells Fargo, Constant Contact, Macys.com, Oracle, and a variety of Silicon Valley startups. Clients have given her the nickname, “Mary Poppins,” because she flies in, improves everything she can, sings a few songs, and flies away to her next adventure.
Debbie is a speaker and trainer who has presented at conferences including eBay’s Developer Conference, PayPal’s Developer Conference, UXPA, and WeAreDevelopers. She is an O’Reilly published author and one of few instructors on the planet recommended by Axure. Her newest training program is DevOps ICU, which teaches non-UX roles how to measurably improve DevOps results by correctly integrating UX practitioners and processes.
Outside of UX work, and sometimes during UX work, Debbie enjoys singing symphonic prog goth metal, opera, and New Wave. She’s now a Digital Nomad splitting her time between the USA and rural Italy.
BOF: Building the search engine: from thorns to stars
Oct 25th
In the company I have built search engine based on ElasticSearch and distributed system of data import. I would like to share my experience and speak about the following topics:
– What the search engine is and why it’s needed?
– What platforms exist to choose from?
– ElasticSearch and its capabilities.
– How to ensure continuous data flow?
– Maintenance of data consistency.
– Reduce to a minimum effort needed for search extension.
– Lessons learned.
Andrey Vinda
Oct 25th
More than 12 years of experience in the development of applications, the last two years running the team at SBTech. The main activity is the development of highly loaded APIs based on ASP.NET Core 2. In addition to .NET, it has a practical experience of using different JavaScript frameworks. Currently he leads several projects related to high-loaded APIs that are using a micro-service architecture, supporting and improving the internal search engine and back-office solution.
BOF: Myths and truths about Dependency Injection
Oct 25th
It’s 2018 and DI is a well-known and established technique on all major platforms and languages. So why can’t we still have a clear answer to the questions like ‘is DI/IoC container a mandatory thing to apply DI?’ or ‘what is a true way to implement DI in language/platform X?’ or ‘is it even a good/useful thing?’. Let’s find those answers together and refresh our memory on the initial goals and targets of DI and its surrounding design patterns.
Igor Kochetov
Oct 25th
Building client-server and distributed systems in .NET since 2007. Programming in Python since 2015. Interested in Functional Programming, ML&AI. Currently building internal tooling for Unity Technologies, focusing on improving productivity and quality of the engineering process across core teams/departments. Religious about good code, software design, TDD, SOLID, software craftsmanship. Conferences and public speaking addict.
Service Mesh – Why? How? What?
Oct 22nd
Service Mesh. What does it mean? We have already learned Microservices and can develop complex distributed applications. Is Service Mesh something we need or is another fancy buzzword?
This talk, will give an idea of what a Service Mesh is, how it is applied to existing architectures and will help you to understand if you really need it.
Why you should not start an Agile transformation
Oct 18th
Agile is a buzzword these days. Everyone wants to become Agile. And vou la your company is already in the middle of an Agile transformation. Why? Well. All articles/talks/rumors say how awesome it will be there.
But I would like to share another story. One that is hard to hear. The dark and the sad one. What downsides you will experience on that journey. How it will negatively affect your business. What will be your losses. And how not to make this situation even worse.
I do not want to blame Agile here, instead I want honestly to take a look at the dark side of the Moon. Forewarned is forearmed.
Anton Zotin
Oct 18th
Anton has worked in a wide variety of companies holding a wide range of positions: from garage startups to “bloody” enterprises; from a manual QA to a C-level position. He performed his first Scrum transformation in 2004.
– have helped many teams to become legendary.
– have consulted a wide variety of organizations across all layers.
– have trained hundreds of people through public & private classes.
– have spoken at conferences all over the world.
“I love what I do, and the reason is simple: my passion is to make software development less painful, more efficient and in this way to help people to be a little bit happier.”
Continuous Delivery with Jenkins declarative pipeline
Oct 17th
When you start your journey with µServices, you should be confident with your delivery lifecycle. In case of mistake, you should be able to navigate to appropriate tag in vcs to reproduce the bug with a test & go though pipeline within 3 hours to production with high confidence of quality.
We will discuss set of tools that could help you to achieve this within 3 months on your project. It does not include system decoupling suggestions. And in the same time, if you decide to break down monolith, it is better to do with dev & devOps best practices.
Demo examples will include among best practices some code: jenkins pipeline code is written on groovy, µServices is on spring boot, Dockerfile, mesos configurations, angularjs SPA. Tests: unit, integration, component, system (or selenium in case of UI), performance (Jmeter extended on fly with java & groovy code, with grafana dashboards that used influxdb), database backward compatibility testing, rest contract testing.
Also will be covered practices how to do Continuous Delivery for UI SPAs without harming each tenant,
customer may decide later what version of UI he want. Cloud configuration will have this information & on the fly will be ready to change behavior for the customer.
All these practices will help you deliver a lot without a harm 😉
Serhii Petrychenko
Oct 17th
Passioned with microservices and all related things to them. He knows how to split monolith application into microservices and build continuous integration process for these purposes.
Borys Zora
Oct 17th
Software Architect passioned about Сontinuous Delivery, µServices & event-driven architectures, security. Currently contributes with Javatar team to open source some helpful CI/CD practices and security libraries.
Dmytro Lavrinenko
Oct 16th
Dmytro has over 13+ years of commercial experience in software development and 6+ years of DevOps experience. Successfully led complex projects with small and middle teams, covering various aspects of software development, process, and methodology. Has strong knowledge in DevOps design and development and enterprise application architecture and implementation DevOps best practices.
Ultimate journey towards real-time data platform with 2.5M/s
Oct 14th
The story is about pain and enjoy or how we built realtime data platform with 2.5M events per second. What challenges we faced and which lessons were learned. Step by step we will introduce technologies we use like Spark, Presto, Kafka, AWS and EMR and best practices we come up to like monitoring, deployment and scaling.
Bid for Your Instances!
Oct 14th
Amazon EC2 allows you to bid for and run spare EC2 capacity, known as Spot instances, in a dynamically priced market. On average, customers save 80% to 90% compared to On-Demand prices by using Spot instances. In this session, we dive into how to design scalable, cloud-friendly application architectures can leverage new Spot features to realize immediate cost savings while maintaining availability. Attendees will leave with practical knowledge of how, via well architected applications, they can run production services on the Spot instances.
Yaroslav Koriavyi
Oct 14th
Current focus is on the architectures of secured, scaleable, responsive and available solutions. Extensive experience in designing and developing distributed system architecture, tuning/measuring application performance and availability.
Wide experience in Agile/Scrum, advocating and spreading clean code, TDD, CI/CD and other engineering practices. Striving for innovative solutions and solving business problems.
Events Processing up to 1.6 M/sec
Oct 14th
I’ll talk about evolution of our event-processing system. Will cover details of initial implementation on Spark + Hadoop, overview it’s problems, and tell about benefits we’ve got by replacing it with ClickHouse.
Immutable Database. Safe Way to Migrate Large Data Stores.
Oct 14th
Relational database schema migration is a procedure familiar for everyone: add a new field, create transformation script, run it, several seconds of waiting and done!
But what if the data volume is bigger than 1 TB or even 10+ TB? How to guarantee high availability of the storage? How not to miss the updates? What if something goes wrong during migration? Who wants to be responsible for the downtime of a 24х7х365 system?
In this talk, we’ll take a deep dive into an approach for safe large-scale data migration, that we use in YouScan to evolve multi-terabyte Elasticsearch cluster. You will understand what role do DevOps culture and Immutable Infrastructure principle play in this approach and what additional benefits it could bring.
Yevhen Bobrov
Oct 14th
Platform Engineer at YouScan. Mainly focused on high-load and scalable systems for the cloud. Open-source fan and author of several projects including Nake, Streamstone and Orleankka. Interested in design patterns, reactive architectures and distributed systems.
DevOps applied: survival guide
Oct 14th
Practical success story for building DevOps culture in Product company within classical development team from scratch: growing t-shaped skills, knowledge sharing practices used, tools to build efficient delivery ecosystem.
How we tried Kubernetes and how we are now rewriting our application
Oct 14th
The recipe for transition of functionality blocks from monolith to microservices: take Kubernetes, add the microservices, season with DevOps metrics and culture and get an excellent transformation of the architecture of your application.
We’ll talk about how we got Kubernetes, what problems we solved “out of the box”, practices on the choice of strategy for moving monolith blocks, how the DevOps culture changed in the development teams within this transition.
We will share the experience of interaction between the architectures of multi-tenant and single-tenant solutions that appeared in the process of changes. How teams created metrics for new services and how, consequently, the work processes changed.
Does one need to react to such metrics and how soon? What should not one take out into microservices? Why did we decide like this and why we don’t want to? We will tell about the experience of using such services in production, share success stories and experience in supporting such solutions.
Eugene Genov
Oct 14th
An expert with 10+ years of development experience. Areas of work – concepts of products development, development of architectural solutions. Huge experience in implementation projects and product development.
XP practices implementation for large product development team
Oct 14th
We want to share our experience in implementing a wide range of XP practices within the generated product and how they influenced the development processes and the functional quality. We will:
– compare the practices that gave the greater result and those that were less successful;
– consider the difficulties in implementation at different stages and which solutions were applied;
– describe what tools were chosen and what changes the platform underwent to enable the use of any of them in all development branches;
– tell how and where we increased the competence in the use of different approaches and how we scale knowledge to the entire development department;
– speak about the changes in the release of functionality processes and team work planning;
– share our plans and impressions why, in our opinion, it is worth going through the hard way of XP transformations to anyone who is engaged in the software development.
Vladimir Nikonov
Oct 14th
An expert with 10+ years of development experience. Areas of work – concepts of platform development, development of architectural solutions. Passioned for microservices architecture.
Conway’s transformation for legacy product
Oct 14th
The talk is about a real experience of organization transformation with 15 years old legacy monolith project into DevOps oriented, microservice-based modern company. On our way, we have grown from 40 to 80 engineers for the last two years. We have x20 increased delivery of the old main project and implemented CD for projects and processes.
Alexey Tokar
Oct 14th
Software engineer and system architect for the last 14 years. Now VP of Engineer at Form.com in a department of 80 engineers. Speaker at lots of local conferences since 2014. MongoDB fan. ActiveMQ hater.
Azure way: from PaaS to Containers.
Oct 9th
Azure is a mature cloud provider, offering many deployment options for your services. Clients can choose between them according to their scalability, maintainability, availability and pricing needs. In this talk Serhiy will share the evolution of deployment models used by small software development company for different custom project. We will discuss pros and cons of each, and how to proceed to the next level without pain.
The art of data engineering
Oct 9th
As the the data space has increased, data engineering has emerged as a separate and related role that works together with data scientists. Usually data scientists focus on finding new insights from a data set, while data engineers are concerned with the production readiness of that data.
In this talk I’ll show you how to gather and collect the huge amount of data, stores it, does batch processing or real-time processing on it, and how to build data pipeline using Airflow for processing billion of records per table.
Also we will discuss what is big data, and why it’s important to be able to process it so quick.
Andrii Soldatenko
Oct 9th
Python developer in the day, Go developer (gopher) under the hood. Big fan of full-text search and graph databases.
Top 3% of Freelance Talent (Toptal is an exclusive network of the top freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts in the world).
Contributed in different python/go open source projects:
– pyhelm, aiohttp-swagger, mezzanine
– chalice, requests, aiohttp tutorial
– sendgrid-python and sendgrid-django
– OpenAPI v3 specification, fix Go docs
Speaker at PyCaribbean, PyCon Italia 2017, EuroPython 2016, PyCon Ukraine 2014, PyCon Belarus 2015-2018 PyCon Russia 2015, 2016.
Blogger at https://asoldatenko.com/.
Serverless design patterns
Oct 8th
Join Yan in this talk to see how you can implement architectural patterns such as pub-sub, push-pull, cron, saga and decoupled invocations, and understand the trade-offs of each event source so you can use them to your advantage!
The motivation for this talk is two-fold: 1) to show the audience to some common design patterns that they can quickly adopt, but perhaps even more important 2) to expose the audience to a framework of thinking about the tradeoffs and failure modes with their choice of event sources for Lambda – eg. SNS creates a concurrent execution for Lambda for each message, which makes it a great choice when you want to maximise parallelism, but a terrible choice as a queue between services (to amortise spikes in upstream traffic).
Serverless in production, an experience report
Oct 8th
In this talk I share my experience of migrating an existing monolithic architecture for a social network to AWS Lambda, and how it empowered a small team to deliver features quickly and how they address operational concerns such as CI/CD, logging, monitoring and config management.
This sessions draws on my experience leading a team that transformed our entire architecture in under 6 months, where we also managed to cut cost by over 90%, and increased production deployments from 4-6 per month to 80-100 per month. We did that whilst coming up with solutions to those common operational concerns to ensure we not only run a serverless architecture in production, but we do so responsibly.
Yan Cui
Oct 8th
Yan is an experienced engineer who has worked with AWS for near 10 years. He has been an architect and lead developer with a variety of industries ranging from investment banks, e-commerce to mobile gaming. In the last 2 years he has worked extensively with AWS Lambda in production, and he has been very active in sharing his experiences and the lessons he has learnt.
Yan is an AWS Serverless Hero, and some of his work has even made their way into the Serverless Well-Architected whitepaper published by AWS.
Yan is polyglot in both spoken and programming languages, he is fluent in both English and Mandarin, and counts C#, F#, Scala, Node.js and Erlang amongst programming languages that he has worked with professionally. Although he enjoys learning different programming languages and paradigms, he still holds F# as his undisputed favourite.
Yan is a regular speaker at user groups and conferences internationally, and he is also the author of Production-Ready Serverless and a co-author of F# Deep Dives. In his spare time he keeps an active blog where he shares his thoughts on topics such as AWS, serverless, functional programming and chaos engineering.
Scaling data ingest to 20 billion messages/day with GDPR requirements
Oct 8th
I’m a DevOps engineer at Anchorfree. We collect a lot of data from our servers and clients since we have one of the most popular VPN services. Recently we faced a challenge to apply GDPR cleaning on our data, while at the same time we had to scale up to 20 billion messages/day (2TB of gzip-compressed per day). These requirements led us to major architectural changes after many iterations of prototypes and benchmarks. So I’d like to share my experience in the mentioned scope, good and bad architectural decisions under requirements of high load and GDPR.
Yevgeniy Byedaryev
Oct 8th
DevOps engineer in Anchorfree mostly involved in data infrastructure projects.
Infrastructure under test in Openshift
Oct 8th
This talk will cover the usage of REST API in Kubernetes and Openshift for test automation.
Main points:
– Kubernetest base concept if it will be needed.
– Radanalytics.io.
– Benefits of Openshift.
– Automation of deployment in Openshift.
– Fabric8-kubernetes-client, XTF, radanalytics-utils as libraries for Java.
– Demo of Java code for deployment and management application under test, in the Openshift.
Yegor Maksymchuk
Oct 8th
Author of Telegram channel @QAStudy.Online (https://t.me/qastudy) and very happy person.
Function as a Service in private cloud
Oct 8th
In my talk, we will have a look at Function as a Service in Alibaba private cloud. FaaS gives our developers a freedom from the DevOps world. Now they are spending time exactly on development. Serverless also significantly reduces the number of microservices in our deployment.
We will go through the difficulties that we’re facing developing and optimizing the platform. We’ll talk about how to provide the most comfortable and effective environment for the functions’ developer. I will overview the point of choosing Kotlin for such a solution and the most valuable language features.
Sergey Rybalkin
Oct 8th
Principal Engineer in Alibaba Group Russian R&D team. Leading FaaS and Kotlin adoption projects. Giving lectures on Kotlin and Java in MSU.
How to write Terraform code which will not scare you in half-year?
Oct 7th
Many of us know and use Terraform already but there are no best practices, and each team has to invent their solutions.
An infrastructure almost always starts with few resources and few developers. As time goes, it grows in all possible directions. You found your ways around grouping resources into Terraform modules, so what can go wrong? (famous last words)
After three years of maintaining an open-source collection of Terraform AWS modules and long-term usage of Terraform in production, I want to share my experience and explain how to write Terraform code which will not scare you in half-year… (or when Terraform 1.0 is out)
This talk is best for people who have already read official documentation, use Terraform and have practical questions.
Anton Babenko
Oct 7th
Anton Babenko is a long time developer, CTO, and tech-lead who is spending a large amount of his time as an open-source contributor to various Terraform & AWS projects, terraform-aws-modules, modules.tf and a few others. The most popular one is where he manages a collection of verified Terraform AWS modules (terraform-aws-modules on GitHub) which is being downloaded more than 1,5 million times. The newest one is where he describes Terraform best practices learned during several years of working with Terraform and established within the community (www.terraform-best-practices.com). He also leads AWS, DevOps and HashiCorp User Groups in Norway, organizes DevOpsDays Oslo, and speaks often at various technical meetups and conferences. He is passionate about all-things-cloud and solution architecture combined with automation and scripting.
How to build Performance Testing solution of Blazemeter level for Free
Oct 7th
Performance testing analysis, as well as application/server problem investigation, have never been easy and quick. However, here in Thomas Cook, we were able to improve and simplify the given above processes. Just through some modification/configuration of open-source solutions such as JMeter and ELK-stack tools we able to build performance testing reporting framework which can do the following:
– Easily find Bottlenecks on Script level, Business transaction and request level.
– Get to raw request-response trace of failed transactions just through several clicks.
– Get separate statistics for business transactions spread among several scripts.
– Visualizing in a representative way.
– And much more…
Join our talk to look at everything listed in action!
Yevhen Yepishev
Oct 7th
QA performance engineer of Testing Center of Excellence at Thomas Cook Group. More than 3 years of experience in automation and performance QA. Leading Performance Guild and Services in TCoE at Thomas Cook Group.
Volodymyr Prymakov
Oct 7th
Co-owner of qaexperts.pro training center of excellence. Co-author of Load testing essential workshop from QAExperts.pro. 6 years in Load Testing and head of different Performance QA Departments in the past. Head of Testing Center of Excellence at Thomas Cook Group, responsible for guidance of QA practices and processes, shared QA services, QA guilds, and QA management board in the organization consisting of more than 120 QAs distributed over the Europe and world. Generally 16 years in QA.
Microservice Testing With Ease Like A Breeze
Oct 7th
In this talk I would like to share deep knowledge and experience about Microservices testing approaches that work in Thomas Cook organization. We will talk about business and technical background, Microservice testing in release pipeline, types of verifications, tools used, typical problems, responsibilities within team, Test automation and performance. General understanding how to do Microservice testing from A to Z.
Igor Redkach
Oct 7th
QA with 8 years of experience in testing, 3 years in microservice applications. Involved intro multiple microservice architecture projects of various scale. Testing and designing test strategies, approaches and templates/documentation for integration testing with microservices.
Event-Driven Systems With MongoDB
Oct 7th
MongoDB is popular choise for data persistence which had no support for ACID transactions up until v4. Even having such support, transactions incurs higher performance cost and can lead to deadlocks.
In this talk I will explain challenges of achieving data consistency in systems that does not support AСID transactions, how to communicate state changes in a reliable manner and the approach to ensure eventual consistency of data with examples in C#.
Andrii Litvinov
Oct 7th
Andrii is skilled software engineer passionate about Domain-Driven Design, Event-Driven Reactive Systems, distributed systems, CQRS/ES and Actor Model.
How to setup TDD in a service company
Oct 7th
TDD is a brilliant technique which is easy to understand but hard to implement as a part of SDLC, especially in the world of C/C++ development outsourcing.
At a product company meetup I attended several years ago, the general outlook was that it’s impossible to use the TDD technique in outsourcing. The technical interviews held at our company tended to confirm that as well.
Since then, we have persistently tried to rectify that and seem to have finally found an exciting way we’d like to share with the community. Hopefully, we are going to start a discussion and even provide some ideas for making the process of developing a better software more straightforward and enjoyable.
Alex Babko
Oct 7th
A human, an engineer, and a manager. 10+ years on the professional field. 12 years working at Apriorit.
Extremely loves challenging technical and management tasks.
Cloud Migration. Lift-and-shift. Really? Don’t be naive!
Oct 7th
I will talk about how we tried to move our products from Rackspace Cloud to AWS in the least disruptive way and about the hindrances and disillusionment we experienced trying the lift-and-shift strategy.
Yura Nosenko
Oct 7th
10 years of experience with enterprise Java. Microservices Architecture evangelist. Working on Cloud Architecture and migrations over the last couple of years.
CI/CD on pure AWS
Oct 7th
In this talk I will show you how to build a CI/CD pipeline in AWS with, static code analysis in Sonar, tests and continuous deployment of a dockerized service through several environments by using pure AWS services like CodeStar, CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy and CodePipline. I will do a demo of such CI/CD to reveal all guts of tools and services integration and implementation. So you will see how a commit will be going through all those steps and tools to get production environment.
Andrey Trubitsyn
Oct 7th
Andriy Trubitsyn is a hands-on architect passioned for microservices architecture style and spent a lot of nights researching the topic. A person who drivers a microservices accelerator in EPAM and consults about different aspects of microservices related things. Andriy can be regularly met as a speaker on tech talks in EPAM.
He is a person who can drive an abstract concept through to a very practical solution and to focus on issues until they are overcome.
SLA, SLO, SLI, Error budgets, or how to keep calm and do your job
Oct 7th
Those who have read SRE book, noticed those abbreviations, but mostly nobody actually started using on a daily basis. At AnchorFree, we have several thousands of nodes, and hundreds of services, we have 3 SRE teams dealing with all of this with reasonable success.
In this talk I’m going to describe how Core SRE team implemented SLO and error budgets on practice, what where our pitfalls, and how you might try to do it yourself. Should you even bother?
Yaroslav Molochko
Oct 7th
System Architect at Anchorfree, where he is a part of a core team implementing best practices, which then applied companywide. Distributed computing, highload, high scale are not just buzz words for Yaroslav, but real life challenges. He knows a lot how not to do things, and a little bit about how to actually do it.
DevOps checklist or how to understand where is your team in DevOps landscape
Oct 7th
DevOps is a hot topic during last several years. Some companies, teams and products have achieved quite impressive results in this area making cultural changes, transforming their processes and practices, introducing new roles, tools and techniques. At the same time there is no common approach for measuring achievements and understanding “how DevOps” the current team/company is. In this talk I will provide attendees with basic checklist to start with and some reliable tools/techniques to monitor progress of “DevOps transformation”.
Continuous static analysis or how to keep your code healthy without waste
Oct 7th
Frequently we have a deal with “legacy code”, full of bad smells, anti-patterns and potential defects. We gather and manage Technical Debt to get rid of such code where possible or at least improve it somehow. This is usually very wasteful process, because knowledge is lost as time passed, context of changes is unclear and code is not protected with reliable tests. In this talk we will go through more efficient approaches, supported with appropriate tools and practices, to make code care a continuous process achieving controlled balance between speed and code quality.
Live Kubernetes Debugging with the Elastic Stack
Oct 7th
Your Kubernetes app is down. Your users start ranting on Twitter. Your boss is standing right behind you. What do you do?
This talk walks you through a live debugging session without panicking:
* What do your health checks say?
* Where does your monitoring point you?
* Can you get more details from your application’s traces?
* Is there anything helpful in the logs?
* What the heck is even deployed?
We are using the open source Elastic Stack in this demo with a special focus on its Kubernetes integration with metadata enrichment and autodiscovery in combination with APM/tracing, metrics, logs, and health checks.
Official Docker Images – Lessons Learned
Oct 7th
If you want to be taken seriously, you need to provide containers to your users. It’s easy — everybody is uploading containers to Docker Hub, right? Unfortunately, reality is never as easy as it sounds at first. This talk gives an overview of Elastic’s ongoing journey to providing official Docker images:
* Docker Hub: What “official” really means and why we are using our own registry.
* Base image: Just use Alpine — it is small and the perfect fit for containers. We tried that and reconsidered…
* Release policy: What do you actually get in a specific tag and how are we releasing our images?
* Support: Combine two complex systems like Elasticsearch and Docker — and you will get a lot of questions.
* Orchestration: Our current approach for orchestration and how we are treating feature requests.
Philipp Krenn
Oct 7th
Philipp lives to demo interesting technology. Having worked as a web, infrastructure, and database engineer for more than ten years, Philipp is now working as a developer advocate at Elastic — the company behind the open source Elastic Stack consisting of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. Based in Vienna, Austria, he is constantly traveling Europe and beyond to speak and discuss about open source software, search, databases, infrastructure, and security.
Serhiy Kalinets
Aug 13th
Serhiy is a professional developer and software architect living in Kyiv. Heavily advocates XP practices and strives to automate everything. TDD addict and console lover. Despite being .NET guy for years he tries to stay up to date with other technologies. Currently helps teams in Steer73 to build cool products.
Paul Stack
Aug 13th
Paul Stack is an infrastructure coder who has spoken at various events throughout the world about his passion for continuous integration, continuous delivery and good operational procedures and why they should be part of what developers and system administrators do on a day to day basis. He believes that reliably delivering software is more important as its development. Paul’s passions are the DevOps and Continuous Delivery movements and how they help the entire business and its customers.
Volodymyr Tsap
Aug 13th
At 19 applied for a Senior Technical Support Engineer position at Genesys, a leader for omni-channel customer experience & contact center solutions. Supporting Java and .NET SDK’s, handling Tier 3 cases for worldwide customers (Apple, Vodafone, T-mobile, Bank of America, etc..). After 3 years become a Staff TSE.
At 23 become a Chief Information Security Officer at the largest ukrainian internet holding company Bigmir-Internet.
In 2009 has founded and become CTO at the SHALB. The company delivers full infrastructure support, security consulting and DevOps services for more than 30 high-load projects worldwide. Now managing Linux Support and DevOps teams, providing architectural planning and private clouds design consulting.
Boris Trofimov
Aug 13th
Passioned follower of [scala]ble architectures, big data architect and consultant, #odjug coorganizer.
Volodymyr Tsukur
Aug 13th
Head of R&D @ WIX Cashier, lead engineer. Primarily focused on the development of distributed systems with an in-depth focus on the web, platforms, and APIs that bring real value to users. Passionately engaged in software development since early 2000s striving to make things right. Tech speaker, program committee member of JEEConf and XP Days Ukraine. Outsourcing partner of EasyHunt in Ukraine.
Orkhan Gasimov
Jul 23rd
Basically, I am a software engineer already 15 years. Started as a programmer in my 17 and grow up as an architect, trainer, and just a person who likes technology and hands-on practice. I am author of trainings on such topics as Microservices, Spring Cloud, Akka. I like to work with people, and trainings help me a lot to stay in touch with technical people.
Mykola Marzhan
Jul 23rd
Expert in the release process and continuous delivery. Mykola has been shorting “Time-to-market” in product companies for ten years.
Coordinator of OSDNConf and DevOps Days Kiev conferences.
Playtika
Oct 23rd
We offer round-the-clock excitement via classic games, in a free to play format, accessible everywhere.
Playtika is the world’s largest Social Casino games company. We captivate audiences with beautifully produced, highly immersive social games. Playtika was the first to introduce free-to-play casino-style games to social networks.
We are successfully applying our intuitive understanding of what players want and our mastery of marketing and monetization practices to slots, poker, bingo and other gaming categories. Playtika studios are hives of creativity, with the independence and flexibility to innovate along with the shared resources and gaming knowledge to produce best-sellers time and time again.
Collectively, we are 1500+ employees spread across 11 studios with offices in Israel, US, Canada, Belarus, Argentina, Japan, Australia, Ukraine & Romania.
We are oriented to dynamical growth and stunning popularity, and successfully cope with these tasks.
Below there are some links with different information about the company:
- About Social Casino industry. Casual Connect’14, speech of VP Business Development at Playtika.
- Playtika CTO’s speech at CouchConf
- Dou Revisor about Playtika in Kiev
- Having fun
- Open positions at the company
Intellias
Oct 18th
Intellias is a challenge-driven software engineering company, based in Ukraine (Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa) and locally represented in Berlin.
Listed as Best IT Employer (DOU.ua) and ranked by Inc. 5000 Europe, Intellias helps technology companies exponentially increase their software engineering capacity and grow their expertise. By specifically focusing on DACH, Benelux, Danish and UK markets since 2002, Intelllias is well used to dealing with local peculiarities and special market demands.
Bots on guard of SDLC
Sep 27th
One of the most boring thing in software development in large companies is following a bureaucracy. Tons of developers were melted down by that ruthless machine with its not always obvious rules. That’s why we decided to delegate all the boring work to machines instead of humans and the talk will cover the achieved results.
Alexey Tokar
Sep 27th
Software Developer, Database Administrator in a wide variety of business applications. Particularly interested in software design and software development methodologies based on iterative development. Always seek the purity, flexibility and extensibility of code. Automation addicted. Thursday hater.
3Shape
Sep 27th
3Shape is changing dentistry together with dental professionals across the world by developing innovations that provide superior dental care for patients.
Two graduate students founded 3Shape in the year 2000, and today the company’s fast-growing team of 900+ employees in 20 offices worldwide (Denmark, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, USA etc.) is serving customers in over 100 countries.
Our portfolio of 3D scanners and CAD/CAM software solutions for the dental industry includes the multiple award-winning 3Shape TRIOS intraoral scanner, the game-changing 3Shape X1 4-in-1 CBCT scanner, and market-leading scanning and design software solutions for dental labs.
3Shape has won numerous awards including the Pride Institute Award for Innovation and Technology three years in a row. Likewise, Ernst & Young presented the company with its “Entrepreneur of the Year Award” for innovation three times as well. With His Royal Highness, the Prince Consort Henrik of Denmark, bestowing the company’s founders with the King Frederik IX’s Award in 2014.
We promote a company culture built on mutual respect, honesty and openness; strong team spirit; high performance; constant professional development as a foundation of a strongly motivated and performing organization.
3Shape’s products and innovations continue to challenge traditional methods, enabling dental professionals to treat more people more effectively.
We innovate for superior patient care.
www.3shape.com
Levi9
Sep 26th
Levi9, кто мы? Мы компания, представляющая ИТ-услуги нового поколения, мы отвечаем за исключительность наших результатов перед перед своими клиентами и сотрудниками. Мы твердо убеждены в том, что открытость, активность и ориентация на результат — основные ценности, которые обеспечивают нам высокую эффективность в работе. Существует три центра разработки: в Сербии, Румынии и Украине, в которых трудятся более 600 ИТ-специалистов. У нас есть отличные технические возможности, глубокие отраслевые знания, для того, чтобы доставить технологические решения в срок и в рамках бюджета. Главный офис Levi9 находится в Амстердаме. Компания работает в соответствии с голландским законодательством и соответствует стандартам ЕС по охране интеллектуальной собственности. Наша организационная структура способствует открытости и прозрачности в отношении обязанностей и ответственности. Наши команды по работе с клиентами, состоящие из технических и бизнес-экспертов, работают вместе, чтобы достичь оптимальных результатов. Levi9 открыли свой украинский офис в Киеве более 7 лет назад. За это время компания выросла в несколько раз, как в разрезе клиентской базы, интересных проектов, так и в количестве сотрудников.
Continuously delivering infrastructure to the cloud
Sep 20th
Building infrastructure in the cloud is a different paradigm to that of physical data centers. The infrastructure we deploy today has no guarantee to be there tomorrow. You therefore need to change how you design infrastructure.
In this talk, Paul will look at some real world examples of how to deploy infrastructure to the cloud that self heals and is scalable to withstand 3rd party provider outages. This should help you think about ways to avoid that 4am pager alert.
Continuous Delivery Adventures in .NET
Sep 20th
There is a lot of tools to build the continuous delivery solution. Most of them are universal, some are platform / technology specific. Serhiy has been building and supporting various CD solutions for .NET web applications for the last few years. For a number of reasons different tools, products and approaches were used. It was a good experience that Serhiy would like to share with you.
In this talk we will review different options for code review, CI, versioning and deployment. We’ll discuss pros and cons of each, take a look at corner cases and non-obvious features. And finally we will try to choose an ideal (or close to it) set for .NET applications.
Serhiy Kalinets
Sep 20th
Serhiy is a professional developer and software architect living in Kyiv. Heavily advocates XP practices and strives to automate everything. TDD addict and console lover. Despite being .NET guy for years he tries to stay up to date with other technologies. Currently helps teams in Steer73 to build cool products.
Continuous Delivery with Drone
Sep 18th
Hi! My name is Vadim and my presentation will cover a rather young but very promising Continuous Delivery platform named Drone. I will also share some experience of using the platform in our company. The project has already outranked Jenkins on GitHub and is currently under active development. The main features of the platform, that are available out-of-the-box include the following:
* Each build step is completely isolated and is executed in a separate Docker container;
* Pipeline as a code approach (no need to install dependencies and configure CI-server manually);
* Language-agnostic plugins to extend the platform functionality.
Vadim Homchik
Sep 18th
CTO, Enterprise Architect, Software Engineer, Technical Consultant. Over 13 years of experience in software development. His core interests include software architecture and business processes automation. Loves to solve unusual technical problems and eliminate bottlenecks. Always in constant search for new approaches and technologies. Has extensive development experience with the use of Java, Node.js and Go. He also acts as inspirer of applying Agile practices in software localization (continuous localization).
Technical backlog for non-functional requirements
Sep 18th
Usually, business focuses only on features, as result only functional requirements are defined. Development team should be more proactive with non functional requirements, because business don’t have required knowledge and expertise. For it is better to use an additional tool such as technical backlog.
Nikita Galkin
Sep 18th
System Architect of high load projects at GlobalLogic. Overall 10 years of work experience in different areas of software development. Loves and knows how make developers and business happy. Believes that Software is easy, People are hard.
Transformation practices
Sep 17th
When the team is shifting to product development style, leader (or manager) faces typical problems. And for many years of building and transforming teams, each leader compose sets or frameworks of practices that allow him to succeed. I want to talk about typical problems and practices of their solutions: about product mindset and design thinking, about mentality and legacy, about evolution or revolution of development processes, about architecture and refactoring, about testing and delivery, coding and support. With each of these areas the leader lives every day in “cheek to cheek” mode and solving transformation problems. Hope my experience will helpful for you.
Docker as a key to success in deployment of large-scale IoT environment
Sep 15th
I would like to share our story and experience in deployment process migration of hundreds IoT devices from semi-manual to fully automated with Docker. In addition I will demonstrate some useful open-source projects, that could help you remotely monitor and interact with applications inside Docker containers.
Andrii Tararaka
Sep 15th
Lead Software Engineer at EPAM Systems. Over 10 years of experience in software development. The biggest fan of idea that nowadays programming can be easy and fun, instead of the hardcore coding and re-inventing the wheel.
Top-10 fails on real highload project
Sep 15th
In this talk I’m going to present experience, that I have achieved together with my team through pain on real highload project with millions of users. I will cover 10 hot stories:
– wrong selection of id algorithm, that almost led to closing of project and wasting of 2 years of development;
– fighting with over, over, overloaded MySql servers when turning replication on kills server;
– cleaning of partitions in MySql that caused server outage;
– HTML coder that changed design and instigated downtime for 4 hours;
– lack of knowledge of internal logic of Redis costs $50k;
– adding and removing servers from Memcahced pool starts full cache invalidation;
– fix of test and millions lost emails after that;
– release of one projects crashed another project;
– the biggest fail in design of message broker.
Dmitry Menshikov
Sep 15th
CTO at Aurora Technologies with 15 years of experience in software development. Dmitry has built highload systems for 7 years, has successfully used 15 languages and tens of technologies from start of his career. Retired gray hat and prior member of cybersecurity team with top places in worldwide contests, ACM participant in the past. Now he mostly teaches and mentors people to become engineers and C-level guys.
Your tests will ask you to repeat. Scalable immutable Selenium infrastructure.
Sep 15th
Once any company get WebDriver tests, or applications utilizing the WebDriver protocol, engineers of this company should think about stable Selenium infrastructure. But usually setting of scalable and really stable Selenium Grid becomes a nightmare for months. More than that, this process usually can’t be reproduced in local environment. This talk will be about the tool, named Selenoid, which brings ability to setup scalable immutable Selenium infrastructure utilizing containers even on your laptop.
Kirill Merkushev
Sep 15th
Automation man with 6 years of experience in development and automated testing of big applications. Open source fan, an active contributor to a lot of small test libs. Now maintains Jenkins GitHub plugin and tries to contribute to golang projects.
Move Fast and Consumer Driven Contract Test Things
Sep 15th
At SoundCloud, we’ve found that teams move faster when we’ve moved away from a monolith architecture to one based around microservices. Unfortunately, this new type of architecture has been prone to cascading failures when breaking changes go unnoticed in one of our services’ API’s. These failures have had a devastating impact on our system’s uptime, but we’ve found that we can mitigate some of this risk by introducing consumer driven contract tests.
Consumer driven contract tests allow each consumer service and client to define their expectations and interactions with each provider service upstream, and for provider services to verify all of these contracts as part of their build pipeline. Breakage avoided.
In this talk we’ll go through SoundCloud’s process of breaking the monolith into microservices, then see how PACT-based contract tests were introduced, and discuss some of the challenges of adopting such tests in an already-established microservices culture.
Alon Peer
Sep 15th
Alon Peer joined SoundCloud in 2015 as a backend software engineer where he helps to build and scale micro-services, and usually responds to code reviews with “should probably add a test for that”. On his free time, Alon dances Lindy Hop Swing, and negotiates a peace treaty between his cat and dog.
Microservice resilience testing with Docker & Pumba
Sep 13th
In addition to brief overview of well known approaches for resilience testing Oleksii will share his own experience along with practices, methodologies and tools, that Oracle UGBU applies for resilience testing of Java microservices.
Docker and Pumba will be used for live demo session. Following topics will be covered in details:
– how to do an automated testing of self-healing ability of the distributed system;
– how to analyze the behavior of the system when certain nodes are not available or latency has increased.
Oleksii Krutilko
Sep 13th
Seasoned IT professional with almost a decade of professional experience in commercial software development. Oleksii has a solid background in Performance Analysis and QA Automation. Worked for ABSoft, Comodo, Opower, DataArt, Oracle.
Building with Terraform
Sep 12th
Waisting your time with Configuration Managers? Bored with Ansible or fucked up with Chef? Try new DSL… yaml, yaml, yaml.. Terrrrrific Terraform! Describe what you want and this stuff will bring it on! Spend your time on porn, not on building environments! 😉
FRP: What does “declarative” mean
Sep 11th
Despite the fact that programming has been improved dramatically for last years, we’re still experiencing the same problems as 10 years ago.
Modern garbage collectors, smart pointer, thread dispatchers have made developer’s life much easier… Almost made…
Although the deadlocks, race conditions, memory leaks and random crashes occur less often than ever before, the time we waste on solving each issue is getting more and more.
In my talk, I’ll introduce different (very old actually) look at programming: the declarative paradigm. And it’s not about “how to use it properly and get the problems above rid off”. It’s about “how to think to use it properly”.
On real examples, I’ll explain how we can interpret imperatively written code into “Graph of dependencies” and then convert it to declarative FRP style. It’s not only about the “states”. It’s about sequences of operations also. I’ll introduce some patterns of asynchronous programming like Future and Stream (aka Signal) and explain how effectively they may work.
Peter Ovchinnikov
Sep 11th
Peter loves when innovations are becoming a part of our life. Thus, working closely with startups, he is bringing new approaches, new ideas and new technologies to the world. As leader of Mobile department of Crossroad Labs, he successfully released several startups, one of them (Cool Cousin) has become quite popular across the traveler’s.
Metrics: howto (for ops and dev)
Sep 11th
From this talk you will understand what metrics are important, how to create perfect alerts, why do you need to spend your time on building metrics. Also we will review in this talk some math, visualizations and cross team communication hacks.
Think in events
Sep 11th
Tired of fancy abstractions without actual down to earth implementation? In this talk we will go through some benefits of having event-sourced model on a real example. This is full-time live coding and we will start from a simple Spring Boot based OOP application and turn it upside down with events. Basic knowledge about DDD and/or OOP is welcome!
Jakub Pilimon
Sep 11th
Software Developer, Trainer @ Bottega IT Minds, DZone’s Most-Valuable Blogger. Passionate programmer with 7 years of experience. DDD, TDD and architecture are his main areas of interest. When Jakub doesn’t program he runs a DDD/architecture training, rides motorbike, grows his beard. He has DZone MVB awarded blog: pillopl.github.io.
Luxoft
Aug 31st
Luxoft is a leading provider of software development services and innovative IT solutions to a global client base consisting primarily of large multinational corporations. With deep domain expertise in the finance, telecom, energy, automotive, travel and aviation industries, the company consistently goes beyond its clients’ expectations by bringing together technology, talent, innovation, and the highest quality standards.
Luxoft Ukraine is the region’s leading IT outsourcing provider, delivering software development services to global and national organizations. Established in 2005 in Kyiv, Luxoft Ukraine now includes more than 3800+ employees serving more than 50 clients from its delivery locations in Kyiv, Odessa and Dnipro.
We continue growing and developing, which causes a substantial amount of vacancies for IT-specialists of various specializations. For more information visit https://career.luxoft.com/.
Fighting with Waste Driven Development: Lean Thinking for Software Developers
Aug 31st
As developers, we often complain about the efficiency problems we face while working. We work hard but produce so little that our whole development life turns into a hamster wheel at some point. One of the biggest reason of such a common problem is working in waste. Waste is in everywhere, in our source code, in the office, in our processes and even in management. In this session, we will cover all technical aspects of software development, including code, tests, deployment strategies, coding standards, automization points, code comments, bug fixing procedures, living with technical debt, etc. I will talk about all the wastes we produce while developing software and how we can remove to make our development life leaner.
Git Anti-Patterns: How To Mess Up With Git And Love It Again
Aug 31st
Git is one of the most powerful tool in developers’ toolbox. If you use it correctly, it dramatically increases productivity of developers and eliminates the waste products continuously. Developers cultivate a development culture on top Git most of the time.
It’s powerful but its power is untamed. Many teams fall into several traps of misusing commands and therefore feel uncomfortable while using Git. We mess up Git history, the codebase and the whole preferred branching strategy in seconds. We use branches, merge/rebase strategies, creating commits in wrong ways. Even we never take committing paradigms into account while using Git.
As a software craftsman, I’ve been using Git for years and I’ve already educated Git to hundreds of developers in all levels. I’m so lucky; I had a chance to experience huge amount of anti-patterns in time. In this talk, I will talk about what those anti-patterns are and what should we do in order not to fall into them.
Lemi Orhan Ergin
Aug 31st
Founder of Software Craftsmanship Turkey and Agile Software Craftsman at iyzico. Simply passionate developer, technical architect, Agile culture cultivator, Agile coach, Scrum / Kanban practitioner and trainer, experienced mentor, Git trainer and lover, the TDD guy, clean coder, infected with tests, presentation and visualization freak, non-stop learner, full time apprentice of my masters, the community guy… His slides are viewed more than 1M times.
Cloud Cost Optimization Techniques and Hacks For Enterprise Apps
Aug 31st
The promise of “the cloud” is that you can get as much as you want, when you want it, and only pay for what you use. But is that the reality? The reality is an inconsiderate usage that leads to exorbitant costs is more common than you think. That is why in this session you will see techniques and even some hacks that bring the promise of the cloud to reality.
This presentation is a practical look at real world Cloud stories that will answer many of the questions people have about moving to the cloud and getting the best configuration for optimal performance at the lowest possible cost.
Can you keep a secret?
Aug 30th
Every enterprise system has tons of sensitive data like database passwords or third-party API keys. Quite often people store this data openly in internal repositories, continuous integration pipeline or configuration managements systems. The bigger company the stricter security rules. It is more complex and important when you have thousands of different applications and each one has its own secrets. In this talk I am giving an overview of my personal experience on Vault technology and will show by example how you can build your own policies and move your secrets to the Vault.
Valerii Moisieienko
Aug 30th
As Senior Application Engineer at Oracle UGBU, Valerii develops an energy report generation platform. His interests lay in big data\highload system design and implementation.
Oracle Certified Professional, MapR Certified HBase Developer.
Teaching Elephants to Dance
Aug 30th
Feeling bludgeoned by bullhorn messaging suggesting your monolithic behemoth should be put down (or sliced up) to make way for microservices? Without question, ‘unicorn-style’ microservices are the super-nova-hot flavor of the day, but what if teaching your tried and true monolith to be a nimble, fast-dancing elephant meant you could deploy every week versus every 6 to 9 months? For most enterprises, weekly deployments (or something close) would fundamentally transform not only operations and business results, but also the inherent value of developers willing to step up to lead the dance lessons. See beyond the hype to understand the deployment model your business case actually demands, and if weekly deployments courtesy of a dancing (or flying!) elephant fit the bill, love the one you’re with as you lead the organization’s journey to digital transformation!
Origins of Serverless
Aug 29th
Serverless is new trend in software development. It’s confusing many developers around the world. In this talk I’ll explain how to build not only crop images or select data from DynamoDB, but build real application, what kind of troubles are we should expect, how to make decision is your task fit into serverless architecture in Python or may be you should use, general approach. How fast serverless applications and more important how to scale it.
Andrii Soldatenko
Aug 29th
My name is Andrii Soldatenko and I like testing and programming. I’m CTO in Tippilab. Also I’m working as Go Backend Developer at https://github.com/kubermatic.
I boast expertise as a Python and Golang developer with strong hard and soft skills. I have deep knowledge of automated-testing and really understands how to assess and improve project quality. I like to solve difficult tasks, algorithms and take part in sport programming contests. I’m also interested in databases and unix based operating systems and has fallen in love with natural language processing and text mining.
Collaborative Development: The Only CD That Matters
Aug 28th
In today’s increasing business need for more deployments, continuous testing, and better quality code, one thing that is not explicitly discussed is a strategy for how software teams should collaborate across their company. Before you invest all your time and energy into Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery, make sure you have a solid foundation of Collaborative Development. In this talk, we’ll look at some collaboration patterns that have had success, why they’re important, and how you can adopt these patterns within your own software development teams to build software better tomorrow.
ChatOps: How to Enhance Your DevOps Workflow
Aug 28th
Have you been told that your company is moving to a more DevOps development culture, but you have no idea what that really means? Everyone wants to run a more productive and agile engineering team by balancing the competing priorities of rapid releases and stable systems. DevOps is a movement that everyone is either wishing they had, talking about setting up, or getting ready to implement. But how does your company chat client fit into this and how can it help speed things up?
In this talk we’ll look at ChatOps and how it can bring GitHub and many core DevOps tools and philosophies to developers’ fingertips for everyone’s benefit. We’ll also see what other tools can plug into a chat client to optimize development workflows, and what immediate results we can expect to see as we start implementing integrations. By the end of this session, we will have outlined clear steps to ship code faster and safer today.
Go-ing there and back again
Aug 28th
This talk is another reminder that tests are code too and need care and feeding. It describes an experimental spike that we ran on a complex Go project to make the integration tests faster and more readable. We showed how not to rely too heavily on the testing framework and to refactor test code to represent the domain better. We also showed that teams have to move at their own pace, and that teams have to take into account the “House Style” of coding.
Valtech
Aug 28th
Valtech is a global digital agency where experiences are engineered. We are revolutionizing how our clients connect with their consumers, closing the experience gap and orchestrating omni-channel customer journeys. We are innovators, design thinkers, marketers, creatives and developers spanning 5 continents with offices in 16 countries (France, USA, UK, Canada, China, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, India, Australia, Singapore, Argentina, Brazil, Ukraine) with 2500+ consultants. In Ukraine: 5 offices with 200 consultants: Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Chernihiv, Chernivtsi.
While our expertise is in technology, marketing and experience design, our passion is in addressing transformational business challenges for our clients. With a strong belief that differentiation comes from orchestrating seamless experiences around the customer, we close this gap by redesigning the customer journey and implementing the right, fully connected solution.
With a renowned commitment to innovation and agility, Valtech creates unprecedented success for our Global 500 clients while optimizing time-to-market and return on investment.
We invite you to join Valtech on our exciting journey into the future, be a part of our vision and share in our success. Valtech. Where Experiences are Engineered.
A better approach for testing microservices: introducing test kits in practice
Aug 28th
Micro-services are the new black; everyone is using them. Alas, when your system is composed of many micro-services, testing becomes more challenging. The straight-forward approach for E2E testing no longer suffices and for integration tests it doesn’t even exist. A better way to test in this kind of an environment would be to work with a test kit of the micro-service you are interacting with.
By the end of this talk, you will learn how to create a test-kit that covers your micro-service. Testing this way will grant you a much higher level of confidence, and will portray a more accurate picture of your assumptions vs. reality. Overall it will make any integration between micro-services easier, thus benefit your colleagues and make your company progress faster.
Maxim Novak
Aug 28th
Maxim is full of enthusiasm for innovation, and passionate about technology. He’s been in the R&D field for 10 years and his experience includes developing, designing, and leading large-scale software projects. He currently works on core back-end projects that empower Wix’s platform to serve over 100 million sites.
DevOps: Modern Trends
Aug 28th
A pragmatic overview of the ‘old-but-current’ and ‘new-and-uncommon’ processes, methodologies and practices in the DevOps/Release Management area. Implementation of Continuous Delivery, Value Stream Mapping, Delivery Pipeline, Continuous Testing, Infrastructure as Code, Test-Driven Infrastructure, Developer Self-Service will be reviewed. Advantages and disadvantages of cloud platforms for the DevOps process will be briefly reviewed. The second half of the talk will be focused on software upgrade strategies and the correct approach to database schema update.
Mykola Marzhan
Aug 28th
Mykola Marzhan has over 9 years of experience in the automation of release procedures, monitoring, development of update and deployment systems. Frequent speaker at different Linux conferences, workshops and other events, coordinator of OSDN conference, organizing committee member at LVEE conference.
Burr Sutter
Aug 21st
Burr Sutter is responsible for Red Hat’s developer experience. Burr is currently an Oracle Java Champion, and was previously president of the Atlanta Java Users Group and founder of the DevNexus conference. Burr has spoken at numerous developer events from Bangalore to Brussels and from Berlin to Beijing, covering most parts in-between.
Steve Freeman
Aug 21st
Steve Freeman, author of Growing Object Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (Addison-Wesley), was a pioneer of Agile software development in the UK. He has developed software in many organisations from small vendors to multinational institutions. Previously, he has worked in research labs and software houses, earned a PhD, written shrink-wrap applications for IBM, and taught at University College London. Steve now works as an independent and for Zuhlke Engineering in London.
Feature Branching is Evil
Aug 19th
Feature branching is gaining in popularity due to the rise of Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) like Git and Mercurial. Mostly because proponents of DVCSs rely on feature branching to sell DVCS. And because of the success of branching models like GitFlow and GitHub Flow.
Like all powerful tools, there are many ways you can use DVCSs, and not all of them are good. Although the creation of feature branches became very easy with DVCSs, it does not mean cheap in the long run. It comes with a certain cost which impacts the stability and speed of your software delivery process.
During this session we will explore some of the reasons teams are using feature branches, what problems are introduced by using feature branches and what techniques exist to avoid them all together. In conclusion we will explore what is evil about feature branching, which is not necessarily the problems they introduce. But rather the real reasons teams are using them for.
The key takeaway will be an appreciation of a different branching strategy and how it relates to Continuous Integration.
The target audience is anyone using version control systems in a Continuous Integration and Delivery context.
Thierry de Pauw
Aug 19th
Thierry is an Agile Technical Coach, Continuous Delivery consultant and Lean and XP Software Engineer.
He is a jack-of-all-trades with a passion to help teams create meaningful software, with a keen eye for code quality and the software delivery process, from customer interaction to continuous delivery. Instead of balancing quality & delivery, he believes and practices that better quality is actually a way to more and better deliveries.
Thierry is founder of ThinkingLabs, a consultancy around Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
Monitoring of reactive systems
Aug 15th
Nowadays most of the new systems are distributed and use network as communication layer between their runtime elements. Reactive nature of the network and growing trend of brining reactive priniciples into applications themselves allow to organize systems which can process more user requests with less amount of resources. The main tradeoff for such approach is complexity, which basically brings more challenges to monitoring of such systems and tuning their performance.
During the talk speaker will share the experience of dealing with described problem. Journey will start from the basic monitoring priniciples to align everybody before diving into the world of modern monitroing tools. The capabilities of Dynatrace and OpsClarity are going be presented to demonstrate what information can be used during preproduction and production usage of the system. In the end of the session lessons learned will be shared collected while bringing big reactive distributed system into production.
Yevgen Mospan
Aug 15th
Yevgen has been in IT for 12+ years, currently being an expert at Java Competence Center and also often assigned as a Solution Architect to production projects. He has been involved in different projects in many business domains such as insurance, e-commerce, billing and logistics. His main interest is modern Java trends for building scalable, robust, highly available applications with focus on effective architecture.
Dmitriy Yefimenko
Aug 11th
Product and team manager, software architect, business and system analyst with more than 18 years of experience. Last 9 years specializes on sophisticated distributed fintech products, agile transformation and development processes. Active speaker of many conferences and events.
360° Monitoring of Your Microservices
Aug 10th
“With microservices every outage is like a murder mystery” is a common complaint. But it doesn’t have to be! This talk gives an overview on how to monitor Spring Boot applications, since they are increasingly popular for building microservices. We dive into:
* System metrics: Keep track of network traffic and system load.
* Application logs: Collect and parse your logs.
* Uptime monitoring: Use Heartbeat to ping services and actively monitor their availability.
* Application metrics: Get the information from Boot’s metric and health endpoints, store it, and visualize it.
* Request tracing: Use Sleuth to trace requests through a distributed system and Zipkin to show how long each call takes.
And we will do all of that live, since it is so easy and much more interactive that way.
Philipp Krenn
Aug 10th
Philipp is part of the infrastructure team and a Developer Advocate at Elastic, spreading the love and knowledge of full-text search, analytics, and real-time data. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and meetups about all things search & analytics, databases, cloud computing, and devops.
Designing of REST API automation tests in Kotlin
Aug 8th
Let’s imagine the REST API with N endpoints and PostgreSQL with Mongo DB under the hood. And yes, it is possible to automate it in a really non-trivial way using the cutting-edge technologies and frameworks: Kotlin, Spring Boot and Cucumber BDD. After this session, you’ll likely change your mind about design approaches of test frameworks.
Dmitriy Sobko
Aug 8th
Lead automation QA engineer with 5+ years of experience in testing of high-loaded applications. Designed variety of automation test frameworks for both functional and performance tests as well as for monolith applications and microservices using Java, Kotlin, Scala and different test frameworks. Inspired by clean code and great application design.
Experimenting on Humans’ (or, ‘everything you want from an a/b testing system’)
Aug 8th
How do you know what 100 millions users like? Wix.com is conducting hundreds of experiments per month on production to understand which features our users like and which hurt or improve our business. At Wix we have developed our 3rd generation experiment system called Petri, which was open sourced. Petri helps us maintain some order in a chaotic system that keeps changing. We will also explain how it works and what are the patterns in conducting experiments that have a minimal effect on performance and user experience.
Talya Gendler
Aug 8th
Talya Gendler has been writing code for the past 10 years. Passionate about clean and beautiful code and with a soft spot for building stuff for developers. Talya developed Petri (Wix’s A/B testing system) and now works and mentors in various projects for Wix’s server guild.
Future of Serverless
Aug 8th
4 years ago, mid 2013, we have identified a gap in the cloud echo-system. The landscape of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS provides solutions for VMs, Container and Networking, platforms of different types for backend developers, Backends for mobile developers and ready made software for individuals and enterprises. What is missing in the middle is the platform for web-sites and web-apps.
4 years down the line, with the emergence of Serverless, there are still no players in this gap. We will talk about what makes a platform for web-sites and web-apps. Things frontend optimized javascript, SEO, visual builder, web methods & backend javascript as well as request time container boot.
We have built Wix Code over the last 4 years targeting this exact gap – a serverless platform for website and web applications, and so …
Wix is taking the risk of predicting the future of serverless computing and where it should be 4 years from now.
Yoav Abrahami
Aug 8th
Yoav Abrahami is the head of the Wix Code program at Wix. Before the Wix Code project, yoav founded the Wix App Market while acting as the Chief Architect at Wix.com. Yoav’s experties are in software development, continuous delivery, devops, performance and building developer facing products.
Migrating huge monolith to microservices. How we did it in details.
Aug 8th
This session is about migration from a huge monolith to microservices. I will tell you about our experience, not theory. The session depicts prerequisites to start a monolith separation, problems I bumped and obstacles that were overcome. In my presentation I will shortly depict problems with the monolith, show appearance of business and framework modules separation, describe necessity of internal and external API, depict certification of libraries and microservices and touch other questions like branching/release strategies.
Andrey Trubitsyn
Aug 8th
Andriy Trubitsyn is a hands-on architect passioned for microservices architecture style and spent a lot of nights researching the topic. A person who drivers a microservices accelerator in EPAM and consults about different aspects of microservices related things. Andriy can be regularly met as a speaker on tech talks in EPAM.
He is a person who can drive an abstract concept through to a very practical solution and to focus on issues until they are overcome.
Safer Refactoring with The Mikado Method
Aug 2nd
Have you ever had that sinking feeling after embarking on what seemed like “an easy change” that it is slowly spiraling out of your control ? What about the feeling of despair when critical technical debt is yet again ignored because it’s sheer size and complexity make it too daunting to know where to start?
I used to have these feelings a number of years ago until I discovered The Mikado Method, a technique formalized by Ola Ellnestam and Daniel Brolund in 2014.
I’ll give an explanation of the main steps of the method and share with you how I started using the method to make sure my refactorings were not soul destroying trials of fire, and eventually how we started using them in teams to tackle big refactorings that were going to require multiple sprints to achieve.
Application Architecture – Inside/Outside Thinking With Hexagons
Aug 2nd
The traditional layered architecture has been around for a long time, and for equally as long has been often implemented naively with little to no regard for the direction of dependencies, who is coupled to whom and who is causing change to whom.
I will discuss the Hexagonal Architecture approach first written up by Alistair Cockburn and how it provides a clear way to think about your application and it’s most important pieces, namely the boundaries between different responsibilities and how to keep them from become entangled.
I’ll also show some concrete examples of how I’ve implemented various adapters in .NET for incoming (commands / use cases) and outgoing (persistence / notification etc…) ports.
A Crystal Ball to Prioritize Technical Debt
Aug 2nd
Most organizations find it hard to prioritize and repay their technical debt, and the main reason is the scale of modern systems with million lines of code and multiple development teams; No one has a holistic overview. So what if we could mine the collective intelligence of all contributing programmers and start to make decisions based on data from how the organization actually works with the code? This session introduces one such approach with the potential to change how we view software systems.
In this session you get an introduction to techniques that help us uncover both problematic code as well as the social dimension of the teams that build your software. The techniques are based on software evolution and findings from various fields within psychology. This combination lets you prioritize the parts of your system that benefit the most from improvements, detect organizational issues and make practical decisions guided by data. Each point is illustrated with a case study from a real-world codebase. This is a new perspective on software development that will change how you work with code.
Adam Tornhill
Aug 2nd
Adam is a programmer that combines degrees in engineering and psychology. He’s the founder of Empear where he designs tools for software analysis. He’s also the author of Your Code as a Crime Scene, has written the popular Lisp for the Web and self-published a book on Patterns in C. His other interests include modern history, music and martial arts.
Nathan Johnstone
Aug 1st
Currently working as a .NET Pathfinder/Architect at Coolblue, Nathan helps teams to achieve mastery in TDD, refactoring techniques and system architecture. Software development is a life long passion that started with writing games in basic on his first computer (Commodore 16) at the age of 8 and continues to this day.
Improving Your Organization’s Technical Prowess With Legacy Code Retreats
Aug 1st
In his book “Understanding the Four Rules of Simple Design”, Corey Haines is talking about good design principles and teaching us how to practice them using Code Retreats. Unhappily, many of us have to do with legacy code in our daily lives, and find ourselves frustrated when we try to make legacy code better. JB Rainsberger has started a variation on Corey Haines’ code retreats, making them more practical for legacy code practitioners. I’d like to be able to use this legacy code in Java often.
For the duration of the master-class, we want to learn the classic Michael Feathers dance of:
- 1. Identify change points
- 2. Find an inflection point
- 3. Cover the inflection point (break external dependencies, break internal dependencies, write tests)
- 4. Make changes
- 5. Refactor the covered code.
We also would lay out the practicalities of having a legacy code retreat: Who comes? How should they pair? When do the pairs switch?
Vsevolod Poliakov
Aug 1st
Having experience as a platform engineer and DevOps tech lead at Grammarly, now Vsevolod works as DevOps and infrastructure consultant, helping companies and startups to achieve their goals in culture, infrastructure, monitoring, architecture, and tools areas. He is big fan of monitoring, DevOps and containers. Also likes comic books and guitar playing.
Paul Stack
Aug 1st
Paul Stack is a London based infrastructure coder and has spoken at various events throughout the world about his passion for continuous integration, continuous delivery and good operational procedures and why they should be part of what developers and system administrators do on a day to day basis. He believes that reliably delivering software is more important as its development. Paul’s passions are the DevOps and Continuous Delivery movements and how they help the entire business and its customers.
The hard way to production
Aug 1st
In this talk, I am going to tell a real story of the project that has made a hard way, from developers computer to production environment within a year. I will drag through painful moments with infrastructure, development, Ops and QA. Participants will see how QA team became a driving force and joined Devs and Ops guys to achieve the project goals.
Sergey Pirogov
Aug 1st
The main specialization of Sergey Pirogov is functional automation testing. He is active blogger at http://automation-remarks.com. Has experience in building test automation processes from scratch. A fan of Groovy language. Participated as a speaker at QAFest, Selenium Camp, SQADays, QA Conference, QA Expert Day.
Volodymyr Tsap
Jul 27th
At 19 applied for a Senior Technical Support Engineer position at Genesys, a leader for omni-channel customer experience & contact center solutions. Supporting Java and .NET SDK’s, handling Tier 3 cases for worldwide customers (Apple, Vodafone, T-mobile, Bank of America, etc..). After 3 years become a Staff TSE.
At 23 become a Chief Information Security Officer at the largest ukrainian internet holding company Bigmir-Internet.
In 2009 has founded and become CTO at the SHALB. The company delivers full infrastructure support, security consulting and DevOps services for more than 30 high-load projects worldwide. Now managing Linux Support and DevOps teams, providing architectural planning and private clouds design consulting.
Howard Deiner
Jul 27th
As a software consultant for SolutionsIQ, Howard Deiner specializes in Agile process and practices. He has a background spanning over forty years in the industry, with extensive experience in commercial software, aerospace, and financial services. Having played most of the roles in software development, he now enjoys giving back to replenish what he’s taken.
Designing Functional Programs
Jul 27th
Functional Programming promotes immutability and the use of higher order functions. For those of us who have designed and architected applications using imperative style of programming and the object-oriented paradigm, this largely appears like a strange idea. We often ask, how is it practical to apply these ideas, realistically to build practical applications. It turns out it’s highly practical but we have to change how we design and how we model our systems. Come to this presentation to think about functional style and how to start viewing design to make better use of this way of programming.
Speed without Discipline: a Recipe for Disaster
Jul 27th
The demands on applications have never been more intense. The users on the web, combined with mobile devices, ask for highly responsive applications. Our customers, thanks to open competition and perceived agility, expect tomorrow’s features be delivered today. “Are you done yet” are the dreaded words of the corporate grind.
Tools have risen to address those demands for speed. While that’s wonderful, speed in the absence of discipline is hard to sustain. In this keynote we will discuss the practices that can help alleviate the pains while helping us cope with the demands, the reasons to do so, and the approach we can take to achieve that.
Venkat Subramaniam
Jul 27th
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.
Igor Fesenko
Jul 26th
Igor Fesenko is an Application Architect at SoftServe Inc. and Microsoft® Most Valuable Professional. He is passionate about designing and developing scalable, flexible, cloud ready software solutions, utilizing state of art security practices. He is proficient in C#, JavaScript & Azure and has managed and assessed multiple projects focusing on high performance and large data solutions, taking advantage of all the features and capabilities available on target platform. His current focus is on the building and improvement of scalable and secure web applications, cloud-enabled applications and operations, and identity & access management.
Everything as a Code
Jul 26th
Development process is not finished with coding phase completion. We also need to write some kind of documentation, think about verification procedures, make sure availability and other non-functional requirements are satisfied.
We usually do things with the most familiar approach, even if it contains much manual work and not so efficient. But what if there is another radically different approach? Could we formalize all our activities and structure them as a code? What tools and practices could be used for this purpose?
In this talk Alexander is going to present his personal experience in automation of different aspects of development process.
Alexander Tarasov
Jul 26th
Alexander is software engineer at one of most popular social networks Odnoklassniki. He introduced a new architecture with microservice approach and DevOps approaches in production environment in one of the largest private bank in Russia. He has more than 10 years of experience in server-side Java development and more than two years of deployment automatization, different engineering practices. He is a Docker and DevOps fan.
Rapid Development With Microservices
Jul 26th
Microservices is not a buzzword anymore, it influences our development process as well as our organizational structure. But still, when we start a new service, we want to move fast. Can we move fast while architecture our system correctly?
After developing a number of services in Wix, I want to share some of my experience with developing and architecting systems while keeping a high velocity.
Noam Almog
Jul 26th
Noam is a backend engineer, and member of the backend engineering group in Wix. Noam is passionate about Clean Code and Software Craftsmanship and practices it on a daily basis at Wix. At Wix he designed, coded and deprecated many different projects and spends most of days coding while trying to keep up with as many exciting and emerging technologies. At his free time he is an amature photographer and a backpacker at heart.
Chatbot in just 30 minutes
Jul 26th
In this live-coding session, Eduards will show how to build a production-ready, interactive chatbot for Slack. After the session, you’ll have a firm understanding how to build your own chatbot using open source toolset. No fluff, just code!
Eduards Sizovs
Jul 26th
Eduards is a hands-on software architect, energiser, leader of Latvian Software Craftsmanship Community, organizer of the biggest software development conference in Latvia – DevTernity and a training center for experienced developers – DevChampions.
Lessons from automating Crash Reports handling at Unity
Jul 26th
To be one of the leading tools for game developing industry with reach functionality and target platforms from desktop and mobile to VR/AR while having more than a million of registered users worldwide puts enormous pressure on QA and Support teams to deliver highest possible quality and smooth user experience.
Every software happen to have bugs, especially such complex ones like Unity.
Imaging trying to manually process around 6000 of user submitted bug reports per month! Your first reaction is to put more resources onto it, then you realize it stops scaling well and you start looking for other solutions.
In this talk we will discuss challenges we faced and solutions we made in order to build internal tools to help automate handling of crash reports (from collecting callstacks for both native (C++) and managed (C#) code, to infrastructure for submitting and storing reports, to online processing and decision-making services) which made everyday’s life of testers, developers and release managers at Unity much easier while providing our users with better feedback and quicker solutions to their problems.
Igor Kochetov
Jul 26th
Software developer (.Net, Python) with 10+ years of expertise designing and developing distributed client-server applications currently building internal and external tools for Unity Technologies to enhance productivity of QA and R&D teams. Good engineering practices evangelist, religious about team culture and processes automation. Speaker at user groups and local events.
Code Review tool for personal effectiveness and waste analysis
Jul 20th
Usually it is hard to analyze personal effectiveness and detect wastes in development process because developer’s work decomposition is not transparent and available for analysis. As a good sample of ineffective process imagine developer, who spends 1 day on task implementation and then reimplements it several times according to code review notes during next 2 days. Or another developer, who is waiting for code review during 2 days, switching context to other tasks, finally gets notes and switches back to initial task, trying to refresh all details in his head. And so on and so forth…
Code review tool usage helps to aggregate lots of useful information about any code change at any stage (static analysis, code review, rework, acceptance, integration into main branch). In this talk I’m going to demontrate how this information could be used for detailed analysis of development effectiveness and wastes detection. Based on mentioned analysis you could implement many improvements for your development process and then measure their success.
Funny stories and anti-patterns from DevOps landscape
Jul 20th
During last several years DevOps became strong buzzword used almost in every project, team and company. But almost everywhere it is used in very funny and strange context. For example, existing ops guys are renamed to DevOps just to sell them to the client for more money. Or DevOps is used as new job title for some magically powerful person who is able to operate cloud environment and modern infrastructure related tools, leading team of old school ops and participating in management meetings. In this talk I’m going to review all different anti-patterns and bad practices in DevOps landscape using stories from my personal experience as Delivery Manager and independent consultant.
Mikalai Alimenkou
Jul 20th
Senior Delivery Manager, Java Tech Lead, experienced coach, conference organizer and independent consultant. Expert in Java development, scalable architecture, Agile engineering practices and project management. Having 13+ years of development experience, specializes on complex distributed scalable systems. Active participant and speaker of many international conferences. Founder and coach in training center XP Injection. Organizer and founder of Selenium Camp, JEEConf, XP Days Ukraine and IT Brunch conferences. Founder of active “Anonymous developers club” (uadevclub).
Evolution of the delivery system in evo.company
Oct 5th
Evo.company serves few big marketplaces in Ukraine and USSR, the biggest one is prom.ua. We are running several hundred of bare metal servers in six data centers in four countries. Currently, we are in the process of migrating our applications from the traditional setup of ubuntu packages and pythonic virtualenv to containers and our own orchestration system.
This work includes setting up continuous integration and delivery pipeline, containers, monitoring, logging. And as usual, the biggest challenge is to train our colleagues to use new stuff, to prove that it’s not a waste of time and allow more people to know how to keep systems running. In this talk, I’ll discuss both the technical and organizational challenges we are facing and how we cope with them.
Paul Colomiets
Oct 5th
Paul has been coded in Python for 10 years, now coding mostly in Rust. He is obsessive about asynchronous code and microservice-based architecture. As a part of daily job he is building containerization and orchestration systems for evo.company.
DevOps guide for awesome quality assurance
Oct 5th
The practical story telling how Devops changed the culture of quality in the Bank. Recently Devops became mainstream topic. But only few people have a deep understanding how to apply it to the process of software quality assurance. Some believe that the Devops kills manual testing.
I will talk about changes it makes to the role of QA engineers themself. The discussion main point is NOT about tools or technologies. It’s NOT about the “silver bullet” for your problems with the quality of products.
Instead, I will show you an integrated approach which we used for quality assurance. It allowed us to significantly reduce the cost of finding and fixing defects. This approach has also accelerated the development and delivery value to our customers and made the whole process more transparent and predictable.
Anastasiya Aseeva
Oct 5th
Leads projects of testing automation and DevOps at Alfa-Bank. She is DevOps evangelist, engineering practices adept and agile testing couch, rocking QA-industry since 2012. Has passed all roles ranging from manual QA to QA Lead.
Nastya has been in IT since 2007, started as developer and system admin. For 4 years she has been involved in testing of more than twenty projects. She is also applying the hybrid cloud infrastructure for the Bank.
Nastya’s mission is spreading of culture of quality and DevOps.
Engineering at TransferWise: the story of Service Discovery
Oct 3rd
Rather than traditional departments, TransferWise is organised into several highly autonomous teams, each focused on solving a specific business or customer problem. It’s the very essence of a lean approach – effort invested is justified by quantifiable impact.
Why do we work this way? How did it change over time? What does this mean for engineering? How does this affect our practices and our culture?
Answer can be found in this talk.
Kyrylo Novotarskyi
Oct 3rd
After getting a masters degree in Kyiv Polytech and spending a couple of years in outsourcing, moved on to work in different product companies in Ukraine, Germany and now in UK, joining the TransferWise currencies and banking team in the London office. Responsible for engineering in the EU market.
Track quality of your code with SonarQube
Oct 3rd
It is not to complicated to keep new project with good code quality for half year. Maybe for one year. But what if team works on some project for years? Or even “”better””: you need to support and grow large project after another team. Presentation describes Continuous Inspection, main measures of code quality that will make your life better, and how to cook it with SonarQube.
Dmytro Patserkovskyi
Oct 3rd
8 years of experience with different languages and technologies. On career path met with game, desktop, mobile, enterprise and big data development. Interesting in code quality and ways of improving process of software development.
Continuous Learning using Application Performance Management & Monitoring
Oct 3rd
When an application has been released to production or a new feature is done we know that our work is not over. With your application being used by real users, now is an ideal opportunity to collect valuable data.
In this presentation Igor will show how easy it is to instrument your app and get ambient monitoring out of the box, with almost zero effort. Also Igor will demonstrate how you can quickly build monitoring charts, dashboards, alerts and configure diagnostics logs to get a 360° view of your application. This presentation unlocks the best practices and the essentials based on real world stories from his practical experience to find performance bottlenecks, random exceptions, usage patterns of end users, availability and so on.
During a session Igor will give you a sense of metrics importance through the possibilities of New Relic and Application Insights tools and show few interesting stories.
Igor Fesenko
Oct 3rd
Application Architect, SoftServe. He is passionate about designing and developing scalable, flexible, cloud ready software solutions, utilizing state of art security practices. He is proficient in C#, JavaScript & Azure and has managed and assessed multiple projects focusing on high performance and large data solutions. His current focus is on the building and improvement of scalable and secure web applications, cloud-enabled applications and operations, and identity & access management.
Metrics at Scale@UBER
Oct 3rd
Metrics @UBER is a first class citizen. Mantas in his talk will cover metrics collection, presentation and alerting based on metrics. It is all about how they deals with the scale in incredibly fast growing company. He will include details on the tools Uber currently uses, as well as their painful migration path from graphite based solution. The speaker will show their build-in-house query language based on tags they are using to query metrics. Mantas will share his experience building, migrating and supporting metrics system at the fastest growing startup in the history.
Mantas Klasavicius
Oct 3rd
In his professional life Mantas has been advocating devops good practices for many years. As a metrics geek he gave multiple talks about that topic and wrote 1(one) article on InfoQ. Continuing that path Mantas was founding member of observability team at Uber and seen things which can not be unseen.
Currently, he works on getting configuration management back on the track at Uber.
Mantas is a Software Engineer, hiker, snowboarder, food lover. At the moment he is all-in in cycling getting ready to ride bicycle in the mountains.
Идеальный релиз
Oct 3rd
Описание тренинга
Если вы устали от FDD (fuckup-driven development), практикуемого в вашей компании – предлагаю рассмотреть историю трансформаций продуктовых команд под моим управлением, которые смогли выйти из замкнутого круга, повысили скорость и качество разработки, начали получать удовольствие от работы и построили изумительные процессы разработки.
Опыт перехода от “FDD” (не путаем c feature-driven наше все development) к нормальной разработке подсказывает, что большинство проблем связано с зашоренностью взгляда, неправильной расстановкой приоритетов и неумением пользоваться вытягивающими принципами, которые и обеспечивают те самые 20/80. А попытки бессистемно внедрить различные позитивные (или хорошо рекламируемые) практики часто приводят только к незначительному улучшению, а достигнутый результат быстро деградирует. Иными словами – типичные проблемы трансформации.
Набив немало шишек, пришло понимание, что нужно менять подходы в строительстве процессов и мышление. Был сформирован подход проектирования фич от бизнес-целей, расписан жизненный цикл и расставлены точки принятия решений и всевозможные триггеры, которые позволили действительно заняться ранним управлением рисками. Принципы многоуровневого мышления и решения проблем позволили замедлить деградацию внедренных практик и процессов и не только сохранять достигнутую связку производительность – качество, но и улучшать ее.
Я расскажу о процессах, системе ценностей, подходах в мышлении, которые мы взрастили. О смешных и грустных историях ошибок и неудачных экспериментов. И если вы готовы к циничному препарированию проблем вашей команды – рассмотрю их вместе с вами и предложу решение, опирающееся на вышеописанный опыт трансформаций и на богатый опыт продуктовой и заказной разработки.
Программа
- Знакомство, синхронизация целей и ожиданий
- История и проблематика трансформируемых команд, веселые и грустные примеры факапов
- Теоретическая часть: дизайн процессов разработки и управления рисками жизненного цикла фичи
- Теоретическая часть: практики решения задач по дизайну процессов, метрики
- Пример жизненного цикла фичи: от требований и их тестирования до принятия обязательства (стоимость-качество) на разработку
- Пример жизненного цикла фичи: от начала разработки до релиза
- Пример жизненного цикла фичи: от релиза до смерти фичи, защита процесса от эррозии
- Сбор проблемных кейсов участников, отбор 3х наиболее актуальных для участников проблем путем голосования, разбиение на рабочие группы
- Выработка решений проблем в группах и их защита
- Подведение итогов, вопросы и ответы, литература
Что вы получите
- Познакомитесь с практиками дизайна процессов разработки и решения управленческих задач.
- Детально рассмотрите процесс разработки, успешно применённый к трансформации 2х совершенно разных команд, ставших успешными.
- Получите обоснование принятых решений и перечень учтённых рисков для каждого этапа разработки и сможете спроецировать на свои собственные процессы и проекты.
- Попробуете применить знания о полученных практиках дизайна процессов к решению ваших текущих проблем.
- Познакомитесь с практиками принятия решений, обсуждения, приоритизации и модерации.
- Смешные и грустные жизненные истории из более чем 18 летнего опыта тренера по разработке софта за деньги 🙂
Continuous Delivery in .NET
Oct 3rd
О чем тренинг
Несмотря на то, что практики Continuous Delivery далеко не новые, не всегда они применяются даже на коммерческих проектах. Это происходит, с одной стороны, из-за недооцененности их ценности, а с другой – из-за банальной нехватки знаний и опыта.
Еще одной причиной отсутствия внедрения называют нехватку времени. Но в большинстве случаев это просто маскировка двух вышеупомянутых. Наш тренинг поможет решить их обе. Мы расскажем о преимуществах использования практик Continuous Delivery, рассмотрим техники и инструменты, применяемые для .NET проектов и покажем их в действии.
Мы не обещаем что после тренинга вы сможете сразу же внедрить у себя все, о чем мы расскажем – тут многое зависит исключительно от вас. Но, как минимум, вы значительно сэкономите ваше время на изучение описанного материала. И вам будет значительно легче начать внедрять практики, к тому же вы сможете их правильно продать вашему руководству и другим участникам процесса принятия решений.
Аудитория
.NET разработчики любого уровня, технические менеджеры.
Программа
- Что такое Continuous Delivery и зачем оно нужно (1 час)
- Стандартный процесс разработки
- Циклы обратной связи
- Элементы Continuous Delivery
- Continuous Delivery vs Continuous Deployments
- Особенности для .NET платформы
- Работа с кодом (1 часа)
- Стандартный цикл написания кода
- Системы контроля версий
- Навигация по исходникам с помощью VS / Resharper
- Рефакторинг с помощью Resharper
- Запуск и отладка
- Тестирование кода (2 часа)
- Уровни тестирования (unit, integration, acceptance)
- Инструменты и фреймворки для тестирования .NET кода
- Требования и правила написания юнит тестов
- Покрытие тестами
- Как покрыть тестами легаси код
- Приемочные тесты, подходы и инструменты для .NET
- Ревью кода и парное программирование (1 час)
- Коллективное владение кодом
- Зачем нужно просматривать чужой код
- Инструменты и подходы для ревью
- Подходы к парному программированию
- Статический анализ кода (1 час)
- Что это и зачем нужен
- Обзор инструментов для .NET (fxcop, stylecop, sonarqube) и их интеграция
- Разбор типичных ошибок
- Настройка sonarqube для .NET проектов
- Continuous Integration (1 час)
- Подходы к сборке .NET проектов (декларативный vs императивный)
- Обзор fake (F# make)
- Построение Delivery Pipeline на основе TeamCity
- Тактики и инструменты развертывания
- Test Driven Development (1 час)
- Зачем нужно и когда стоит применять
- Правила написания кода по TDD
- Инструменты для создания “живого кода”
Playtika
Sep 30th
We offer round-the-clock excitement via classic games, in a free to play format, accessible everywhere.
Playtika is the world’s largest Social Casino games company. We captivate audiences with beautifully produced, highly immersive social games. Playtika was the first to introduce free-to-play casino-style games to social networks.
We are successfully applying our intuitive understanding of what players want and our mastery of marketing and monetization practices to slots, poker, bingo and other gaming categories. Playtika studios are hives of creativity, with the independence and flexibility to innovate along with the shared resources and gaming knowledge to produce best-sellers time and time again.
Collectively, we are 1500+ employees spread across 11 studios with offices in Israel, US, Canada, Belarus, Argentina, Japan, Australia, Ukraine & Romania.
We are oriented to dynamical growth and stunning popularity, and successfully cope with these tasks.
Below there are some links with different information about the company:
- About Social Casino industry. Casual Connect’14, speech of VP Business Development at Playtika.
- Playtika CTO’s speech at CouchConf
- Dou Revisor about Playtika in Kiev
- Having fun
- Open positions at the company
JIRA journey to cloud
Sep 30th
How do you take a huge java monolith application and put it into Cloud? How do you provide independent continuous deployments of OSGi plugins and make sure everything was well tested together? How do you keep track of 1000 moving parts and still stay sane?
I will tell you the story how JIRA team answered those questions, what were the biggest challenges and easy wins. Presentation will be full of examples how we do things in JIRA like testing, branching, releasing and deploying, what tools we use and how we use them, how we keep our code in good shape and deliver it to almost 80,000 JIRA instances.
This will be continuation of story presented by Wojciech Seliga on XP Days in 2014. If you are interested what changed since then (even more tests and completely new challenges) I will gladly have you in the audience.
Arkadiusz Głowacki
Sep 30th
Passionate about optimising everything that’s around him, interested in a variety of back-end technologies. Big fan of clean code and everything which helps programmer to faster deliver products with better quality. For almost two years worked on deployment pipeline for JIRA, now focusing on growing JIRA Cloud ecosystem.
Fear and Loathing after Production
Sep 27th
Remember situation when on the next day after successful release your system goes crazy as well as your stakeholders? Endless meetings with angry customers when you have no idea what is wrong with your system. You either have no logs or they are full with useless messages giving no any glue to the root cause. Your monitoring either does not exists (was planned for the next release – yeah!) or shows that everything is OK. Remember all that? I bet every developer was in similar situation or at least heard of it.
In this talk Serhiy will tell how to avoid such unpleasant life experience. What and how should be logged. Where logs should be stored. What monitoring should be in place. How codes should be written. Tools, practices and so on. Basically speaking, things that should reduce your stress and make your life happier.
Interested? Come to my talk then!
Building better CI using Jenkins pipelines
Sep 26th
This talk is about improving CI practices building pipelines. It will cover old practices and how they can be enhanced using custom DSL, code review and SCM.
Rostyslav Fridman
Sep 26th
Skilled DevOps and network engineer with experience in design, implementation and maintenance of system infrastructure and networks of national and international levels.
The Sane way to Apps in the Cloud
Sep 26th
Did you know that Netflix has now fully transitioned to the cloud. Ever wonder how you could do the same or sell it to your boss/clients/your pet? Do you often wonder how to chose the best provider out of all the different players in the market.
Well wonder no more. Join Paul as he guides you through how to build infrastructure on 2 different platforms. Watch as he uses both AWS and Azure to show you easy it is using the principles of infrastructure as code.
By the end of this session, you will have enough guidance and confidence to start automating your own infrastructure and be less afraid of that big bogeyman VENDOR LOCKIN.
Paul Stack
Sep 26th
Paul Stack is a London based infrastructure coder and has spoken at various events throughout the world about his passion for continuous integration, continuous delivery and good operational procedures and why they should be part of what developers and system administrators do on a day to day basis.
He believes that reliably delivering software is more important as its development. Paul’s passions are the DevOps and Continuous Delivery movements and how they help the entire business and its customers.
Engineering Excellence in large service company
Sep 26th
This talk is aiming to answer the following questions: What makes contractor-engineers of a vendor service provider to be different and competitive on a global IT market? How to incorporate all the technology diversity and successfully deliver high quality, enterprise level complex solutions? What is the nowadays startups and how to foster right engineering culture to enforce it? Deliberate practice and continuous learning as a technology agnostic approach in mastering engineering craft.
In this talk I’m going to share a story about implementing Engineering Excellence (ENGX) department in a large outsourcing company. I’m going to present a number of show cases of ENGX integration for a different clients and describe what didn’t work well and how we struggle with it. I will also present a few things that we managed to implement and successfully integrate into internal company’s process, such as mandatory onboarding training – Bootcamp and Dojo platrom that can help engineers in hardening their technical capabilities.
Sergey Sergyenko
Sep 26th
Software Craftsman, Agile adherent and follower, who believes in lifelong learning, continuing education and self-improvement paradigms. Formal leader and one of the founders of Belarus Ruby User Group. Active contributor to Software Craftsmanship and Agile communities in Minsk, Belarus. Teacher and scientific mentor in Belarusian State University.
From Continuous Integration to Continuous Delivery with TeamCity
Sep 26th
In early 2006 JetBrains decided to create its own solution for Continuous Integration – TeamCity.
We will start with preconditions of this decision and main concepts of the product. Then we’ll discuss common problems that we and our customers have faced over the decade, trends and plans for the future.
Finally, we’ll look into installation that builds all Jetbrains products and find out how TeamCity continuously delivers itself every day.
Sergey Pak
Sep 26th
Developer and big fan of TeamCity. Applying 13 years of Java development experience for the benefits of end users.
From monolyth to SOA – baby steps
Sep 26th
Implementing a new architecture into existing project doesn’t have to mean a “feature freeze”. By checking a success story we will see, that in may be a transparent process, that won’t harm, neither slow down the development process. Additionally, we will learn how to prepare your code to move to microservices and reactive microservices architecture in future.
Kamil Szymanski
Sep 26th
Software engineer by profession, architect by passion. Fan of good designer, clean code and service oriented architecture. Likes discovering new technologies and digging in old codebases, checking how to improve them.
Interview in DevOps style
Sep 26th
Engineers like to be interviewed at Grammarly, and many of them say it was the best interview they ever passed. So they ask me to share my interviewer experience. I tried to make that topic interesting not only for DevOps\SRE hiring managers but for every engineer. DevOps\SRE interview will be just an example how you can make your interviewer skills better.
Vsevolod Poliakov
Sep 26th
Last three years Vsevolod worked as a platform engineer and devops tech lead at Grammarly. He is big fan of monitoring, devops and containers. Also likes comic books and guitar playing.
Common sense DevOps… or how we evolve in 4 years
Sep 22nd
All of us would like to keep our infrastructure as simple but smart as it is humanly possible. Simplicity is required so we understand and can support it. However, it has to be smart enough to keep complex things under the hood. Moreover we do want to forget about its existence and focus on other tasks. So do I.
I would like to share my experience how we build our infrastructure from scratch with the challenges to overcome as well as the evolution of the view on the infrastructure after 4 years of real experience.
A lot of scripting, silly mistakes, and great achievements which can help you to survive in a hostile environment of bloody enterprise.
Continuous delivery for mobile (building your own pipeline)
Sep 17th
This talk covers how Hootsuite enabled continuous delivery for its native iOS and Android apps. We will examine what tools we used to build our own automated pipeline, how we built it iteratively, and what features proved most valuable. We will share lesson learned and also some of the things we’re thinking about adding next.
Building Continuous Delivery Pipeline In Azure – Infrastructure, Tools and Processes
Sep 17th
This talks covers the setup and turning the Continuous Delivery process in Microsoft Azure cloud.
It includes organizing delivery pipeline with GitFlow branching model, Visual Studio Team Services (former Visual Studio Online) as CI tool and Octopus Deploy as Release Management tool, organizing the dev/test environments in Azure leveraging Azure Resource Management API. Lessons learnt includes:
1. Organizing CI builds for branching, segregation of Ci and Deployment tools
2. Configuration and Parameters management. Testing deployment configuration.
The talk is based on my presentation on AzureDay in Kyiv, but will be reorganized a little bit to bring more practice and deep dive.
Sergii Kryshtop
Sep 17th
Sergii Kryshtop is Software Engineer Manager @ EPAM Ukraine, cloud evangelist with a focus on Microsoft Azure and project delivery. Has more than 10+ years of experience in IT with diverse knowledge of different areas of Microsoft Technology stack. Has main focus in system architecture, software design and engineering practices for continuous delivery.
Twelve Ways to Make Code Suck Less
Sep 17th
We all have seen our share of bad code and some really good code as well. What are some of the common anti patterns that seem to be recurring over and over in code that sucks? By learning about these code smells and avoiding them, we can greatly help make our code better.
Core Design Principles for Software Developers
Sep 17th
Writing code is easy. Writing good quality code is an entirely different story. How can we measure quality of design? How do we know we’re doing the right set of things that will leads us to a better design? In this session we will learn about some core software design principles that help programmers everyday. Instead of talking about theory and what we could potentially do, we will take on multiple examples, discuss the solution, pros and cons, and bring out key design principles that have an impact on the outcome.
Effective pair-programming across skill: lessons learned from pairing up
Sep 17th
Many technical teams consider pairing their junior developers with more experienced colleagues to be an effective way to upskill new team members. My team at www.net-a-porter.com followed the same approach when I joined over two years ago. My experience as a junior developer, who paired with experts on almost every story, showed that simply assigning two engineers with different skill levels to a single task is not enough for a successful pair-programming experience.
The topics I will share in this talk include:
– pair-programming as a social skill, how varying levels of expertise can affect behaviour and decision-making of the pair
– what I learned about the needs of junior and senior developers when pairing
– what our team found to be most beneficial in pairing novices with experts
– which aspects of pair-programming across skill proved to be ‘pain points’ to the team
– a recipe for success: what we did to overcome challenges of pairs with the experience gap, and what we can do to improve further
I have published a paper on the topic with Springer Open in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. I also presented the talk at XPRoLo meet up at Unruly Media House in London, at XP2016 Conference in Edinburgh, and internally to technical forum at YNAP. Both the talk and the paper received excellent feedback from industry pioneers as well as novices.
CI is essential but not sufficient for an effective delivery
Sep 16th
Continues Integration is essential, but is it enough to have Jenkins or TeamCity? Unfortunately no – we need tools and methods to get efficient delivery workflow. Three stones, such as monolithic code + test suites + deployment pipeline should be faced.
We will speak about Test Pyramid and Trunk based development. Why may automated tests does not work in reality? Do we need Manual testing and in which step? What about Acceptance and Capacity test? How to put all of this in one deploy pipeline?
Dov Nimratz
Sep 16th
Dov has 25+ years of R&D experience and spend 17 years in the High Tech Israel industry. His main engineering expertise in Real Time, Embedded, Telecom and Management fields. Also, he is teaching and practicing Biblical Counseling within “Coram Deo” International Counseling Institute.
Venkat Subramaniam
Sep 16th
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.
Use experiments to replace your backlog
Sep 8th
Of the original XP practices, the one that seems the most difficult to get right is the on-site customer. In the original XP team, this was an actual end-user of the, internal, system that was being built. How did the Product Owner turn into a project manager working down a long, predefined backlog?
The Product Owner role quite often has devolved into a step in a waterfall process. A gateway, or proxy, sometimes a firewall, towards the rest of the organisation. But customer feedback is a fundamental basis of any Agile process.
I will discuss how we can use clear goals, captured in actionable metrics to guide our teams in growing the software necessary to reach those goals.
I’ll show how to get development teams to demonstrate their progress based on business metrics, not just features completed. To strategically align development with the rest of the company. And how this allows you to really use the brightest minds in your organization for innovation.
Testing in a Continuous Delivery World
Sep 8th
Hey, do you remember when everyone was asking what the role of the tester would be in an agile team? It’s happening again!
And things are changing again. A team that takes on the challenge to release their every commit certainly will take testing seriously. It will need to evolve new ways of testing. It will have new dynamics of testers working with developers. It will find new ways of of interacting with customers, stakeholders and product owners.
In this talk we’ll look at how continuous deployment changes the dynamics of an agile team. How quality moves even more to the center of the stage. How that changes the role of the tester once again. How it changes the role of developers, too. How this practice allows you to put the customer center stage again. And how that, too, has testing competencies at its core. And we’ll not forget DevOps, and how monitoring can be a continuous testing strategy.
Wouter Lagerweij
Sep 8th
Wouter Lagerweij is an Agile Coach and founder of make.io, the turn-key CD company.
He loves spending time with teams and organisations to figure out how to improve the way they make software, and make it more fun. To make that happen Wouter uses the knowledge and skills gathered in twenty years of experience applying Agile processes and practices from XP, Scrum, Kanban, Lean and Systems Thinking.
To turn those improvements into real business opportunities, Wouter has added Lean Startup/Lean Enterprise approaches. He’s even been known to, occasionally, use common sense.
Continuous Integration for Microservices with Jenkins 2.0, Docker and Kubernetes
Sep 7th
What is necessary for CI for microservices? Jenkins 2.0 with pipelines looks like a good option for that. But is it enough? Let’s add Docker for containerization. We think it could be even better with Kubernetes. The presentation will provide you how to build CI for microservices from scratch with those tools and describes some best practices applicable for Microservices CI.
DevOps: The Harmonious, Polygamous Marriage
Sep 7th
DevOps is not simply building a continuous delivery pipeline and many people feel that they’ve been ‘doing’ devops (or trying to!) for many years. So why, exactly, has the term received so much attention? What really is it? In this talk, Helen explores the devops trend, its roots and history and its purpose as a transformational, evolutionary movement to make better software, faster and more safely. She will discuss its relationships with Agile, Lean and ITSM and review how organisations have successfully, and not so successfully, used devops to elevate the way their business delivers innovation to their customers.
Perfect release
Sep 7th
Let’s imagine a perfect release of feature(s)? What development process is needed? How organize life-cycle stages in terms of decision-making points? How to reduce risks and bottle necks impact? What about the team properties? What can you change in own project or product right now?
I will try to answer for all these questions. All answers based on my long-year development (sometimes rapid 🙂 experience of complex fintech projects/products.
Helen Beal
Sep 7th
Helen has 20 years experience working in the technology industry with a focus on the Software Development Lifecycle for a wealth of cross industry clients in the UK and abroad. Helen is passionate about DevOps and is the creator of the Ranger4 DevOps LiftOff Workshop and the Ranger4 DevOps Maturity Assessment – winner of the IBM Beacon Award 2015 for Outstanding DevOps Solution. She also started Ranger4’s #DevOpsFriday5 initiative and is on the Board of Regents at the DevOps Institute (Ranger4 are also a Registered Education Provider for the DOI’s DevOps training courses). Helen is also a novelist and ecologist. She once saw a flamingo lay an egg.
Andrey Trubitsyn
Sep 7th
Andriy Trubitsyn is a hands-on architect passioned for microservices architecture style and spent a lot of nights researching the topic. A person who drivers a microservices accelerator in EPAM and consults about different aspects of microservices related things. Andriy can be regularly met as a speaker on tech talks in EPAM.
He is a person who can drive an abstract concept through to a very practical solution and to focus on issues until they are overcome.
DevOps for A Busy Developer
Sep 5th
Our minds are bright, our thoughts are clear, our eyes are lit with passion, but we’ve got no time!
We thought frontend churn was terrible but DevOps space is so much worse! What tools to use? Which direction to take? What movement to follow? Every single day new tools emerge with a promise to solve the challenges we have and the ones we don’t know we have! We don’t have enough time to learn to use them properly, and each time we try them they either don’t work as expected, or do so inconsistently. Yet at the same time we face tight deadlines and have work to do!
The task at hand is clear: we’ve got a pile of code, and we want to run it on a bunch of servers. I will show you how I do it with as little sweat and tears as possible.
Andrey Listochkin
Sep 5th
Andrey Listochkin is a full-stack web developer from Kiev with over ten years of experience building large complex web applications. He’s a very active member of Ukrainian development community. He’s a co-founder of dev-ua – the largest chat community for developers in Eastern Europe, – Node.js/iojs Ukrainian localization working group member, Ukrainian Rust community leader, KyivJS and RustFest co-organizer and the member of Kottans.org – an IT education non-profit.
Cloud based Deep Learning infrastructure at scale
Sep 5th
Presenting the infrastructure work that we did to support the launch of The Roll, our smart camera roll app.
We’ll give a brief overview of deep learning at EyeEm, and how we use it to build our products. This includes how we use it for both search, image captioning and aesthetic ranking.
We needed to build a system, exposed through an API and tracked through a data pipeline that could run our deep learning models on uploaded images, return a variety of data to the users (keywords detected in the photo, photo scores) and track all the data for later analysis.
We’ll talk about how we optimized for throughput by load testing memory pressure on the GPUs we used on AWS instances, and how we go from training a model to putting it in production.
On launch day, we were expecting to have to process around 500 photos/sec. In reality, we peaked at around 850 photos/sec, without any impact on performance.
Rino Montiel
Sep 5th
Rino Montiel has been working in the tech industry for over 10 years building systems and data pipelines. He’s passionate about automation, developing high performance systems and teams, and using technology to build products that assist humans with day-to-day tasks.
Today, Rino leads the Platform and the Data teams at EyeEm – building systems that run e-commerce, photo sharing, search and image classification, in addition to creating data pipelines for analytics and machine learnin
Design for Testability: What, Why and How
Sep 5th
“To be tested a system has to be designed to be tested”
Eberhardt Rechtin, “The Art Of System Architecting”
Testing is one of the main activities through which we gather data to assess the quality of our software; this makes testability an important attribute of software – not only for development, but also for maintenance and bug fixing. Design for testability is a term that has its origin in hardware design, where the concept was introduced in order to make it easier testing circuits while reducing the costs of doing so.
In this talk I’ll show how to translate this concept to the software domain along with the consequences on various aspects of the development activities, both from the technical point of view (e.g., design, code quality, choice of frameworks, etc.), and the product management point of view (e.g., management of team dependencies, delivery time, costs, etc.).
I’ll provide examples based on real world experience, both for the technical and the management aspects. Last but not least, there will be code!
Creating An Incremental Architecture For Your System: What, Why and How
Sep 5th
Experience taught us that creating an architecture for a system with a big design upfront is a bad idea as, usually, we don’t have all the necessary information to design the system at the very start—even in moderate sized systems requirements tend to change significantly, often making the initial design unfit for purpose.
On the other hand, no upfront design can be just as bad—the code tends to become unmaintainable pretty quickly, and system qualities like performances, scalability, security, latency, etc., can be very difficult, if not impossible, to retrofit.
In this talk I’ll show a different way to create a software architecture with just the right amount of design that can be incrementally evolved (or changed) as the system grows and changes—by taking care of some important qualities of the system early in the design, and delaying the design of other aspects to the last responsible moment.
Giovanni Asproni
Sep 5th
Giovanni has worked in many roles in several application domains. Nowadays, he provides consulting, training, and advice, as well as coding, to projects of all sizes: from small ones carried out by co-located teams up to projects involving hundreds of developers split into geographically distributed teams.
He is a past Chair of the London XPDay and the ACCU conferences, and the Industry & Practice co-chair for XP2016. He is a member of the Agile Alliance, the ACM, the IEEE Computer Society, and a contributor to the “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know” book published by O’Reilly.
TDD from the Trenches
Sep 5th
In this live coding session in Scala, Kfir Bloch (head of back-end engineering at Wix) will showcase how to build a full-blown feature in Scala, while maintaining the principles of TDD and Clean Code. We’ll start with some simple scaffolding and build the feature in its entirety: defining the user-facing API, writing tests outside-in with all of the requisite building blocks (collaborators and matchers), development-refactoring cycles and ending up with a clean codebase.
The Art of Decomposing Monoliths
Sep 5th
Microservices are the new black. You’ve heard about them, you’ve read about them, you may have even implemented a few, but sooner or later you’ll run into the age-old conundrum: How do I break my monolith apart? Where do I draw service boundaries?
In this talk you will learn several widely-applicable strategies for decomposing your monolithic application, along with their respective risks and the appropriate mitigation strategies. These techniques are widely used at Wix, took us a long time to develop and have proven consistently effective; hopefully they will help you avoid the same battle scars.
Continuous Delivery with Jenkins & Kubernetes @ Sky
Sep 5th
The talk is based on what we currently use in Sky to deliver in a continuous fashion one of our platforms in Sky.
In short, it covers the following topics:
- Problems we are trying to solve
- Design a deployment pipeline that allows a large team to scale
- Generate automatically pipelines using groovy DSL for Jenkins
- Leverage Kubernetes for a flexible deployment model
- Achieve continuous delivery
The demo will consist of taking a simple app from the first commit and all the way through the production deployment pipeline.
DevOps with Smell: Antipatterns
Sep 5th
DevOps is the hottest topic on the market. Everybody are adopting DevOps, however many starting to do mistakes. This talk is about experience gathered during consulting DevOps tools and practices in multiple projects and locaitons over the last years. We will review common anti-patterns and proposed solutions.
Serverless Architectures
Sep 5th
Live coding session that shows step-by-step how to build Serverless Architecture webiste that will be higly available, scaleable across multiple regions, backed with git as CMS and cost to operate less than 5$/mo. We will review Serverless Architecture style and address some of important gaps of this architecture.
Micro Service Architecture: best practices from A to Z
Sep 5th
You start new project or working with existing one and think: “Hey, I could use microservices, it is something new, that resolve all my problems: flexibility, scalability, modularity…”. It is not working like that. In this speach you will not hear how good or bad Micro Service Architecture. Real use cases, pros&cons, from real practice. Only best practises. This speach should gives you one more tool into your toolbox, with clear understanding where you can use it and cases, when you should avoid MSA.
Pragmatic Architecture, Today.
Sep 5th
Software development has evolved. Agile is now the de-facto standard. The role of an architect in an agile project is very different than the typical role in a more classic waterfall approach. Using an updated interpretation of ‘viewpoints and perspectives’, this talk will demonstrate how to make rapid, agile delivery sustainable. These viewpoints and perspectives will be linked to easy-to-produce models that can be used immediately in your projects. The talk will provide examples on how to determine which models are architecturally significant and worth the effort.
Developers have always been very important stakeholders of an architectural description. A good agile architect needs to strive for consensus and buy-in.
Journey from Monolith to Microservices and DevOps by WIX
Sep 5th
Wix.com started the journey toward DevOps and a microservices solution about 5 years ago when we switched from a monolithic application to a microservices-based system—a transition that took two full years to complete, with many lessons learned along the way. Today, Wix successfully operates over 200 microservices on a battle-tested production environment. In this talk, we will cover why Continuous Delivery and DevOps are important requirements for microservices, discuss guidelines for a good microservice architecture, explain why YAGNI and KISS are important and how operational concerns (DevOps) affect the design of a microservices architecture, as well as give some recommendations on the best way to transition from a monolithic to a microservices architecture.
Beyond Software Craftsmanship – Johnny’s Road to Remarkable Career
Sep 5th
Meet Johnny – a full-stack Java developer with 5+ years of experience under the belt, M.Sc degree and ‘get sh%t done fast’ mentality. Although Johnny possesses exceptional technical skills, Milton – his manager, doesn’t promote him, no matter how hard Johnny tried and how many late nights he has spent polishing his coding skills. Unfortunately, there is something important that Johnny doesn’t understand. Something that stops him from becoming successful. Together with Johnny, you will walk the thorny road to his remarkable career as a Chief Software Architect. The road full of struggles, discoveries and actions that may or will influence your professional life.
XDSD: is your team extreme enough?
Sep 5th
Over the last two years we’ve completed over 20 projects, wrote over 300K lines of Java code, closed over 20K tickets, pull requests and bugs, assembled together over 200 senior programmers and made profit. We’ve done all that without a single meeting, Skype call, or a Slack chats. We barely knew each other aside from GitHub, where all that development happened. At the presentation I will disclose a few of our dirty secrets.
A DevOps pipeline
Sep 5th
A guided tour of using Docker and other best-of-breed tools to deliver quality code from developers to production in a fast and scalable process. What does a modern pipeline look like in the context of Docker?
We’ll cover:
- the state of the ecosystem
- tools of the trade
- process overview
- key automations
- integrations and hosting
- deployment, operations and scaling
- working with Docker without losing your mind 🙂
Target audience: new and intermediate engineers working with/interested in Docker.
How QA engineers could affect product quality? Or couldn’t?
Sep 5th
Most frequently we are using words “testing” and “tester” when talk about product quality. But does testing or tester role affect quality? The eternal struggle between QC and QA… Yes, I’m almost sure you understand this, but why nothing is changed in most of teams? Because we need mind shift in our heads and more global changes in QA processes. Who QA engineers are and what are their responsibilities, activities, duties in modern development world? What options do they have to affect product quality and improve it if developers are responsible for product development? In this talk I will try to find detailed practical answers to all these questions. Let’s change development world together!
Code review at large scale
Sep 5th
When you work in a small collocated team many engineering practices and approaches are relatively easy to use and adapt. In large project with many teams working on the same product this task is not so simple. I want to share experience report in implementing Code Review practice in big product development team (more than 150 people, 10+ feature teams). In this talk we will review what approaches works in such setup and what don’t work, what tools and additional practices are needed to support Code Review and make it more effective, what difficulties and blockers will you probably see in the real life cases, what useful metrics could be produced by this practice.
How TDD helps to produce better design, or not?
Sep 5th
TDD is well known approach to develop more clear and less buggy solutions, completely covered with tests as a bonus. But what about design? Some people think that TDD also helps design to emerge as implementation grows, so there will be just enough design in place when all cases are covered. Others think that without general design skills and experience output from TDD will be a garbage from design perspective. In this talk we will try to cover this topic in all details, focusing on TDD usage at different levels and with different styles.
Kfir Bloch
Sep 5th
Currently the Head of Backend Engineering at Wix, Kfir has seen some things during the 17 years in the field. Unfortunately for him, Kfir has not lost his passion for hands on development, even though it usually collides with his day to day job of architecting and managing 70 developers. His past includes working in various networking companies, and it seems that the past continues to haunt him – while he is working today to bring Wix to the NodeJS age, he can’t seem to forget that he wrote server-side JavaScript on a Netscape server a long while ago.
Adriana Vasiu
Aug 30th
Adriana is a software engineer agonistic in terms of languages and with varied technical experience. Writing code is just a part of her job, there is so much more in between coding and getting an application performing well in production. Contributing to deployment pipelines, infrastructure and tooling is an essential part of what she likes doing.
Victor Polischuk
Aug 26th
Java technical leader at Infopulse Ukraine. Production experience counts 15 years including about 13 years of Java development. Expert in Java and JavaScript. Smartass.
Igor Tsinko
Aug 26th
Igor has 10+ years of experience in IT playing different roles. XP fan, OCPJP, Scrum Master.
Antons Kranga
Aug 26th
Java Speciality Lead and on-field Cloud Architect with passion to explore new technology over last 15 years of his professional career.
Serhiy Kalinets
Aug 26th
Serhiy is a professional programmer and software architect living in Kyiv. Heavily advocates XP practices and strives to automate everything. TDD addict and console lover. Besides being .NET guy for years he tries to stay up to date with other technologies. Currently helps teams in Rails Reactor to build cool products.
Bart Blommaerts
Aug 26th
Bart Blommaerts is a passionate Software Architect at Ordina, who believes closing the model-code gap is essential to make rapid, agile delivery sustainable. Bart has a strong focus on API design, reuse, automation and security. He is always looking for technical challenges. Bart also is the chairman of the different JWorks Competence Leads at Ordina.
Before Ordina, Bart led the EMEA Java Community at HP and was chairman of the HP Java Governance Board in the Benelux.
Aviran Mordo
Aug 26th
Aviran is the head of engineering at Wix. He has over 20 years of experience in the software industry and has filled many engineering roles and leading positions, from designing and building the US national Electronic Records Archives prototype to building the infrastructure that powers indeed.com, the leading job search engine in the world. Aviran is a tech-savvy and a technology blogger, with vast knowledge of internet technologies, software development, continuous delivery and a dev-centric culture advocate.
Dmitriy Yefimenko
Aug 26th
Product and team manager, software architect, business and system analyst with more than 18 years of experience. Last 8 years specializes on sophisticated distributed fintech products, agile transformation and development processes. Active speaker of many conferences and events.
Yegor Bugayenko
Aug 26th
Yegor is a CTO at Teamed.io, a software development company with an extremely distributed working model; a VC at SeedRamp.com; a regular blogger at www.yegor256.com; author of Elegant Objects book; a proud holder of PMP and OCMEA certifications; a hands-on Java developer and a lead architect of rultor.com and takes.org. Yegor lives in Palo Alto, CA and Kyiv, Ukraine.
Mikalai Alimenkou
Aug 26th
Senior Delivery Manager, Java Tech Lead and experienced coach. Expert in Java development, scalable architecture, Agile engineering practices and project management. Having more than 12 years of development experience, specializes on complex distributed scalable systems. Active participant and speaker of many international conferences. Founder and coach in training center XP Injection. Organizer and founder of Selenium Camp, JEEConf, XP Days Ukraine and IT Brunch conferences. Founder of active “Anonymous developers club” (uadevclub).
Eduards Sizovs
Aug 26th
Eduards is a hands-on architect and software development coach who helps awesome teams around the globe become more awesome – work smarter, run faster and enjoy the journey. He leads Latvian Software Craftsmanship Community, organises software craftsmanship conference DevTernity, runs training center DevChampions, speaks, and even sleeps. Sometimes.
Steve Pereira
Aug 26th
Steve is an 18 year tech veteran specializing in software delivery and operations. From tech support to IT management and current focus on large scale cloud and developer workflow, he’s worked with and consulted enterprises and startups in areas like automation, continuous delivery, scale and web operations.
Steve is the CTO of Statflo, using data analytics to improve wireless carrier retail. He runs Toronto’s monthly DevOps and OpenStack meetups, the DevOps Days Toronto conference. He runs devopschecklist.com, one of the leading maturity measures for DevOps competency.
In his free time he enjoys adventure travel, team sports, and dark, mysterious beer.
Confession of An Engineer
Sep 21st
We all are professionals, e.g. software engineers, quality engineers, technical/team leaders, project/product managers, etc. But we all are humans too. Often due to different reasons, like tight deadlines, push from customers/clients, etc., we all tend to neglect common sense and omit important practices. In this talk based on my both positive and negative experience we will review some patterns how we make common mistakes and what terrible results they may lead us to.
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Product Requirements: where they are coming from?
Sep 11th
Have you ever had any of these thoughts:
- Why are we working on this?
- Others have this feature, shouldn’t we match the competition?
- I was redoing it for 3 times, could someone think it through first?
- Killing a working feature – this is insane. I could build this in a day, how come they work on spec for weeks?
After switching from engineering to product team I’d like to share my discoveries about business side of the product development.
Katya Kameneva
Sep 11th
As a QA lead drove improvements of the processes from Test Automation to Continuous Delivery and TDD. Moved to the Product team and continue learning about Lean product development, Design Thinking and more.
UX Design & Agile
Sep 10th
How do squeeze UX/UI design into agile practises? How do you insure you have right deliverables at right moment?
There is more than one way to do it effectively. There is more than one way to fail. Over a course of years I’ve been working as UX designer with development team practicing agile methodologies and I’d like to share some insights and practises I use.
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Tanya Zavialova
Sep 10th
Tanya believes that good design must be elegant, clean and functional.
Started her professional career as a web-designer in 2005. Since 2007 I have been working as a user experience designer for various projects including consumer electronics, web, desktop and mobile applications. In 2012 got Professional Doctorate in Engineering degree from Eindhoven Technical University. Tanya likes to be involved in all stages of the design process starting with user needs elicitation, ideation, requirements engineering, rapid and detailed prototyping, iterative evaluation and pixel perfect design. Along with it she is happy to her share knowledge and experience through workshops, conferences and courses she runs.
DCI @ XING – same same but different
Sep 10th
We write a lot of object oriented code at XING. Despite the ease of development with modern tools, we weren’t quite happy with the code produced as our codebase grew and matured until we introduced DCI (Data-Context-Interaction paradigm – Trygve Reenskaug’s invention, the author of famous MVC pattern).
DCI has become a hype word in recent years, yet one can hardly find evidence of real-life applications out there in the Internet. In this talk I’ll demonstrate how XING applies DCI to connect the important Agile practices and techniques such as DDD and TDD into a seamless development process, giving a revive of spirit to a long-lived OOP paradigm.
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Boris Tveritnev
Sep 10th
Boris Tveritnev is a software developer who believes that simple systems are better than complex ones. He likes to speak about various approaches to achieve desired simplicity. He currently works as a senior software developer at XING in Payments and Billing service team. Besides that, he maintains and contributes to several open-source projects and independently develops security solutions for retail markets.
Don’t let your code to be illiterate along with your colleagues
Sep 7th
Do you remember you saw in the code method with name “getCatalogVerion()” or variable name “reimbusmentEntrys” or comment “necesarry”? If you’re an Eclipse user I’d say you’re lucky, IntelliJ guys are not. Why? Because they see those silly mistakes after Eclipse guys checked code in. If you’re an IntelliJent person and do not want to make a “holly war” come to my talk – I’m going to share a good practices to keep your code “clean” from grammar perspective as well.
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Izzet Mustafaiev
Sep 7th
Primary skills are in Java, hands on coding with Ruby/Groovy, exploring FP with Erlang/Elixir, system programming with Rust. Participated in different projects as a developer and architect. Fun of XP practices, crazy about automation, still trying to see continuous delivery in a real life. Advocating Clean Code and DevOps habits and practices, speaking at engineering conferences like JEEConf, XPDays, AgileEE, JavaDay, InfoShare, EPAM SEC. Away from work I’m a family guy, raising a son; time to time doing BBQ parties, gardening and traveling.
Automate everything you should
Sep 1st
Nowadays computers are tremendously fast and powerful. All their cores, RAM and gigahertz’ are to our service. And seems like we have come to the point when we cannot make them 100% loaded.
Even we, software engineers, do a lot manual stuff. Manual testing, debugging, packaging, deployment – all that can and should be automated. In this talk Serhiy will sell you automation idea explaining what benefits you (developer, QA, manager) will get from it every single day.
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Why to bother with writing test? Nobody cares?!
Sep 1st
- Why to bother with writing test?
- You don’t see a benefit of writing tests first?
- They slow down your app development?
- Hard to create a name for the next describe\it?
- You are forced to write the tests?
- Or you doing it for money?
After this talk you will love to write test! Or at least understand why other do (note: no money back guarantee, sorry).
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Dmitriy Shekhovtsov
Sep 1st
MEAN Lead and mentor. Passionate JavaScript developer, open source and Angular believer. Always using best edge technologies to achieve shiny results.
Escaping from the automation hell
Sep 1st
We build software that runs on 21+ platform with millions of users and billions of deployments. Our software engineers have to keep the high pace of quality. More than 500k tests are executed daily. In this talk I would like to share my experience of dealing with unstable and long running tests, collecting, aggregating and analysis test execution data.
Yan Drugalya
Sep 1st
Professional C++/C# developer. Over 14 years of successes and failures. Occasionally writes code in JavaScript, Perl and Python. As his day job builds tools to enhance QA/R&D productivity.
What does it mean to be a test engineer?
Sep 1st
Test engineering is hard, even harder than software development. Being test engineer puts you in a wider context, with no clear boundaries. You have to find those by yourself. This requires courage. Courage to take action, courage to make mistakes. As a test engineer, you do mistakes every day. You do them so often that sometimes you feel you can predict the future. Scientific explanation to this phenomena is patterns recognition. It is an ability of our brain to match the information from a stimulus with information retrieved from memory. Defect prevention is hard. Together with technical skills one have to develop high social awareness. Working on safety nets never was so important, different types of checks on different levels to make sure software is reliable and serves its purpose to the variety of everyday use-cases. We know that life is so complex and sometimes complicated which makes it impossible to predict all possible outcomes and scenarios. But striving for excellence never was so important as nowadays in such an open, transparent and competitive environment.
Goal of my talk will be to show you my everyday job as a test engineer. Not only how to look for defects, but how to prevent them from happening. Not only how to automate tests(noun), but how to build safety nets to minimize end-user impact. Not only how to inform testing status but how to influence quality on company level.
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Pair Programming: how to do it right
Sep 1st
Pair programming is the key to XP. It is the bedrock practice which marks XP as being team-focused rather than individual-focused. There is evidence that it is a very effective practice. So why is it not more common? This presentation examines pair programming in detail.
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API Driven Development
Sep 1st
The general idea of this talk is that you define your application data, structure and everything to do with the data/API side of your application before you write a single line of code. It’s a constructive methodology that lets you think about what you are going to build before actually building it. This talk will cover test driven development of your API and database structure with the examples in JavaScript, Node.js and C#. The methodology is language agnostic though.
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The Transition from Product to Infrastructure
Aug 31st
Over the past number of years, operations has become a very interesting part of IT. Traditionally, operations and developers have been completely separate. Developers thought SysAdmins worked in basements, eating pizza. But, the operations space has had a boom in new tools to make life a lot easier. The role of SysAdmin has become a very important part of the product delivery cycle.
Paul has made the transition from being a product developer to an infrastructure developer. In this talk, he will be able to talk about why that was an interesting move and the types of problems he has to work on on a day-to-day basis. Paul will be able to talk about how this move has helped him be involved in much more successful project delivery and also how it has helped the companies he has worked with become more successful.
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Continuous Delivery – the missing parts
Aug 31st
A lot of developers have started to believe that hooking Visual Studio up to Azure and pushing code direct from their machines is CD. As much as I hate to say it, it isn’t. Continuous delivery has so many more moving parts required to work together.
As we discuss concepts such as config management, orchestration, security, monitoring and logging, this talk will help developers realise that continuous delivery is something we need to continually measure, learn and adapt to make us a higher achieving organisation.
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Paul Stack
Aug 31st
Paul Stack is a London based infrastructure engineer. Paul has spoken at various events throughout the world about his passion for continuous integration and continuous delivery and why they should be part of what developers do on a day to day basis. He believes that reliably delivering software is just as important as its development. Paul’s newest passion is the DevOps movement and how this helps not just development and operations but the entire business and it’s customers.
Becoming a Better Programmer
Aug 30th
You’ve come this conference to improve your skills. You’re here to learn: to learn new technologies, to learn new techniques, and to fuel your passion by meeting like-minded people.
Becoming a better programmer means more than just learning new technologies. It means more than practising techniques and idioms. It’s about more than passion and attitude. It’s the combination of all these things. That’s what this session will look at.
Pete Goodliffe, author of the book Becoming a Better Programmer, unpacks important mindsets and techniques that will help you improve as a programmer. You’ll discover specific tools that will help you review your current skillset, and you’ll learn techniques to help you “become a better programmer”.
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Pete Goodliffe
Aug 30th
Pete Goodliffe is a programmer, a software development columnist, a musician, and author. His new book, Becoming a Better Programmer, has just been released by O’Reilly. Has has a passion for curry and doesn’t wear shoes.
Produсtonomicon. Antipatterns.
Aug 21st
Kill your product with minimal efforts! Best practices and solutions are to be applied to your management, sales, team, architecture and code approaches ever.
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Training “TDD in .NET”
Aug 19th
Целевая аудитория
.NET разработчики.
!!! Внимание !!! Для выполнения практических заданий участникам требуется ноутбук (как минимум один на двоих)!
Описание тренинга
Современные средства разработки значительно повышают эффективность разработчиков. Создавать приложения становится все легче и легче. В тоже время, сложность самого программного обеспечения постоянно растет. И часто разработчики сталкиваются с проблемой: “А точно ли мой код работает так, как я хочу?”.
Разработка через тестирование (Test Driven Development – TDD) решает эту и ряд менее очевидных, но не менее важных проблем. Наверное, каждый слышал об этой технике, но далеко не все знают, как правильно ей пользоваться. И уж совсем немногие осознают, что TDD – это весело и продуктивно.
Данных тренинг позволит вам в компании коллег и под чутким руководством людей, практикующих TDD каждый день, пройти путь от ответа на вопрос “что ж это такое – TDD!?” до владения набором практик и знаний, которые сделают вашу жизнь разработчика намного легче и приятнее.
После прохождения тренингов слушатели смогут навсегда забыть о сомнениях “что делает/должен делать этот код” и обретут душевное равновесие и спокойствие на работе. Обилие практических заданий позволит попробовать все изложенное на деле и улучшит восприятие материала.
Детальная программа
Тренинг разбит на 8 полуторачасовых модулей:
- Модуль 1. Введение
- Что такое TDD, в чём его польза
- Методика работы по TDD, основные правила и принципы
- Модуль 2. Hello World
- Начинаем работать
- Пробуем Arrange/Act/Assert
- Проектирование через тестирование
- Модуль 3. Погружение
- Тестовые двойники
- Организация тестов
- Запахи тестов
- Модуль 4. Инфраструктура
- Dependency Injection и его роль в TDD
- Роль Continuous Integration в TDD
- Метрики TDD
- Модуль 5. Проверяем закрома (базы данных и прочие хранилища)
- Взаимодействие с источниками данных
- Интеграционные тесты на базу данных
- Модуль 6. Welcome to real world
- Взаимодействие с другими сервисами и системами
- Изоляция тестов
- Интеграционные тесты на сервисы
- Модуль 7. UI
- Тестирование пользовательского интерфейса
- ASP.NET (MVC)
- Winforms / WPF
- Модуль 8. Наследие предков (legacy code)
- Рефакторинг через тестирование
Training “Agile Mindset in systems design. Requirements, architecture, process.”
Aug 19th
Инженерный agile mindset – это бизнес-обоснованность инженерии плюс частые поставки just in time.
Вспомните, когда в последний раз Вам приходилось из последних сил доказывать преимущества архитектурного решения, но так и не достигнуть успеха. Или когда вы с триумфом внедряли на первый взгляд абсолютно верное решение, терпящее в последствии полное фиаско. Подобные моменты порождают ряд справедливых вопросов: «Что я сделал не так? Как грамотно и логично преподнести свою точку зрения? В чем разница и где грань между осознанными и обоснованными архитектурными решениями и дилетантским подходом?»
Этот тренинг про здравый смысл – про обоснованность инженерных решений в условиях неопределенности. Мы разберем, от чего зависят инженерные решения и научимся четко обосновывать их. Задумаемся, какими должны быть ожидания от архитектутры и есть ли она вообще у Вас в проекте. Научимся объективно решать инженерные конфликты, и Вы навсегда забудете слово «холивар». Совершенно по-новому взглянем на шаблоны проектирования и теперь выжмем из них максимум. Поймем, как эффективно выстраивать документацию к системе, чтобы она действительно начала работать, а не была write-only. Научимся фокусироваться в своих решениях и наконец-то выясним, с чего начинать – со схемы БД или concurrency design. И одна из важнейших вещей тренинга – научимся не делать лишнюю работу. Мы научимся сжимать архитектурный этап без потери качества, чтобы как можно быстрее начать поставки.
Поэтому если Вы замучились от неполноты и изменчивости требований, от накопившегося технического долга, от бесконечных холиваров и вообще непонятно, что этот бизнес от Вас хочет – этот тренинг для Вас.
Для кого
- Для инженеров: архитекторов и разработчиков.
- Для техменеджеров: тимлидов и техлидов.
- Для менеджеров: проектных менеджеров и продуктовых менеджеров
Опыт на старте
- Ожидаемый уровень участников: базовый и уверенный.
- Желателен опыт промышленной разработки от 1 года.
После тренинга участники смогут
- Проинспектировать существующую архитектуру на предмет соответствия бизнес-задачам и стратегии – выбрать ключевые точки для скорейшего рефакторинга
- Обоснованно принимать архитектурные решения и аргументированно отстаивать их
- Обеспечить необходимую архитектурную гибкость
- Снизить текущие затраты за счет четкой фокусировки на действительно важных вопросах
- Снизить затраты и риски будущей поддержки
- Легко и эффективно разрешать инженерные конфликты – без ругани, обид и драм
- Обоснованно принимать инженерные решения в условиях неопределенности – когда непонятно до конца, что и как делать
- Ускорить поставку за счет осмысленного параллелизма работ
- Понимать потребности и образ мышления бизнеса – давать бизнесу действительно нужную ему информацию о статусе проекта
- Минимальными усилиями перестроить процесс производства для снижения времени поставки и повышения качества
Программа
- Постановка проблем
- Знакомство и сбор проблем участников
- Обзор тренинга
- Разбивка на команды
- Зачем нужна архитектура – как не угробить проект
- Что такое архитектура?
- Где граница микро-дизайна и архитектуры?
- Кто является потребителем архитектурных артефактов?
- На какие ответы должна отвечать выбранная архитектура?
- Архитектура как план рисков – компенсировать неопределенность будущего
- Какие источники проектных рисков мы можем выделить?
- Как на ранних этапах можно адресовать внешние риски в своей архитектуре?
- Как на ранних этапах можно адресовать внутренние риски в своей архитектуре?
- Границы системы и способы их фиксации
- Архитектура как план проекта – повысить эффективность производства
- Какие требования предъявляет к архитектуре PM/РП?
- Как можно по архитектуре создать план проекта?
- Видно ли критический путь?
- Как распараллелить работы?
- Архитектура как требования к компонентам – обеспечить гибкость и снизить стоимость поддержки
- На какие предположения мы опираемся при проектировании с использованием готовых компонентов или внешних систем?
- Как можно сформулировать наши ожидания от внешних компонентов?
- Как адресовать риски несоответствия нашим ожиданиям?
- Требования к архитектуре: начало чеклиста – что не забыть и не упустить
- Архитектурная методология – как принимать инженерные решения в пользу бизнес-потребностей и делать решения прозрачными для бизнеса
- От чего зависят решения в дизайне и архитектуре? Где найти ответы, чтобы обосновать их?
- Как компенсировать неопределенность требований?
- Как обосновать решения по методологии?
- Архитектура как функция от требований – как делать что нужно, снизить rework и повысить удовлетворенность клиентов
- Какие виды требований можно выделить?
- Как можно определить «критические пути» в требованиях?
- Как требования определяют границы системы?
- Какие знаете типовые переходы «профиль требований → типовая архитектура»?
- Отдельно про масштабируемость
- «Компромисс» и «Специализация» – как принимать решения в случае конструктивного конфликта ожиданий
- В каком соответствии находятся требования?
- Как инженерными решениями адресовать эти связи между требованиями?
- Как относиться к шаблонам проектирования – их ценность и проблемы
- Архитектурные точки зрения и документирование архитектуры – как тратить ресурсы сфокусированно и рано адресовать риски
- В каком виде можно документировать архитектурные решения? Какие артефакты можно выдавать?
- Что важнее – схема БД или concurrency design?
- В какой момент документировать и что?
- Требования к архитектуре: продолжение чеклиста
- Что бизнес хочет от архитектуры?
- Как начать поставлять быстрее?
- Сжатие архитектурного этапа без потери качества
- Архитектурная методология – как проектировать в условиях внешней неопределенности
- Что вы делаете, если не знаете будущих изменений?
- Оси вариативности требований
- BDUF vs YAGNI
- Инкапсуляция изменчивости
- Архитектурная методология – как проектировать в условиях внутренней неопределенности
- Ключевые ожидания к компонентам, исходя из требований
- Ранние проверки ключевых контрактов
- Внешняя и внутренняя экспертиза, каркасные прототипы
- Тесты как ранняя проверка контракта
- Требования к архитектуре: завершение чеклиста
- Итоговая ретроспектива: что применить на производстве уже завтра
В чем отличие от других тренингов по архитектуре и проектированию в Agile
Мы собрали ключевые техники проектирования из основных методологий и архитектурных стандартов и перевели на человеческий язык. Подключили наш собственный опыт и работающие решения наших многочисленных заказчиков.
При этом формат тренинга – практический, поэтому к большинству решений участники придут самостоятельно, что дает колоссальную конверсию навыков в применение на производстве. В итоге участники смогут начать поставлять ПО гораздо быстрее без потери качества.
Фокус на том, как сократить время поставок без потери качества, чтобы разработка и бизнес как можно скорее получили ценность от системы.
Workshop “Microservices Lifecycle”
Aug 19th
Microservices are becoming more and more popular and, as with every other new trend, often implemented without enough experience. Idea behind them easy to explain. Brake monolithic application into smaller independent services. That’s it. That is what many think microservices are about. However, implementation is much harder to master. There are many things to consider when embarking down this path. How do we organize microservices? Which technologies to use and how? Should they be mutable or not? How to test them? How to deploy them? How to create scalable and fault tolerant systems? Self-healing, zero-downtime and logging? How should the teams be organized? Today’s successful implementations of microservices require all those and many other questions to be answered. It’s not only about splitting things into smaller pieces. The whole development ecosystem needs to be changed and we need to take a hard look at the microservices development lifecycle.
This workshop will go through the whole **microservices development lifecycle**. We’ll start from the very beginning. We’ll define and design architecture. From there on we’ll move from requirements, technological choices and development environment setup, through coding and testing all the way until the final deployment to production. We won’t stop there. Once our new services are up and running we’ll see how to maintain them, scale them depending on resource utilization and response time, recuperate them in case of failures and create central monitoring and notifications system. We’ll try to balance the need for creative manual work and the need to automate as much of the process as possible.
This will be a journey through all the aspect of the lives or microservices and everything that surrounds them. We’ll see how microservices fit into continuous deployment and immutable containers concepts and why the best results are obtained when those three are combined into one unique framework.
Technical requirements
It is an hands-on workshop and will require participants to bring their own laptops. Participants should have laptops with at least 8 GB of memory. Each of them will receive a script (tested on Ubuntu, MacOS and Windows) that will setup the whole environment required for the workshop.
Training “Agile Testing”
Aug 19th
Целевая аудитория
Разработчики, тестировщики, менеджеры проектов, лидеры команд.
Описание тренинга
Agile методологии заставили инженеров всерьез задуматься о качестве выпускаемого продукта. Главной причиной этому есть сжатые сроки и требование к непрерывной поставке рабочей версии системы. Тактика водопада или мини-водопадов перестала давать требуемой эффективности. Ведь чем дольше мы разрабатываем и тестируем систему, тем больше риски, что этот продукт уже никому не будет нужен. В такой динамичной среде следует всерьез задуматься о тестировании.
Классическое тестирование в динамичной среде работает с минимальной эффективность и пора искать новые подходы, которые смогут повысить результативность команды и при этом выпускать продукт требуемого качества в срок. Многие, кто говорит об Agile разработке, пропускают тестирование или говорят о том, что нужно использовать автоматизацию и заставлять разработчиков писать автотесты. Это правда, но лишь отчасти. Инженер по тестированию в Agile команде может принести много пользы, но это требует определенной подготовки и навыков. Использование старых артефактов и подходов к тестированию может погубить проект или превратить его в бюрократическую машину, что приведет к старой модели мини-водопадов. Так же не стоит забывать, что Quality Assurance – это ответственность всей команды, а не отдельно-взятого человека.
Многие говорят, что Testing Is Dead, но мы с этим не согласны и считаем, что это очередной маркетинговый ход. Тестирование не умерло, оно эволюционировало в новую форму, информацию о которой мы и хотим вам донести на тренинге.
Детальная программа
День 1
Модуль 1
- Основы Agile Software Development
- Agile Manifesto
- Agile Principles
- Основные заблуждение в Agile философии
- Альтернативные Manifesto
Модуль 2
- Первые фазы проекта
- Идея
- Lean Canvas/Бизнес модель
- User Stories Workshop
- User Personas
- Specification by Example
- Story Mapping
- Minimal Working Product
- Acceptance Criteria
- Как тестировщики могут помочь в этом процессе?
Модуль 3
- Работа по методологии Scrum
- Что такое Scrum?
- Подготовка Product Backlog
- Sprint 0
- Sprint Backlog
- Этап планирования
- Что такое Story Point?
- Planning Poker
- Иерархия задач
- Оценки задач со стороны тестирования
- Почему Testability это важно и как этого добиваться?
- Практика: Эмитация Planning Poker для оценки в Story Points
- Что такое Acceptance Testing?
- Приемочный сценарии
- Gherkin синтаксис
- Практика: Написание приемочных тестов на подготовленные User Stories
- Стратегия тестирования продукта
- Нужен ли тест план?
- Что такое тестовая стратегия?
- SFDPOT
- Функциональная карта системы
- Практики тест дизайна
- Pairwise, Tractability и прочие матрицы
- Mockups
Модуль 4
- Автоматизация
- Классический подход к автоматизации в виде перевернутой пирамиды
- Тестирование по подходу правильной пирамиды
- Непрерывная интеграция
- Сборка и установка проекта
- Тестовое Покрытие
- Использование автоматизации для облегчения рутинных задач
- Должен ли тестировщик заниматься только автоматизацией на 100%?
Модуль 5
- Acceptance Test Driven Development
- Взаимодействие тестировщиков, аналитиков и программистов на ранних этапах разработки
- 3 Amigo Meetings
- Definition Of Done
- Что может делать тестировщик, когда тестировать нечего?
- Тщательный анализ документации
- Подготовка тестовых данных
- Создание Step Definitions для автоматизации
- Помните о ваших пользователях
- Демонстрация написания Acceptance Test на примере Cucumber-JVM
- Практика: Создание функциональной карты приложения
- Демонстрация программирования регрессионных тестов
- Тестирование
- Что такое тестирование?
- Что такое исследование?
- Что такое Exploratory Testing?
- Тестовые квадранты и их заблуждение
- Нахождение баланса между скриптовым и ad-hoc тестированием
- Отчетность и документация
- Нужны ли тест менеджеры?
- Session Based Test Management
- Взаимодействие тестировщиков и программистов на завершающих этапах разработки
- Командный подход к тестированию
Модуль 6
- Еще раз о критерии готовности – Definition Of Done
- Демо и какая роль тестировщика в нем
- Ретроспектива и о чем должен не забывать тестировщик
- Готовимся к релизу и кто за него должен отвечать?
- User Acceptance Testing
- Как лучше проводить Performance Testing?
- Когда начинать готовиться к Load Testing?
- Стоит ли тестировать Security?
- Pre-production
- Production
- Схема работы в Scrum командах 5-9 человек
- Подведение итогов первого дня
- Советы и рекомендации тренера
День 2
Модуль 7
- 10 принципов Agile тестировщика
- Одна итерация в жизни Scrum тестировщика
- Enterprise Scrum и проблемы с тестированием зависимостей
- Обязательные митинги для тестировщиков
- Варианты синхронизации с членами команды
- Рекомендуемые документы для работы
- Частые проблемы организации процесса тестирования в больших командах
Модуль 8
- Цель от бизнеса: делать поставку чаще
- Правила методологии Kanban
- Что ждет тестировщиков в еще более динамичном процессе?
- Больше дисциплины, культуры разработки и автоматизации в команде
- Определение частых застоев (bottlenecks) в процессе разработки
- Как избежать и решить застои?
- Как работать с WIP ограничениями?
Модуль 9
- Практика: Имитация процесса разработки в динамической среде
- Практика: Серия Debrief митингов
- Практика: Подготовка отчета о тестовой сессии
Модуль 10
- Процесс учета задач и конфигурация специализируемых систем
- Документация или как не превратиться в бардак или бюрократизированную машину?
- Как переходить к Agile разработке?
- Стоит ли переходить на Agile разработку?
- Agile анархисты и их истории
- Частые проблемы, с которыми может столкнуться тестировщик в новой среде
- Подведение итогов второго дня
- Рекомендации и советы тренера
Price of the data you’ve lost
Aug 14th
I’ve been working as software engineer for a long time and almost every time I am introduced to a new application I feel desperation on the data organization within it. When I have a chance to talk to developers they explains me that it is done according to initial requirements or because of performance reasons or even because of YAGNI and KISS principles.
As a result, huge amount of incredibly valuable information was lost and was lost intentionally. It is not their direct fault because it was implemented “exactly” what they had been told. However, I do think that the design flaws were so obvious that the guys should at least be ashamed.
I want to share my vision on the application design in terms of data processing. I will show how precious data can be and why you cannot take it lightly. Code aside I will be talking only about data and data alone. I hope it will help you avoid numbers of design pitfalls when it comes to data.
Video:
Luxoft
Aug 13th
Luxoft is a top quality IT service provider of high-end business solutions to clients across the globe. With deep domain expertise in the finance, telecom, energy, automotive, travel and aviation industries, the company consistently goes beyond its clients’ expectations by bringing together technology, talent, innovation, and the highest quality standards.
Luxoft Ukraine is the region’s leading IT outsourcing provider, delivering software development services to global and national organizations. Established in 2005 in Kiev, Luxoft Ukrainenow includes more than 3500+ professionals serving more than 40 global clients from its delivery locations in Kiev, Odessa and Dnepropetrovsk.
Combining the country’s engineering legacy and Luxoft’s best-in-class processes, quality, flexible engagement models and innovative approach to software delivery, Luxoft Ukraine develops high-end solutions, product engineering, R&D and embedded systems development for such industries like automotive, travel and aviation, financial, energy, telecom and technology industries.
We continue growing and developing, which causes a large number of vacancies for IT-specialists of various specializations.
Key facts:
- #1 in the field of custom software development in Eastern and Central Europe – as rated by Datamonitor Group
- 9000+ employees worldwide
- 14 years of continuous growth
- 130+ clients, 30% from Fortune 500
- 27 offices in 16 countries
- 750+ internal IT trainings annually
For more information visit www.luxoft.ua.
Careers: www.luxoft.ua/robota/.
Estimation patterns for engineering tasks. How to avoid comparison of warm with soft.
Aug 13th
Estimates is one of the most difficult issues in SWE. It’s not because of lack of our competencies but complexity and non-linearity of social and software systems.
In this talk I’ll try to show why sometimes we can’t do estimate at all but sometimes we can. We’ll see the patterns of internal engineering complexity and tools to deal with it. What’s the difference of R and D and how to estimate in these contexts. So for outcome I want to give some working patterns of estimating you can take to your project rigth now.
Points of View: key to good communication in the team – see quality behind diagrams
Aug 13th
I think the root of all evil in software development is misunderstanding and communication impedance of the team. Especially if team members are in different production roles. This directly leads to project and product fails.
In case of issues and fails team members reactively solve it. But can we behave more proactive? This means managing quality early and not to be a hostage of issues.
Yes, we can! And the key to proactive quality management is to decrease mentioned misunderstanding and communication impedance of team.
In this talk I’ll describe team comminucation framework based on concept of Points Of View. Also we’ll disscuss three particular patterns you can instatly take away to your project. Please prepare your own project cases in form of text description or UML so we could discuss it.
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Jon Jagger
Aug 13th
I’m 2E years old (hex). I’ve loved software since I was 10 (dec). I run my own software consultancy specializing in practice, people, process, agility, test driven development, and complex-adaptive systems thinking. I built cyber-dojo.org to promote deliberate practice for software developers. I’ve worked with Accenture, Aviva, Cisco, Ericsson, Friends Provident, HP, Microsoft, Opera, Ordnance Survey, RBS, Reuters, Renault F1, Schlumberger, Tandberg and many many more. If you don’t like my work I won’t invoice you. I’m the ex ECMA TG2 C# convenor. I’m the current ACCU conference chairman. I’ve had some C# books published. On twitter I’m @JonJagger.
Scaling To Infinity: The Quest For Fully Automated, Scalable, Self-Healing System With Zero-Downtime
Aug 12th
It’s been a bit over a year since Docker released its first “production ready” release. A new door was opened and many of us stepped through. We are creating immutable containers and deploying them to production in a much easier and more reliable ways than we did before. However, with widespread usage of Docker a huge number of new possibilities started to emerge.
Can we automatically scale (and de-scale) services depending on traffic and server load? Do we need to know where will the applications be deployed? Can we treat all our servers as one big “server farm”? What can we do with auto-discovery? Can we recuperate from failures without human intervention? Can we truly accomplish zero-downtime?
This presentation will try to answer those and other questions. It is the result of different proofs of concept done as experiments as well as successful implementations of large scalable systems.
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Viktor Farcic
Aug 12th
Viktor Farcic is a Software Architect at Everis / NTT Data. He coded using plethora of languages starting with Pascal (yes, he is old), Basic (before it got Visual prefix), ASP (before it got .Net suffix), C, C++, Perl, Python, ASP.Net, Visual Basic, C#, JavaScript, etc. He never worked with Fortran. His current favorites are Scala and JavaScript even though most of his office hours are spent with Java.
His big passions are Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment (CI/CD). He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences (latest can be found here). He is currently writing a book on TDD for Java developers that will be published by Packt Publishing.
Planning – “shmanning”, estimations – “shmetimations”
Aug 10th
This talk was inspired by “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable” book written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. I want to apply his ideas to IT industry and discuss absurdness of it’s basic practices like estimation and planning. Human beings have some very strange habits like building theories just to bring some facts together or believing in such theories with ignorance of facts where they don’t work at all. Managers want to play in such games and even measure success with metrics based on almost nothing – our ability to predict the future. Lets discuss how to change software development processes to avoid fooling yourself and your colleagues.
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How to make your functional tests really quick
Aug 10th
Functional tests are usually the slowest layer of automated tests for almost every product. They use product via UI, store data in real DB, integrate with external services and do other “slow” things. The first easy answer how to make them fast is to run in parallel. But in reality tests depends on the same data and intersect by some common functionality. In this talk we will review useful techniques and approaches how to win this battle.
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IntroPro
Aug 10th
IntroPro is a privately held service company that specializes at complete development and integration life cycle of complex distributed enterprise applications, embedded software products for digital TV broadcasting, Telecommunication Services, Financial, E-Commerce applications and software products for other industries. The company was established in 2008. By today more than 100 long term projects have been completed and the number of employees has exceeded 320 persons. IntroPro is a Certified Oracle Gold Partner. IntroPro is a market leader for RVU protocol-centric tools, products and services. The company has a considerable set of tool products dedicated to RVU protocol specification verification and certification. Production sites are located in Kiev, Ukraine. Major clients of IntroPro are DIRECTV, RVU Alliance.
Capabilities and Advantages
All IntroPro staff have a high level of education in Computer Science, Information Technologies and Applied Mathematics degrees from leading Ukrainian technical universities. The majority of engineers had graduated from the National Technical University of Ukraine and National Taras Shevchenko University with a M.S. degree. Senior members have 6 to 15 years of work experience. Majority of IntroPro staff possess extensive experience working for big international IT, Telecom and Software companies.
Ready Resources to start New Project
Today IntroPro has resources that can be quickly assigned to a new Project or a new Customer. Advantage here is that the planned core resources can be relocated to the project from the bench.
Ability to make a quick additional staffing
IntroPro can make a quick additional staffing of the new project or account team. This is due to IntroPro effective HR practices combined with a good knowledge of local human resources market. IntroPro has a good reputation on the market with numerous advantages to the competitors.
Responsible partner ready for tight project schedules
IntroPro and its customers’ cooperation experience prove that IntroPro can meet the most tight schedule requirements.
Competitive rates and prices
Competitive rates and prices make an important advantage of IntroPro to the competition.
Flexible contract options
- Flexible contract options
- Fixed Price for customers with clearly defined requirements Time and Materials (for customers with projects in the process of being defined)
- Hybrid — Time and Materials as the architecture and specs are defined, then a Fixed Price for implementation
Secure and safe development facilities
- Safety and security of all project data is supported by the latest IT security technologies and are backed-up on regular basis
- Source code is committed or pushed to Customer’s Source Control Infrastructure
- Access to Customer’s servers and farms is over dedicated VPN link.
Project Management and Project Lifecycle
IntroPro is a project-oriented company with small management personnel overhead. Unified project management and SDLC methods used for majority of projects are Agile and Waterfall. Project management practices used in a company are closely following PMI organization recommendations. All project managers are capable to personally perform the most difficult tasks as the developers. This ensures that the project team members will be closely controlled and given a good advice. For project management IntroPro uses MS Project, Trac and other products. Also, for many projects the customer’s project management systems are used by the customer’s demand. Detailed weekly reports and if needed daily reports are the basis of successful projects’ progress information exchange with the customer.
For effective information and data exchange with customer following instruments are used:
- Online weekly and daily meetings through WebEx tool
- Repository of project working documents available for project teams from both sides
Key employees of IntroPro are often present at customer’s site at crucial phases of the project based on a customer’s demand – requirements specification clarification, initial design, deployment of application. For account management two approaches are practiced. First, a custom system is developed for specific customers. Second, a customer’s account/project management system is to be used when IntroPro managers had a direct access to the customer’s system. The choice here is to the customer.
Enterprise Applications Department
Applications Department is dedicated to execution of projects in the area of Enterprise Grade systems, Telecommunication services, E-Commerce and Financial software products
Enterprise Applications Department has a body of 140+ engineers specialized in enterprise applications analysis, development, integration and support. Knowledge of big number of modern operating systems and enterprise software development environments makes IntroPro specialists ready to fulfill the most challenging projects. IntroPro engineers have good expertise in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Business Process Management (BPM) technologies. To realize SOA/ESB/BPM technologies the robust and reliable middleware platform and products are used from the leading industry vendors, like Oracle. IntroPro has a strong Analysts Team who are experts in existing customer’s systems analysis with conversion the applications to the new middleware architecture. IntroPro has developed a powerful tool for enterprise application analysis and transition to the SOA/ESB/BPM archtecture. IntroPro specialists are experienced with enterprise applications development, integrationm, migration for digital TV broadcasting, telecommunication and finance industries.
Embedded Systems Department
Systems Department is involved in Embedded Systems and Mobile Applications Projects in highly specialized areas like Broadcast Television Set Top Boxes, Home Media Systems and GPS based systems. IntroPro has a body of 160+ engineers specialized in embedded and mobile software development and support. Knowledge of several operating systems is a must for Embedded Software Department engineers and usually includes Linux, Unix, QNX, Windows, iOS and Android . For a programming platform practically all IntroPro engineers are able to use C++, ObjectiveC and Java. This is a good advantage since majority of embedded and mobile systems use a mix of these programming technologies. Additionally there is an extensive list of other operating systems and development platforms where IntroPro engineers are keen. Having a good knowledge of embedded software development IntroPro engineers are also experienced in developing the PC-based tools that operate connected to the embedded systems. IntroPro specialists are experienced with satellite and cable TV set top boxes (STB) software technologies (Linux, STB software services and applications, drivers etc.), iOS and Android mobile applications development with a strong integration with Cloud services and Enterprise systems.
Quality Assurance Teams
Software-Quality-AssuranceIntroPro has a strong and dedicated Quality Assurance teams who are engaged in testing projects for both Embedded Software and Enterprise Applications Departments. QA knowledge gamut covers both industrial testing for Embedded Sevices, Functional manual testing for End User appliances like multiple hardware versions of Set Top Boxes, automated and Continuous Integration driven functional, performance and soak testing of Enterprise-grade server products.
RVU Technology Team
IntroPro specialists have a deep knowledge of RVU technologies and RVU protocol specification. IntroPro was engaged in several RVU protocol-centered projects (see RVU Technology). Having starting these projects nearly 5 years ago when the first version of RVU protocol specification was introduced, byt today IntroPro specialists have accrued extensive RVU technology skills and experience including implementation of RVU stack. This makes to IntroPro an important advantage when participating in RVU technology-based projects.
Careers
Why to work at IntroPro and no to go to Outsourcing giants or hot startups? We provide long term stability in career, steep growing salary curve, and the most important, we give a chance to work with latest technologies which are hot trends at IT market both in Enterprise, Telecom and Embedded areas. You will have an opportunity to emerge into Java SOA Middlware stack, Distributed Data and Computational Grids, Big Data technologies, High Performance and Low Latency algorithms and paradigms with a lot of Enterprise Java, Linux with C++ and Embedded Java with an emphais on tuning application for low memory footprint and reduced CPU consumption.
Academy
We understand the crucial role of education in the high-technology sector. The IntroPro Academy was created as a platform for knowledge sharing and growing technical talent. We are committed to invest in our technical expertise and keep our competitive advantages — pragmatical approach to problems, smart solutions, cutting edge technologies and high quality standards. We look at Academy as the place to share technological experience between teams, provide insights and project retrospectives, keep tech talks on advanced technologies, best tools and innovative development approaches.
Scaling Docker with Kubernetes
Aug 10th
Docker is revolutionizing the way people think about applications and deployments. It provides a simple way to run and distribute Linux containers for a variety of use cases, from lightweight virtual machines to complex distributed micro-services architectures.
Kubernetes is an open source project to manage a cluster of Linux containers as a single system, managing and running Docker containers across multiple Docker hosts, offering co-location of containers, service discovery and replication control. It was started by Google and now it is supported by Microsoft, RedHat, IBM and Docker Inc amongst others.
Once you are using Docker containers the next question is how to scale and start containers across multiple Docker hosts, balancing the containers across them. Kubernetes also adds a higher level API to define how containers are logically grouped, allowing to define pools of containers, load balancing and affinity.
Jenkins Continuous Integration environment can be dynamically scaled by using the Kubernetes and Docker plugins, using containers to run slaves and jobs, and also isolate job execution.
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Pragmatics of TDD to Evolve Design
Aug 10th
Test Driven Design, we hear is a great way to create lightweight design that is easier to maintain and evolve. Unfortunately, just writing test cases mechanically do not lead to good design. In fact, it may really not lead us anywhere we want to really go! In this presentation we will discuss some of the challenges with using test driven development, look at practical and pragmatic solutions that will help us make a good use of this wonderful design tool.
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Towards an Evolutionary Architecture
Aug 10th
Big up front design is discouraged in agile development. However, we know that architecture plays a significant part in software systems. Evolving architecture during the development of an application seems to be a risky business. In this presentation we will discuss the reasons to evolve the architecture, some of the core principles that can help us develop in such a manner, and the ways to minimize the risk and succeed in creating a practical and useful architecture.
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Software Architecture Anti-Patterns
Aug 10th
Applications of different size, business domain and criticality suffer from a huge set of issues, be it boring enterprise software, “Highly-Loaded” social network or a cozy startup. In this talk Eduards Sizovs will cover Software Architecture issues that he finds the most prevailing nowadays and what you can do with that. Think big!
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8 Things That Make Continuous Delivery Go Nuts
Aug 10th
Continuous Delivery is still trendy and everyone wants to get there, but there are so many walls you have to break and nerves to spoil! In this talk Eduards will present real-world battle stories of continuous delivery adoption, 8 underlooked things that tend to go wrong and what practices can you apply in order to survive.
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Victor Polischuk
Aug 4th
Java technical leader at Infopulse Ukraine. Production experience counts 14 years including about 12 years of Java development. Expert in Java and JavaScript. Smartass.
Vladimir Tsukur
Aug 4th
Software engineer and architect, primarily focused on the development of distributed systems, platforms and APIs. REST trainer, XP practitioner and a member of JEEConf / XP Days program committee. Outsourcing partner of Swedish companies Easyhunt and Frost Digital in Ukraine. Passionately engaged in software development for over 12 years striving to make things right. Enjoys giving technical talks on local and international conferences and meet-ups.
Eugene Krivosheyev
Aug 4th
Eugene helps Russia IT companies from TOP-50 to become more flexible and effective. He supports Agile processes from bottom to top, implementing engineering practices and good approaches to design/architecture. At the moment involved into SkillTrek project, where he trains engineers for practical skills in real-life projects.
Carlos Sanchez
Aug 4th
Carlos Sanchez specializes in the automation and quality of software development, and QA and operations processes, from build tools to Continuous Delivery following the DevOps philosophy. He has spoken on the subject at several conferences around the world. Involved in Open Source for over ten years, he is a member of the Apache Software Foundation amongst other open source groups, contributing to several projects, such as Apache Maven, Fog, or Puppet. He works at CloudBees scaling the Jenkins platform.
Venkat Subramaniam
Aug 4th
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. His latest book is Functional Programming in Java: Harnessing the Power of Java 8 Lambda Expressions. You can reach him on twitter at @venkat_s.
Eduards Sizovs
Aug 4th
Eduards is a hands-on architect and software development coach who helps awesome teams around the globe become more awesome – work smarter, run faster and enjoy the journey. He leads Latvian Software Craftsmanship Community, organises software craftsmanship conference DevTernity, runs training center DevChampions, speaks, and even sleeps. Sometimes.
DIO-Soft
Jul 17th
DIO-soft is a fast-growing and successful company. We work as a team of highly qualified specialists: project managers, business analysts, developers, QA engineers, systems analysts, designers, and support engineers. We create robust solutions that meet clients’ individual requirements. Our company operates in accordance with international quality standards. We actively work with large American financial institutions, including investment banks on a number of projects.At the same time, DIO-soft is committed to provide quality services to companies of any size.
Resource efficiency and flexibility in approaching customer needs are the core principles that help our company to grow and evolve along with our clients. At any given time, we work on about two dozen large projects. We have developed a strong record with over 100 successful implementations.
Team
One of our company basic principles is to create a strong team of professionals to implement each project. However, this does not mean that we close our doors to young, but talented people. We would like to invite promising Juniors to cooperation offering them training and career growth opportunities.
Professional level of candidates is determined after the interview. We value not only candidates’ technical knowledge, but also their individual qualities. DIO-soft management believes that mutual understanding and friendly atmosphere in the company is one of the key factors for successful and productive work.
We are constantly striving for development, self-improvement, and process optimization. This includes everything from software development to corporate culture.
Individual approach to every employee remains a fundamental principle of all our changes and innovations. We create an atmosphere conducive to improvement of the quality of work which, in turn, brings the pleasure of its execution.
For more information visit www.dio-soft.com.
Dmytro Mindra
Jul 17th
Dmytro holds the position of Software Development Engineer in Test at Unity Technologies. He is one of the Toolsmiths who are developing tools for test automation. Prior to joining Unity, Dmytro has worked for Microsoft and Lohika. He is a frequent speaker at various conferences and User Group meetings.
Serhiy Kalinets
Jul 17th
Sergey is a professional programmer and software architect living in Kyiv. Heavily advocates XP practices and strives to automate everything. TDD addict and console lover.Besides being .NET guy for years he tries to stay up to date with other technologies. Currently helps teams in Sigma Software to build cool products.
Taras Matyashovskyy
Jul 17th
Software Engineer, Team Lead, Speaker, founder of Morning@Lohika tech talks. Primary focused on the development of complex distributed systems, R&D activities. Agile & Lean practitioner, Certified Scrum Master and “great product-oriented” developer.
Andrey Dzynia
Jul 17th
Being passionate hacking out with his first personal computer Andrii decided to start his career as software tester. Within years worked on various projects with different product complexities, from small mobile startups to large Enterprise programs. Tried himself in different roles, such as: software tester, test automator, scrum master, team leader, test consultant. As well as initiatives: speaker, trainer, conference organiser, blogger. Currently working at Spotify with focus on improving development productivity of agile teams applying engineering practices in order to minimise delivery cycle and improve product quality.
Dmitriy Yefimenko
Jul 17th
17+ years experience. Product and team management. Software architecture and design. Business and system analysis. Sophisticated products with elusive goals.
Mikalai Alimenkou
Jul 17th
Java Tech Lead and Scrum Master. Expert in Java development, scalable architecture, Agile engineering practices and project management. Having more than 10 years of development experience, specializes on complex distributed scalable systems. Active participant and speaker of many international conferences. Founder and coach in training center XP Injection. Organizer and founder of Selenium Camp, JEEConf, XP Days Ukraine and IT Brunch conferences. Founder of active “Anonymous developers club” (uadevclub).
Taras Matyashovskyy
Jul 17th
Primary focused on the development of complex distributed systems, R&D activities, but enjoys life beyond programming. Agile & lean practitioner, Certified Scrum Master and simply “great product-oriented” developer. Currently interested in microservices architecture, big data trends and searching of decent life partner. Founder of Morning@Lohika tech talks in Lviv.
Sergey Kalinets
Jul 17th
Sergey is a professional programmer and software architect living in Kyiv. Heavily advocates XP practices and strives to automate everything. TDD addict and console lover.Besides being .NET guy for years he tries to stay up to date with other technologies. Currently helps teams in Sigma Software to build cool products.
Vladimir Tsukur
Jul 17th
Principal engineer and team lead at Avid / GlobalLogic. Primarily focused on the development of distributed systems with in-depth focus on platforms, APIs and the Web. Certified Scrum Master and XP practitioner. Outsourcing partner of Swedish companies Easyhunt and Frost Digital in Ukraine. Passionately engaged in software development for over 10 years striving to make things right. Enjoys giving technical talks on local and international conferences and meet-ups.
Mikalai Alimenkou
Jul 17th
Senior Delivery Manager, Java Tech Lead and experienced coach. Expert in Java development, scalable architecture, Agile engineering practices and project management. Having 13+ years of development experience, specializes on complex distributed scalable systems. Active participant and speaker of many international conferences. Founder and independent consultant at training center XP Injection. Organizer and founder ofSelenium Camp, JEEConf and XP Days Ukraine conferences. Founder of active “Anonymous developers club” (uadevclub).
“Automation testing of responsive design”
Jul 2nd
I want to discuss an area of QA automation which always is out of the automation – responsive design. Automation of functional use cases become regular in modern web-applications. That’s mean automation scripts do some input via web interface and than check output which they also retrieve from web interface. But often this process doesn’t include check of UI by itself.
So the question is how to automate verification of UI features? In general automation testing tools are not smart enough to do this in entire sense of the context. Fortunately Galen Framework gives us a new hope, because it aimed to work with dimensions of web elements depends on browser window size. Hence we can add a new level of automation to our good old functional tests.
“Why testing take so much time?”
Jul 2nd
Most of you work by iterative development approaches and regression testing is done in each iteration (at least I hope so). And quite frequently we see following picture: in one iteration testing is finished in time, but in the next one it is only 50% completed. WTF? We added small increment of functionality in this iteration! From such incidents managers (if you still have them) start to “analyze and tune” performance of testers. They usually use stats and metrics… May be some testers are fired during this process… Or new “more performant” are hired… But situation continues to happen again and again. In this talk I will try to show why testing is really slowed down and how to fix it.
XP Days Ukraine 2014 aftewords
Dec 24th
XP Days Ukraine 2014 is done and we want to say it was amazing conference. Thanks a lot to speakers who prepared great talks and shared their practical experience. Thanks to our volunteers who helped us to organize everything with such level of quality. Thanks to participants who spent 2 or even 4 days with us getting new knowledge and experience. This conference happened because all of you was there!
As usually we processed your feedback and chose top 7 speakers. This year we tried new approach of taking feedback from participants via iPad application immediately after the talk is finished. So scoring system is even more simplified. The results are quite interesting:
- 1st place with 1.90 points goes to Sander Hoogendoorn and his talk “Beyond breaking bad. The current state of agile in ten easy lessons”. This is an expected result because Sander’s talks was quite popular.
- 2nd place with 1.83 points is taken by Victor Polischuk. His talk “Legacy projects: how to win the race” based on large practical experience in this area.
- 3rd place with 1.81 points is taken by Dmytro Mindra and talk “Refactoring Legacy Сode”. His amazing slides and presentations skills always work well.
- 4th place with 1.80 points goes to Eugene Krivosheyev with talk “A=F(?): How lack of common sense kills projects”.
- 5th place with 1.78 points goes to Sam Newman and his master-class “Practical Considerations for Microservice Architectures”. He is very experienced developer, author, speaker and XP practitioner so this is fare choice.
- 6th place with 1.77 points goes to Dmitriy Yefimenko for the talk “Continious Delivery for a complicated product”.
- 7th place with 1.75 points goes to Mikalai Alimenkou and his talk “Why testing take so much time?”.
We want to note that all speakers did their best and this competition is very informal. We prepared special form for participants to share their opinions about the conference program. Your feedback will affect the next year plans.
We started gathering conference materials including feedback reports, photos, slides. If you have something to share please contact us. Video will be available in December and published there as well.
Looking forward to see you at XP Days Ukraine 2015!
Another rating for top 10 talks from XP Days Ukraine 2013
Oct 25th
We are very interested in feedback about conference program. It allows us to take into account participants interests for the next conference and make it more useful and practical. So, we sent feedback form to all participants with the option to set a score to each talk. Near 25% of them provided their feedback. Here is top 10 talks according to their scoring:
- “TDD for database related code, how is it possible?” (Mikalai Alimenkou, Ukraine) – 8,94
- “Living in the cloud without system administrators” (Alexander Demidov, Russia) – 8,71
- “Tech Lead – required role for Agile project success” (Mikalai Alimenkou, Ukraine) – 8,57
- “TDD secrets in live cyber-dojo session” (Jon Jagger, UK) – 8,45
- “Efficient coding in IntelliJ IDEA” (Nikolay Chashnikov, Russia) – 8,36
- “eXtreme Banking” (Vadim Gerasimov and Andrei Solntsev, Estonia) – 8,33
- “Code Structural Analysis” (Eduards Sizovs, Latvia) – 8,29
- “Architecture and Design Validation in .Net” (Akim Boyko, Ukraine) – 8,17
- “DevOps Engineering in real-time” (Andriy Samilyak, Ukraine) 7,94
- “Continuous Delivery” (Mikalai Alimenkou, Ukraine) – 7,86
We will update this page when new results arrive to keep them actual. If you took part in the conference feel free to add your scoring to build more realistic picture.
XP Days Ukraine 2013 aftewords
Oct 18th
XP Days Ukraine 2013 is done and we want to say it was amazing conference. Thanks a lot to speakers who prepared great talks and shared their practical experience. Thanks to our volunteers who helped us to organize everything with such level of quality. Thanks to participants who spent 2 or even 4 days with us getting new knowledge and experience. This conference happened because all of you was there!
As usually we processed your feedback and chose top 5 speakers. Scoring system is based on feedback forms – if you mentioned speaker in ‘the best’ section he gets 1 point, if in ‘the worst’ section he looses 1 point. The results are quite interesting:
- 1st place with 50 points goes to Sander Hoogendoorn. This is an expected result because Sander’s talks was quite popular.
- 2nd place with 35 points is taken by Vadim Gerasimov and Andrei Solntsev. Guys represent the same company so we decided to count points for them together. Their practical reports was appreciated by participants.
- 3rd place with 32 points goes to Mikalai Alimenkou.
- 4th place with 28 points is taken by Dmytro Mindra. His amazing slides and presentations skills always work well.
- 5th place with 25 points goes to Poland to Paweł Lipiński. He is very experienced developer, speaker and XP practitioner so this is fare choice.
We want to note that all speakers did their best and this competition is very informal. We prepared special form for participants to share their opinions about the conference program. Your feedback will affect the next year plans.
On the conference closing we forgot about one prize from organizers. And some participants already asked us about it. We are talking about Intellij IDEA licenses. So we decided to choose winners randomly offline:
- Olexandr Nikolaevsky
- Grigory Milev
- Pavel Ilyushko
We will pass their contacts to JetBrains and they will get their licenses for free.
We started gathering conference materials including feedback reports, photos, slides. If you have something to share please contact us. Video will be available in December and published there as well.
Looking forward to see you at XP Days Ukraine 2014!
Only one week remains before XP Days Ukraine 2013
Oct 1st
Only one week remains before XP Days Ukraine 2013. Near 70 participants will take part in workshops and trainings on October 9-10 and near 300 in main conference days on October 11-12.
We are happy to say that almost all speakers passed the last review stage and have great talks with excellent slides. We hope everybody will find something interesting in the conference program.
All confirmed participants should already get their personal tickets with detailed instructions on how to access the conference. If you still don’t have your ticket please contact us ASAP.
Looking forward to see all of you at XP Days Ukraine 2013 and hope you will enjoy it!
XP Days Ukraine 2013 program is ready!
Sep 3rd
Only one month left before XP Days Ukraine 2013 conference. Traditionally it is divided on training days (October 9-10) and conference days (October 11-12). We decided to remain number of stages the same as previous year, so it was quite hard to choose the most interesting talks for final program. Here are top hot topics of this year.
XP practices usage experience reports
Everyone knows that XP practices are very halpful and allow to develop products with higher level of control over technical aspects of development process. But in practice their usage is not so simple. That is why we think experience reports from different domain areas are so important.
- Paweł Lipiński will share his experience of XP usage in Java teams and describe practices, tools and approaches, that made these teams more productive.
- Vadim Gerasimov and Andrei Solntsev will present a story of XP usage in very unusual area – in banking development. This is success story – their product is on of top internet-banking systems in Russia.
- Dmytro Mindra will talk about XP usage in real world using as a sample his current company making 3D game engine. This talk will be about distributed team, that successfully works together and depelops high quality product.
DevOps
DevOps is relatively new trend in software development. Some people think this is the next buzzword that has nothing new or useful under the hood. But others say this is the future of software development. So this topic is must have for our conference.
- Andrey Rebrov will make some introduction in DevOps and share his vision on how continuous delivery pipeline should be organized in modern projects.
- Andriy Samilyak will continue this topic and on practical samples show how to organize monitoring, deployment and scaling of projects in cloud infrastructure, what is the role of developers in this process.
- Alexander Demidov will tell a story how their company lives without system administrators and manage large products in the cloud used by thousands of companies.
- Axel Fontaine will share his experience of building Continuous Delivery process with zero downtime.
Database evolution in Agile projects
Don’t forget that database is important part of almost every product. Agile methodologies say us about flexible/adaptive/evolutionary design and architecture. But what about database? How to evolve it in parallel with the codebase? These are very important questions and not so many people know correct answers. This is why we decided to include this topic.
- Andrei Solntsev will present his experience in LiquiBase usage for evolutionary database development in enterprise project.
- Mikalai Alimenkou will talk about tools and techniques for TDD at database integration level, how to write reliable tests and make changes to database structure without fear to break everything.
- Axel Fontaine will present his own open source framework Flyway for database migration during product development.
Testing and code quality
It is hard to get high code quality without testing and controlling quality metrics. We think these processes need much more attention in modern development processes.
- Natalya Rukol will talk about quality metrics, how to apply them and successfully introduce on the project to avoid bureaucracy and move quality to the next level.
- Andrey Dzynia will share his experience in ATDD usage and describe why separated role of automated test engineer is not useful, what changes are required in the team for success.
- Wojciech Seliga will present experience report on automated testing in Atlassian: what obstacles they had, how to scale execution of thousands of tests on different levels, how to avoid much time spending on tests maintenance.
- Akim Boyko will share some tools for design and architecture validation in .NET applications.
- Eduards Sizovs will present practices and tools for structural code analysis, that help to control its design and architecture.
Engineering practices and tools for them
We chose some improtant engineering practices and invited experts to share their knowledge and experience in them.
- Ola Ellnestam will present relatively new and interesting approach in code refactoring – Mikado Method, that allows to make refactoring more controlled and reliable process.
- Izzet Mustafaiev will share his experience of usage Groovy and Spock for TDD in Java.
- Oleksiy Rezchykov will perform comparison report of the most popular unit testing frameworks in Java – JUnit and TestNG.
- Jon Jagger, having great practical experience in TDD, will organize TDD master class in C# with lots of tips and tricks from his practice.
- Nikolay Chashnikov, one of popular IDE Intellij IDEA developers, will show how to become more effective developer with thisIDE.
- TeamCity developers, Michael Kuzmin and Nikita Skvortsov, will share best practices for configuration effectve Continuous Integration process in your project.
- Sergey Kalinets will talk about simplification of deployment and testing with functional language F#.
Such program is waiting for participants this year. There will also be talks about architecture in Afile, importance of Tech Lead role and many others. Only small changes are still possible in the program.
Less than 100 tickets remain. It means more than 200 participants was already joined us. Register now and don’t miss this great event!
Main registration stage is open
Jul 30th
We are happy to announce that first 2 registration stages are passed and more than 120 participants already registered to the conference. On the main registration stage we have only 130 tickets available.
Conference program is filled on 60% and we are working on it. This year the program will be definitely more technical then last year. Don’t miss your chance to join XP practitioners from Eastern Europe!
Share information about XP Days Ukraine and get your personal discount!
Jul 16th
XP Days Ukraine program is growing every week. We want to gather as many Agile practitioners and adepts of engineering practices as possible. So we are looking for informational partners to spread information about the conference.
If you are an organizer of techincal community in your city and want to share information about XP Days Ukraine please contact us. We will add your community logo on the conference site and provide you with discount code for community members.
If you want to get personal discount it is quite easy. Spend some time on useful content and your 30% discount is in your pocket. There are several options:
- Write a good article (with positive responses) on habrahabr.ru or DOU about your experience with engineering practices and mention XP Days Ukraine in it.
- Write an article on your personal blog on the same topic and place one of XP Days Ukraine banners.
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We would be happy to see you as informational partner of XP Days Ukraine conference!
New season of XP Days in Ukraine October 9-12
Jun 26th
We are happy to announce new season of XP Days in Ukraine that is scheduled on October 9-12. XP Days Ukraine 2013 will consist of 2 parts: training days (October 9-10) and main conference days (October 11-12). You are free to register only on one part or on both and pay only for what you plan to visit, so you can build a flexible personal program.
First XP Days in Ukraine was organized in 2011 and gathered more than 300 participants from 8 countries. This event is a great chance not only to communicate with industry leaders and listen to their talks but also participate in practical training or workshop. Last year 9 workshops was run in first 2 days. Conference was really international – speakers from 12 countries visited XP Days Ukraine in 2012. Take a look at conference history to find all materials from the previous events.
We will try to do our best to reduce participation cost and make it acceptable for everyone. For this purpose we are actively looking for sponsors. Also sponsorship will help us to invite great foreign speakers and make the conference program more intense. There are many sponsorship packages available. Also we invite informational partners to spread information about the conference.
Call for papers is open and we invite speakers having interesting practical experience with Agile engineering practices and techniques to take part in the conference. If you feel ability and desire to share you knowledge with participants, submit a talk and our program committee will contact you. Call for papers is open till August 24. Program committee will work hard to prepare great conference program and useful set of trainings from experienced practitioners.
There are several changes in comparison to last year:
- Conference site will be in english. There are 2 official languages on the conference: RUSSIAN and ENGLISH. You can choose either to fill information on registration.
- Only 300 tickets will be available this year on main conference days and 15 tickets per training on training days. Tickets will be sold in 4 stages, prices you can find on registration page. Don’t wait for the last moment and buy your ticket now with the lowest price!
Registration is already open and at the moment you could buy tickets for the lowest price as an early bird! Looking forward to see you in Keiv on our conference!
Мы продлили регистрацию до 9 ноября
Nov 6th
Сколько участников не предупреждай, а кто-то все равно оставляет вопрос регистрации и оплаты участия на последний день. Мы получили множество запросов на продление регистрации и решили дать возможность присоединиться к участникам конференции до конца недели. Последний день приема оплаты переносится на 9 ноября. У нас осталось последних 10 мест для желающих попасть на самую крупную в СНГ конференцию по инженерным практикам Agile. Кто не успел, потом не обижайтесь!
Официальный анонс pre-party в формате XP PechaKucha
Oct 31st
Мы уже упоминали, что 15 ноября состоится pre-party конференции XP Days Ukraine и пройдет оно в формате PechaKucha. Вы живете в Киеве или приехали на конференцию за день до ее начала? Мы ждем вас для знакомства и прослушивания интересных мини-докладов в непринужденной обстановке!
В программе вечера уже 5 докладов, но мы надеемся на активность участников, которые хотели бы поделиться своими идеями и знаниями. Участие в pre-party совершенно бесплатное, но по предварительной регистрации. Изначально регистрация открыта только для участников конференции, потому как количество мест ограничено. Если желающих посетить мероприятие среди участников будет мало, то мы откроем общую регистрацию.
Будем рады видеть вас!
Последний шанс попасть на XP Days Ukraine 2012
Oct 24th
Осталось чуть больше трех недель до начала конференции XP Days Ukraine 2012. Программа окончательно сформирована и опубликована. На данный момент осталось около 30 мест для участников на последнем этапе регистрации. Регистрация закончится как только места закончатся или же 5 ноября. Поэтому, если вы хотите принять участие в конференции, то самое время зареристрироваться.
За 10 дней до конференции все участники получат электронный билет, который будет являться подтверждением успешной регистрации. Доступ на конференцию будет осуществляться исключительно по билетам.
Вы уже наверняка составили свое личное расписание докладов, которые хотите посетить в рамках конференции. У вас есть возможность сохранить его на своем мобильном устройстве с помощью бесплатного приложения Eventor (доступны версии под iOS и Android).
На тренинги в рамках конференции группы практически набраны и остаются последние места. Мы планируем закрыть регистрацию к 5 ноября. Но это далеко не все, что ожидает вас на конференции.
15 ноября вас ждет pre-party в формате XP PechaKucha. Мероприятие будет совершенно бесплатным и изначально задумано только для участников конференции, поэтому будет необходима регистрация. На текущий момент мы активно ищем доклдачиков, которые хотят поделиться своими знаниями и опытом в этом интересном и приятном формате 20×20.
14 ноября вечером для всех желающих попробовать свои силы в соревнованиях разработчиков пройдет Coding Dojo. Приходите и вы не только отлично проведете время, но и научитесь чему-то новому. Участие бесплатное.
Будем рады видеть вас среди участников!
Pre-party конференции пройдет в формате PechaKucha
Oct 3rd
Мы очень хотели провести pre-party конференции, где участники могли бы познакомиться поближе и просто хорошо провести вечер перед конференцией. Банально выпить вместе пива показалось нам не слишком интересным. Поэтому мы приняли решение провести pre-party в формате PechaKucha совместно с PechaKucha Kiev.
PechaKucha – очень интересный формат встреч. Перед участниками выступят докладчики, у которых есть 20 слайдов по 20 секунд (итого 6 минут 40 секунд) и идея, которой они хотят поделиться. Прелесть формата заключается в том, что она – некий баланс между хаосом, который царит на любой многолюдной вечеринке и уважительностью к докладчикам, которые зачастую рассказывают очень интересные вещи. Участники смогут не только пообщаться между собой, но и послушать интересные яркие выступления.
Состоится мероприятие в 19:00 15 ноября. На данный момент мы открыли регистрацию докладчиков. Если вы хотели выступить на конференции, но по какой-то причине не смогли попасть в состав докладчиков, то это отличная возможность донести свою идею или опыт до участников. Мы будем рады вашим докладам и поможем вам с подготовкой выступления под нужный формат. Как только программа будет сформирована, мы откроем регистрацию для гостей среди участников конференции XP Days Ukraine.
Докладчики XP Days Ukraine 2012: Miško Hevery
Sep 27th
Мы еще не познакомили вас со всеми докладчиками. Одним из приглашенных гостей конференции стал Miško Hevery. Он работает Agile Coach в Google, где отвечает за обучение сотрудников культуре автоматизации тестирования. Это позволяет компании делать частые релизы своих приложений и постоянно поддерживать высокий уровень качества. Miško успел поработать в Adobe, Sun Microsystems, Intel, и Xerox, где стал экспертом в построении веб-приложений на Java, JavaScript, Flex и ActionScript. Также Miško является активным участником сообщества Open Source и автором нескольких open source проектов: Angular и JsTestDriver.
К нам на конференцию Miško приедет с двумя докладами, связанными с тестированием и JavaScript. Вот краткое описание первого доклада “Psychology of testing”:
Imagine you are a evil developer and you want to write hard to test code. What do you do? Would you declare everything private? Put everything in one big method? Give nondescript names? Turns out none of that is hard to test, but some things which we do every day are. Will writing tests cost you double the development time? How can writing more code be faster? Is testing really just for QA? Find these answers and more at psychology of testing talk.
Второй доклад “How Testacular makes AngularJS super-heroic at testing” будет посвящен опыту тестирования JavaScript кода:
Testacular is test runner that makes makes testing JavaScript applications in real browsers frictionless and enjoyable. AngularJS is a framework which makes building web-applications frictionless and enjoyable. The resulting environment is extraordinarily expressive, readable, and quick to develop. Come learn how such as super-heroic framework gets built with the continues focus on testing form the framework itself to the developers that will be using it.
Хотите узнать как тестируют разработчики в Google? Присоединяйтесь к участникам конференции!
Напоминаем, что основной этап регистрации по цене 1400 гривен продлится до 1 октября и остается буквально несколько дней, чтобы успеть зарегистрироваться и оплатить участие по такой низкой цене. Присоединяйтесь, будет интересно!
В рамках XP Days Ukraine пройдут соревнования в формате Coding Dojo
Sep 25th
Мы решили сделать программу мероприятий XP Days Ukraine еще более насыщенной. 14 ноября вечером пройдут соревнования среди разработчиков в формате Coding Dojo.
Программируешь? Хочешь весело провести время с нами? Мы предлагаем тебе наш новый coding dojo framework. «Coding dojo» – это формат, в котором все его участники шаг за шагом выполняют одинаковые задания, но с помощью кода, который пишут в процессе игры.
На этот раз мы все закрутили вокруг старого доброго тетриса. Оказалось, что объяснить кремниевому другу, как играть в тетрис не так-то просто – не то, что человеку. Вот в этом и посоревнуемся. Что такое tetris coding dojo можно узнать тут, а тут можно подглядеть, как dojo проходило в одно из прошлых собраний.
Мероприятие проводят Александр Баглай и Сергей Зеленин по своей авторской программе. Присоединяйтесь, будет интересно!
Регистрация открыта, участие совершенно бесплатное. Поэтому вы можете как стать непосредственным участником, так и просто придти поболеть.
XP Days Ukraine 2012 снова пройдет в бизнес-центре “Парус”
Sep 21st
Мы наконец-то определились с местом проведения конференции. Им стал бизнес-центр “Парус”. Помимо наличия комфортных залов для проведения мероприятия, бизнес-центр очень удачно расположен в самом центре Киева. Мы уже имеем опыт работы в данном месте и качеством предоставляемых услуг остались довольны.
Бизнес-центр “Парус” – 33-этажный офисный бизнес-центр класса «А» расположенный на улице Мечникова, был самым высоким небоскрёбом Украины офисного назначения до 2010 года. Его высота достигает 136 метров (156 м с антенной). До него легко добраться как на машине так и на общественном транспорте, включая метро.
Адрес бизнес-центра: ул. Мечникова 2а. Схему проезда и ближайшие транспортные маршруты можно посмотреть на карте или найти на официальном сайте.
Неподалеку от места проведения находится множество отелей, в которых можно поселиться иногородним участникам конференции. Вот некоторые из них:
- Отель “Президент”Тут селятся иностранные докладчики и действуют специальные скидки для посетителей конференции. Заполните форму бронирования для получения скидки.
- Отель “Русь”
- Ibis Hotel
- Мини-отель на Бессарабке
- Отель “Украина”
- Отель “Крещатик”
- Отель “Казацкий”
Доступна предварительная версия детальной программы конференции
Sep 19th
Мы рады сообщить, что доступна предварительная версия программы XP Days Ukraine 2012. В ней по-прежнему возможны перестановки и изменения. Финальная версия будет опубликована к 10 октября. Мы решили в этом году сделать всего два потока докладов, но существенно ужесточить отбор тем и докладчиков. Благодаря такой политике, участники смогут услышать только лучшие на наш взгляд выступления. Первый поток будет целиком на английском языке и там будут выступать зарубежные докладчики. Второй поток отведен для отечественных профессионалов, доклады которых не менее интересны и полезны. В программе осталось несколько пустых мест, которые мы заполним в ближайшее время.
На данный момент более 150 участников зарегистрировались на конференцию. Напоминаем, что основной этап регистрации по цене 1400 гривен продлится до 1 октября и остается совсем мало времени, чтобы успеть зарегистрироваться и оплатить участие по такой низкой цене. На тренинги 14-15 ноября также скоро не останется свободных мест. В октябре на большую часть будет закрываться регистрация. Поэтому не откладывайте и регистрируйтесь!
Докладчики XP Days Ukraine 2012: Дмитрий Миндра
Sep 13th
Продолжаем анонсировать доклады, интересные .NET разработчикам. С двумя докладами выступит еще один отечественный специалист – Дмитрий Миндра. За 10 лет разработки программного обеспечения Дима побывал в разных проектах и разных ролях. Прошел путь от начинающего программиста до лидера команды и менеджера проектов. Остановился на роли программиста и исследователя. На сегодняшний день занимает должность Microsoft Technologies Lab Leader в компании Lohika. До этого 4 года проработал в украинской продуктовой компании, специализирующейся на Web проектах. Последние 7 лет Дмитрий работает с Web ориентированными технологиями Microsoft, включая ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC и Silverlight. Выступает с докладами на встречах Одесской .Net User Group, а также на многих международных конференциях в Украине и за ее пределами.
Как мы уже упоминали, Дима представит два доклада. Первый из них “Компилируемые спецификации”. Вот краткое описание:
В современной разработке программного обеспечения очень важен контакт между теми, кто знает что делать и теми, кто знает как делать. Первые – это представители бизнеса, вторые – программисты. Представители бизнеса, зачастую, не любят иметь дело с программным кодом. Программисты же могут ошибиться, перенося требования из документов в код. Более того, требования могут меняться, и некоторые изменения могут быть обнаружены слишком поздно. В качестве возможного решения описанной проблемы, можно использовать практики BDD и ATDD. Эти практики, подкрепленные соответствующими инструментами, позволяют наладить контакт между участниками процесса разработки, а также зафиксировать спецификации в едином месте и на понятном всем языке. Эти спецификации в дальнейшем используются для того, чтобы генерировать приемочные тесты. Результатом применения BDD и ATDD являются две очень важные вещи: взаимопонимание и автоматизация. Докладчик рассмотрит проведение воркшопа по формированию и уточнению требований, а также приведет примеры использования практик в .NET и JavaScript. Будут рассмотрены такие инструменты, как SpecFlow, Jasmine, Vovs.js.
Второе выступление Димы будет посвящено использованию Visual Studio 2012 для тестирования кода. Доклад называется “Тестируем код с Visual Studio 2012”:
Все программисты хотят работать в проектах с красивым, чистым, современным и тестируемым кодом. При этом, бизнес беспокоится о сроках выполнения, о денежных затратах, о том, выполняет ли разработанное ПО бизнес задачи. Возникает определенное давление, горят сроки, меняются требования. В таких условиях даже самый хороший и чистый код может «испортиться». В докладе будет рассмотрено, как программист может использовать Visual Studio 2012 для написания тестируемого кода и тестирования нетестируемого кода. Вас ждет живое программирование с демонстрацией фреймворка Microsoft Fakes, а также обсуждение применения Fakes, Mocks, Stubs и Dummies. Если вы хотите узнать больше о модульном тестировании и пользуетесь Visual Studio, этот доклад для вас.
Напоминаем, что основной этап регистрации по цене 1400 гривен продлится до 1 октября и остается чуть меньше месяца, чтобы успеть зарегистрироваться и оплатить участие по такой низкой цене. Присоединяйтесь, будет интересно!
Докладчики XP Days Ukraine 2012: Сергей Калинец
Sep 11th
На конференцию с докладами приедут не только зарубежные докладчики. Мы пригласили выступить ведущих специалистов Украины. Один из них – Сергей Калинец. Сергей более 11 лет занимается разработкой ПО, из которых 7 на .NET. Он активно применяет TDD уже около 5 лет. Автор ресурса tdd4.net и опытный тренер по инженерным практикам. Член сообщества kyiv.alt.net и «Клуба анонимных разработчиков». В настоящее время совмещает роли лидера команды, Scrum Master и проектного менеджера в компании CompatibL.
Сергей подготовил два доклада. Первый будет посвящен практикам XP и расскажет о путях развития и становления настоящих профессионалов. Называется доклад “Путь XP практика: как стать и оставаться профессионалом”. Вот краткое описание:
Кто такой профессионал? Многие считают, что человек может так себя назвать, если он получает за свою работу деньги. Уверен, многие из вас сходу смогут назвать коллегу, которого язык не повернется назвать профи. А что думают о вас другие?
На докладе Сергей представит свое понимание того, каким должен быть профессиональный разработчик, а также что нужно делать, чтобы стать, и, самое главное, оставаться профи в своей сфере деятельности. Будут рассмотрены практики, инструменты и навыки, которые здорово помогают разработчикам. На докладе вы узнаете:
- Почему нужно постоянно развиваться
- Как XP практики повышают эффективность
- Зачем нужно знать алгоритмы и паттерны
- Что можно и нужно делать для саморазвития
- Где можно научиться новому и полезному
- Как можно закрепить и где применить полученные знания
- Что такое kata, dojo и еще пара незнакомых слов
Второе выступление Сергея будет посвящено использованию Resharper для ускорения разработки .NET приложений. Сергей поделится с участниками конференции своим опытом и знаниями в области рефакторинга. Выступление пройдет в виде мастер-класса “Ускоряем разработку .NET приложений с помощью Resharper” с примерами кода:
Код – основной продукт разработчика. Чем быстрее у нас получается работающий чистый код, тем выше наша эффективность. Но не всегда сразу понятно, как должен выглядеть код в итоге. И, вместо того, чтобы начинать его писать, мы пытаемся представить окончательный вариант и теряемся в еще нереализованных деталях. В результате вместо кода – запутанные мысли.
Многолетняя практика показывает, что лучше начинать с неидеального кода и постепенно приводить его в порядок с помощью рефакторинга. Но рефакторинг может показаться на первый взгляд довольно трудоемким и поэтому отпугивающим процессом. А на самом деле, доступны инструменты, которые делают его очень простым делом. На примере одного такого инструмента – Resharper – Сергей покажет вживую, как легко можно писать новый и изменять существующий код. Будут использованы следующие рефакторинги:
- выделение/инлайн методов, свойств, полей, переменных
- переименование переменных, полей, свойств, классов, пространств имен
- перемещение кусков кода, методов, классов вверх/вниз
- быстрые исправления/изменения кода
- автоподстановка существующих переменных в аргументы
- перенос классов и файлов по пространствам имен/папкам
- изменение сигнатур методов
Также, 14-15 ноября Сергей совместно с Александром Белецким проведут популярный тренинг “TDD в .NET”. Мест на тренинг остается все меньше, поэтому торопитесь зарегистрироваться.
Напоминаем, что основной этап регистрации по цене 1400 гривен продлится до 1 октября и остается чуть больше месяца, чтобы успеть зарегистрироваться и оплатить участие по такой низкой цене. Присоединяйтесь, будет интересно!
Докладчики XP Days Ukraine 2012: Sander Hoogendoorn
Sep 5th
Мы продолжаем знакомить вас с докладчиками конференции и представляем Sander Hoogendoorn, который приедет к нам из Нидерландов. Sander работает как Principal Technology Officer и глобальный Agile лидер в компании Capgemini. Он постоянно участвует в улучшении и становлении процессов разработки, техник, практик, архитектурных подходов, выборе фреймворков и технологий в Capgemini и для ее многочисленных клиентов. Sander проводил обучение на многих проектах в разных компаниях, написал несколько книг по UML и Agile, а также опубликовал более 200 статей в международных изданиях. Он выступает с докладами на многих международных конференциях, проводит семинары и воркшопы на тему Agile и архитектуры. Sander является членом Microsoft’s Partner Advisory Council по направлению .NET и ведет блоги: sanderhoogendoorn.com и smartusecase.com.
К нам на конференцию Sander приедет с замечательным докладом “Agile Anti-Patterns. Yes your agile projects can and will fail too.”, в котором расскажет о типичных ошибках в Agile проектах, которые могут свести на нет все ваши попытки добиться успеха. Вот краткое описание доклада:
Almost all organizations, large and small, are turning towards agile to escape failing traditional software development projects. Due to this strong increase in popularity of agile approaches and techniques, many newcomers will enter the field of agile coaching. Many of them without the very necessary real-life experience but proudly waving their agile certificates proving they at least had two days of training.
During this challenging talk appreciated international speaker Sander Hoogendoorn, global agile thought leader at Capgemini, shows what happens with organizations and projects which are coached by well-willing consultants with little experience. Often this leads to very dogmatic applications of the more popular agile approaches, mostly Scrum and Kanban. This dogmatic thinking currently blocks the use of more elaborate techniques, tools and technology in agile projects, even when these would really improve projects. “No, you cannot do modeling in Scrum” and “Burn-down charts are mandatory” are two such simple real-life example statements. Due to this lack of experience and the growing dogmatism in the agile beliefs, more and more agile projects will fail.
But maybe even more important during this talk Sander will also show that there is no such thing as one-size-fits-all agile. Different organizations and different projects require different agile approaches. Sometimes lightweight agile, user stories, simple planning and estimation is just fine. But in many projects the way of working used should rather be built up from slightly more enterprise ready approaches, for example using Smart or FDD, smart use cases, standardized estimation, multiple distributed teams and on-line dashboards. During this talk Sander demonstrates how to assemble an agile approach that is specifically suitable for YOUR project, of course with many examples from real-life agile implementations.
Напоминаем, что основной этап регистрации по цене 1400 гривен продлится до 1 октября и остается чуть меньше месяца, чтобы успеть зарегистрироваться и оплатить участие по такой низкой цене. Присоединяйтесь, будет интересно!
Докладчики XP Days Ukraine 2012: Johannes Brodwall
Aug 23rd
Настало время продолжить знакомство с докладчиками конференции. Мы рады представить Johannes Brodwall, который приедет к нам из Норвегии. Johannes является архитектором и Java разработчиком, инфицированным тестами. Более 10 лет назад он начал работать с XP практиками и продолжает по сей день. В своей работе в качестве архитектора, Johannes стремится делать архитектуру гибкой, изменяемой и понятной. В прошлом году, помимо замечательного доклада на тему TDD и парного программирования с живыми демонстрациями, Johannes привез в Украину замечательное начинание – Coding Dojo. Это положило началу проведения различных видов Dojo: Coding Dojo, Testing Dojo, Automated Testing Dojo.
В этом году он выступит в докладом “TDD in the real world: Test driving Java web applications”, в котором речь пойдет о применении TDD в рамках всего проекта. Примеры и инструменты будут демонстрироваться для мира Java. Вот краткое описание доклада:
“Okay,” you say, “I see how TDD can work for your toy example. But it can’t possibly work for a real application where we have to deal with web pages, databases, http and dynamic html.” Actually, TDD works really well in real world situations like those on just your project. In this practical talk, I will demonstrate how to write tests for a full stack web application. I will show you what types of tests are useful, how to write them, and what libraries are available to help you.
If you have tried TDD or thought about trying TDD, but been unable to apply it to real world applications, this talk is for you.
Также, по многочисленным просьбам участников, Johannes проведет 15 ноября мастер-класс “Bare bones Software Architecture”, в котором поделится своими подходами к архитектуре и проведет множество практических упражнений для построения и демонстрации архитектуры вашего приложения. Уже больше половины мест на тренинг разошлись. Не откладывайте в долгий ящик решение об участии!
Напоминаем, что основной этап регистрации по цене 1400 гривен продлится до 1 октября и остается чуть больше месяца, чтобы успеть зарегистрироваться и оплатить участие по такой низкой цене. Присоединяйтесь, будет интересно!
Завершился этап ранней регистрации на XP Days Ukraine 2012
Aug 15th
Сегодня мы официально завершили этап ранней регистрации на конференцию XP Days Ukraine 2012. Более 100 участников успели зарегистрироваться и оплатить свое участие по минимально возможной цене. На данный момент открыт основной этап регистрации, который продлится до 1 октября. Стоимость участия на данном этапе составляет 1400 гривен. В то же время на тренинги, которые пройдут в первые 2 дня конференции (14-15 ноября), около 50% мест уже разошлись. Поэтому не откладывайте решение об участии в долгий ящик. Только кажется, что времени еще много… 😉
Докладчики XP Days Ukraine 2012: David Evans
Aug 8th
Мы продолжаем знакомить вас с ключевыми приглашенными докладчиками конференции. В этот раз мы рады представить David Evans. David является опытнейшим консультантом и тренером, который работает в IT около 25 лет. Специализируется на Agile тестировании и, наряду с собственными тренингами, сотрудничает с Gojko Adzic на тему обучения Specification by Example.
На конференции David выступит в докладом “Time off for good Behaviour”. В докладе речь пойдет о том, что для успешного применения BDD мало использовать хороший инструмент. Нужно понимать как превращать требования в исполняемую спецификацию, а это не такой простой процесс. Вот краткое описание доклада:
To get the most out of Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), you need much more than a tool. You need high value specifications. How do we get the most out of our specification and test writing effort? How do we turn vague business-speak into testable scenarios? These and other questions will be addressed in this talk in which we take a practical approach using real-world examples.
А для тех, кому эта тема интересна в деталях, David проведет в рамках конференции двухдневный тренинг “Specification by Example”. Мы очень рады, что этот легендарный тренинг пройдет и в Украине. Ведь тема требований и их привязки к продукту является очень болезненной для большей части команд. Тренинг проводится по материалам на основе книг Gojko Adzic “Specification by Example” и “Bridging the Communication Gap”. Он пригодится разработчикам, тестировщика, бизнес аналитикам и Product Owner. Тренинг будет насыщен практическими упражнениями и содержать как технические так и нетехнические модули. Стоимость участия в тренинге составляет 3200 гривен, что ничтожно мало по сравнению с ценами на этот тренинг в Европе (порядка $1500-2000). Не упустите уникальную возможность посетить данный тренинг и обязательно расскажите о нем своим менеджерам, бизнес аналитикам и другим членам команды, которые отвечают у вас за требования.
Конференция XP Days Ukraine соберет в этом году много интересных зарубежных докладчиков, что позволит участникам узнать что-то новое и интересное от зарубежных коллег, профессионалов своего дела. Напоминаем, что этап ранней регистрации по минимальной цене продлится до 15 августа. Присоединяйтесь, будет интересно!
Докладчики XP Days Ukraine 2012: John Smart
Aug 6th
В программе конференции уже достаточно много докладов и мы продолжаем знакомить вас с ключевыми приглашенными докладчиками. В этот раз мы рады представить John Smart. John прилетит к нам из далекой Австралии. Он является разработчиком с многолетним опытом, на данный момент возглавляет собственную компанию Wakaleo Consulting, которая занимается тренингами и консультациями на тему инженерных практик. В то же время, John не бросил разработку и занимается развитием open source инструмента по автоматизации приемочного тестирования – Thucydides. Он также является автором двух книг: «Java Power Tools» и «Jenkins: The Definitive Guide».
На конференции John выступит в двумя докладами. Первый из них естественно будет посвящен Thucydides – “Introducing Thucydides: Better Automated Acceptance Testing on the JVM”. Вот краткое описание доклада:
Thucydides is an open source library that lets you use Selenium 2/WebDriver with the BDD framework of your choice to write more flexible and more reusable automated acceptance tests for the JVM. Thucydides helps you structure your acceptance tests and generate powerful documentation, with narrative feature descriptions, screen shots, test coverage, and project progress reports. Learn how to write better and more maintainable automated acceptance tests using JVM-based tools, and see how a well-designed set of automated acceptance tests can also be a powerful documentation and reporting tool. And learn how product owners use ATDD and Thucydides to drive, coordinate and document releases, and see a live demo of Thucydides in action!
Второй доклад будет посвящен обзору инструментов BDD в мире Java и называется “Behavior-Driven Development on the JVM: A State of the Union”. Вот о чем пойдет речь в докладе:
Behavior-driven development (BDD) is an increasingly popular variation on test-driven development, which helps developers think more in terms of “executable specifications” than in terms of conventional tests. There are dozens of BDD tools for the JVM out there—how do you know what to use and when? This presentation covers the various BDD tools available for Java developers, in both Java and other JVM languages. It looks at the pros and cons of each tool, so you can learn which might be best suited for your team. Finally, you will discover the relationship between behavior-driven development and automated acceptance testing and why you probably need both.
Конференция XP Days Ukraine соберет в этом году много интересных зарубежных докладчиков, что позволит участникам узнать что-то новое и интересное от зарубежных коллег, профессионалов своего дела. Напоминаем, что этап ранней регистрации по минимальной цене продлится до 15 августа. Присоединяйтесь, будет интересно!
Докладчики XP Days Ukraine 2012: Simon Brown
Jul 30th
Программа конференции стремительно пополняется новыми докладами и тренингами. Мы начинаем знакомить вас с приглашенными докладчиками. Первым рады представить Simon Brown. Simon является независимым консультантом, а также архитектором, который пишет код, или разработчиком, который отлично разбирается в архитектуре. Simon участвовал в разработке многих .NET и Java проектов, а также обучал команды архитектуре и ее роли в современных подходах к разработке. Он написал книгу «Software Architecture for Developers», которая на данный момент динамично развивается. Simon по прежнему занимается непосредственно разработкой, поэтому его опыт и знания сугубо практические.
На конференции он выступит в двумя докладами. Первый из них “The code doesn’t tell the whole story” будет посвящен созданию легковесной документации на базе исходного кода. Вот краткое описание доклада:
We all know that writing good code is important and refactoring forces us to think about making methods smaller, more reusable and self-documenting. Some people say that comments are bad and that self-commenting code is what we should strive for. Despite what you’ll hear though, the code isn’t the documentation. The code tells *a* story, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. Join us to find out what’s missing and how to create lightweight documentation for your software projects.
Второй доклад будет посвящен архитектуре в современной разработке и называется “The frustrated architect”. Вот о чем пойдет речь в докладе:
The IT industry is either taking giant leaps ahead or it’s in deep turmoil. On the one hand we’re pushing forward, reinventing the way that we build software and striving for craftsmanship at every turn. On the other though, we’re continually forgetting the good of the past and software teams are still screwing up on an alarmingly regular basis.
Software architecture plays a pivotal role in the delivery of successful software yet it’s frustratingly neglected by many teams. Whether performed by one person or shared amongst the team, the architecture role exists on even the most agile of teams yet the balance of up front and evolutionary thinking often reflects aspiration rather than reality.
If we really do want to succeed, we need to get over our fascination with shiny new things and starting asking some questions. Does agile need architecture or does architecture actually need agile? Have we forgotten more about good software design than we’ve learnt in recent years? Is emergent design really just about foolishly hoping for the best? Does any of this matter if we’re not fostering the software architects of tomorrow? How do we move from frustration to serenity?
14-15 ноября Simon проведет свой популярный тренинг «Software Architecture for Developers». Стоимость участия в тренинге на данный момент составляет всего 2500 гривен (за два дня). Регистрация уже открыта, количество мест на тренинг ограничено.
Конференция XP Days Ukraine соберет в этом году много интересных зарубежных докладчиков, что позволит участникам узнать что-то новое и интересное от зарубежных коллег, профессионалов своего дела. Напоминаем, что этап ранней регистрации по минимальной цене продлится до 15 августа. Присоединяйтесь, будет интересно!
Опубликованы цены участия в конференции на всех этапах
Jul 27th
Нам задают много вопросов касательно ранней регистрации. Часть из них касается стоимости. Выгодно ли довериться организаторам и оплатить участие заранее? Мы решили опубликовать цены участия на всех предполагаемых этапах регистрации. Выглядят они так:
Ранняя регистрация | Основной этап | Этап “опомнился” |
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$140/1100 гривен
оплата до 15 августа
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$175/1400 гривен
оплата до 1 октября
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$225/1800 гривен
оплата до 5 ноября
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Как видите, оплатив свое участие заранее, можно сэкономить достаточно приятную сумму. 🙂 Оплаты на текущем этапе ранней регистрации принимаются до 15 августа. Присоединяйтесь, будет интересно!
Поделись информацией о конференции с друзьями и коллегами!
Jul 16th
Подготовка конференции XP Days Ukraine 2012 уже идет полным ходом. Мы хотим собрать как можно больше Agile практиков и адептов инженерных практик, ведь самое важное в таких мероприятиях – это общение. Поэтому приглашаем различные сообщества и организации присоединиться к составу информационных партнеров конференции.
Если вы занимаетесь организацией подобного сообщества в своем городе и хотите поделиться информацией с широким кругом людей, свяжитесь с нами. Мы добавим ваш логотип на сайт конференции, сделаем анонс и предоставим скидки членам вашего сообщества.
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Открыта ранняя регистрация на XP Days Ukraine 2012
Jul 12th
Мы рады сообщить об открытии ранней регистрации на конференцию XP Days Ukraine 2012. В этом году мы планируем организовать действительно масштабное мероприятие длительностью несколько дней. Первые два дня (14-15 ноября) будут насыщены разнообразными тренингами, мастер-классами и встречами. Следующие два дня (16-17 ноября) будут отведены для докладов, открытых дискуссий и прочих выступлений в формате конференции.
Подобные мероприятия уже давно проходят в других странах и пользуются большим успехом. В Украине XP Days впервые прошли 15-17 декабря 2011 года и собрали более 300 участников из 8 стран. Количество участников конференции будет ограничено. В этом году мы планируем собрать 400 человек. На данный момент у вас есть возможность ранней регистрации по самой низкой цене – 1100 гривен. Указанная цена действует только при регистрации и оплате участия до 15 августа. Стоимость участия будет расти по мере приближения даты проведения конференции.
Мы активно начали работать над программой конференции. Она будет наполняться достаточно быстро. Мы постараемся отобрать только лучшие доклады, сделав программу конференции действительно полезной и интересной. Первые докладчики уже появляются на сайте конференции. Мы приглашаем выступить докладчиков с различным опытом и областями работы, связанными с тематикой конференции. Конференция посвящена применению инженерных практик, методологии XP (eXtreme Programming) в целом и прочих Agile подходов, касающихся непосредственно разработки.
Все материалы XP Days Ukraine 2011 опубликованы
Jan 26th
Наконец-то мы опубликовали последние материалы прошедшей конференции XP Days Ukraine! Теперь вы можете посмотреть видеозаписи пропущенных или сильно понравившихся вам докладов, поделиться ссылками на материалы с коллегами и друзьями. Надеемся, что материалы будут для вас полезными.
Эта конференция стала ярким и запоминающимся событием прошедшего года. Мы обязательно проведем ее в этом году и постараемся сделать еще насыщеннее и интереснее. Оставайтесь с нами! До встречи на XP Days Ukraine 2012!
Опубликованы видеозаписи докладов со сцены “Тестирование”
Jan 21st
Отличные новости для всех, кто с нетерпением ожидал появления видеозаписей докладов с прошедшей конференции XP Days Urkaine. Новогодние праздники существенно замедлили процесс подготовки и публикации, но мы рады сообщить, что видеозаписи докладов со сцены “Тестирование” уже готовы. Таким образом, вы можете посмотреть в записи следующие доклады:
- Сравнение тестов на поведение и тестов на состояние (Андрей Бибичев)
- Approval Tests как альтернативный взгляд на автоматизированное тестирование (Александр Белецкий)
- Experience TDD and pair programming (Johannes Brodwall)
- Добавляем гибкости в тестирование (Катя Каменева)
- Разворачиваем инфраструктуру для автоматизации функционального тестирования веб приложений (Андрей Дзыня)
- Never red master! (Dmitriy Kovalenko)
- Testing in the Land of the Startup (Joseph Wilk)
На подходе уже и другие сцены. Они будут опубликованы на следующей неделе на странице материалов конференции. Удачного вам просмотра!
Видеоролик конференции XP Days Ukraine 2011
Jan 10th
Для всех, кто отлично провел время на конференции XP Days Ukraine 2011, а также для тех, кто не попал и завидует участникам, мы смонтировали обзорный ролик из фотографий. Ролик доступен в двух версиях. Полная версия:
Короткая версия:
Мы очень надеемся, что скоро появится видео всех выступлений. А пока у вас есть отличная возможность вспомнить как это было.
Завершилась первая конференция XP Days Ukraine
Dec 19th
Вот и завершилась первая конференция XP Days Ukraine. В общей сложности около 400 человек в течение 3 дней учились, общались, узнавали что-то новое, делились знаниями и навыками об инженерных практиках и подходах к разработке. Хочется еще раз поблагодарить команду организаторов в лице Николая Алименкова, Анны Алименковой и Алексея Солнцева, волонтеров и всех, кто оказывал помощь в проведении конференции.
Огромное спасибо всем докладчикам и тренерам, которые подготовили и провели на высоком уровне свои выступления. Без них ничего бы не было. Некоторые из докладчиков приехали издалека, но тем не менее нашли время на подготовку и поделились своими знаниями с участниками.
Мы ожидаем отчетов и отзывов от участников. Впереди ретроспектива с целью проанализировать положительные моменты и совершенные ошибки. Мы тоже все время учимся и стараемся улучшать наши мероприятия. Пока же доступны фотоотчеты от Михаила Марченко и нашего приглашенного фотографа Андрея Матухно. Выкладывайте свои отчеты и делитесь своими впечатлениями от конференции. Автор самого увлекательного отчета получит приз от организаторов – билет на конференцию Selenium Camp 2012! Это поможет следующий раз сделать ее еще лучше.
Все презентации появятся на сайте конференции в ближайшее время. В каждом зале производилась видеозапись и ее результаты станут доступны после нового года. Также мы будем публиковать ссылки на ваши отчеты и фоторепортажи. Следите за новостями и не пропустите ничего интересного!
Навигатор по конференции XP Days Ukraine для iPhone/iPad
Dec 14th
Мы рады сообщить о том, что обладателям iPhone или iPad на конференции будет проще. Компания ITginger специально для нашей конференции разработала приложение XP Days Ukraine. Данное приложение позволяет быстро сориентироваться в программе конференции, выбрать наиболее интересный доклад и составить персональную программу. Дополнительно есть возможность прямого доступа в Twitter, где вы можете в прямом эфире общаться и обмениваться мнениями. Устанавливайте и делитесь своими впечатлениями! Все замечания мы постараемся учесть и исправить как можно быстрее!
Каждому участнику по билету!
Dec 8th
Вот и подходит к концу официальная регистрация на конференцию XP Days Ukraine. Осталось только 2 дня на то, чтобы успеть присоединиться почти к 300 участникам этого мероприятия. Вход на конференцию будет осуществляться по специальным персональным билетам, которые были разосланы по почте всем оплатившим на данный момент участникам. В приложении к письму вы найдете электронный билет на конференцию с вашими данными. Проверьте, пожалуйста, написание вашего имени и фамилии, а также корректность остальных данных. Если вы не получили билет или нашли ошибку в билете, напишите нам о ней на registration@xpdays.com.ua, чтобы мы внесли исправление в регистрационную информацию. Билет необходимо распечатать на цветном или черно-белом принтере (на ваш вкус) и предоставить его на регистрационном пункте для успешной регистрации. До встречи на конференции!
Осталась одна неделя до закрытия регистрации
Dec 5th
Очень быстро и незаметно пролетело время. Осталась последняя неделя перед закрытием регистрации. В следующий понедельник, 12 декабря, мы прекратим принимать заявки на участие. Все, кто уже зарегистрировался, должны оплатить участие до 9 декабря включительно. На основной день конференции остались последние 15 мест. Освободилось несколько мест на тренинг «TDD в PHP» и «Continuous Integration на практике». На остальные тренинги места будут только в случае отсутствия оплаты от уже зарегистрировавшихся людей. Осталось совсем немного и мы будем рады видеть всех вас на нашей конференции!
Программа готова и мест почти не осталось!
Nov 28th
Программа конференции окончательно укомплектована. Последний слот достался Roman V. Babenko. Это опытный разработчик с более 10 годами стажа за плечами, евангелист TDD и BDD, а также open source разработчик. Он является одним из организаторов конференции RubyConfUA и одним из ключевых членов RubyBarcamp. На конференции Роман представит интереснейший доклад на тему “Continuous Integration как инструмент управление рисками при разработке програмного обеспечения”. Вот краткое описание доклада:
“Объемы кода так велики, что риск получить неработоспособное приложение возрастает с каждой новой написанной строкой. Нездоровая конкуренция в команде может поставить под удар выпуск новой версии продукта. Вы написали много тестов, но они постоянно ломаються самым непредсказуемым образом. Новые разработчики не могут развернуть у себя продукт из исходников, а из инструкций у вас только электронный адрес тех, кто это писал годами, но уже уволился. Знакомая картина? А виноваты в ней лично ВЫ! Потому, что не придавали значения деталям которые сделали производство вашего ПО рискованным занятием. Увы мы не научились использовать наш мозг «по полной» как об этом говорили британские ученые и контролировать все не можем. Но есть инструменты и методики которые помогут контролировать многое. Риск быть выдернутым ночью из постели или чинить код на коленке в пабе становиться минимальным, а интеграция регулярной.”
Тем временем свободных мест на конференции становится все меньше. На текущий момент только 40 мест осталось на основной день 17 декабря. Вот статистика свободных мест на тренинги 15-16 декабря:
- Тренинг «TDD в Java» –
15 мест3 места. - Тренинг «TDD в PHP» –
15 мест4 места. - Тренинг «TDD в .NET» –
15 мест2 места. - Тренинг «Инженерные практики в Agile» –
30 мест5 мест. - Тренинг «Continuous Integration на практике» –
15 мест2 места.
Торопитесь зарегистрироваться, ведь осталось только 2 недели до закрытия последнего этапа регистрации. Напоминаем, что после 9 декабря заявки на участие в конференции больше приниматься не будут.
Встреча на тему BDD, ATDD и Cucumber с Joseph Wilk
Nov 25th
В рамках конференции XP Day Ukraine пройдет еще одна интересная встреча. Это будет встреча сообщества автоматизаторов, организованная ребятами с портала automated-testing.info. Они постоянно проводят встречи автоматизаторов в Киеве и уже прошли десятый рубеж. Эта встреча пройдет с участием одного из докладчиков конференции Joseph Wilk, который активно занимается разработкой инструментов для автоматического приемочного тестирования.
Это вам не капуста, не свекла и не морковь, это CUCUMBER! Очень популярный инструмент в Agile кругах. Мероприятие будет бесплатным, но количество мест будет ограничено. Поэтому кто первый, того и тапки. У вас есть возможность уже сейчас при регистрации задавать вопросы и пунктики для обсуждения, которые вы хотели бы узнать. Все вопросы будут перенаправлены нашему гостю, чтобы он выдал максимум полезной и нужной вам информации. Так что не теряйте ни минуты, потому что мест может не остаться!
Немного статистики по участникам конференции
Nov 22nd
Мы собрали статистику по участникам конференции и рады представить ее вам. Вот какая картина складывается по географии конференции:
Как видно из этой диаграммы, большая часть участников будет из Киева. Пока очень слабо представлена Россия, не смотря на то, что из России будет несколько докладчиков. Мы приглашаем участников из других городов также присоединиться к конференции.
Вот какая картина сложилась по распределению должностей:
Тут наша задумка удалась – около половины участников являются опытными разработчиками, лидерами команд или архитекторами. Тестировщики и менеджеры представлены незначительным процентом, хотя очень многие рассматриваемые темы будут касаться непосредственно их. Состав участников разнообразен и от этого конференция будет только интереснее.
Конференция пройдет в бизнес-центре “Парус”
Nov 18th
Мы наконец-то определились с местом проведения конференции. Им стал бизнес-центр “Парус”. Помимо наличия комфортных залов для проведения мероприятия, бизнес-центр очень удачно расположен в самом центре Киева.
В середине и конце декабря повсюду проводится множество корпоративных празднований, а это ставило под угрозу высокий уровень проведения конференции на более масштабных площадках. Поэтому мы приняли решение ограничить количество участников 350 местами. Это позволит сделать конференцию комфортной и приятной для посещения в выбранной локации. На данный момент осталось только 80 свободных мест. Поэтому поторопитесь зарегистрироваться!
Бизнес-центр “Парус” – 33-этажный офисный бизнес-центр класса «А» расположенный на улице Мечникова, был самым высоким небоскрёбом Украины офисного назначения до 2010 года. Его высота достигает 136 метров (156 м с антенной). До него легко добраться как на машине так и на общественном транспорте, включая метро.
Адрес бизнес-центра: ул. Мечникова 2а. Схему проезда и ближайшие транспортные маршруты можно посмотреть на карте или найти на официальном сайте.
Неподалеку от места проведения находится множество отелей, в которых можно поселиться иногородним участникам конференции. Вот некоторые из них:
- Отель “Русь”
- Ibis Hotel
- Мини-отель на Бессарабке
- Отель “Украина”
- Отель “Крещатик”
- Отель “Казацкий”
Обновление программы конференции
Nov 17th
Мы заполняем зарезервированные слоты в программе конференции. На главной сцене еще с одним докладом выступит Николай Алименков. Доклад называется “Жизнь без тестировщиков: миф или реальность?” и будет посвящен организации процесса разработки, который помогает существенно снизить нагрузку на тестировщиков и высвободить их для действительно полезной работы. Вот полное описание доклада:
Бытует противоречивое мнение, что на проекте обязательно должен быть тестировщик. Но тестировщик – это скорее роль, чем конкретный человек. И эта роль может быть распределена между всеми членами команды. В докладе я расскажу о том, как организовать процесс разработки, в котором подобное распределение происходит – а именно автоматизировать его так, чтобы получить возможность работать без тестировщиков или высвободить их время для действительно важных дел (тестирование методом свободного поиска, помощь в критическом анализе требований, помощь в составлении приемочных тестов и т.д.). При этом качество продукта остается на высоком уровне. Для построения такого процесса качество должно стать целью всей команды: разработчиков, заказчиков, аналитиков и прочих. Вот тогда и начинается магия…
Скоро программа будет полностью завершена. Следите за обновлениями.
Открыт заключительный этап регистрации
Nov 16th
Сегодня открыт последний этап регистрации на конференцию XP Days Ukraine, который продлится до 9 декабря. Стоимость участия на этом этапе составляет 800 гривен. Уже более 230 участников успели зарегистрироваться на первых двух этапах. Торопитесь присоединиться к составу участников!
Хотите сэкономить? Для вас предусмотрены следующие пакеты со скидками:
- Пакет “Групповой”. Вы получаете скидку 10% при групповой регистрации (группа от 5 человек). Поэтому собирайте своих товарищей и коллег и мы будем рады видеть вас на конференции!
- Пакет “Тренинг+”. Зарегистрируйтесь на любой однодневный тренинг 15 или 16 декабря и основной день конференции по цене
1000 + 800 = 1800 гривен1500 гривен. - Пакет “All Inclusive”. Зарегистрируйтесь на все 3 дня конференции и посетите любые понравившиеся мероприятия по цене
1700 + 800 + 150 = 2650 гривен2200 гривен.
Также вы можете получить скидку 50% при выступлении в секции Tools Talks или Lighting Talks, где еще осталось несколько свободных слотов.
На данный момент группы тренингов 15-16 декабря уже почти укомплектованы. Количество свободных мест:
- Тренинг «TDD в Java» –
15 мест6 мест. - Тренинг «TDD в PHP» –
15 мест7 мест. - Тренинг «TDD в .NET» –
15 мест7 мест. - Тренинг «Инженерные практики в Agile» –
30 мест10 мест. - Тренинг «Continuous Integration на практике» –
15 мест5 мест.
Торопитесь занять себе место на выбранном тренинге и воспользоваться возможностью улучшить свои навыки, а также пополнить багаж знаний новыми практиками и подходами!
Завершается очередной этап регистрации
Nov 14th
Мы спешим напомнить всем, что завтра, 15 ноября, завершится очередной этап регистрации на конференцию. У вас осталось совсем немного времени для того, чтобы попасть на конференцию по текущей цене. На данный момент более 200 человек уже приняли решение об участии в конференции. Начиная с 16 ноября будет действовать новое предложение. Мы сделаем специальные пакеты для участников, которые собираются посетить все 3 дня конференции или один из тренингов.
Как и обещали, мы “добиваем” программу конференции. На днях определился с темой доклада Joseph Wilk – один из ключевых разработчиков инструмента Cucumber для практики BDD. Он имеет большой опыт во внедрении и успешном применении подхода BDD, о чем и расскажет в своем докладе “Testing in the Land of the Startup”. Краткое описание доклада:
“Songkick is a web based music startup which operates in a new market place full of unknowns, developing a free service. Focusing on user experience as one of the most critical features of the product. Continuously iterating and experimenting with features based on user observations and metrics. Unusually we adopted Acceptance tests (with Cucumber) and BDD while still in the early startup phase. Having spent more than 2 years growing our system and learning the pain points both technically and culturally we have lots of interesting lessons we would like to share about startups and testing.”
Все любители практики BDD и инструмента Cucumber будут иметь уникальную возможность пообщаться с этим талантливым разработчиком и задать ему свои вопросы. Торопитесь присоединиться к составу участников конференции!
Опубликована детальная программа конференции
Nov 8th
До начала конференции XP Days Ukraine еще больше месяца, а уже зарегистрировались около 200 участников из 54 компаний и 15 городов Беларуси, Украины и России. Инженерные практики и подходы интересны как разработчикам, так и другим членам команды: тестировщикам, техническим лидерам, менеджерам. Ведь практически любой проект непосредственно связан с написанием кода, его тестированием и поддержкой. И от правильности выполнения данных активностей непосредственно зависит успех проекта.
Программа конференции выглядит многообещающе. Организаторы собрали более 25 докладчиков из Украины, Беларуси, России, Англии, Дании, Польши, Норвегии и США. В основной день конференции, 17 декабря, участники смогут услышать 19 докладов, а также 8 мини-выступлений в секциях Tools Talks и Lighting Talks. В секции Tools Talks каждый выступающий будет иметь 15 минут для освещения темы использования какого-то инструмента, непосредственно связанного с Agile инженерными практиками. Секция Lighting Talks даст каждому из докладчиков шанс в течении 15 минут поделиться своими советами, практиками и решениями.
Mark Seemann, опытный разработчик и автор книги «Dependency Injection in .NET» поделится с участниками опытом разработки договоренностей и стандартов, благодаря которым код выглядит более стройным, легким в поддержке и сопровождении.
Joseph Wilk, один из ключевых разработчиков Cucumber, покажет, как этот инструмент помогает в создании “живых” требований и используется в популярной практике BDD.
Pawe? Lipi?ski расскажет о принципах и подходах к дизайну в Agile. Нужно ли принимать долгосрочные решения? Помогают ли в дизайне UML диаграммы и TDD? Эти и многие другие вопросы будут рассмотрены в деталях.
Johannes Brodwall проведет практический мастер-класс по применению TDD и парного программирования. Программируя в паре с другим разработчиком, Johannes будет демонстрировать различные практики и тонкости TDD. Желающие поучаствовать в качестве партнера для Johannes могут написать ему в Twitter (@jhannes).
Дмитрий Коваленко расскажет о своем опыте построения процесса постоянного автоматизированного тестирования с использованием различных популярных инструментов: RSpec, Cucumber, Selenium. Дмитрий имеет большой опыт работы в тестировании, включая такие компании как ThoughtWorks и Groupon.
Это лишь малая часть интересных докладчиков и тем, освещаемых на конференции. Также будут рассмотрены вопросы архитектуры и дизайна в Agile, автоматизации всех уровней тестирования, применения практик Code Review, TDD, рефакторинга, Continuous Integration, работы со старыми проектами и legacy code, построения процесса непрерывной поставки продукта, управления качеством кода.
Но XP Days Ukraine – это больше чем просто конференция. 15-16 декабря будут организованы разнообразные тренинги и мастер-классы для повышения мастерства и навыков участников:
- Серия двухдневных тренингов по TDD в различных языках программирования (Java, .NET, PHP) от опытных практиков.
- Вводный тренинг «Инженерные практики в Agile», который поможет ответить на многие вопросы и заложить правильное понимание Agile инженерных практик и подходов.
- Тренинг «Continuous Integration на практике» на тему применения одной из обязательных практик в современном мире разработки.
- Встреча «Клуба анонимных разработчиков» на тему «Dependency Injection» с приглашенным докладчиком Mark Seemann
- Мастер-класс «TDD Coding Dojo» от Johannes Brodwall, на котором популярный подход к разработке через тестирование будет демонстрироваться в популярном стиле coding dojo.
Программа еще окончательно не сформирована и есть несколько зарезервированных мест для докладчиков на ключевые темы. С ними до сих пор ведутся переговоры. До 15 ноября возможны небольшие изменения в программе, но все они будут приятными и лишь добавят интересных событий. Еще есть несколько свободных мест в секциях Tools Talks и Lighting Talks. Зарегистрировавшись докладчиков в одну из секций, вы получаете скидку 50% на посещение конференции, а также все почести и преимущества докладчиков.
Таким образом, XP Days Ukraine станет крупным и интересным событием в области разработки. На данный момент действует основной этап регистрации, который продлится до 15 ноября. Стоимость участия на этом этапе составляет 700 гривен и будет расти по мере приближения даты проведения конференции. Зарегистрировавшись заранее, вы имеете возможность попасть на конференцию по меньшей цене. Также вы можете получить скидку 10% при групповой регистрации (группа от 5 человек). Поэтому собирайте своих товарищей и коллег и мы будем рады видеть вас на конференции!
Завершается прием заявок от докладчиков
Oct 26th
Быстро пролетело время и осталось меньше недели до 1 ноября – последнего дня приема заявок на доклады от потенциальных докладчиков. После 1 ноября доклады будут приниматься в программу в индивидуальном порядке в случае очень интересной темы и наличия свободного слота в программе. Если вы еще не подали свою заявку, то советуем поторопиться!
Что же мы имеем на сегодняшний день?
15 докладчиков из 5 стран уже подали свои заявки. В программе конференции уже 5 тренингов на различные инженерные практики, 2 встречи/мастер-класса с известными иностранными гостями и 14 докладов. Это еще не все. В ближайшее время мы дополним программу несколькими приглашенными зарубежными докладчиками, укомплектовав таким образом ее до конца.
Чего ждать дальше?
Дальше программный комитет будет кропотливо работать над финальной версией программы, которая увидит свет 10 ноября. По текущим планам программа будет разбита на 3 параллельных потока. Мы очень хотим добавить успешно зарекомендовавшую себя на других конференциях секцию Lighting Talks (короткие доклады по 10-15 минут) и интересную секцию Tool Talks (короткие обзорные доклады об инструментах для инженерных практик и подходов). Если у вас есть желание выступить в этих секциях, подавайте свой доклад с указанием в комментариях секции для выступления. В случае успешного включения в программу вы получите скидку 50% на посещение конференции и бейдж докладчика.
Регистрироваться или нет?
1 ноября должен был завершиться основной этап регистрации по цене 700 гривен. Мы получили достаточно много просьб продлить данный этап до публикации финальной программы. Участники сомневаются в полезности конференции. Мы решили пойти им на встречу и сместить завершение основного этапа регистрации на 15 ноября. Эта дата станет последней датой приема оплаты по текущей цене. Все, кто уже зарегистрировался, должны оплатить участие до 15 ноября.
Последние дни оплаты ранней регистрации
Oct 13th
Осталось всего 2 дня до завершения приема оплаты от участников, которые зарегистрировались по минимальной стоимости на этапе ранней регистрации. Последний день приема оплаты – 15 октября. После этой даты стоимость для неоплативших автоматически увеличивается до текущей. На сегодняшний день уже 130 человек присоединились к составу участников конференции. Приходите сами, приглашайте друзей и получайте скидки.
Тем временем, программа конференции все пополняется. На данный момент подано 13 докладов от докладчиков из 5 стран (Украина, Россия, Польша, Дания и Норвегия). Параллельно ведутся переговоры с другими известными докладчиками, чтобы сделать программу конференции еще насыщеннее и интереснее.
XP Days Ukraine – это больше, чем просто конференция. В преддверие главного конференционного дня пройдет множество встреч, докладов и мастер-классов. На текущий момент запланировано 5 тренингов, 1 мастер-класс и встреча “Клуба анонимных разработчиков”. У участников будет замечательная возможность поднять свой уровень и совершить очередной шаг к статусу “Agile-ниндзя”. Для всех участников основного дня действует скидка 15% на все остальные мероприятия в рамках конференции.
Появились официальные баннеры конференции
Oct 5th
Благодаря усилиям дизайнера Павла Киселева, у конференции XP Days Ukraine появились баннеры. Если вы выступаете или просто являетесь участником конференции, у вас есть сайт или блог, то повесьте один из наших баннеров. Это позволит распространить информацию о конференции, а значит собрать больше интересных людей.
Баннеры доступны в разных форматах для удобства размещения на сайтах различной структуры.
Баннер “растяжка” отлично подходит для показа в заголовке сайта:
Баннер “анонс” отлично подходит для секции анонсов событий:
Баннер “тумба” отлично подходит для списков событий в боковых колонках блогов:
Баннер “здыхлядь” отлично подходит для небольших сайтов или при жесткой нехватке места:
Закончился этап ранней регистрации
Oct 3rd
Мы спешим сообщить вам, что 1 октября официально завершился этап ранней регистрации. На данном этапе действовала минимальная цена на посещение конференции и более 120 участников успели воспользоваться этим выгодным предложением. Они имеют возможность оплатить участие до 15 октября. Теперь начался основной этап регистрации по цене 700 гривен. Он продлится до 1 ноября включительно. Торопитесь присоединиться к составу участников, потому что стоимость будет расти по мере приближения даты конференции.
Если вы не успели стать участником на первом этапе регистрации, не расстраивайтесь. Вы можете получить скидку 10% при групповой регистрации. Поэтому собирайте своих товарищей и коллег и мы будем рады видеть вас на конференции!
Также мы спешим сообщить об открытии регистрации на тренинги и встречи 15-16 декабря в рамках конференции. Регистрация и оплата осуществляется отдельно от регистрации на основной день конференции. Участники основного дня конференции получают 15% скидки на любой тренинг или встречу. Количество мест на всех тренингах ограничено. Поэтому торопитесь выбрать понравившиеся вам тренинги и зарегистрироваться:
- 16 декабря (18:00 – 21:00) – встреча «Клуба анонимных разработчиков» с участием приглашенного докладчика Mark Seemann на тему “Dependency Injection”
- 15-16 декабря (16 часов) – тренинг “TDD в PHP” (тренер Иван Мосев)
- 15 декабря (8 часов) – тренинг “Инженерные практики в Agile” (тренеры Николай Алименков и Алексей Солнцев)
- 16 декабря (8 часов) – тренинг “Continuous Integration на практике” (тренер Алексей Солнцев)
Это не окончательный список мероприятий. Он будет пополняться и мы надеемся порадовать вас разнообразием выбора.
Безопасность и спокойствие превыше всего
Sep 30th
Нам звонят многие участники и представители организаций с одним популярным вопросом: “Будет ли распространяться база контактов за пределы XP Injection?”. Хотим прояснить ответ на этот вопрос публично. Нет, контакты не будут распространяться. Мы понимаем сколько лишнего беспокойства может создать публикация контактов для участников и не будем поступать как большая часть конференций. Поэтому вся информация, собранная с участников во время регистрации на конференцию, будет использоваться организаторами исключительно для коммуникации по поводу конференции. Ни спонсоры, ни партнеры конференции не будут иметь доступа к этой информации. Можете не переживать за сохранность своих личных данных и спать спокойно. А организации могут смело отпускать своих сотрудников на конференцию.
Обновление программы конференции
Sep 26th
За последние две недели мы изрядно пополнили программу конференции. На данный момент уже подано 10 докладов различной тематики: психология code review, работа с legacy проектами, написание грамотного кода с помощью TDD, архитектура и проектирование в Agile, автоматизация тестирования и т.д. На данный момент докладчики представляют 3 страны – Украина, Россия и Дания. Но мы работаем над привлечением иностранных экспертов и надеемся собрать сильный состав докладчиков. Конференция будет проходить в 3 или 4 потока, поэтому каждый сможет найти для себя что-то интересное.
Напоминаем, что до 1 октября действует этап ранней регистрации. На этом этапе у вас есть возможность зарегистрироваться на конференцию по минимальной цене 500 гривен. Дальше стоимость будет расти по мере приближения даты мероприятия. Поделитесь этой информацией со своими друзьями и знакомыми. Это позволит вам сэкономить и посетить интересное мероприятие в хорошей компании за меньшие деньги.
С 1 октября мы также откроем регистрацию на тренинги, мастер-классы и встречи. Они будут оплачиваться отдельно, поэтому вы сможете подобрать себе личную программу, исходя из интересов и финансовых возможностей. Всем участником конференции предоставляется 20% скидка на тренинги и мастер-классы.
Присоединяйтесь к нам, делитесь своими мнениями и пожеланиями. Вы можете сделать конференцию еще лучше!
Приятный сюрприз для .NET разработчиков
Sep 13th
Мы усиленно работаем над программой конференции и уже подготовили первый приятный сюрприз. В этот раз повезло .NET разработчикам. Мы пригласили выступить на конференции Mark Seemann. Mark является автором книги “Dependency Injection in .NET”, а также создателем библиотеки AutoFixture для тестирования в .NET. В основной день конференции 17 декабря он выступит с докладом “Conventions: Make your code consistent”, в котором поделится с участниками способами поддерживать код в нормальном состоянии, когда его разрабатываем целая команда разработчиков с разным опытом и навыками. Все примеры будут показываться на языке C#.
Мы решили предоставить участникам побольше времени для общения с этим талантливым разработчиком. Поэтому вечером 16 декабря состоится очередная встреча “Клуба анонимных разработчиков” с участием приглашенного докладчика Mark Seemann и будет посвящена теме Dependency Injection. Он выступит перед членами клуба с 2-ух часовым докладом “Dependency Injection: Principles, Patterns and Containers”. Участники смогут вдоволь пообщаться с докладчиком и задать все интересующие вопросы.
Присоединяйтесь к списку участников! Вас ждет еще много приятных сюрпризов.
Определена дата мероприятия
Sep 8th
Мы долго думали над выбором даты мероприятия. Не хотелось пересечься с другими крупными конференциями и в то же время хотелось сделать дату удобной для большей части участников. Мы остановили свой выбор на 15-17 декабря. В первые два дня с 15 по 16 декабря пройдут многочисленные тренинги и мастер-классы. 17 декабря состоится конференция с докладами, открытыми дискуссиями и прочими выступлениями. Ранняя регистрация на конференцию уже открыта и продлится до 1 октября. Регистрация на тренинги будет открываться по мере наполнения программы.
Программа тоже не стоит на месте. За эту неделю несколько докладчиков уже успели подать заявки на выступление. На данный момент несколько докладов находятся на рассмотрении программным комитетом. Также анонсировано два тренинга: «TDD в PHP» и «Инженерные практики в Agile». Тренинг по TDD имеет продолжительность два дня и пройдет 15-16 декабря. Однодневный тренинг по инженерным практикам состоится 15 декабря. Следите за новостями чтобы не пропустить открытие регистрации на эти тренинги!
Открылась ранняя регистрация на конференцию
Sep 3rd
Мы рады сообщить, что сегодня официально открылась ранняя регистрация на конференцию XP Days Ukraine. На протяжении почти 30 дней будет действовать минимальная цена участия – 500 гривен. Ранняя регистрация является очень важным этапом для нас, потому что мы сможем учесть ваши интересы и пожелания при составлении предварительной программы конференции. На данный момент мы активно занимаемся поиском докладчиков и согласованием тем докладов. В ближайшее время доклады начнут появляться в разделе программы конференции. Наша основная цель – сделать конференцию как можно более полезной с практической стороны. Если у вас есть предложения или идеи по поводу программы, присылайте их нам по адресу review@xpdays.com.ua. Торопитесь зарегистрироваться на конференцию по самой низкой цене до 1 октября!
Организация конференции стартовала
Aug 22nd
Мы рады сообщить, что сегодня официально началась подготовка конференции XP Days Ukraine. Точная дата конференции еще не определена, но организаторы предполагают назначить ее на декабрь 2011 года.
XP Days Ukraine – это больше, чем просто конференция. Это мероприятие длительностью в несколько дней с множеством тренингов, мастер-классов, докладов и встреч. Планируется собрать на конференции большое количество докладчиков из разных стран для того, чтобы осветить многочисленные темы, так или иначе связанные с Agile инженерными практиками. Будет множество докладов на тему использования методологии XP (eXtreme Programming), разнообразных инженерных практик, подходов к архитектуре, инструментов и библиотек, помогающих разрабатывать продукты с использованием Agile методологий. Мы постараемся предложить участникам тренинги и мастер-классы от ведущих специалистов индустрии, а также насыщенную известными докладчиками программу.
Регистрация еще не открыта, но мы постараемся ее открыть в ближайшее время. Количество участников будет ограничено – мы планируем собрать не более 500 человек. Следите за предварительной программой конференции и списком докладчиков, который будет постоянно пополняться опытными специалистами. Также мы надеемся на интерес к этой конференции со стороны украинского IT-сообщества и ожидаем большого числа участников. Вы можете следить за развитием событий, подписавшись на RSS рассылку нашего сайта или через наш аккаунт в Twitter. Присоединяйтесь, будет интересно!