“Conference for people and for solving their needs”: DevOpsDays program committee on what a community conference is
The third Moscow DevOpsDays will be held on December 7 at Technopolis. We are waiting for developers, team leaders, heads of development departments to discuss our experience and the new DevOps in the world. This is not yet another DevOps conference, it is a conference organized by the community for the community.
In this post, program committee members told how DevOpsDays Moscow differs from other conferences, what a community conference is and what an ideal DevOps conference should be like. Below are all the details.
DevOpsDays is a series of international non-profit community conferences for DevOps enthusiasts. More than a hundred DevOps days pass each year in more than fifty countries of the world. Each DevOpsDays is organized by local communities.
This year DevOpsDays is 10 years old. On October 29-30, the festive DevOpsDays will be held in the city of Ghent in Belgium. It was in Ghent 10 years ago that the first DevOpsDays was held, after which the word "DevOps" began to be widely used.
In Moscow, the DevOpsDays conference has already been held twice. Last year we performed: Christian Van Tuin (Red hat), Alexey Burov (Positive Technologies), Michael Huettermann, Anton Weiss (Otomato Software), Kirill Vetchinkin (TYME), Vladimir Shishkin (ITSK), Alexey Vakhov (UCHi.RU ), Andrei Nikolsky (banki.ru) and another 19 coolest speakers. Video reports can be viewed on the YouTube channel .
A little video about how DevOpsDays Moscow 2018 went
Meet this great team doing the DevOpsDays Moscow this year:
It is these guys who invite speakers, look through applications, choose the most useful and interesting ones from them, help speakers prepare, arrange rehearsals for speeches and do everything to make an excellent program.
We asked the members of the program committee what gives them PC work, how DevOpsDays Moscow differs from other conferences and what to expect from DoD this year.
Dmitry Zaitsev, Head of SRE flocktory.com
- Have you been in the DevOps community for a long time? How did you get there?
This is a long story :) In 2013, I absorbed the available information about DevOps and came across the DevOps podcast by Deflop , which was then led by Ivan Evtukhovich and Nikita Borzykh. The guys discussed the news, talked with guests on different topics and at the same time talked about their understanding of DevOps.
2 years passed, I moved to Moscow, got a job in a technology company and continued to promote DevOps ideas. I worked on a specific set of tasks alone and some time later I realized that I had no one to share my problems and achievements with, but there was no one to ask questions. And it so happened that I came to hangops_ru . There I received a community, answers, new questions, and as a result, a new job.
In 2016, with my new colleagues, I went to the first RootConf in my life, there I met live guys from hangops and DevOps Deflope, and somehow it all started to spin.
- Have you been to the DevOpsDays Moscow program committee before? How is this conference different from the rest?
I participated in the preparation of each DevOpsDays Moscow: twice as a member of the program committee and this year as its leader. This time I am doing a hands-on conference for DevOps enthusiasts. We are not constrained by the framework of professional conferences, therefore we can openly talk about changing jobs and increasing earnings, we will touch on the topic of health and the balance between work and the rest of life. I also hope to bring new people into the community.
- Why did you decide to take part in the work of the program committee? What does it give you?
DevOpsDays is a conference in which our goal is to help people, not their employers. Once I participated in the preparation of conferences for a purely practical purpose: as a hiring manager, I wanted to get more trained personnel from the market. Now the goal is the same - raising the level of people, but the motives have changed. I love what I do and the people who are around, and I also like that my work makes the lives of some unknown people better.
- How do you see your ideal DevOps conference?
A conference without stories about the next framework or tuning :-D In org we divide conferences into professional and not. For the most part, professional conferences pay for companies by buying tickets for their employees. Companies send employees to conferences so that the employee better performs their functions. The company expects that the employee will understand the nuances and risks of his work, learn new practices and begin to work more efficiently.
The community conference, on the other hand, raises other topics: self-development in general, and not for one's position, job change and increase in earnings, work-life balance.
- What reports would you personally like to hear at the conference? What speakers and topics are you waiting for?
I'm interested in reports on DevOps transformations with practical recipes for solving specific problems. I understand that people live and work in various constraints, but a simple knowledge of different recipes enriches the arsenal and allows you to choose or create new solutions in specific situations, based on more options. As the head of the PC, I wait and will consider any topics from DevOps enthusiasts. We are ready to consider even the most absurd reports and topics, if they can help people become better.
Artyom Kalichkin, Technical Director, Faktura.ru
- Have you been in the DevOps community for a long time? How did you get there?
It all started, probably in 2014, when Sasha Titov arrived in Novosibirsk and talked about the DevOps culture and the whole approach as part of the meeting. Then we started communication by correspondence, because I was in the process of switching to the rails of DevOps practice in my unit. Then in 2015, I already spoke at RIT on the RootConf section with our story “DevOps in Enterprise. Is there life on Mars . " In 2015, this was not yet a trend for large enterprise teams, and for two years I was a black sheep at all conferences, where I talked about our experience. Well, and so it went on and on.
- Why did you decide to take part in the work of the program committee? What does it give you?
First of all, I am very pleased to communicate with smart people. Working in the PC, discussing reports, topics, I see and hear the points of view of representatives of teams of various cultures, scales, and engineering steepness. And in this sense, it gives a lot of new thoughts, finding directions for the development of your team.
The second component is idealistic-humanistic :) DevOps-culture by its nature is aimed at reducing conflict, confrontation. The human thing is our DevOps. But now, as eXtreme Programming used to be, there is a tendency to reduce everything that is under the umbrella of DevOps to a set of engineering practices. Take and make a cuber in the cloud, and you will be happy. This approach makes me extremely sad, because the main message of DevOps is lost. Of course, it is not separable from engineering practices, but DevOps is far from just engineering practices. And in this sense, I see my task as helping to prepare such a program, to bring such reports that will not let me forget it.
- What reports would you personally like to hear at the conference? What speakers and topics are you waiting for?
First of all, the stories of the transformation of the team’s culture, but at the same time the stories stuffed with the ultimate specifics and meat. I also consider it important to talk about the risks that new approaches and tools carry. They are always there. Now the question of security verification of docker images is acute. We know how many hacks there were of incorrectly configured MongoDB databases. We must be careful, pragmatic and demanding when we work with the data of our customers. Therefore, the DevSecOps theme seems very important to me.
Well, finally, as a person who implemented the “bloody” ITIL with his own hands, I am very pleased that SRE has appeared. This is an excellent replacement for the ITIL bureaucracy, while retaining all the common sense that was and is in the library. Only SRE does it all in human language and, in my opinion, more efficiently. As Infrastructure as a Code became the last nail in the coffin of a CMDB nightmare, so SRE, I hope, will bring to oblivion ITIL. And, of course, I really look forward to reports on the experience of implementing SRE practices.
Valeria Pilia, Infrastructure Engineer at Deutsche bank
- Have you been in the DevOps community for a long time? How did you get there?
With varying degrees of involvement, I have been in the community for about three years. I was lucky to work with Dima Zaitsev, who was already an active participant, and he told me. Last summer, I joined the guys from the DevOps Moscow community, now we are making mitaps together.
- Have you been to the DevOpsDays Moscow program committee before? How is this conference different from the rest?
I have not been to the DevOpsDays program committee before. But I remember exactly my impressions of the first Moscow DoD in 2017: it was interesting, emotionally charged with energy and it was believed that everything is possible to do better in your work. If so many people told how through pain and difficulties, but could achieve this, then I can. Other conferences focus more on reports, sometimes there is not enough time to talk about topics that have not been touched upon or are exciting you right now. It seems to me that DevOpsDays is for those who are looking for like-minded people, who want to look at their work and their role in it differently and understand what really depends on it and what does not. Well, it’s also usually fun :)
- How do you see your ideal DevOps conference?
A conference where you can discuss the difficult aspects of technology. And in another corner - why it is difficult with people, but without them, nowhere.
- What reports would you personally like to hear at the conference? What speakers and topics are you waiting for?
I'm waiting for a new wave of rethinking DevOps. Some more specific tips for difficult cases and understandable how to for those who are just thinking. I would like to hear speakers with a broad view of the problems, with an understanding of how everything is interconnected and why.
Vitaly Rybnikov, SRE at Tinkoff.ru and organizer of DevOps Moscow
- Have you been in the DevOps community for a long time? How did you get there?
I met the DevOps community the year of commercials in 2012. The teacher at the university after the lecture said that there is an interesting party of admins: come, I recommend it. Well, I came :) It was one of those first DevOps Moscow tube meetings in DI Telegraph, organized by Alexander Titov.
In general, I liked it: D Everyone around was so smart and adults, discussing some deployments and a certain DevOps. I met a couple of guys, then they called me to new mitaps and ... and it started spinning. Mitaps were regularly-occasionally held, then were on pause, because the organizer is only one. In February 2018, Alexander decided to restart DevOps Moscow in a new concept and called me a co-organizer of the meetings and the community. I gladly agreed :)
- Have you been to the DevOpsDays Moscow program committee before? How is this conference different from the rest?
I was not in the program committee of DoD 2017, and then I still had a rather weak idea of what it was, why it was, and what it was about. Now I have a lot more understanding and vision. DevOpsDays is a non-professional and non-profit conference. All interested and united by the DevOps theme come to it, but this is only an occasion! At the conference itself, people discuss topics and issues that concern them, be it tools, culture, relationships with colleagues, or professional burnout.
The main point is that people are united by a common interest, but the conference itself is for people and for solving their needs. At commercial and professional conferences, the focus is primarily on the ultimate benefit to the business.
- Why did you decide to take part in the work of the program committee? What does it give you?
Participation in this year's pc conference is a logical continuation of my two-year experience in organizing meetings. I would like to contribute to the development of the DevOps community and the mindset of people around me. To communicate more and not get hung up. To look around, they were friendlier and more constructive to colleagues and their ideas. To cultivate a healthy tube Russian-speaking community :)
- How do you see your ideal DevOps conference?
I see the perfect DevOpsDays as a big mitap :) When everyone communicates, gets acquainted, argue and share their experience and competencies. Helping each other develop our IT.
Anton Strukov, Software Engineer
- Why did you decide to take part in the work of the program committee? What does it give you?
Dima Zaitsev called me to the program committee. I am interested in making conferences better, I want high-quality material, I want the engineer who came to the conference to leave with the knowledge that he can apply.
- How do you see your ideal DevOps conference?
The ideal conference for me is one in which two tracks cannot be made, because all the reports are clear.
- What reports would you personally like to hear at the conference? What speakers and topics are you waiting for?
I am waiting for reports on topics: K8S, MLOps, CI \ CD Excelence, new technologies, how to build processes. And from the speakers I want to hear Kelsey Hightower, Paul Reed, Julia Evans, Jess Frazelle, Lee Byron, Matt Kleins, Ben Christensen, Igor Tsupko, Brendan Burns, Bryan Cantrill.
Denis Ivanov, Head of Devops at talenttech.ru
- Have you been in the DevOps community for a long time? How did you get there?
I got into the DevOps community about 7 years ago, when it all started, when Hashimoto was brought to HighLoad, and the Devops Deflope podcast with the hangops community just appeared.
- Why did you decide to take part in the work of the program committee? What does it give you?
Participation in the program committee pursues only personal goals :) I want to see good speakers with new reports, well, or at least not with those who talk over the past 2 years at all meetings and conferences.
I really want to bring to the conference those speakers who will really tell something new, even if it will be just a point of view on the old problem and just its rethinking. For me personally, this seems more important than another story about the architecture of microservices.
- How do you see your ideal DevOps conference?
Honestly, I can’t imagine what it should look like. But, probably, I would still like to see a separate track with hardcore technical reports about those tools, which we call "devo-tools". Not something abstract about architecture, but about specific implementations and integrations. After all, DevOps is about interaction, and the result of these established connections should be, including, some cool technical solutions.
- What reports would you personally like to hear at the conference? What speakers and topics are you waiting for?
It does not matter, the main thing is the novelty of the reports and opinions, as this always gives food for thought or a look from the other side. Someone else's point of view or stories about something different can be the best thing in the conference. It helps to go beyond the boundaries in which you are, faced with daily routine work tasks.
Timur Batyrshin, Lead Devops Engineer at Provectus
- Have you been in the DevOps community for a long time? How did you get there?
In 2011, I started working with Amazon and tools that are usually associated with DevOps, and this naturally led me to the Russian DevOps community, probably in the year 2012-2013 - at the time when it was just emerging. Since then, it has grown many times, scattered to different cities and chat rooms, and I stayed where it all began - in hangops.
- Have you been to the DevOpsDays Moscow program committee before? How is this conference different from the rest?
I was in the program committee of the first Moscow DevOpsDays, as well as in the program committee of the first Kazan DevOpsDays. We traditionally plan to cover at the conference not only technical topics, but also organizational ones.
- What reports would you personally like to hear at the conference? What speakers and topics are you waiting for?
DevOps is not so much about technology, but about trust and love :) It inspires me a lot when developers do infrastructure things - they often do much better than former admins.
In the same way, stories are very encouraging when people write infrastructure services (especially when they do it well).
In general, any stories about pain and deliverance are very touching - you understand that you are not alone with this universe of cloud containers, but there are other people with the same problems.
This is one of the main reasons to attend the conference - to meet with the world around you and become a part of it. Yes, this is the main reason. We will be glad to meet you at our conference.
The first 50 tickets cost 6,000 rubles. Then the price will rise. Registration and all the details on the conference website .
Subscribe to our Facebook , Twitter and Vkontakte pages and you will be the first to receive news about the conference.
See you at DevOpsDays Moscow!
In this post, program committee members told how DevOpsDays Moscow differs from other conferences, what a community conference is and what an ideal DevOps conference should be like. Below are all the details.
Briefly about what is DevOpsDays
DevOpsDays is a series of international non-profit community conferences for DevOps enthusiasts. More than a hundred DevOps days pass each year in more than fifty countries of the world. Each DevOpsDays is organized by local communities.
This year DevOpsDays is 10 years old. On October 29-30, the festive DevOpsDays will be held in the city of Ghent in Belgium. It was in Ghent 10 years ago that the first DevOpsDays was held, after which the word "DevOps" began to be widely used.
In Moscow, the DevOpsDays conference has already been held twice. Last year we performed: Christian Van Tuin (Red hat), Alexey Burov (Positive Technologies), Michael Huettermann, Anton Weiss (Otomato Software), Kirill Vetchinkin (TYME), Vladimir Shishkin (ITSK), Alexey Vakhov (UCHi.RU ), Andrei Nikolsky (banki.ru) and another 19 coolest speakers. Video reports can be viewed on the YouTube channel .
A little video about how DevOpsDays Moscow 2018 went
Program Committee DevOpsDays Moscow
Meet this great team doing the DevOpsDays Moscow this year:
- Dmitry bhavenger Zaitsev, Head of SRE flocktory.com
- Artyom Kalichkin, Technical Director, Faktura.ru
- Timur Batyrshin, Lead Devops Engineer at Provectus
- Valeria Pilia, Infrastructure Engineer at Deutsche bank
- Vitaly Rybnikov, SRE at Tinkoff.ru and organizer of DevOps Moscow
- Denis Ivanov, Head of Devops at talenttech.ru
- Anton Strukov, Software Engineer
- Sergey Malyutin, Operations engineer at Lifestreet media
It is these guys who invite speakers, look through applications, choose the most useful and interesting ones from them, help speakers prepare, arrange rehearsals for speeches and do everything to make an excellent program.
We asked the members of the program committee what gives them PC work, how DevOpsDays Moscow differs from other conferences and what to expect from DoD this year.
Dmitry Zaitsev, Head of SRE flocktory.com
- Have you been in the DevOps community for a long time? How did you get there?
This is a long story :) In 2013, I absorbed the available information about DevOps and came across the DevOps podcast by Deflop , which was then led by Ivan Evtukhovich and Nikita Borzykh. The guys discussed the news, talked with guests on different topics and at the same time talked about their understanding of DevOps.
2 years passed, I moved to Moscow, got a job in a technology company and continued to promote DevOps ideas. I worked on a specific set of tasks alone and some time later I realized that I had no one to share my problems and achievements with, but there was no one to ask questions. And it so happened that I came to hangops_ru . There I received a community, answers, new questions, and as a result, a new job.
In 2016, with my new colleagues, I went to the first RootConf in my life, there I met live guys from hangops and DevOps Deflope, and somehow it all started to spin.
- Have you been to the DevOpsDays Moscow program committee before? How is this conference different from the rest?
I participated in the preparation of each DevOpsDays Moscow: twice as a member of the program committee and this year as its leader. This time I am doing a hands-on conference for DevOps enthusiasts. We are not constrained by the framework of professional conferences, therefore we can openly talk about changing jobs and increasing earnings, we will touch on the topic of health and the balance between work and the rest of life. I also hope to bring new people into the community.
- Why did you decide to take part in the work of the program committee? What does it give you?
DevOpsDays is a conference in which our goal is to help people, not their employers. Once I participated in the preparation of conferences for a purely practical purpose: as a hiring manager, I wanted to get more trained personnel from the market. Now the goal is the same - raising the level of people, but the motives have changed. I love what I do and the people who are around, and I also like that my work makes the lives of some unknown people better.
- How do you see your ideal DevOps conference?
A conference without stories about the next framework or tuning :-D In org we divide conferences into professional and not. For the most part, professional conferences pay for companies by buying tickets for their employees. Companies send employees to conferences so that the employee better performs their functions. The company expects that the employee will understand the nuances and risks of his work, learn new practices and begin to work more efficiently.
The community conference, on the other hand, raises other topics: self-development in general, and not for one's position, job change and increase in earnings, work-life balance.
- What reports would you personally like to hear at the conference? What speakers and topics are you waiting for?
I'm interested in reports on DevOps transformations with practical recipes for solving specific problems. I understand that people live and work in various constraints, but a simple knowledge of different recipes enriches the arsenal and allows you to choose or create new solutions in specific situations, based on more options. As the head of the PC, I wait and will consider any topics from DevOps enthusiasts. We are ready to consider even the most absurd reports and topics, if they can help people become better.
Artyom Kalichkin, Technical Director, Faktura.ru
- Have you been in the DevOps community for a long time? How did you get there?
It all started, probably in 2014, when Sasha Titov arrived in Novosibirsk and talked about the DevOps culture and the whole approach as part of the meeting. Then we started communication by correspondence, because I was in the process of switching to the rails of DevOps practice in my unit. Then in 2015, I already spoke at RIT on the RootConf section with our story “DevOps in Enterprise. Is there life on Mars . " In 2015, this was not yet a trend for large enterprise teams, and for two years I was a black sheep at all conferences, where I talked about our experience. Well, and so it went on and on.
- Why did you decide to take part in the work of the program committee? What does it give you?
First of all, I am very pleased to communicate with smart people. Working in the PC, discussing reports, topics, I see and hear the points of view of representatives of teams of various cultures, scales, and engineering steepness. And in this sense, it gives a lot of new thoughts, finding directions for the development of your team.
The second component is idealistic-humanistic :) DevOps-culture by its nature is aimed at reducing conflict, confrontation. The human thing is our DevOps. But now, as eXtreme Programming used to be, there is a tendency to reduce everything that is under the umbrella of DevOps to a set of engineering practices. Take and make a cuber in the cloud, and you will be happy. This approach makes me extremely sad, because the main message of DevOps is lost. Of course, it is not separable from engineering practices, but DevOps is far from just engineering practices. And in this sense, I see my task as helping to prepare such a program, to bring such reports that will not let me forget it.
- What reports would you personally like to hear at the conference? What speakers and topics are you waiting for?
First of all, the stories of the transformation of the team’s culture, but at the same time the stories stuffed with the ultimate specifics and meat. I also consider it important to talk about the risks that new approaches and tools carry. They are always there. Now the question of security verification of docker images is acute. We know how many hacks there were of incorrectly configured MongoDB databases. We must be careful, pragmatic and demanding when we work with the data of our customers. Therefore, the DevSecOps theme seems very important to me.
Well, finally, as a person who implemented the “bloody” ITIL with his own hands, I am very pleased that SRE has appeared. This is an excellent replacement for the ITIL bureaucracy, while retaining all the common sense that was and is in the library. Only SRE does it all in human language and, in my opinion, more efficiently. As Infrastructure as a Code became the last nail in the coffin of a CMDB nightmare, so SRE, I hope, will bring to oblivion ITIL. And, of course, I really look forward to reports on the experience of implementing SRE practices.
Valeria Pilia, Infrastructure Engineer at Deutsche bank
- Have you been in the DevOps community for a long time? How did you get there?
With varying degrees of involvement, I have been in the community for about three years. I was lucky to work with Dima Zaitsev, who was already an active participant, and he told me. Last summer, I joined the guys from the DevOps Moscow community, now we are making mitaps together.
- Have you been to the DevOpsDays Moscow program committee before? How is this conference different from the rest?
I have not been to the DevOpsDays program committee before. But I remember exactly my impressions of the first Moscow DoD in 2017: it was interesting, emotionally charged with energy and it was believed that everything is possible to do better in your work. If so many people told how through pain and difficulties, but could achieve this, then I can. Other conferences focus more on reports, sometimes there is not enough time to talk about topics that have not been touched upon or are exciting you right now. It seems to me that DevOpsDays is for those who are looking for like-minded people, who want to look at their work and their role in it differently and understand what really depends on it and what does not. Well, it’s also usually fun :)
- How do you see your ideal DevOps conference?
A conference where you can discuss the difficult aspects of technology. And in another corner - why it is difficult with people, but without them, nowhere.
- What reports would you personally like to hear at the conference? What speakers and topics are you waiting for?
I'm waiting for a new wave of rethinking DevOps. Some more specific tips for difficult cases and understandable how to for those who are just thinking. I would like to hear speakers with a broad view of the problems, with an understanding of how everything is interconnected and why.
Vitaly Rybnikov, SRE at Tinkoff.ru and organizer of DevOps Moscow
- Have you been in the DevOps community for a long time? How did you get there?
I met the DevOps community the year of commercials in 2012. The teacher at the university after the lecture said that there is an interesting party of admins: come, I recommend it. Well, I came :) It was one of those first DevOps Moscow tube meetings in DI Telegraph, organized by Alexander Titov.
In general, I liked it: D Everyone around was so smart and adults, discussing some deployments and a certain DevOps. I met a couple of guys, then they called me to new mitaps and ... and it started spinning. Mitaps were regularly-occasionally held, then were on pause, because the organizer is only one. In February 2018, Alexander decided to restart DevOps Moscow in a new concept and called me a co-organizer of the meetings and the community. I gladly agreed :)
- Have you been to the DevOpsDays Moscow program committee before? How is this conference different from the rest?
I was not in the program committee of DoD 2017, and then I still had a rather weak idea of what it was, why it was, and what it was about. Now I have a lot more understanding and vision. DevOpsDays is a non-professional and non-profit conference. All interested and united by the DevOps theme come to it, but this is only an occasion! At the conference itself, people discuss topics and issues that concern them, be it tools, culture, relationships with colleagues, or professional burnout.
The main point is that people are united by a common interest, but the conference itself is for people and for solving their needs. At commercial and professional conferences, the focus is primarily on the ultimate benefit to the business.
- Why did you decide to take part in the work of the program committee? What does it give you?
Participation in this year's pc conference is a logical continuation of my two-year experience in organizing meetings. I would like to contribute to the development of the DevOps community and the mindset of people around me. To communicate more and not get hung up. To look around, they were friendlier and more constructive to colleagues and their ideas. To cultivate a healthy tube Russian-speaking community :)
- How do you see your ideal DevOps conference?
I see the perfect DevOpsDays as a big mitap :) When everyone communicates, gets acquainted, argue and share their experience and competencies. Helping each other develop our IT.
Anton Strukov, Software Engineer
- Why did you decide to take part in the work of the program committee? What does it give you?
Dima Zaitsev called me to the program committee. I am interested in making conferences better, I want high-quality material, I want the engineer who came to the conference to leave with the knowledge that he can apply.
- How do you see your ideal DevOps conference?
The ideal conference for me is one in which two tracks cannot be made, because all the reports are clear.
- What reports would you personally like to hear at the conference? What speakers and topics are you waiting for?
I am waiting for reports on topics: K8S, MLOps, CI \ CD Excelence, new technologies, how to build processes. And from the speakers I want to hear Kelsey Hightower, Paul Reed, Julia Evans, Jess Frazelle, Lee Byron, Matt Kleins, Ben Christensen, Igor Tsupko, Brendan Burns, Bryan Cantrill.
Denis Ivanov, Head of Devops at talenttech.ru
- Have you been in the DevOps community for a long time? How did you get there?
I got into the DevOps community about 7 years ago, when it all started, when Hashimoto was brought to HighLoad, and the Devops Deflope podcast with the hangops community just appeared.
- Why did you decide to take part in the work of the program committee? What does it give you?
Participation in the program committee pursues only personal goals :) I want to see good speakers with new reports, well, or at least not with those who talk over the past 2 years at all meetings and conferences.
I really want to bring to the conference those speakers who will really tell something new, even if it will be just a point of view on the old problem and just its rethinking. For me personally, this seems more important than another story about the architecture of microservices.
- How do you see your ideal DevOps conference?
Honestly, I can’t imagine what it should look like. But, probably, I would still like to see a separate track with hardcore technical reports about those tools, which we call "devo-tools". Not something abstract about architecture, but about specific implementations and integrations. After all, DevOps is about interaction, and the result of these established connections should be, including, some cool technical solutions.
- What reports would you personally like to hear at the conference? What speakers and topics are you waiting for?
It does not matter, the main thing is the novelty of the reports and opinions, as this always gives food for thought or a look from the other side. Someone else's point of view or stories about something different can be the best thing in the conference. It helps to go beyond the boundaries in which you are, faced with daily routine work tasks.
Timur Batyrshin, Lead Devops Engineer at Provectus
- Have you been in the DevOps community for a long time? How did you get there?
In 2011, I started working with Amazon and tools that are usually associated with DevOps, and this naturally led me to the Russian DevOps community, probably in the year 2012-2013 - at the time when it was just emerging. Since then, it has grown many times, scattered to different cities and chat rooms, and I stayed where it all began - in hangops.
- Have you been to the DevOpsDays Moscow program committee before? How is this conference different from the rest?
I was in the program committee of the first Moscow DevOpsDays, as well as in the program committee of the first Kazan DevOpsDays. We traditionally plan to cover at the conference not only technical topics, but also organizational ones.
- What reports would you personally like to hear at the conference? What speakers and topics are you waiting for?
DevOps is not so much about technology, but about trust and love :) It inspires me a lot when developers do infrastructure things - they often do much better than former admins.
In the same way, stories are very encouraging when people write infrastructure services (especially when they do it well).
In general, any stories about pain and deliverance are very touching - you understand that you are not alone with this universe of cloud containers, but there are other people with the same problems.
This is one of the main reasons to attend the conference - to meet with the world around you and become a part of it. Yes, this is the main reason. We will be glad to meet you at our conference.
If you want to speak at DevOpsDays Moscow, write to us. On the site you can see a short list of topics that we are interested in hearing this year. Applications are accepted until November 11.
registration
The first 50 tickets cost 6,000 rubles. Then the price will rise. Registration and all the details on the conference website .
Subscribe to our Facebook , Twitter and Vkontakte pages and you will be the first to receive news about the conference.
See you at DevOpsDays Moscow!
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