And here we thought: in SKOLKOVO HighLoad ++ already fits with difficulty. It is necessary to change the format of the conference or venue (and with it the format) ... It is quite possible that very soon there will be no choice - you will have to fly to Mars, organize there an IT colony and the traffic around it.
We are confident that the winners of the HighLoad ++ 2019 award will be able to organize the IT industry on a single planet. And they decided to figure out what these 9 people would do as the founding fathers of a hypothetical colony on Mars. There is a lot of work. And behind each of these people is a strong team of engineers and developers. In general, imagine ...
Andrei Breslav has already presented the world with a convenient development language for Android devices. So the team of IT-colonizers will have a convenient tool for writing any kind of applications: entertaining or working. Perhaps the contemplation of Deimos and Phobos in the evenings will inspire Andrei to write a new programming language. Indeed, according to him, it is not so difficult if you are burning an idea. And Andrei, as a co-founder of a psychotherapist search service, will be able to help those who are tired and embarrassed to contact an earth specialist.
Earth psychotherapy is, of course, good, but external threats without a strong community cannot be repelled. We are sure that Denis Kryuchkov , the creator of the unique content project Habr, will be able to deploy a media network on Mars. And then any inhabitant of the IT colony will be able to become an author and tell how the community lives away from their home. And there, you look, and the Martian side will be tightened. So, maybe you won’t have to fight. We will exchange experiences and explain to each other how the technologies of the two planets are arranged. In the meantime, we are watching with interest how Denis's team is promoting the English version of Habr.
If we want to successfully colonize on Mars, then Data Science is definitely not enough. Alexey Natekin , creator of the largest Data Science community ODS, organizer of large meetings and free conferences on ML and Data Science. He will be able not only to establish a data collection and analysis system, but also to select (or train on the spot) a strong team of data scientist. What is needed for a planet about which we do not know too much.
Alexei Fedorov received the HighLoad ++ statuette for creating an ecosystem of IT conferences as part of the JUG.ru Group. For the sake of interplanetary interaction and interplanetary relations, you can unite and make such IT conferences that they will be envied on Pluto.
A huge amount of smart iron, machine learning and data science - is not far from the uprising of machines. But, when the project protects Qrator Labs, led by Alexander Lyamin , you can be calm. Alexander’s team will also deal with Skynet, and the machine will be able to prevent the uprising, and will cope with the intrigues of earth hackers. In this case, each attacker will get what he deserves. Why are we so sure? Once, when HighLoad ++ was just starting, and Qrator Labs had just opened, we ran into a DDoS attack the day before the conference started. Participants bought tickets, go to the site to see how to get, and the site is ... So-so situation for a conference on highly loaded systems. Then specialists from Qrtator saved HighLoad ++. 20 minutes after our cry for help, the site was restored.
Iron is iron, and software needs to be written on something. Therefore, Dmitry Stogov , one of the developers of PHP, is also very important in the team of colonizers. Thanks to the work of the team of Dmitry and his colleagues, the popular PHP has also become productive. For 15 years, Zend developers have managed to increase the speed of PHP on synthetic tests by 40 times, and on real applications by 6 times. Who knows what feats Dmitry would have inspired the Martian climate.
And who else but Evgeny Potapov should monitor the complex infrastructure of the colony! Its ITSumma already supports 10,000 servers for sites that are visited by over 100 million users daily. We’ll also put someone in ITSumma in charge of the colonial library, as these people know what kind of books the community needs right now and are able to publish them in high quality. At HighLoad ++ 2019, ITSumma handed out Ben Stopford's book “Designing Event-Oriented Systems”, which provides concepts and design patterns for streaming data services using Apache Kafka.
Perhaps we will entrust the training of juniors and recruits to Kirill Mokevnin . The principle on which the educational platform hexlet.io is based is suitable for training the developer in the field. According to Cyril, a programmer should see a problem, not just a task. For this, a true developer needs computational thinking and an understanding of how a computer works. What you need for training juniors.
The colonialists cannot do without the knowledge of Peter Zaitsev , the founder of Percona. Peter became the winner of two votes at once: an expert jury and an open vote. And this is no coincidence. Peter is so arranged - achieving a good result, he seeks to do even better. Monitoring systems, software for communication with the Earth, a platform for training - all this should work smoothly and, the faster, the better. That means we cannot do without an excellent DBA. Peter Zaitsev knows how to make databases even more productive, even if they already work well. This means that our monitoring will not collapse, and the services will work stably.
Here is a team of colonizers selected. It remains only to wait until someone similar to Elon Musk throws someone similar to Matt Damon on Mars - with equipment and potatoes. And so, we are ready! :)
However, it will be possible to rent only a rocket from Space X, if 42 partners who participated in the HighLoad ++ exhibition are involved in the colonization. And data centers are deployed, and clouds will be placed in them. And in the clouds - all the necessary services for work and life.