Last year, we made a trial attempt to bring IT specialists of different specialties and different companies from Kazan together, and it turned out well. 4 participants came to 219 sections: Backend, Frontend, Design and Management. It would seem a little, if not for two “buts”:
- There were 154 participants at the first DUMP Yekaterinburg, and already 2019 at DUMP 1608.
- The organizers of IT meetups and conferences in Kazan said that people were reluctant to go to them, even free ones, and it was unlikely that they would be able to gather more than 100 people in 1,5 months.
In general, a start has been made, and we announce for reports at DUMP Kazan 2019. The conference will be held in the conference halls of the Riviera Hotel on November 8th.
This year there will also be 4 sections, but their composition has changed: Backend, Frontend, DevOps and Management, and the sections will be full-time - 8 reports each.
Round tables and master classes have also been added. At the first stage, we discuss hot problems and burning tasks, at the second stage, we study a specific technology or methodology in practice.
The program committee brought together the best IT-people of Kazan, who seriously intend to make DUMP content “bomb”, and Kazan - the IT capital of the Russian Federation. Well, let's do it?
See section concepts below and apply to speak. Applications are open until September 8, but those who apply early will have an advantage, simply because slots may be filled later.
BACKEND
In this section, we are talking about server-side development without being tied to programming languages. We will discuss technologies and development methods that have just appeared in 2018-2019, and look for the optimal solution to the problems that most backend developers face.
We are waiting for reports that relate to the following topics:
- Microservices
- high-load
- Compiler optimizations
- Application performance
- Architecture in terms of code organization, business logic
- Best practices on various topics
- Functional programming
- Microservice Testing
- Distributed systems infrastructure
- Blockchain
- ML/ML on microservices
- The mindset of cool developers and architects in the process of developing a large system
- DDD
- Working with iron
- Authorization and authentication
- Garbage collection, memory management
- Technical Debt, Code Review and Refactoring: Technologies, Methods and Results
The level of preparation of DUMP middle and middle + participants should be taken into account when choosing a topic for a report application. We would really like the listeners not to get bored.
35 minutes are allotted for the presentation + 5 minutes for questions in the hall. After the report, there will be another 20 minutes for discussion on the sidelines.
Section program committee:
Yuri Kerbitskov — technical lead backender at Ak Bars Digital Technologies.
About myself: “Since I organize .NET KznDotNet meetups, the topic of community development is close and pleasing to my eye, and I am glad to make efforts to make more IT movement in Kazan.”
Andrey Zharinov — Head of the Yandex development office in Yekaterinburg.
About me: “I manage some travel services, backend and DUMP are close to me, this prompted me to join the program committee.”
Frontend
Are you responsible for the development of the client side of the site/application? That way.
Leave applications here if you have something to say on any topic from the list below:
- Microservice web applications
- DSL testing, e2e testing, Selenium/Puppeteer, BDD
- JS alternatives: Typescript, ClojureScript, Elm, Dart
- Security: hacking and protection, vulnerabilities in npm
- Methodologies, architecture and principles: SOLID, microservices, BEM
- Functional programming in front-end development
- Front assembly for different devices
- Real time web apps
- api gateway
- Flutter for web
- Client Application Architecture
- Offline availability of client applications
- Using gRPC in the browser and comparing with other protocols
- Synchronization and data storage on the client: REST, GraphQL, Web sockets
- Writing and maintaining your own ui components
- Company level monorepositories
- Release management automation
- Using new browser apis (for example, fingerprint authorization or authorization through a mobile operator)
- Stories: successes and failures, interaction with business
- Other: Web API, the future of standards, open source, package managers, etc.
Uff, let's go! In fact, the list is not exhaustive, there is something interesting - . When preparing, count on middle+ level participants, build a presentation based on practical examples, and don’t be shy about talking about rakes and failures. It might save someone hours and days of work.
35 minutes are allotted for the presentation + 5 minutes for questions in the hall. After the report, there will be another 20 minutes for discussion on the sidelines.
Section program committee:
Alexander Iossa - Head of frontend development at Diginavis.
He talks about himself like this: “I like to set the development vector for the front-end and software engineering in general. That is, it is important for me that the conference report drives people to write better, to think more, not to use some things, simply because it is fashionable.”
"I Roman Gafiatullin, I lead one of the product teams at ClickClickDrive. In general, I am for any movement, I try to introduce developers to the engineering culture.”
Ramil Zakirov Senior Interface Developer at Diginavis. Has been developing apps since 2010. He likes to practice functional programming and communicate with adepts on related topics. He is a GraphQL evangelist and recommends using this technology in web development.
Also, the section program helps us to do Igor Zinoviev — founder of KazanJS (regular meetups of JS developers, as well as the Telegram channel of the same name).
DevOps
In this section, we talk about the DevOps culture, engineering solutions, and how to get the development and operations teams working together.
As one of the program directors, Konstantin Makarychev, said:
DevOps (human) is an automation evangelist, not a high-salary sysadmin, and that's the starting point. That is, if someone somehow automated something, without having the cherished “devops” in the title of the position, while directly related to development, this is our person. And what (deploy, writing code, QA, interaction with teams), and how - it doesn’t matter at all, these are just implementation details.
So, if you are such a devops and don’t mind sharing your experience, rather leave a request for a speech
Now, actually, to the topics.
Conceptually, devops themes can be divided into two parts: technical and pro processes.
From the first we are waiting for reports about:
- Kubernetes, Istio, service mesh, dockers, CI/CD
- Cloud transformation: how everything was old and bad before and how everything is new and good now
- Continuous Delivery / Continuous Integration
- Cloud technologies: AWS, Azure, OpenStack, Serverless, etc.
- Which cloud to choose? Comparison of cloud services
- Containerization and orchestration
- Monitoring and auditing applications (OkMeter, DataDog, BPF, XRebel, OpenTrace, etc.)
From the second, DUMP participants would like to listen to reports on:
- The experience of implementing DevOps in a team: successes, failures, lost illusions
- New approaches and tools in configuration management
- Managing Difficulty and Paying Off Technical Debt
- Real examples of projects that have implemented devops: failed and successful practices and lessons learned
35 minutes are allotted for the presentation + 5 minutes for questions in the hall. After the report, there will be another 20 minutes for discussion on the sidelines.
Section program committee:
Konstantin Makarychev — developer of Provectus, Hydrosphere.io, founder and organizer of Expert Fridays.
About myself: “I just do what needs to be done and write on what I have to.”
Radik Fattakhov — team lead in ClickClickDrive.
About me: “Backend frontend developer. I automate everything that is possible so that the team works efficiently. I am glad to help organize a good conference in Kazan, where people from all over the region would share their experience.”
Mikhail Tsykarev — Senior Team Leader of the Project and Strategic Management Office of ICL-Services.
About me: “At the same time, I manage the creation of the company's internal product in the role of Product Owner. I am also a tracker of the UrFU Innovation Infrastructure IT Incubator. Some of the projects I supervise actively use DevOps practices.”
Management
This section was created for team leaders, department heads and development managers, project managers and service stations. Here we get to know each other, bring problems for discussion and share the solutions found. Because “one head is good, but 200 is better.”
In order not to lump all the topics together, the program is divided into 2 blocks: “Team Management” and “Project Management”.
In the “Team Management” block, we are waiting for applications on the following topics:
- Building a team and internal relationships: team organization schemes, role models, communications (meeting facilitation, for example), etc.
- Personal work with an employee: individual development plans, motivation, feedback
- Distributed team management
- Team performance metrics
- Leader/teamlead development: where to grow further, how to remain necessary, engineering chauvinism and professional burnout
- Round table “Personnel shortage: where to find developers?”
In the Project Management block, we are looking for speakers who will share their experience on the following topics:
- Processes, planning, management: planning and task assessment, process unification, micromanagement, risk management, retrospectives
- Interaction with stakeholders: customers, management, related departments
- Engineering culture in the company/project
All speeches are of the same duration: 35 minutes for the disclosure of the topic + 5 minutes for questions from the audience. After each report, there will be 20 minutes for communication between participants and speakers.
Section program committee:
Igor Katykov Director of Tinkoff.ru development centers in Kazan and Innopolis.
17 years in IT, the last 13 in management. Three times he created successful teams of up to 90 people.
On what inspired me to work in the program committee: “I want Kazan to become the third IT capital after Moscow and St. Petersburg. So that in Kazan (and its environs) a powerful IT force is formed that can win competition from Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Nizhny and other millionaires. Without a powerful local community, the exchange of experience will not work.”
Alexander Kiverin - Technical Director of Ak Bars Digital Technologies (Ak Bars Bank).
About me: “Throughout my ten years of activity in the field of development management, I have not stopped exploring new approaches to managing projects and development teams. At the DUMP 2019 conference, I'm sure we'll hear great talks about proper process building, proper people management, and building effective teams so that we can apply this experience to implement even cooler projects that bring great results!”
Igor Zilberg - Director of SmartHead.
Goal: “To make the world a better place through high-quality and conscious project management, design and systems management (in the broad sense, not only IT). To increase the number of people for whom project management is a profession, and not “we go out on soft skills”. So that teams of people are led by leaders, and not “heroes” put in leadership positions. So that the applied management methodologies are appropriate, and not trendy. So that as a result of all this, more projects are successful and more people who create them are happier.”
Elena Lukyanicheva — project manager at EPAM.
About me: “I am an IT project manager. Interesting projects (with a non-standard subject area, solving non-standard tasks) and complex (containing a large number of components, libraries, technologies, with complex integration). Projects that I do with passionate people from different parts of the world. People who change the world for the better, making it more convenient and safer. And I want there to be more such projects and people in Kazan.”
Deadline, selection of applications and preparation of the speech
Geography: we are waiting for speakers from all over the country, neighboring countries, and distant ones too.
Deadline: Apply by September 8th. The program committee will consider them within 7 days, and the section administrator will contact you.
Preparing a presentation includes several steps:
- Application
- Call with the program committee (10-15 minutes), where the speaker briefly talks about the topic
- Run (rehearsal of the report with slides or their drafts)
- Possibly 2nd and 3rd runs
- Presentation preparation
Submit applications for and come to perform in Kazan. DUMP will take place on Friday, and for the weekend you can stay for a walk around Kazan. It is definitely good both in summer and in winter - we checked.
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