Third Moscow will be held on December 7 at Technopolis. We are waiting for developers, team leads, heads of development departments to discuss their experience and what's new in the DevOps world. It's not yet another DevOps conference, it's a community-hosted conference for the community.
In this post, members of the program committee 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 DevOpsDays is
is a series of international non-profit community conferences for DevOps enthusiasts. More than a hundred DevOps days take place every year in more than fifty countries around the world. Each DevOpsDays is organized by local communities.
DevOpsDays turns 10 this year. On October 29-30, a festive DevOpsDays will be held in Belgium in the city of Ghent. It was in Ghent that the first DevOpsDays were held 10 years ago, after which the word “DevOps” became widely used.
In Moscow, the DevOpsDays conference has already been held twice. Last year we hosted: 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) ), Andrey Nikolsky (banki.ru) and 19 other coolest speakers. Video presentations can be viewed at .
DevOpsDays Moscow Program Committee
Meet this great team doing the DevOpsDays Moscow program this year:
- Dmitriy Zaitsev, Head of SRE flocktory.com
- Artem Kalichkin, technical director of Faktura.ru
- Timur Batyrshin, Lead Devops Engineer at Provectus
- Valeria Piliya, Infrastructure Engineer at Deutsche bank
- Vitaly Rybnikov, SRE at Tinkoff.ru and organizer
- 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, review applications, choose the most useful and interesting ones, help speakers prepare, arrange rehearsals for speeches and do everything to make an excellent program.
We asked members of the program committee what gives them work in the PC, how DevOpsDays Moscow differs from other conferences and what to expect from DoD this year.
Dmitry Zaitsev, Head of SRE flocktory.com
How long have you been in the DevOps community? How did you get there?
It's a long story 🙂 In 2013, I was absorbing available information about DevOps and came across a podcast , which was then led by Ivan Evtukhovich and Nikita Borzykh. The guys discussed the news, talked with the guests on various 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 certain set of tasks alone, and some time later I realized that I had no one to share my problems and achievements with, and no one to ask questions. And it so happened that I came to . There I got a community, answers, new questions, and, as a result, a new job.
In 2016, already with new colleagues, I went to the first RootConf in my life, there I met the guys from hangops and DevOps Deflop live, and somehow everything started spinning.
— Have you been on the DevOpsDays Moscow program committee before? How is this conference different from others?
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'm doing a hands-on conference for DevOps enthusiasts. We are not constrained by the framework of professional conferences, so we can talk openly about changing jobs and increasing earnings, we will touch on the topic of health and balance between work and other parts 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 where our goal is to help people, not their employers. I once participated in the preparation of conferences for a purely practical purpose: as a hiring manager, I wanted to receive better trained personnel from the market. Now the goal is the same - to increase the level of people, but the motives have changed. I love what I do and the people around me, and I also like that my work makes the lives of some people I don't know better.
— How do you see your ideal DevOps conference?
A conference without stories about another framework or tooling 😀 We divide conferences into professional and non-professional ones. Professional conferences are mostly paid for by companies buying tickets for their employees. Companies send employees to conferences to make the employee perform better. The company expects the employee to understand the nuances and risks of their work, learn new practices and start working more efficiently.
The community conference, on the other hand, raises other topics: self-development in general, and not for one's position, changing jobs and increasing earnings, work-life balance.
— What reports would you personally like to hear at the conference? What speakers and topics are you looking forward to?
I'm interested in DevOps transformation talks with practical recipes for solving specific problems. I understand that people live and work in various constraints, but simply knowing different recipes enriches the arsenal and allows in specific situations to choose or create new solutions based on more options. As the head of PC, I look forward to 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 people.
Artem Kalichkin, technical director of Faktura.ru
How long have you been in the DevOps community? How did you get there?
It all started, probably, in 2014, when Sasha Titov came to Novosibirsk and, as part of the meetup, talked about the DevOps culture and approach in general. Then we started talking by correspondence, because I was just in my department in the process of transitioning to DevOps practices. Then in 2015 I already spoke at RIT at the RootConf section with our history . In 2015, this has not yet become a trend for large enterprise teams, and for two years I was the black sheep at all conferences where I talked about our experience. Well, and so everything 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, search for directions for the development of your team.
The second component is the idealistic-humanistic 🙂 DevOps culture, by its nature, is aimed at reducing conflict and confrontation. This human thing is our DevOps. But now, like eXtreme Programming, there is a tendency to reduce everything under the DevOps umbrella to a set of engineering practices. Take and make Kuber 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 inseparable from engineering practices, but DevOps is far from just engineering practices. And in this sense, I see it as my task to help prepare such a program, to bring such reports that will not allow it to be forgotten.
— What reports would you personally like to hear at the conference? What speakers and topics are you looking forward to?
First of all, the stories of the transformation of the team's culture, but at the same time stories stuffed with extreme specifics and meat. I also consider it important to talk about the risks posed by new approaches and tools. They are always there. Now there is an acute question about checking the security of docker images. We know how many misconfigured MongoDB databases have been hacked. We need to be careful, pragmatic and demanding of ourselves when we work with our clients' data. Therefore, it seems to me that the topic of DevSecOps is very important.
Well, and finally, as a person who implemented the "bloody" ITIL with his own hands, I am very pleased with the appearance of SRE. It's a great replacement for the bureaucracy of ITIL while retaining all the common sense that the library had and still has. Only SRE does it all in human language and, in my opinion, more efficiently. Just as Infrastructure as a Code was the final nail in the coffin of the CMDB nightmare, so too, I hope, SRE will bring ITIL to oblivion. And, of course, I really look forward to reports about the experience of implementing SRE practices.
Valeria Piliya, Infrastructure Engineer at Deutsche bank
How long have you been in the DevOps community? 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, he told me. Last summer I joined the guys from the community , now we are doing meetups together.
— Have you been on the DevOpsDays Moscow program committee before? How is this conference different from others?
I haven't been on the DevOpsDays programming committee before. But I remember exactly my impressions of the first DoD in Moscow in 2017: it was interesting, emotional, energized, and I believed that everything could be done better in my work. If so many people told how through pain and difficulties, but they managed to achieve this, then I can too. At other conferences, they focus more on reports, sometimes there is not enough time to talk about topics that were not covered or that concern 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 them and what does not. Well, it's usually fun too 🙂
— How do you see your ideal DevOps conference?
A conference where difficult aspects of technology can be discussed. And in the other corner - why it is difficult with people, but nowhere without them.
— What reports would you personally like to hear at the conference? What speakers and topics are you looking forward to?
I'm waiting for a new wave of DevOps rethinking. Some more specific advice for difficult cases and clear 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
How long have you been in the DevOps community? How did you get there?
I met the DevOps community in 2012. The teacher at the university said after the lecture, they say, there is an interesting party of admins: come, I recommend. Well, I came 🙂 It was one of those first DevOps Moscow lamp meetups in DI Telegraph, which was organized by Alexander Titov.
In general, I liked it 😀 Everyone around was so smart and mature, they discussed some kind of deployments and some kind of DevOps. I met a couple of guys, then they invited me to new meetups and ... and so it started. Meetups were regularly-episodely held, then they were on pause, because. there is only one organizer. In February 2018, Alexander decided to restart DevOps Moscow in a new concept and invited me to be a co-organizer of meetups and the community. I gladly agreed 🙂
— Have you been on the DevOpsDays Moscow program committee before? How is this conference different from others?
I was not on the DoD 2017 program committee, and then I still had a rather weak idea of \uXNUMXb\uXNUMXbwhat it was, why it was, and what it was about. Now I have much more understanding and vision. DevOpsDays is a non-professional and non-profit conference. Everyone interested and united by the DevOps theme comes to it, but this is just an excuse! At the conference itself, people discuss topics and issues that are of concern to them, whether it is institutions, culture, relationships with colleagues or professional burnout.
The main point is that people are united by a common interest, but the conference itself for people and to address their needs. At commercial and professional conferences, the focus is predominantly on the ultimate business benefit.
— 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 meetups. I want to contribute to the development of the DevOps community and the mindset of the people around me. To communicate more and not get hung up. To look around, be friendlier and more constructive towards colleagues and their ideas. To cultivate a healthy lamp Russian-speaking community 🙂
— How do you see your ideal DevOps conference?
I see the ideal DevOpsDays as a big meetup 🙂 When everyone communicates, gets to know each other, argues and shares experience and competencies. Help each other to 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'm interested in making conferences better, I want quality material, I want the engineer who came to the conference to leave with knowledge that he can apply.
— How do you see your ideal DevOps conference?
The ideal conference for me is the one where you can't do two tracks, because all the presentations are clear.
— What reports would you personally like to hear at the conference? What speakers and topics are you looking forward to?
I am waiting for reports on the topics: K8S, MLOps, CICD 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
How long have you been in the DevOps community? How did you get there?
I got into the DevOps community about 7 years ago, when it all just started, when they brought Hashimoto 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 would like to see good speakers with new reports, well, or at least not with those who have been talking at all meetups and conferences for the last 2 years.
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 an old problem and just its rethinking. For me personally, this seems more important than another story about microservice architectures.
— How do you see your ideal DevOps conference?
To be honest, I can't imagine what it should look like. But, I guess I would still like to see a separate track with hardcore technical reports about those tools that we call “devops tools”. Not something abstract about architectures, but about specific implementations and integrations. After all, DevOps is about interaction, and the result of these established relationships should be, among other things, some cool technical solutions.
— What reports would you personally like to hear at the conference? What speakers and topics are you looking forward to?
It doesn't matter, the main thing is the novelty of reports and opinions, because it always gives food for thought or a look from the other side. Someone else's point of view or stories about what can be done differently is 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
How long have you been in the DevOps community? 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 2012-2013, at a time when it was just being formed. Since then, it has grown many times, fled to different cities and chat rooms, but I have remained where it all began - in hangops.
— Have you been on the DevOpsDays Moscow program committee before? How is this conference different from others?
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 looking forward to?
DevOps is not so much about technology, but about trust and love 🙂 I am very inspired when developers do infrastructure things - they often do it much better than former admins.
Similarly, 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 biggest reasons to go to conferences - to meet the world around you and be a part of it. Yes, that's the main reason. We will be glad to meet you at our conference.
If you want to speak at DevOpsDays Moscow, us. On the site you can see which we are interested to hear this year. Applications are accepted until November 11th.
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