December IT Events Digest

December IT Events Digest

The time has come for the final review of IT events in 2019. The last carriage is filled, for the most part, by testing, DevOps, mobile development, as well as a whole scattering of meetups from various language communities (PHP, Java, Javascript, Ruby) and a couple of hackathons for those involved in machine learning.

IT Night Tver

When: 28 November
Where: Tver, st. Simeonovskaya, 30/27
Conditions of participation: free, registration required

Epam Tver office staff are ready to share their insights on development and project management at an open meeting. All professionals working in the IT sector are invited. On the agenda: work with requirements, a workshop on the implementation of a microserver architecture with an analysis of the pros and cons of gRPC compared to the REST API, underestimated features of Dev Tools, as well as the meaning of the appearance and responsibility of a Data Quality Engineer in a company.

Java Evening #1

When: 28 November
Where: Saint Petersburg, emb. Bypass, 136
Conditions of participation: free, registration required

On the same day, another corporate meetup will be held in a completely different place - this time from the MDGs. Representatives of the company will share their Java development experience in two reports: the first one will be devoted to the development of a common transport system (interaction of services under the hood, requirements, functionality), the second one will be devoted to cloud migration using the data bus as an example.

Ruby Meetup #11

When: 28 November
Where: Moscow, Warsaw highway, 9, building 1, Danilovskaya manufactory, Soldatenkov rows, entrance 5
Conditions of participation: free, registration required

The final meeting of the Moscow Ruby community this year will be devoted to serious issues: code review without violence in the office, a pragmatic look at the clean architecture of Ruby on Rails applications, AWS cost optimization, microservices for small teams, summing up for pizza. The program may be expanded.

DevFest Siberia / Krasnodar 2019

When and where:
November 29 - December 1 - Novosibirsk (Nikolaev St., 12, Academpark)
December 7 - Krasnodar (Krasnaya St., 109)
Conditions of participation: 7999 rub. 1750 rub.

The final chords of the DevFest-2019 series of conferences will sound in two places in the country, very distant from each other. Both communities organize the fest to their taste. In Novosibirsk, it will turn into a large-scale three-day event interspersed with workshops and panel discussions on a wide range of topics (mobile development, web development, Data Science, DevOps, security). In Krasnodar, everything will go better: one day and three main areas - development, design, marketing. However, there is enough diversity in the reports here too - backend and web AR and serverless, IT market and legislation.

INNOROBOHACK

When: November 30 - 1 December
Where: Innopolis, st. Universitetskaya, 1
Conditions of participation: free, registration required

Hackathon for practicing developers from the field of robotics, as well as those who are just learning. Two separate areas of work have been announced - anthropomorphic robotics (capturing and moving an object by a robot in a simulator environment) and autonomous transport (determining a rail gauge using deep learning methods). There are cash prizes for the three best prototypes (30 rubles, 000 rubles, 50 rubles for third, second and first places, respectively); partners will also offer internships to the most promising participants in their IT companies.

OpenVINO Hackathon

When: November 30 - 1 December
Where: Nizhny Novgorod, st. Pochainskaya, 17k1
Conditions of participation: free, registration required

Socially oriented hackathons are always in fashion - in December, the Nizhny Novgorod community will join the trend with the efforts of the local Intel branch. The teams are tasked with developing a prototype solution that uses one or more computer vision algorithms based on neural networks for the benefit of society. Participants can implement their projects or choose one of the tasks listed on the site (control of industrial safety, detection of abnormal behavior of people in public places, prediction of emergency situations, and others). A mandatory requirement is the use of the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit and an assessment of the resource costs of the project. First prize - 100 rubles. plus smaller awards for silver and bronze medalists.

Ya Talks

When: 30 November
Where: Moscow, Paveletskaya embankment, 2, building 18
Conditions of participation: free of charge, subject to selection

Yandex will organize a party for backenders in its office, where there will be everything: speeches by experts from the organizers, excursions to local attractions, open discussions and career breakthroughs. The reports will be divided into two tracks: the first one discusses more issues related to professional growth and the labor market (although machine learning is also enough), the second one is purely technical and case-based. Those who dream of joining the Yandex team can take the opportunity to attach a resume to the registration form and, in between, go through all the stages of the interview right on the site.

Performance in Java

When: 3 December
Where: St. Petersburg, Sverdlovskaya embankment, 44D
Conditions of participation: free, registration required

A small evening with a couple of talks aimed at experienced Java developers who are close to the topic of performance. One of the reports will analyze the nuances of efficient work with files (what, in addition to the load, affects performance, how to get the most out of the disk and what errors to watch out for). In another, we will talk about JDBC pools - why they are needed, why there are so many different ones, which one you need and how to configure it.

Heisenbug 2019 Moscow

When: 5-6 December
Where: Moscow, Leningradsky prospect 31A building 1
Conditions of participation: from 21 000 руб.

A major testing conference, which will be of interest to everyone - the actual testers, programmers and team managers. Priority is given to the technical side; the main topics of the event are automation, tools and environment, testing of distributed systems and mobile applications, different types of tests (UX, Security, A/B), static code analysis, load testing, benchmarking. Experience will be shared by experts from Amazon, Smashing Magazine, JFrog, Sberbank, Tinkoff and other well-known IT teams. As always, the site will have zones for different types of communication - individual and group, free and structured.

DevOpsDays Moscow 2019

When: 7 December
Where: Moscow, Volgogradsky prospect, 42, building 5
Conditions of participation: 7000 rubles.

The conference, where they talk about organizing the interaction of IT teams in its various manifestations, was organized by activists from the Moscow community. The audience (according to preliminary estimates, 500 people) is made up of developers, operations engineers, system engineers, testers, team leads, heads of technical departments. The speeches of the largest DevOps experts of the Russian community will be supplemented by workshops, open spaces, quizzes and lightning talks.

Master class on auditing information systems 1C

When: 7 December
Where: St. Petersburg (address to be confirmed)
Conditions of participation: 5 000 rub.

An intensive seven-hour dive into the topic of 1C infrastructure through the prism of containerization and virtualization. The master class will begin with a theoretical part (influence on the 1C circuit of operating systems, block devices, network settings). The subsequent practical consolidation of the material will take place as follows: under the guidance of a mentor, each of the participants will solve a set of tasks on the Docker platform to check the settings of the operating system, processor and RAM, network settings, the structure of the disk subsystem, the settings of the 1C cluster and its information systems.

QA meetup Voronezh

When: 7 December
Where: Voronezh, st. Ordzhonikidze, 36a
Conditions of participation: free, registration required

An informal Voronezh mini-conference for testers is a great starting point for juniors who want to get to know the community and get deeper into the essence of the work. The program promises several reports on technical and career topics, a prize draw and a general conversation.

Mobius 2019 Moscow

When: 7-8 December
Where: Moscow, Leningradsky prospect 31A, building 1
Conditions of participation: 21 000 rub.

Technical conference on mobile development for middle and higher level developers. The program includes more than thirty reports and covers four main areas: technologies, tools, frameworks and architecture. For the convenience of the participants, the site provides an annotated schedule with markers of difficulty levels. In addition to the standard presentations by speakers "from the stage", participants will also find other formats - lightning talks with blitz reports, bof sessions where everyone can speak, and one-on-one communication with experts in discussion zones.

Course «AIRF Apache AirFlow»

When: 7-8 December
Where: Moscow, st. Ilimskaya, 5/2
Conditions of participation: 36 000 rub.

A rare opportunity to master flow data management using Apache AirFlow in just one weekend. The course is designed for system administrators, system architects and Hadoop developers who are familiar with Unix and the vi text editor, as well as with programming experience in Python / bash. The program lasts 16 academic hours and covers four modules (Introduction to Data Flow, Development of Data Flow with Apache AirFlow, Deployment and Configuration of Airflow, Features and Issues in Airflow). Forty percent of the class time is devoted to practical work. The full list of topics is on the event website.

ok.tech: QATOK

When: 11 December
Where: St. Petersburg, st. Khersonskaya 12-14
Conditions of participation: free, registration required

Chamber event for three reports, united by a common theme of development quality assurance. Speakers are representatives of OK, Mail.ru and Qameta Software companies involved in the testing process. The topics of speeches are performance measurements in Android (why and with what tools they are made), an alternative to the PageObject pattern for test typing, and an overview of solutions for evaluating test coverage. Time for coffee and networking is also on the agenda.

JSSP Meetup #4

When: 12 December
Where: Sergiev Posad, st. Karl Marx 7
Conditions of participation: free, registration required

The meeting of the local Javascript community will be held on a 50/50 basis - the first half of the event will be devoted to discussing project management techniques (Agile, BDD), the second - to technical reports. From the latter, guests will be able to learn how the WASM format improves the speed of code execution in the browser on different platforms and why Server-side rendering is dying.

FAR EAST DEVOPS DAYS

When: 14 December
Where: Vladivostok, st. Tiger, 30
Conditions of participation: free, registration required
Another, slightly more intimate event dedicated to DevOps and aiming to unite the Far Eastern community of engineers interested in the topic. After four reports (devops tool implementation errors, Snowplow collector setup, graphQL for microservices, Rancher features), the microphone will go into the hall - any of those present will be able to offer a case or topic for a general discussion.

Big PHP meetup in Kazan

When: 14 December
Where: Kazan, st. Petersburg, 52
Conditions of participation: free, registration required
The Kazan meeting of PHP developers is perhaps the most solid gathering of the community this month. There will be a number of reports on topics related to development (tracing and logging in microservices, parsing under the hood, common network threats and protection against them, migrating from PHP to Golang with multithreading, building an API using the API-platform framework), for followed by a quiz and an informal part.

Source: habr.com

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