Strike: All-Russian IT Conference in Ulyanovsk

In two weeks, on April 13 and 14, the conference “ Strike! ”, Organized by the largest IT companies of the city, will take place in Ulyanovsk . ” , In which, in addition to Ulyanovsk experts, speakers from Skype, Mail.ru, Badoo, AVITO.ru, Red Keds and other companies will speak.

This will be the first event of this kind in Ulyanovsk, which should bring the local IT community to a new level, and for the whole of Russia, Ulyanovsk will open as one of the promising centers of the country's Internet business.
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Why Ulyanovsk?

The birthplace of the leader of the revolution and the UAZ turned out to be one of the most developed cities in Russia in terms of IT. Here is a small portfolio of projects that were born and developed in Ulyanovsk:

" Layfhaker " - one of the most popular blogs Runet. Made by Buffer Bay .

Buy a loaf! - a popular iPhone application, which for some time ranked first in the app store rating. Now the guys are actively promoted abroad. Production of the Ulyanovsk company " Script ".

Ecwid , x-cart , liteCommerce - more than 130 people work at Creative Development, their products are used in more than 180 countries around the world. Their platforms run hundreds of thousands of online stores. The company's founder, Ruslan Fazliev, is rightfully considered one of the most successful Russian startups .

Echo is probably the largest Russian Erlang project (15 developers). The technical director and co-founder of the company, Lev Valkin (http://lionet.info/), initiated the opening of a technology office in Ulyanovsk. The company was one of the first to start attracting the best engineers from Moscow and remote regions to Ulyanovsk. Practice has shown that people are ready to leave their homes in favor of participating in an interesting high-tech project. A quote from the abstract to the report: “How to satisfy clients making 50 thousand HTTP requests per second. How we manage a farm of 400 servers. ”

CS-Cart is another popular e-commerce solution from Simbirsk Technologies . In general, in Ulyanovsk many companies make such decisions, many of which are quite popular.

Such companies as simbirsoft.com , actively participate in training, teach at universities, conduct courses, internships. In addition, Ulyanovsk even has its own IT-specialist training center itc73.ru .

Recently, Moscow companies and startups have begun to open their branches in Ulyanovsk, among them netstream.ru , RBC Hosting Center, undev.ru , tulp.ru. The last two appeared here thanks to the efforts of the Kaizen company, which is led by habraser Cyril toxicmt Mokevnin - as he himself modestly observes, it was with them that the era of mass rails of development began in Ulyanovsk.

Last summer, the ULCAMP :: Dev movement started in Ulyanovsk, which began with an informal gathering of IT people on the banks of the Volga.


ULCamp: how it was

Since then, meetings of IT specialists within this movement have become regular, but there have not yet been conferences of the scale of “Strikes”. It can be said overdue.

More about the program

The organizers of the Strikes were seven Ulyanovsk companies: ITM , simtech , Kaizen , MST , itc73.ru , PLATIDOMA and interra . Conference sponsors are badoo.com, undev.ru and Echo, general sponsor is Skype.

Reports will go in three streams. In the large hall will be held the section "Development", in which well-known developers of the RuNet (and not only) will share their rich experience. The organizers tried to make the “development” section interesting for the widest possible range of web developers. Languages ​​to talk about: ruby, php, erlang, javascript and others:

Roman Pavlushko (AVITO.ru). Loaded search on sphinx.
Maxim Lapshin (erlyvideo). Using Erlang in video streaming server.
Lev Valkin (echo). Yin and Yang scaling.
Alexander Titov (Skype). Engineering Zen. Continuous changes (about chef and devopts).
Alexey Rybak (Badoo). Badoo architecture
Alexey Palazhchenko (Skype). NoSQL under load: practice.
Alexey Makhotkin (undev.ru). Multi-blitz. In the “seven and a half minutes per report” mode, we’ll talk about targeted text, Turing incompleteness and requirements monitoring, timelines and pagination as content solutions,
the classification of nosql solutions, as well as the analysis of the functionality of bug trackers in terms of modal verbs.
Gleb Pomakalov (Skype). About scrum, with introductory economical production and a general approach to management.
Konstantin Osipov (Mail.ru). Tarantool / Box 1.5: experience in optimizing the performance of NoSQL DBMS.

In the other two halls will be a section dedicated to advertising and promotion, start-ups and innovations on the Internet. Details are in the program of the event: nastachku.ru/program.html-ru

Participation in the conference is free, but will only be allowed according to the list of registered participants :) So register on the site without delay. We currently have over 500 registrations.

Pioneer - an example for all guys

From Moscow this is not always visible, but in reality there are already several strong and promising IT centers in Russia: Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, St. Petersburg, Ulyanovsk - for sure the list goes on. Talented people, low cost of living and broadband Internet do their work :)

We hope that the example of colleagues from Ulyanovsk will encourage the IT communities of other cities to organize themselves more actively and declare themselves to the whole country and not only. All on the strike, comrades!