Conference DUMP-2014: Section "ServerSide"

Continuing our series of posts on behalf of program directors review the Server Side section.

There are two of them in this section - Alexander Chernin from Naumen and Alexander Kazakov from SKB Kontur.

Alexander Chernin today shares his opinion on who would benefit from the section, why programmers should go to conferences and what awaits server developers on March 14 at DUMP .
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Any conference for speakers is a reason to tell how they and their teams support fashion trends in their projects. Therefore, it is not difficult to compose the “Server Side” section - there are teams, there are trends, it only remains to find out how these sets intersect. Oddly enough, from year to year the intersection turns out to be non-empty.


We used intersection of sets in another aspect of preparation. Our section has two program co-directors. My namesake and I had a very different technical background, and on some issues even a firearm. But when choosing reports, we observed the agreement that the topic should suit both. This is some guarantee that the selected reports are really “in trend”.

We will talk about building distributed systems.
We will have a look at the problem in the complex from the Perm AlternatePlatform team. Alexey Kviring and Maxim Osin will tell about their platform for building a high-performance back-end AlternateCore, hardened in tank battles of the Tank Online flash game.
We will also discuss the narrower aspects of distributed systems.
Victor Gryshchenko will briefly interrupt the pumping of his startup in the palaces of the IIDF and talk about distributed logging systems.
Aleksander Kokovin from the SKB Kontur company will reveal the secrets of algorithms for achieving a distributed consensus and their implementations in ready-made libraries.

Of course, we can not get away from talking about the clouds.
Alexey Mogilnikov will teach us to love the cloud infrastructure in general and specialized clouds in particular, and also describe the upcoming transformation of the profession of a system administrator.
And Danila Shtan from the team of the portal 66.ru will tell all the most interesting things about Docker technology in just half an hour.

Another trend is the active inclusion of full-text search subsystems in products. About one such subsystem based on a cluster of Sphinx servers will tell Andrey Tytsky from the company Abak-press.

In our section, two reports will be made on Continuous Deployment systems.
One of the authors, the evil Martian Kirill Shatrov, will tell you about the Capistrano framework for building deployment systems.
Konstantin Beklemishev from Naumen will tell about the ready and working deployment system built on the basis of the linux-technology spectrum.

And we will listen to reports on eternal themes.
Let's learn Kung Fu search for bottleneck-s performance in the style of Yandex from Mikhail Yepikhin.
The real python programming guru, the creator of Flask's web server, Armin Ronacher from good old England, will bring a report on good old PostgreSQL, which, according to Armin, can give odds to trendy NoSQL-repositories. This presentation will be made in English.
Another guru, the creator of the Sphinx search server mentioned above, Andrei Aksenov, will also talk with the audience about SQL vs. NoSQL, this time considering it from the side of the used data structures and algorithms.

Of course, software development in Yekaterinburg is very diverse and you can’t pick up topics that are obviously interesting for any programmer. But we hope that each of the reports presented will be interesting in its own way and will help to satisfy the technical interest of the listeners. Or, on the contrary, it will add fuel to the fire, make you take a couple of days off with experiments on creating more and more fancy PetShop and HelloWorlds.

See you in a week in Yekaterinburg on DUMP # 14 !