Where to go to the programmer for knowledge this year

Highload ++ in Moscow, November 2016

We have made for you a selection of the best (in our opinion) speeches from IT conferences, which we are going to attend in the first half of 2017 ( as promised ).

All this will be useful for web-programmers (PHP, Go, JS), QA and DevOps. Yes, the list contains quite a few conferences held in Russia and the CIS countries, but today, alas, there are not so many of them. So, if suddenly you know about some worthwhile event, add to our list in the comments.

Table of contents

1. FOSDEM , Brussels, February 4-5
   
   • for opensource programmers
2. PHP UK Conference , London, February 16–17
   
   • for PHP programmers
3. RS Conf , Minsk, February 18–19
   
   • for front-tenders
4. Selenium Camp , Kiev, February 24–25
   
   • for QA
5. CodeFest , Novosibirsk, April 1-2
   
   • for programmers, QA, project-managers and other IT people
6. JPoint , Moscow, April 7–8
   
   • for Java programmers
7. React Amsterdam , Amsterdam, April 21
   
   • for front-tenders
8. JSConf EU , Berlin, 6–7 May
   
   • for front-tenders
9. RIT , Moscow, June 5–6
   
   • for all IT pros
10. Velocity , San Jose, June 19–22
    
    • for DevOps, web developers, techlides
11. Fluent Conference , San Jose, June 19–22
    
    • for web programmers

FOSDEM , Brussels, Belgium, 4–5 February

A free conference for opensource developers will begin the day after tomorrow. To get to it, you do not even need to register. Held in Brussels since 2000, the original name is OSDEM (Open Source Developers European Meeting). Here is a great review of last year’s conference from the speaker from the MAPS.ME team.

Brian Brazil: Prometheus: A Next Generation Monitoring System

Brian talks about the Prometheus metrics collection system written in Go, which combines graphing and error reporting features. This is a report on what Prometheus is and how to simplify opening source projects with it.

Hisham Muhammad: Going cross-platform: how htop was made portable

Speech by the creator of htop . He talks about how htop, created under Linux, became a cross-platform application, why it happened and what it led to.

Video of all performances with FOSDEM 2016 can be viewed here .

PHP UK Conference , London, UK, February 16–17

PHP UK Conference has been held since 2006 and was originally conceived as a core conference for the local PHP community, where developers could share knowledge and learn first-hand about the experience of colleagues and the latest industry achievements.
Here is a detailed story about PHP UK Conference 2016 by our developer Sasha Treger.

One of the most important topics covered at the event in 2016 was safety. Two reports were devoted to her:

Thomas Shone: Security Theater

and

James Titcumb: Dip Your Toes in the Sea of ​​Security

Both overlap in some way, but each is good in its own way. They are well suited as a checklist for finding vulnerabilities. By the way, shortly before the conference, my colleagues and I discussed similar issues, which confirms their relevance.

All videos can be viewed in this playlist .

RS Conf , Minsk, Republic of Belarus, February 18–19

Event for frontendder. Judging by the program, you will find a large number of interesting reports from Angular and React to machine learning. Registration is already open, and we got our tickets.

Andrey Listochkin: Quality. How to do your job well

In his report, Andrew covers topics from the quality of the code to the processes and communication in a team.

Martin Naumann: Shaders - unlocking the GPU with JavaScript

This is a workshop. Martin talks about GLSL, as well as where, in addition to 3D graphics, you can successfully use shaders (in particular, how they can be useful in 2D).

Video of all performances - here .

Selenium Camp , Kiev, Ukraine, February 24–25

The conference has been held since 2011. The main directions are web and mobile applications testing with Selenium WebDriver ,. However, other topics are also touched: test scaling, autotest monitoring systems, microservice architecture testing, etc. ... The target audience is testers and developers who are not indifferent to test automation (both professionals and beginners).

Oren Rubin: Statistical Element Locator

The report is devoted to a common problem faced by testers - the search for elements of reliability. It classifies search methods, analyzes the mistakes of people and machines, and finally, proposes a new way to search for elements and a set of skills necessary to overcome difficulties.

The remaining performances at Selenium Camp 2016 are here .

CodeFest , Novosibirsk, Russia, April 1-2

Conference for developers, QA, project-managers and other IT-specialists. It has been held since 2010. Most of the reports are devoted to development, project management and testing.

QA

Dan Cuellar: The Story of Appium: Lessons Learned Creating an Open Source Project 0 to 100,000 users

Dan tells the story of the development of the Appium framework, which we at Badoo, by the way, began to use, as they say, before it was cool. If suddenly you are not yet in the subject, the information from this report will help you work with similar opensource-projects more effectively.

All speeches on quality assurance, see here .

Back-end

Konstantin Osipov: What is special about DBMS for RAM?

In his report, Kostya talks about the features of in-memory DBMS, how it differs from an arbitrary high-load system written in C, C ++ or Java, as well as about specialized algorithms and data structures for storing them in RAM.

Vyacheslav Bakhmutov: Experience with Go in Dropbox in SRE

The report will be of interest to those who have just started working with Go. It provides a brief overview of the Go ecosystem, explains what Go tasks are used in Dropbox and why the developers chose this language.

All reports on the back-end, see here and here .

And all the videos from CodeFest 2016 are here .

JPoint , Moscow, Russia, April 7–8

JPoint is an international conference for experienced Java developers. This year it will be held for the fifth time. Main topics: performance, concurrency, testing, distributed systems and high loads in the Java world, as well as the future of the platform.

Here is a detailed overview of the best presentations of the last conference

React Amsterdam , Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 21

Conference for front-end developers. The organizers call their priorities the highest quality content and the balance between theory and practical cases.

Tadeu Zagallo: React Native Architecture Overview

Report on React Native - Facebook framework for creating native applications for iOS and Android. The representative of the company-developer talks about the architecture and how to use React Native to get the best results.

Jack Franklin: Testing React Applications

Jack talks about the best tools for building ReactJS applications in NodeJS and the browser using React TestUtils and other third-party libraries.

All conference videos are here .

JSConf EU , Berlin, Germany, 6–7 May

Another event for front-end developers from around the world.

Yan Zhu: Encrypt the Web For $ 0

Yang shatters the myth that TLS and other measures to ensure the safety of web sites are expensive and have a negative impact on the speed of loading pages, and shares simple ways to improve the security of sites without sacrificing performance.

Tim Pietrusky & Martin Schuhfuss: We Music & the Web

In his speech, Tim and Martin showed what would happen if music, light, visual effects, MIDI and electronics were added with the limitless possibilities of the web.

You can watch all the speeches from last year’s conference in Budapest here .

RIT , Moscow, Russia, June 5–6

At the Russian Internet Technologies festival, every IT specialist will find a section to his taste - the topics of conferences are pleasing with a variety: system administration and operation, high-loaded systems and databases, server programming, project management, client programming, testing. We certainly will not miss. There is no video in the public domain yet, but you can watch our performances in 2015.

Velocity , San Jose, United States, June 19–22

Conference for DevOps, web developers, techlides. An excellent opportunity to see the speeches of a large number of famous speakers and discuss ideas and trends of the industry that we are not going to miss.

Last year's performances are here , but you need to register.

Fluent Conference , San Jose, United States, June 19–22

Practical conference for web developers. Every year, thousands of specialists gather under one roof to talk about professional topics, share experiences and have a good time. The event will appeal to both sophisticated conference participants and those who decided on this for the first time.

Videos from Fluent Conference 2016 are available here or here .

Later we will make a post with conferences for the second half of 2017.