Talks

Often I see engineers running up grades to grow their skills and paychecks: from junior to middle, then to senior and... what's next? To become a team lead? What's a tech lead? Or maybe there's some kind of engineering track? I'll tell you about it! Not everyone needs to be a team leader (or maybe they do).

Inter-zone traffic can lead to increased cost of ownership and latency. For a long time it was thought that the solution is only possible through the use of Service Mesh. I will tell you how to solve these problems through native Kubernetes mechanisms.

Vibe coding and active use of various code AI assistants is changing the typical developer environment. In the talk we will discuss the current issues around the use of code AI assistant and right on stage investigate and compare the efficiency and speed of different agents.

The standard Kubernetes scheduler kube-scheduler was developed with general load balancing principles in mind and is not specialized for the unique characteristics of GPU workloads. I propose examining the full spectrum of possibilities: from built-in K8s scheduling mechanisms to customization of the standard scheduler and specialized schedulers such as Volcano, Apache YuniKorn, and KAI-Scheduler.

Testing roles in infrastructure administration. Tools of Infrastructure as Code approach and testing practices of configuration management systems such as Ansible, Puppet, Salt, and Chef. Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of the available tools, their advantages and disadvantages, as well as Avito's best testing practices.

How to make the system fault-tolerant without Google's budget? We will analyze solutions for each level of architecture from DNS to database in three variants: minimal, optimal and industrial. I will show you, using examples of on-premise and Russian clouds like Yandex, VK, Selectel, what mistakes to avoid and how to save money without losing reliability.