High Load Strategy

Conference /October 14, 2016 / Vilnius, Lithuania

More than 500 IT professionals from over 100 companies worldwide participated in the High Load Strategy Conference 2016!

The videos and slides from the talks are available on our blog engineering.adform.com/talks.

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Thank you all for coming and till the next time!

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The High Load Strategy Conference is a non-profit event and

all collected funds will go towards further improvement of the conference.

The Conference is dedicated to networking and knowledge sharing in the Big Data and High Load community. We value the attendance of each member and want all attendees to have an enjoyable and fulfilling experience. Accordingly, all participants, speakers, sponsors and staff are expected to show respect and courtesy to other attendees throughout all the event and are required to agree with the following code of conduct. Organizers will enforce this code throughout the event.

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SPEAKERS

Peter Milne

Technology Architect at Adform

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I am a seasoned IT professional with extensive experience across the full SDLC, product cycle and sales cycle. In addition to my technical skills I have worked in pre-sales, sales and management. I am an excellent communicator and presenter and I have the ability to explain and “sell” the technical value proposition across cultures and languages. I have managed small and large development teams, consultant groups and education.
Ken Mugrage

Technology Evangelist at ThoughtWorks

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Ken Mugrage has 25 years of experience in the IT industry, spending the last 7 at <a href="https://www.thoughtworks.com/" target="_blank" title="https://www.thoughtworks.com/">ThoughtWorks</a>. During his entire career, Ken has focused on using technology to increase business effectiveness, as opposed to using the ‘latest cool thing’. Ken has been focused on Continuous Delivery and DevOps for most of the past decade, working with organizations all over the world, ranging from startups to Fortune 50 companies. He now uses this experience to teach others how to get better at building, testing and deploying software.
Bernardus Peters

Solutions Engineer at GitHub

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Bas Peters is a Solutions Engineer at GitHub. He is fascinated by software and how it eats everything and enjoys helping people to understand the power and beauty of Git and GitHub.
Maciej Aniserowicz

Developer & dev-trainer, blogger at devstyle.pl

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Passionate developer. A "goto guy" for anything related to programming. Pragmatic trainer on a mission to deliver extraordinary workshops that change the way people do their daily job and think about programming. Also, a very active member of polish dev-community. Author of one of the most popular polish dev-blogs: devstyle.pl. Creator and host of DevTalk - a podcast for programmers. Speaker invited to biggest polish conferences and meetups in all major polish cities. One of the leaders of Białystok .NET User Group and co-organizer of Programistok conference. One of the 3 polish Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) in .NET category. Since 2005: Microsoft Certified Professional. Personally: husband and father. Enjoys good music of all kinds. Loves driving cars and motorcycles.
Greg Young

Independent consultant and entrepreneur

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Gregory Young coined the term “CQRS” (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) and it was instantly picked up by the community who have elaborated upon it ever since. Greg is an independent consultant and serial entrepreneur. He has 15+ years of varied experience in computer science from embedded operating systems to business systems and he brings a pragmatic and often times unusual viewpoint to discussions. He’s a frequent contributor to InfoQ, speaker/trainer at Skills Matter and also a well-known speaker at international conferences. Greg also writes about CQRS, DDD and other hot topics on <a href="http://codebetter.com/gregyoung/" target="_blank" title="http://codebetter.com/gregyoung/">codebetter.com</a> and on his personal blog <a href="https://goodenoughsoftware.net/" target="_blank" title="https://goodenoughsoftware.net/">goodenoughsoftware.net</a>.
James Shubin

DevOps/Config mgmt. hacker at Red Hat

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James is a DevOps/Config mgmt. hacker and physiologist from Montreal, Canada. He often goes by @purpleidea on the internet, and writes "The Technical Blog of James". He currently works for Red Hat doing research and prototyping within systems engineering. He started a Next Generation Config Management prototype called mgmt. He studied Physiology at university and sometimes likes to talk about cardiology.
Rustam Mehmandarov

Leader of the Norwegian Java User Group - javaBin

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Rustam is the leader of the Norwegian Java User Group - javaBin, and a competency network coordinator for databases and information management at work. One of the organizers of JavaZone and Arctic IoT Challenge. Speaker. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Oslo, and he has been working as a developer, lead programmer and architect for over 10 years. In addition to being passionate about agile development, web development, architecture and geographical information systems, he is also a guru of both Linux and Windows worlds. On his spare time he enjoys working out, as well as coding in Python and Java [but not simultaneously]. Rustam frequently speaks at both national and international conferences, and events at various Norwegian universities.
Josef Habdank

Lead Data Scientist and Data Platform Architect at INFARE Solutions

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Josef Habdank is a Lead Data Scientist and Data Platform Architect at INFARE Solutions and passionate champion of Apache Spark. He has experience from BigData practitioners such as Department of Defence, Thomson Reuters and Adform. He is an expert in Apache Spark and Spark enabled technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis, MemSql, Alluxio and others. Additionally he is a specialist in real time non linear forecasting, and has experience with with systems processing tens of billions of data points daily and data warehouses holding hundreds of billions of rows.
Vlad Sandulescu

Data Scientist at Adform

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Data Scientist working on computational advertising models at Adform in Copenhagen. I am part of the research team and help build data driven products using advanced statistical and machine learning methods. I am the proud winner of the KDD Cup competition in 2016, part of the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Previously I fought fraudulent user behavior and developed models to detect fake reviews at Trustpilot, a popular online review platform.
Piotr Stapp

IT Expert at mBank

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<div>Blogger @ stapp.space</div> <div>Developer, engineer, craftsmen, designer and biker. </div> <div>User of every useful technology. Web lover.</div> <div>Adept of DevOps and automation.</div> <div>Working in mBank as IT Expert</div>
Øyvind Løkling

Staff Software Engineer at Schibsted Media Group

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Øyvind started his career as a consultant in the .com days building e-commerce sites such as <a href="http://www.pirelli.com/global/en-ww/homepage" target="_blank" title="http://www.pirelli.com/global/en-ww/homepage" class="external-link">Pirelli.com</a> and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://letsbuyit.com/" class="external-link">Letsbuyit.com</a> before joining Escenic in 2004. During his 9 years at Escenic he has worked closely with many large media sites and corporations. In 2013 he joined Schibsted to help bootstrap the new tech org, and led the technical implementation of an early proof of concept recommendation system serving VG and other Schibsted properties based on a pure stream processing architecture.
Lars Albertsson

Independent Consultant

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Lars Albertsson has worked with data-intensive and scalable applications throughout his corporate career - at Google, natural language processing startup Recorded Future, and with stock exchange systems. He rolled out the current data processing infrastructure at Spotify, and moved on to be engineer #2 (after Øyvind) hired for the central technology organisation at Schibsted Media Group, and was architect for data processing infrastructure and user modelling. He is now an independent consultant, helping companies build scalable data processing solutions.
Antonio Cobo

Agile Delivery Consultant at OpenCredo

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Antonio is an Agile Delivery Consultant for OpenCredo having joined the company in 2015. Antonio is responsible for the delivery of a number of projects across various clients for OpenCredo. Antonio comes from a technical background with experience in a number of countries where he acts a bridge between the business and the development team in order to maximise results and customer satisfaction. Before OpenCredo Antonio was a project manager for TUI group. Antonio is a certified Scrum Master and is passionate about creating and implementing the best solution while continually seeking to improve work methodologies.
Jacek Kunicki

Senior Software Engineer at SoftwareMill

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I'm a passionate software engineer living in the JVM land - mainly, but not limited to. I also tend to play with electronics and hardware. When sharing my knowlegde, I always keep in mind that a working example is worth a thousand words.
Ernestas Vaiciukevičius

Senior Developer at Adform

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I'm a Senior Developer at Adform and working on backend data processing solutions. I primarily focus on distributed systems and how to make them scalable, fault tolerant and get the highest data throughputs. I joined Adform in early 2015 and immediately began working with Scala, which I absolutely love!
Avishai Ish-Shalom

Software Fairy at Wix.com

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Avishai is a veteran operations and software engineer with years of high scale production experience. Currently masquerading as an engineering manager, Avishai is leading a team of software engineers in <a rel="nofollow" href="http://wix.com/" class="external-link">Wix.com</a> core server group.
Dirk-Willem van Gulik

Founder of Apache Software Foundation

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Dirk-Willem has spend the last 25 years as an Internet engineer. He has worked for the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, the United Nations, telecommunications firms, the BBC, several satellite & space agencies and founded several startups. He participated in different international standards bodies, such as the IETF and W3C on metadata, GIS, PKI, Security, Architecture and Internet standards. He helped create, and was the president of, the Apache Software Foundation, and has worked on Apache since the early days of the NCSA. Dirk built the initial engineering team at Covalent, as VP of Engineering and was instrumental in the first two rounds of venture capital funding. He was one of the Founders of Asemantics, a leader in Enterprise Information Integration; which helped make the Semantic Web and RDF reality. He currently works on several medical and privacy intensive security projects with a heavy emphasis on Architecture and Governance. When not at work, he loves to sail or hang out at the local makerspace in Leiden.
Dmitry Vrublevsky

Software Developer at Neueda

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Dmitry Vrublevsky, Software Developer @ Neueda
Simon Leigh

Solutions Engineer at Couchbase

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Simon Leigh is a London-based Solutions Engineer at Couchbase who works throughout EMEA helping clients design, deploy, and integrate NoSQL solutions into their systems. He is interested in building architectures which incorporate the wider Big Data ecosystem into which Couchbase integrates. Before joining Couchbase he worked as a project manager in the financial services sector.
Łukasz Szczęsny

Software Engineer at Uber

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Łukasz is an experienced system engineer with solid background in GNU/Linux systems administration. He is an enthusiast of Free and Open Source Software and Open Hardware. Co-organizer of Warsaw Linux User Group. Fan of DevOps and automation. Currently he works as an SRE at Uber.

TICKETS

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PROGRAM

DEVOPS

DATA

ARCHITECTURES

08:00 - 09:00

08:00 - 09:00

Registration & Coffee
09:00 - 09:15

09:00 - 09:15

Welcome to the Event
09:15 - 10:00

09:15 - 10:00

Opening Keynote: A Day in the Life of High Load IT

Peter Milne, Technology Architect at Adform

Light hearted description of the daily events and challenges experienced by an IT department. What happens when High Load meets DevOps, Development, Security, Product Management and Customer Service; and how High Load adds a different perspective to traditional enterprise IT shops.
10:00 - 10:45

10:00 - 10:45

Inner Source: practices of open source used internally

Bernardus Peters, Solutions Engineer at GitHub

In this session we will talk about how adopting open source principles helps organizations to improve code quality, ship earlier and more often, increase developer happiness and help to attract and retain talent.

We will first talk about what these principles are, then focus on how they can be beneficial to organizations and individual developers and finally we will discuss some next steps to adopt these principles.
10:45 - 11:00

10:45 - 11:00

Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:50

11:00 - 11:50

What we’re learning about burnout and how a DevOps culture can help

Ken Mugrage, Technology Evangelist at ThoughtWorks

One of the most overlooked advantages of converting to a DevOps culture can be the reduction of stress. This could be due to “sharing the load” as a whole team, the feeling of joint ownership in solving a business problem, or many other things.

If you’re asked to support somebody else’s application without any insight to how it was built and what problems it’s trying to solve you’re likely to experience more than a little stress. The same is true if you’ve toiled away creating the perfect application only to see it deployed in a way that makes it unable to perform.

The combination of stress and burnout is perhaps the biggest health threat in our industry. In fact, recent research has found that burnout--and the related concept of ""vital exhaustion""--increases your risk of cardiovascular disease as much as body mass index, smoking and lipid levels. Unfortunately there are also well-known stories of burnout-related suicides in our industry, making this literally a life and death issue.

If that isn’t reason enough to address the issue, we also know from the State of DevOps survey that the #1 indicator of company success is job satisfaction.

In this talk Ken will go over some of the leading research in the area of burnout. We’ll talk about some of the more common causes of burnout as identified by clinical research and talk about how you can learn from organizations with solid DevOps cultural practices to help alleviate them.
11:50 - 12:40

11:50 - 12:40

Next Generation Config Mgmt

James Shubin, DevOps/Config mgmt. hacker at Red Hat

Next gen config management tool, and the specific problems this project solves.

Three of the main design features of the tool include:

* Parallel execution

* Event driven mechanism

* Distributed architecture

This talk will demo a prototype I've built that implements these ideas and which is written in golang. I will also show the automatic edge, automatic grouping and automatic elastic etcd clustering management features.

An introductory blog post on the subject is available here. Attendees are encouraged to read it before the talk if they are interested!
12:40 - 13:50

12:40 - 13:50

Lunch
13:50 - 14:40

13:50 - 14:40

Is DevOps in banking possible?

Piotr Stapp, IT Expert at mBank

DevOps is a buzz word for last few years. It associate with other buzz words like: cloud, agile, fast deployment. Moreover in DevOps stuff we usually talk about Linux tools.

But is it possible to have DevOps in company like bank? Can we do all fancy stuff on Windows? Is bank really something different than Google or Facebook? What a developer should know about DevOps?
14:40 - 15:30

14:40 - 15:30

Field Notes of a Command Line Ninja

Rustam Mehmandarov, Leader of the Norwegian Java User Group - javaBin

Have you ever witnessed someone write fancy commands and perform magic from the console. Have you ever wished you could learn, or brush up on, those skills too? Maybe you want to be more effective at your everyday tasks, or need a new topic for the next family dinner?

Join us and learn some awesome command line ninja skills. You will be able to find something new no matter your level of experience. The audience will get a chance to show off their skills as well, and there will be small prizes to contributors. The black belt and a little surprise await you at the end of this talk.

You can bring your PC with you and hack-along! All you need is a PC or a Mac running OS of your choice - Windows, Linux, or Mac OS. Windows users are advised to have their cmd.exe ready, and to install Cygwin.
15:30 - 15:45

15:30 - 15:45

Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:35

15:45 - 16:35

Project Management: from Stone Age to DevOps

Antonio Cobo, Agile Delivery Consultant

The DevOps movement is gradually changing IT organisations. Project managers are often forgotten on this change, but they also need to change. Are project managers ready for the DevOps change? In this talk we will cover the changes project managers are experiencing, first with Agile and now with DevOps.
16:35 - 17:10

16:35 - 17:10

Closing Keynote: The long sad history of microservices

Greg Young, Independent consultant and entrepreneur

In this talk we will look at the history of the concepts around microservices. We will also look at what has changed vs what has stayed the same, how have the architectural goals changed? What areas of learning are worth following and what is just a fad? What are the core concepts and what is cruft?
17:10 - 17:20

17:10 - 17:20

Closing Remarks

Peter Milne, Technology Architect at Adform
17:20 - 21:00

17:20 - 21:00

Conference Party

08:00 - 09:00

08:00 - 09:00

Registration & Coffee
10:00 - 10:45

10:00 - 10:45

Scalable prediction as a service using apache spark and python scikit learn

Josef Habdank, Lead Data Scientist and Data Platform Architect at INFARE Solutions

Developing and deploying a scalable Prediction-as-a-Service platform on a very challanging task that many big data practitioners are struggling with. The holy grail of data science/prediction infrastructure is to train the prediction models in real time as the data is collected and streamed into the data center, and serving the prediction results in an on-demand fashion via a service. This can be achieved by using Apache Spark and Spark Streaming with Python Scikt Learn.
10:45 - 11:00

10:45 - 11:00

Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:50

11:00 - 11:50

A Practical Introduction to Akka Streams (live coding session)

Jacek Kunicki, Senior Software Engineer at SoftwareMill

Stream processing is a hot topic today and it’s easy to get lost among all the possibilities. In this live coding session (in Scala) we will explore the Reactive Streams approach used by the Akka Streams project. On an almost real-life example, we’re going to walk through both the basics and some more advanced usages of the library.
11:50 - 12:40

11:50 - 12:40

Predicting the future relevance of research institutions - The winning solution of the KDD Cup 2016

Vlad Sandulescu, Data Scientist at Adform

I will present the winning solution to this year’s KDD Cup competition, part of the KDD conference, one of the largest academic conferences on data mining and machine learning. The challenge was to rank research institutions based on the number of accepted papers at academic conferences in 2016.

Competition participants were given a snapshot of the Microsoft Academic Graph dataset, a publicly available dataset organized as a heterogeneous graph which contains historical information about academic papers.

This talk will walk you through the entire thought process, including how we modeled the problem and systematically improved our predictions during the competition.
12:40 - 13:50

12:40 - 13:50

Lunch
13:50-14:40

13:50-14:40

The Mathematics of Reliability

Avishai Ish-Shalom, Software Fairy at Wix.com

We often hear talks of “scale” and “reliability”, mostly based on personal experience and lessons learned. What can Mathematics tell us about reliability and scale? Can math help us scale our systems and companies?
It turns out that failure models, probability, statistics and other domains can help our analysis and provide insights.
It turns out that mathematics forces us to rigorously construct and analyse our models, often exposing subtle issues and misconceptions; But moreover, it allows us to expand our understanding and explore the consequences of scale and stress without actually building a system.
This talk will present simple failure models, explain the math behind common practices, show common misconceptions, introduce emergent system properties and showcase mathematical examples of why things behave differently at scale and how things that work well in small systems can be horrible at scale.
14:40 - 15:30

14:40 - 15:30

Adopting Neo4j at Enterprise scale

Dmitry Vrublevsky, Software Developer at Neueda

I am going to tell a story about Neo4j - one of the most mature commercially available graph databases in the market.

Our main hero of the story will be our customer - a large multinational corporation that decided to adopt Neo4j in their business-critical product.

During the story we will:

- Talk about why adopting Neo4j instead of existing RDBMS solutions might be a good idea

- Deep dive into Neo4j internals and learn how graph magic works

- Explore how key use-cases have been improved for our client by switching from relational to graph database
15:30 - 15:45

15:30 - 15:45

Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:35

15:45 - 16:35

Jenkins as Code

Łukasz Szczęsny, Software Engineer at Uber

Jobs in Jenkins (or any other CI/CD tool) can be created and updated manually using UI. It is ok if you have a few/several of them. However, most of the companies grow and you can quickly wake up with dozens or hundreds of jobs to maintain.

A new email address/alias to get notification about failed builds?

Global migration to the better™ SCM? No way to do it manually with GUI in a convenient way. It just doesn’t scale. Manual scripts using Jenkins API? Better, but hard to test and maintain. The same applies to plugin installation, credentials managements etc. Luckily, there is a better way.

During the talk I will present how to create a scalable CI/CD solution using Jenkins with Job DSL and Jenkins Pipeline. Expect live demo - I will setup fully functional Jenkins instance with just one click!
17:20 - 21:00

17:20 - 21:00

Conference Party

08:00 - 09:00

08:00 - 09:00

Registration & Coffee
10:00 - 10:45

10:00 - 10:45

Facts and myths about microservices

Maciej Aniserowicz, Developer & dev-trainer, blogger at devstyle.pl

Microservices is "the next big thing", which completely dominated IT discussions, blogs, magazines and conferences, and everything has already been told about it. How many facts and how many myths can you find in this sentence?

This talk will show what microservices really are. You will see, that they is the long-awaited ultimate solution which will cure IT all over the world. But.. is it a fact or rather a myth? Everyone should be interested in microservices. Fact of myth? Every team should delived projects as microservices! Is is a fact, or a myth?

Microservices solve a LOT of problems. Fact or myth? Also, microservices do NOT generate new issues. Fact or myth? Every single project should be done in this architecture! Fact or myth?

This is a good, refreshing talk. After ~40 minutes you will answer a question... is it a fact or a myth?
10:45 - 11:00

10:45 - 11:00

Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:50

11:00 - 11:50

How to Win Black Friday – Practical advice on handling Peak Events

Simon Leigh, Solutions Engineer at Couchbase

With good selection of tools, technology and advanced planning, scaling your application for organic growth has now become manageable. However, the Digital Economy creates unprecedented peaks. New technology releases, “event” television live-streams and Black Friday shopping events all create peak loads that are orders of magnitude above baseline. In this talk we will discuss and explore what the engineers at Couchbase have learned from our field experience supporting customers that experience these dramatic loads. We will explain how you can apply the lessons we’ve learned to create highly available, resilient architectures that are built for peak events.
11:50 - 12:40

11:50 - 12:40

Stream processing as a service

Ernestas Vaiciukevičius, Senior Developer at Adform

Sometime age we started building Apache Storm based stream processing platform and offer it as a service for other teams in Adform.

Let's look how it went, what were the challenges and what's the end result.
12:40 - 13:50

12:40 - 13:50

Lunch
13:50 - 14:40

13:50 - 14:40

A Practical Primer on Building Real-time Data-driven Products

Øyvind Løkling, Staff Software Engineer at Schibsted Media Group

There is a lot of buzz around stream data processing these days, new frameworks are appearing at high speed, and the web is full of tutorials on how to count words with different technologies. This presentation will describe how to go beyond a “Hello world” stream application and build a real-time data-driven product.

We will present architectural patterns, go through trade offs and considerations when deciding on technology and implementation strategy, describe how to put the pieces together, and how to evolve products over time.
14:40 - 15:30

14:40 - 15:30

Test strategies for data processing pipelines

Lars Albertsson, Independent Consultant

A good automated testing strategy is crucial for achieving good product development productivity, and for quickly launching new features with continuous deployment. Although there is high awareness in backend software development for the need of good test structures and disciplining, it is often added as an afterthought in data processing environments, resulting in slow code-test-debug cycles and long delays getting data-driven features out the door. The time it takes from deciding to collect a new type of data, adapting the data collection and data processing pipelines involved, to creating a feature based on the data is often measured in weeks or months.

This talk will present recommended patterns and corresponding anti-patterns for testing data processing pipelines. We will suggest technology and architecture to improve testability, both for batch and streaming processing pipelines. We will primarily focus on testing for the purpose of development productivity and product iteration speed, but briefly also cover data quality testing.
15:30 - 15:45

15:30 - 15:45

Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:35

15:45 - 16:35

The Power of the Toolrooms

Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Founder of Apache Software Foundation

The industrialisation made Artisan processes scale, in no small part thanks to the invention of the toolroom. The backoffice where skilled engineers would produce the templates and machines that allowed factories to leverage a generalist workforce and operate at fast scale. History turns a full cycle as we learn how to scale on the Internet. Scale not just in terms of software, hardware and bandwidth; but also scale in terms of people, skills and the organisational capability. This talk will show how focusing on the toolroom and the processes to select and refine tools can help you scale; with practical (open source) examples from the real world.
17:20 - 21:00

17:20 - 21:00

Conference Party

VENUE

Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre LITEXPO, Laisves ave. 5, LT-04215 Vilnius, Lithuania
www.litexpo.lt

PARTNERS

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GitHub is how people build software. Millions of individuals and organisations around the world use GitHub to discover, share, and contribute to software—from games and experiments to popular frameworks and leading applications. Together, we're defining how software is built today.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry leading technology company that enables customers to go further, faster. With the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio, spanning the cloud to the data center to workplace applications, our technology and services help customers around the world make IT more efficient, more productive and more secure.

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Couchbase delivers the database for the Digital Economy. Developers around the world choose Couchbase for its advantages in data model flexibility, elastic scalability, performance, and 24x365 availability to build enterprise web, mobile, and IoT applications. The Couchbase platform includes Couchbase, Couchbase Lite - the first mobile NoSQL database, and Couchbase Sync Gateway. Couchbase is designed for global deployments, with configurable cross datacenter replication to increase data locality and availability. All Couchbase products are open source projects. Couchbase customers include industry leaders like AOL, Amadeus, AT&T, Cisco, Comcast, Concur, Disney, Dixons, eBay, General Electric, Marriott, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, PayPal, Ryanair, Rakuten / Viber, Tesco, Verizon, Wells Fargo, as well as hundreds of other household names.
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Santa Monica Networks has been working in the IT market since 1989. During all the years of its activity the company has accumulated great experience in the fields of data transmission networks, IT security and IP communications and recently started development of Data Center solutions business. Successful activity, mental outfit, the technical basis, expertise, and high qualification ensure quality solutions of Santa Monica Networks (SMN) offered to the customer as well as their versatile implementation and service. With a view to the expansion of the activity and its more active development in the IT markets of the Baltic States the company group Santa Monica Networks Group was created in three Baltic States – Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia – and Finland. We work with people sharing the same vision and employ the appropriate technology, which ensures us the competitive advantage and sustainability in this ever-changing business world. Sustainable success of operations, knowledge, technical equipment, specialist expertise and high qualification enables the Company to supply quality solutions, their overall implementation and servicing in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland.

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Polish Java User Group is a group of Java technology developers and enthusiasts. The main goal of the group is to popularize Java and modern software development methodologies. Since the beginning in 1999, the group had great impact on the Polish Java community growth. They main activity are meetings with students, programmers and project managers as well as conferences with famous professionals.
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Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) is one the largest technological universities in the Baltics. Known for its linkages with business, leadership in scientific research, flexible interdisciplinary study programmes and unforgettable study experience, KTU is fast forwarding to becoming an internationally acknowledged institution of higher education. KTU invites its students to enrich their knowledge and increase competencies in variety of scientific and research activities, tutoring, projects, to take part in competitions like Technorama, Robots competition, Hacker games. Innovative ideas are supported by KTU’s Startup Space. Sports Centre, art societies and student organisations invite both local and international students.
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We are one of the largest innovative higher education institutions in Lithuania. Our goal is to educate socially responsible, creative personalities, receptive to the latest scientific discoveries and modern technologies. While promoting the advancement of science, our aim is to contribute to the social and economic welfare of Lithuania, to the development of our country and the entire region. The university's mission is to develop a publicly responsible, creative, competitive individual who is receptive to science, the latest technologies and cultural values; to promote scientific progress, social and economic well-being; to create value that ensures the development of both Lithuania and the region in the global context.

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Aresi Labs is a multidisciplinary startup focusing on the areas of innovation and digital development. We provide services in 3 major areas: Intelligence & Consulting, Research and Software Development.
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PAST CONFERENCES

High Load Strategy Conference 2015

highloadstrategy.com/2015

Watch the impressions video

Four Topics: Gaming, Social Networks, Digital Advertising and Stock Exchange.

This event was the first major event of its type in the Baltics. The event featured 17 speakers from all over the world representing companies such as Aerospike, IBM, Amazon, RabbitMQ, and many others. More than 600 data-minded individuals attended the event, shared their experiences, and had a great time.

Memorable speakers and their quotes

Peter Milne

Director of Application Engineering at Aerospike

This is the premier conference for IT and computing in the Baltic States.
Leif Walsh

Senior Software Engineer at Tokutek

I came to High Load today to see some of Lithuania, meet the people here and find out how they are using large scale systems and solve interesting problems. The conference is exciting and full of fun people.
Matt Heath

Technical Lead at Starling

Big, there is a huge amount of modern things going on and it’s really interesting.

Past conferences

Big Data Strategy Conference 2015, Vilnius

www.bigdatastrategy.lt

The event attracted around 500+ people, and 25 speakers from eight countries: Lithuania, Poland, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Spain, Latvia, Denmark. Representatives from various companies, such as Microsoft, IBM, HP, Couchbase, 8kdata, Exacaster and reach.ly also attended.
Big Data Strategy Conference 2014, Vilnius

www.bigdatastrategy.lt/2014

The event attracted around 350 people, and 11 speakers from four different countries: Lithuania, Belarus, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Representatives from various companies, such as HP Vertica, Aerospike, Exacaster, Bing!, Expedia, and Altoros, also attended.

ENJOY YOUR STAY

Located in the heart of Vilnius, Ratonda Centrum Hotel and Europa City Hotel are the official hotels for this conference. Please mention Adform to get the special hotel rate.

Ratonda Centrum Hotels
www.ratonda.centrumhotels.com
This family-run, 4-star Ratonda Centrum Hotel is situated at the Vilnius’ main street. It is only a 15-minute walk from the Old Town.
Europa City Hotels
www.europacityhotels.com
Bright and modern hotel located in the center of the city, reaching the Old Town which is within a few minutes’ walk.

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