Buenos Aires, Arg.: GMT -3, ART
New York, USA., Toronto and Montreal, Ca.: EDT, GMT -4
Texas, USA., Winnipeg, Ca.: CDT, GMT -5
California, USA., Vancouver, Ca: PDT, GMT -7
Twitter: @nerdearla Website: https://nerdear.la/en/ Schedule (in spanish with Argentine GMT -3 timezone): https://nerdear.la/agenda/
How to register? See at the end of this document for a step by step guide.
Tuesday October 20: A Guide to Event-driven SRE-inspired DevOps 16:55 GMT-3 / 15:55 GMT -4 / 14:55 GMT -5 / 12:55 GMT -7
We have broken our monoliths into event-driven microservice architectures! Yet, many of us are still using old monolithic pipeline approaches to delivery & operations. Let me show you a modern open source event-driven approach to delivery & operations with the safety net of SRE! By Andreas Grabner — DevOps Activist
FreeBSD: Code, Community and Collaboration 17:55 GMT-3 / 16:55 GMT -4 / 15:55 GMT -5 / 13:55 GMT -7 The FreeBSD Open Source Operating System is one of the oldest, largest, and most successful open source projects, with a long history of innovation. FreeBSD descended from Berkeley Unix back in the early ’90s, with its lineage dating back 50 years to the original UNIX. It’s known for its reliability, stability, and advanced networking and performance. Deb will take you through its long history and highlight some of the features that set FreeBSD apart from other operating systems. She’ll describe how the FreeBSD Project works and how you can contribute to the Project. She will point out some of the differences between FreeBSD and Linux, and share why individuals and companies use FreeBSD. In fact, she’ll explain how you are most likely using FreeBSD now! You’ll leave this talk with a better understanding of FreeBSD and why you should try it out after the conference. By Deb Goodkin — Executive Director, FreeBSD Foundation
Wednesday October 21:
Centralized Logging Patterns 16:55 GMT-3 / 15:55 GMT -4 / 14:55 GMT -5 / 12:55 GMT -7 Most organizations feel the need to centralize their logs — once you have more than a couple of servers or containers, SSH and tail will not serve you. But how? This talk presents multiple approaches and patterns with their pros and cons, so you can pick the one that suits you best. By Emanuil Tolev — Community Advocate at Elastic
Thursday October 22:
An Introduction To IoT (Internet of Toilets ); Or How I Built an IoT Kitty Litter Box Using JavaScript 16:55 GMT-3 / 15:55 GMT -4 / 14:55 GMT -5 / 12:55 GMT -7 My favorite things in life are cats , computers and crappy ideas , so I decided to combine all three and make an IoT (Internet of Things) litter box. Together, we will go through how I setup my IoT Litter Box from start to finish. By Joe Karlsson — Software Engineer and Developer Advocate at MongoDB Software development practices for companies that want to make an impact 16:15 GMT-3 / 15:15 GMT -4 / 14:15 GMT -5 / 12:15 GMT -7 At Innovid, we believe that companies that deploy code to production quickly and frequently have an edge over their competition. I’m going to present the software engineering practices we have adopted over the years in Innovid to make sure we can move as quickly as possible while working with many of the most important brands in the world and reaching hundreds of millions of people per day with our ads. By Innovid, Yuval Pemper — Chief Engineering Officer at Innovid Defensive Programming at cURL 14:55 GMT-3 / 13:25 GMT -4 / 12:25 GMT -5 / 10:25 GMT -7 curl runs in over ten billion installations in the world, in virtually every connected device on the planet and is ported to more operating systems than most. In this presentation, curl’s lead developer Daniel Stenberg talks about how the curl project takes on testing, QA, CI and fuzzing etc, to make sure curl remains a stable, safe and secure component for everyone while still getting new features and getting developed further. By Daniel Stenberg — curl master at wolfSSL PostgreSQL: Joining Heterogeneous Databases is a reality, not a Myth
15:25 GMT-3 / 14:25 GMT -4 / 13:25 GMT -5 / 11:25 GMT -7 PostgreSQL provides a way to communicate with external data sources. This could be another PostgreSQL instance or any other database. The other database might be a Clickhouse, MySQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database like (MongoDB,Hadoop). To achieve this, PostgreSQL implements ISO Standard call SQL-MED By Ibrar Ahmed — Database Architect / PostgreSQL Consultant at Percona
Making VR More Interesting With React and Brain.js 16:25 GMT-3 / 15:25 GMT -4 / 14:25 GMT -5 / 12:25 GMT -7 You can start making VR apps right now with React. Once you have your VR app ready to go, you can go a step further and add Brain.js to use machine learning to make real-time updates to the UI and get insights on how users interact with your app. By Milecia McGregor — Developer Advocate | Conducto
Trust, but Verify: Maintaining Democracy In Spite of Информационные контрмеры 16:55 GMT-3 / 15:55 GMT -4 / 14:55 GMT -5 / 12:55 GMT -7 In this session, we’ll discuss how Russia has influenced worldwide elections using cyberwarfare and how countries have fought back. We’ll understand the natural asymmetry between how countries are able to respond, and how they have changed their approach since 2016. By Allie Mellen — Security Strategist, Office of the CSO at Cybereason
Unix: History and Memoir 17:55 GMT-3 / 16:55 GMT -4 / 15:55 GMT -5 / 13:55 GMT -7
In 50 years, the Unix operating system has gone from a tiny two-person experiment in a New Jersey attic to a multi-billion dollar industry whose products and services are an integral part of the world’s computing infrastructure. Along the way, there have been many changes, but a surprisingly large amount is in fact almost unchanged from when it started.
How did this come about? What are the good ideas in Unix that have been preserved and even spread? What are the good ideas that have fallen by the wayside? What are the not so good ideas that have prospered? And what might the future hold? As someone who was present at the creation (though certainly not responsible for it), I’ll present some humble but correct opinions on these and related topics.
By Brian Kernighan
Balancing fast-paced innovation and technical debt 15:55 GMT-3 / 14:55 GMT -4 / 13:55 GMT -5 / 11:55 GMT -7
In this talk Allan will tackle the topic of balancing the desires of engineering teams to build innovative products at a fast pace while at the same time avoiding building up an unhealthy amount of technical debt. Too much innovation and engineering teams can lose focus on their customer and product-market fit while too much technical debt can crush the strongest of engineering teams with continual firefighting. Achieving the right balance is a skill that engineering leaders need to work on continuously to have healthy and productive teams. Allan will share his techniques that have helped scale teams at Cisco, Zynga, ServiceNow, and Slack. By Allan Leinwand — SVP Engineering @ Slack
Saturday October 24:
Living organisms can't survive in their own waste products 10:45 GMT-3 / 9:45 GMT -4 / 8:45 GMT -5 / 6:45 GMT -7
Software is the most flexible idea in human history, but what we see in practice are mostly techniques that have not scaled well for many decades plus a mass of artifacts that could be compared to the «Pacific Gyre» of trillions of tons of plastic waste. What happened? Where did really good ideas come from, and how can we start having them again and be able to do something with them? By Alan Kay
How To Get On This Stage (And What To Do When You Get There) 14:25 GMT-3 / 13:25 GMT -4 / 12:25 GMT -5 / 10:25 GMT -7 Would you like to give a talk, but don’t know where to start? This talk will tell you why you should give a talk and how to go about it. I’ll cover submitting a proposal, writing your talk, preparing to speak and actually getting behind the lectern to thunderous applause! By Mark Smith — Senior Developer Advocate, MongoDB
Free and Open Source Software and Hardware for Your Career 17:05 GMT-3 / 16:05 GMT -4 / 15:05 GMT -5 / 13:05 GMT -7 Closed Source Proprietary Software is a mistake in time. Free and Open Source Software and Hardware have been in existence from the beginning of computers. It makes for faster development, a more competent workforce and teaches students three times, not just once. It enables computer sovereignty for a country and creates more local jobs (which pays for local food, local housing and local taxes). This talk explains these points based on my fifty year history in the computing field. You will beg me to tell you more. By Jon «maddog» Hall — Board Chair - Linux Professional Institute
How to register for the event
Go to https://nerdear.la/en/ and click “Get your Free tickets!” or go directly to: https://sysar.my/regnav .
This will redirect you to the tickets management platform Evenbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nerdearla-2020-20-al-24-de-octubre-registration-117880719405
Once in that platform, you have to click the green button “Inscribirse”, in the next step you can change the platform language (but some statistical questions from the event are going to be in spanish, but they are not mandatory).
Here you can change the platform language with the dropdown button at the bottom right:
On “Entrada Gratuita” (Free Ticket) select “1” from the dropdown button and then hit the orange button “Checkout”.
In the last step, the mandatory fields are the ones with the red star: General information for the ticket:
If you like, you can add a Pronoun and your Gender, it’s not mandatory (“Pronombre” and “Genero”) :
Country (“Pais”) it’s mandatory, if you are in Canada, or in any other country that it’s not in the list, please select “Otro”, and in the below field “Pais”, write it.
Example:
“Puesto / Area” is mandatory, and it would be the “area or rol” closer to what you do in the company.
“Contenido en inglés” it’s mandatory, and it's about if you can listen to content in english, please select: “Puedo entender charlas en inglés” (“I can understand talks in english”)
“Cómo te enteraste del evento” it’s mandatory, it means “How did you find out about the event”: (“Amigo/a o compañero/a de trabajo” it means “Friend or colleague from work”)
“Deseo recibir información de Sponsors” it’s mandatory and it means “I want to receive information from Sponsors”, the answers are “Dale!” (Sure!) and “No, gracias” (No, thank you).
And the last step it’s accepting the Code of Conduct, which goes:
------Through this code of conduct and coexistence we propose to establish the framework from which we lay the foundations of nerdear.la.
The main objective of the event is to create a collaborative exchange space where we can have fun, learn and share problems and knowledge.
We rely on diversity as a fundamental ethical principle of all exchange.
We join the efforts to retrace the paths of discrimination, exclusion and condemnation of minorities who suffered and suffer greater difficulty in freely exercising their full powers, capacities and potential with equal opportunities.
It is our spirit to foster an environment free from discrimination. We are aware of the multiple crossings that interfere with the achievement of this maximum objective, so we believe that it is our active work and that of the entire community to get involved in this challenge.
We hope that sponsors, speakers, organization and all the people who attend the event respect the following principles of participation and collaboration:
Maintain, at all times, a friendly and respectful dialogue that encourages the best possible version of the exchange. Respect diversity in all its forms: cultural, gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, age, professional, religious, ideological perspectives, etc. Not to discriminate, exclude, harass or carry out acts that in any way undermine the dignity of people. Take responsibility for the shared space by taking care of it. Refrain from presenting material, images or activities whose content may harm, diminish or objectify people or groups. In case you are seeing and / or experiencing that these principles are not being respected, contact the organization (during the event we will provide a phone number), who will guarantee the necessary care.
Faced with harassment, discrimination or aggression, they are expected to stop immediately. Depending on the case, we will proceed with the sanction, expulsion and / or revision of the permanence in future community events.
We hope to have the active cooperation of each participant to generate an enriching and virtuous exchange space that accompanies these policies to make nerdear.la a heterogeneous, multiple, friendly and inclusive meeting place.
We encourage your suggestions to create an increasingly supportive space.
This code of conduct was developed by DiG Encuentros and is available for use in free events, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. ------
Thanks for being part of this, and we hope to have all the processes in english next year!