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After last year's Scaling with PHP in the cloud, HasGeek is organizing Rootconf, an annual conference for sysadmins, devops, and BOFHs to share experience and knowledge, to teach, learn, and hangout with friends and colleagues. Rootconf will be held on May 26th, 2012, at Dharamaram College, Bangalore.
If you're a Sysadmin, come over, share your experience, and crack a joke about Perl.
Have a lot of servers? How do you manage your herd? Share and learn the tricks of configuration management with your fellow server cowboys/girls. Talk about your organization!
Dealing with a high-traffic operations and your server is not performing as well as expected? Do you know how to squeeze the last inch of performance out of your server? This track will focus on showing you how!
Securing access to your server can be a daunting task. Come and talk about how you do it.
Do you run your own cloud? Do you use virtualization? We'd love to hear about it!
How do you get to know of fires? How do you use the various packages around? Share your monitoring methods and learn new ones from others.
Flipkart.com, India's largest e-commerce brand for physical goods, started with books in 2007, and entered the consumer electronics category with the launch of mobile phones, in September 2010.
Since then, it has grown rapidly with the introduction of innovative features like Cash on Delivery (CoD), 30 day replacement guarantee and its own delivery network. Today, the portfolio is spread across 12 categories - from books to music, mobiles, computers, cameras, home and kitchen appliances, TV and home theatre systems, personal and healthcare products, stationery items and lifestyle products like perfumes, watches and health and beauty products. In addition to these, Flipkart has also made a foray into the emerging digital content market with the recent launch of Flyte, the digital music store.
Flipkart is rapidly expanding its network of warehouses, distribution centers, procurement operations and 24/7 customer support teams. The company has its own delivery network in 37 cities and is set to expand this in the current financial year. With a team of around 4,800 members, the company operates from offices and warehouses in seven Indian cities.
Media.net is a leading global contextual advertising company that provides a wide range of advertising and traffic monetization solutions to a substantial and diversified client base. With more than 400 employees across 3 continents, Media.net has one of the largest teams worldwide building a global contextual advertising business.
Directi develops game-changing Web 2.0 Products using myriad technologies, diverse platforms and latest application paradigms. Our products are used by millions of users from over 200 countries. Directi businesses rank amongst the fastest growing businesses worldwide in their corresponding industry segments.
The combined product portfolio of various Directi businesses include communication and collaboration apps, context analysis engines, Large scale billing and provisioning platforms, traffic monetization solutions, DNS management products, Linux and windows server management software and much more.
These are "internet-scale" solutions for the core components of the global web and they deal with millions of domains, billions of DNS and HTTP requests on a daily basis.
Low latency cloud hosting in India
E2E Networks Private Limited is India's first homegrown cloud computing hosting venture. An exciting blend of cutting-edge technology, world class talent, highly skilled managed services and a commitment to bringing low latency hosting at a reasonable price. E2E is one of India's fastest growing hosting companies, with a number of industry-leading customers in its portfolio. E2E works for both small custom testbeds for web applications still in development or multi-location, multi-terabyte, multi-gigabit deployments for some of the busiest Indian web verticals.
E2E hosts HasGeek's websites, including this website.
Christ University Campus, Bangalore
Rootconf is set in Dharmaram College's beautiful, tree-filled campus (nothing like the back-to-college feeling).
To get there, enter Christ University’s main entrance gate on Marigowda Road and drive straight down to Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, within the campus. Christ University is at Dairy Circle, half a kilometre from the Forum mall. Rootconf is in DVK's Theology block, behind the main auditorium. If you are approaching from Dairy Circle, drive up to Hosur Road for a U-turn. The campus has sufficient parking space.
HasGeek is a developer-led initiative, and has been un-organising the unconference scene since 2010. HasGeek is an attempt to solve the problem of insipid conferences organised around buzzwords by uninterested, soulless corporate entities who pitch them as company training events or as places for companies to pick up hot developers.
We are attempting to build a new space, a space that is genuinely respectful of the communities and topics that we choose to engage with. We want to be a space for developers who are as excited as us about technology and the possibilities that it creates, not to be a recruitment fair (though we hope you do find partnership possibilities at our events).
We are community-driven – check out our speaker-selection funnel, where you decide what talks to listen to by voting up or down – and small – there are just a handful of us running the show. We are doing this because this is what we love: bringing a whole bunch of us geeks together, sharing our interests and expertise and hanging out later over beverage of choice.