IT Marathon

It’s Time to #> exec “IT_Marathon"

 

Join our week-long webinar series on Digital Engineering tech trends to uncover something new each day. Every day this week, you will get the unique chance to listen to one of our experts talking about IT trends. This is a rare opportunity to learn from masters in their respective fields!

 

Also don’t miss the chance to win a gift from us! During each webinar, a special word will be put on the last slide of each presentation. The person who combines the correct words from each seminar to build a phrase will get a snazzy t-shirt. Send this phrase to employer_branding@luxoft.com.

 

Don’t miss this marathon and register now!

Agenda:

When:

May 11-16

About The Speakers:

Vlad Kotliarenko

Vlad is a seasoned back-end developer with over 15 years in IT and 5 years of experience with Golang. Vlad has experience with other languages such as Java, C++, PHP, and TS. Currently, he is working with microservices, high-load, and IoT services.

Denys Zamiatin

Denys Zamiatin Ph. D. has more than 20 years of experience in software development, over 10 of which he has spent on training delivering. His main area of interest is in developing distributed systems for data science and machine learning.


Monday, May 11

Topic:
Software Maintenance in Agile Environments – Sharing Best Practices and Lessons Learned


Speaker:
Mihai-Alexandru Petrovici


 

Agenda: Very often, Software Maintenance is associated with fixing bugs, but there is much more behind it. This presentation offers an overview about what software maintenance means, and it provides a series of principles and best practices that should be followed in Agile environments. In order to prove the efficiency of these methods, Mihai-Alexandru will provide a set of metrics in order to measure their success.

 


Tuesday, May 12

Topic:
GeoHash & Go


Speaker:
Guillermo Estrada


 

Agenda: Spatial indexing can be challenging, especially when tools don’t match needs. GeoHash is a clever, simple and elegant spatial index algorithm that enables reliable proximity search capabilities while still leveraging any database tools at hand. This presentation will cover the algorithm and how to implement it. After a brief introduction to the Go programming language, there will be a demonstration of Go implementation for the algorithm, a sample server, and a demo of the technology at work.

 

Wednesday, May 13

Topic:
Overview of Data Storage Solutions in Azure


Speaker:
Wojciech Jakubowski


 

Agenda: Azure cloud is becoming more and more popular. It comes with a vast amount of compute and storage offerings. During this session, Wojciech will walk through the most common platform-as-a-service storage offerings in Azure (SQL Databases, CosmosDB, Storage Accounts, Data Lake, etc.). He will discuss their unique features, pros, cons, and typical use cases. This is an architecture-oriented session, and the focus will be more on concepts and capabilities rather than code base and lower level details.

 

Thursday, May 14

Topic:
The Media Industry: Big Data in Sport


Speaker:
Artem Butrii


 

Agenda: This webinar will cover the creation of a sport data warehouse platform for the Olympic channel. It will discuss the business case, what technologies were leveraged, and what challenges were encountered. This is a big data solution comprised of cluster-computing for real-time datafeeds from various upstreams. The project's vision is to become the definitive reference for accurate athlete data, historical results and biographies. It acts as a trusted partner that shares sport data to improve exposure and engagement. It offers the opportunity to digitize sport-data-related processes across the entire Olympic Movement.

 

Friday, May 15

Topic:
What’s the KOST of your Stack?


Speaker:
Ivan Stepnikov


 

Agenda: The presentation contains overview of the KOST (Kubernetes, Operator, Spark, TiDB) infrastructure pattern. The stack of open source technologies is applicable for public, private and hybrid clouds and allows users to have all components at scale.

 

Saturday, May 16

Topic:
Digital Twins: Past, Present, and Future


Speaker:
Andre Podnozov


 

Agenda: Although not a new concept, Digital Twins have gained increased popularity this year, and it’s expected that Digital Twins will play a key role in many scenarios going forward. This talk will discuss what the term means, its origins and history, its evolution to present day, and why Digital Twins is the alpha star in the constellation of other exponential technology, including AI, IoT, AR/VR, etc.

 


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