Evrone has an workplace within the metropolis of Voronezh, Russia, together with many different IT firms. However, there was no large skilled IT convention held in Voronezh. We determined to repair this with ITea Conf, an occasion the place you possibly can study, share experience, and interact in networking.
The unique plan
ITea Conf was organized by Evrone, DataArt, DSR Company, Quantori, and the BeerJS fanatic group. We determined to make a multi-stream convention about totally different applied sciences, so that each IT specialist would discover one thing fascinating there. For the frontend and backend streams, we mentioned Python, Ruby, Rust, Java, Go, Node.js, and .NET.
We initially deliberate to carry the convention offline on October thirty first, the day of Halloween. In accordance with the plan, we’d hearken to experiences and interact in networking in the course of the day, and within the night, we’d have a good time All Saints’ Day with drinks. However immediately, a brand new lockdown was introduced.
Going surfing
We determined to not cancel the occasion, however to maneuver it on-line. Evrone has expertise in internet hosting giant skilled on-line conferences. We held Ruby Russia 2021 in September, setting a brand new commonplace for on-line occasions. You’ll be able to examine it right here.
Each for Ruby Russia and for small weekly meetups, we file experiences prematurely within the studio. That is our know-how, which is very appreciated by audiences. These experiences are nice to look at, as we shoot them in HD high quality in a good looking studio with an fascinating background and good sound. At our occasions, there aren’t any issues with communication — everybody can see and listen to the audio system equally properly.
For audio system, this format additionally has a number of benefits. All unsuccessful takes could be re-recorded, and there’s no want to fret that, within the midst of a speech, a cat will come into the body or the door will open. We organically embed all slides and illustrations into the video, in order that the report is informative and full.
For ITea Conf, we needed to urgently arrange two taking pictures days in Moscow and Voronezh, so that every one the audio system may come and file in a metropolis handy for them. We had been fortunate that all of them agreed to talk on-line. For a lot of the audio system, this was their first expertise in studio filming, however everybody was more than happy with the method and the outcomes.
We carried out a stay Q&A session after every of the speeches, the place the stream moderator and the speaker answered customers’ questions from the chat and mentioned associated applied sciences.
This system
In whole, this system included 19 experiences, which we divided into two streams: frontend and backend. Under, we’ll let you know extra about a number of of them.
Evgeny Raschepkin, from Evrone, offered an prolonged model of his discuss from Ruby Russia. Because of the strict timing of the final convention, loads of fascinating issues needed to be minimize out of his report, so at ITea Conf, he gave a “director’s minimize” model of the report, returning all the pieces that was omitted. Evgeny talked in regards to the work of recent Ruby functions beneath load, in regards to the ractors and fibers that appeared in Ruby 3.0, and what, from an architectural perspective, the “matryoshka of concurrency” now appears like.
One of many important representatives of the Russian Ruby group, Vladimir Dementyev, from Evil Martians, spoke about Ruby in 2021. Along with variations from different well-liked stacks, resembling Python, PHP, Java, and C #, he touched on the way forward for Rails, particularly the anticipated Hotwire, which may revolutionize full-stack growth. Vladimir themed the report, which was initially ready for a stay efficiency, within the model of Halloween.
Andrey Tikhonov, from Quantori, ready a very in-depth report on the internals of the Python interpreter, and how one can optimize the code by manipulating its intermediate illustration, summary syntactic tree, and bytecode. It is a means of fixing quite particular issues, however in the course of the dialogue, the contributors decided different conditions through which this method can be helpful.
Artyom Innokentiev, from Evrone, repeated his discuss from PyCon, the place he took fourth place within the rating of one of the best performances. Reviews from PyCon usually are not publicly accessible, however now you possibly can watch it in studio high quality instantly on YouTube. Learn extra in regards to the discuss and our presence at Pycon right here. Different audio system mentioned the report within the feedback, and sample matching grew to become a brand new and thrilling subject for a lot of.
Nikita Sobolev is an actual star of the Python group. He’s considered one of three Russians who’ve been awarded the GitHub Star for his or her contributions to open-source. Nikita talked about sort lessons which can be hardly ever carried out on the syntax stage, however with the assistance of frameworks and libraries, they can be utilized virtually wherever. The report turned out to be big and took virtually all the allotted time, and Nikita needed to reply customers’ questions in writing within the chat.
Andrey Melikhov talked about lambdas. They’re used for breaking apart your code into very small items, in truth, capabilities. They are often uploaded to the cloud, the place they run independently of one another — in parallel and in giant portions. Beforehand, the method was used for level optimization, as an alternative choice to rewriting in Rust, however Rust ran by itself servers. And lambdas could be run in paid clouds, which can mean you can simply and cheaply survive the height load. Andrey recommended constructing functions totally on lambdas as a backend growth instrument, and even confirmed a number of examples of such a fancy structure. Within the feedback, the subject induced an actual storm, and the dialogue was very fascinating.
Kirill Vershansky was answerable for the scientific a part of the convention, giving a presentation on context-sensitive topologies, utilizing JavaScript for instance. The lecture was theoretical however completely complemented the practically-oriented program. The Q&A session turned out to be fascinating. The stream moderator, Grigory Petrov, was on the Merge offline convention in Innopolis. And, because it turned out, Kirill was additionally there, so he answered questions from the studio in Innopolis, sitting subsequent to Grigory. Sadly, this was the one offline episode of ITea Conf.
The end result
Regardless of the switch of the convention on-line, it attracted lots of people — 1,869 registered customers. That is a tremendous end result for what was initially supposed to be a regional convention. We famous that a lot of the viewers got here to see particular experiences, and it is a frequent observe for multi-tech conferences.
The organizers didn’t go away the contributors with out leisure. Evrone invited company to recall pre-covid travels, and DataArt — the occasions of Frank Herbert’s “Dune”. Friends of DSR Company and Quantori competed within the data {of professional} memes and biohacking. And all the winners obtained superior prizes.
What’s subsequent?
We plan to make ITea Conf a daily prevalence and are able to announce the following occasion. In Could 2022, we’ll collect in Voronezh for the ITea Fest. For the competition, we’ll put together loads of leisure and networking websites, in addition to new codecs for performances. In fact, we count on to carry it offline in Voronezh. Comply with our updates for extra info!
