Strike: the national IT conference in Ulyanovsk

In two weeks, April 13 and 14, in Ulyanovsk will be organized by the major IT companies of the city of conference "Strike!", which, in addition to the Ulyanovsk specialists, speakers from Skype, Mail.ru, Badoo, AVITO.ru Red Keds and other companies.

This will be the first event of its kind in Ulyanovsk, which has to lead the local IT community to a new level, and for the whole of Russia — will open the Ulyanovsk as one of the most promising centers of the Internet business of the country.

Why Ulyanovsk?

The birthplace of the leader of the revolution and UAZ has proven to be one of the most developed in terms of the IT cities of Russia. Here is a small portfolio of projects, which were born and developed in Ulyanovsk:

"Lifehacker" one of the most popular blogs Runet. Made by a company "the Buffer Bay".

Buy me a pie! popular iPhone application for some time occupied the first place in the ranking of app store. Now guys are actively moving abroad. The production of the Ulyanovsk company "the Script".

Ecwid, x-cart, liteCommerce — in the company of "Creative development" employs more than 130 people, their products are used in more than 180 countries around the world. On their platforms running hundreds of thousands of online stores. The company's founder, Ruslan Fazlyev, is considered to be one of the most successful Russian startups.

Echo — probably the largest erlang project (15 developers). Technical Director and co-founder of the company, Leo Valkin (http://lionet.info/), initiated the opening of the technology office in Ulyanovsk. The company was one of the first to attract to the Ulyanovsk the best engineers from Moscow and regions. Practice has shown that people are willing to leave their homes in favor of participation in interesting high-tech project. Quote from the abstract to the report: “How to satisfy customers making 50 thousand HTTP requests per second. We managed farm of 400 servers.”

CS-Cart — another popular e-commerce solution company "Simbirsk technologies". General in Ulyanovsk, a lot of companies making similar decisions, many of which are quite popular.

Companies such as simbirsoft.com actively participate in staff training, teaching in universities, conducting courses, internships. In addition, in Ulyanovsk there is even a learning Center IT-professionals itc73.ru.

The last time Moscow companies and startups have begun to open branches in Ulyanovsk, among them netstream.ru, RBC Hosting-center, undev.ru, tulp.ru. The last two came here thanks to the efforts of the company "Kaizen", which manages abrowser Cyril toxicmt Makinen — as he himself modestly remarks, it is with them in Ulyanovsk started the era of mass rails development.

Last summer, in the Ulyanovsk started the movement ULCAMP::Dev, which began with an informal gathering of it people on the Volga river.


ULCamp: how it was

Since the meeting it people within this movement have become regular, but conferences of scale "Strike". We can say, overdue.

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The organizers of the "Strike" was made by seven of the Ulyanovsk companies: ITM, simtech, Kaizen, MST, itc73.ru, PLATYDEMA and interra. Sponsors of the conference badoo.com, undev.ru and Echo, the General sponsor — Skype.
Reports will go to three streams. In the great hall there will be a section "Development", which is known to the developers of the Runet (and not only) will share their rich experience. The organizers tried to make the section "development" was interesting as a wider range of web developers. The languages which are speak: ruby, php, erlang, javascript and others

Roman Pavlushko (AVITO.ru). Loaded search to sphinx.
Maxim Lapshin (erlyvideo). The use of erlang in videostreaming server.
Leo Valkin (echo). Yin and Yang scale.
Alexander Titov (Skype). Engineering Zen. Continuous change (about the chef and devopts).
Alexey Rybak (Badoo). The architecture of badoo.
Alexey Palazhchenko (Skype). NoSQL under load: practice.
Alex Mahotkin (undev.ru). Multi-blitz. In the "seven and a half minute report," we talk about focused on the incompleteness of Turing and the monitoring requirements, Timlin and pagination as content decisions, on
classification of nosql solutions, as well as on the analysis of the functionality of the bug-trackers from the point of view of modal verbs.
Gleb Pomykalov (Skype). About the scrum, with an introduction about lean manufacturing and the General approach to management.
Konstantin Osipov (Mail.ru). Tarantool/Box 1.5: optimize performance NoSQL database.

In the other two rooms there will be sections dedicated to advertising and promotion, start-UPS and innovations in the Internet. For details, see the program of the event: nastachku.ru/program.html-ru

Participation in the conference is free, but let will be only on the list of registered participants :) So sign up on the website without delay. At the moment we have more than 500 registrations.

pioneer all the guys example

Moscow is not always visible, but real in Russia for several strong and promising IT centers: Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, St. Petersburg, Ulyanovsk — certainly the list goes on. Talented people, low cost of living and broadband Internet doing your thing :)

I hope that the example of colleagues from Ulyanovsk inspire the IT community, other cities to actively organize themselves and to Express themselves throughout the country and beyond. All on strike, comrades!

Article based on information from habrahabr.ru