DevOps

Presenters Abhishek Varshney Source Gophercon India 2025 Scaling Database Maintenance with Go: A Tale of Hundreds of Databases 🚀 Hey Gophers! 👋 Ever wrestled with database maintenance? It’s a necessary evil, but can quickly become a massive headache, especially when dealing with a microservices architecture. That’s what Abhishek, Software Architect at Cred, explored at GopherCon, and we’re breaking down the journey to a more scalable and less painful process. The Challenge: Database Maintenance at Scale 💾 Cred, a leading payments platform in India, processes a huge volume of transactions – over one-third of all credit card bill payments in India! This is powered by a sprawling network of over 800 microservices and 150+ databases. Imagine the complexity of maintaining all of that! ...

Presenters Yash Mehrotra Source Gophercon India 2025 🚀 Unleashing AI Assistants: A Deep Dive into Model Control Planes (MCP) 🤖 The world of AI is evolving at breakneck speed, and a fascinating new technology called Model Control Planes (MCP) is poised to reshape how we interact with systems and leverage the power of Large Language Models (LLMs). This presentation provided a compelling look at MCP, its potential, and the crucial considerations for responsible implementation. Let’s break down what you need to know! ...

Presenters Alex Rios Source Gophercon India 2025 🚀 United We Compile: Zig vs. Go Cross-Compilation – A Developer’s Dream? Cross-compilation – the ability to build software for different operating systems and architectures – is a cornerstone of modern development. But let’s be honest, it can often feel more like a frustrating puzzle than a streamlined process. If you’re a Go developer, you know this struggle firsthand. But what if there was a better way? That’s what Alex, a senior staff engineer with a fintech background, explored in a fascinating presentation on cross-compilation, focusing on Zig as a compelling alternative to Go’s traditional approach. Let’s dive in! ...

Presenters Suhail Patel Source InfoQ podcast Level Up Your Career: From Individual Contributor to Engineering Leader 🚀💡👨‍💻 So, you’re a rockstar engineer. You write clean code, solve complex problems, and consistently deliver results. But you feel the pull towards something more – a desire to influence, mentor, and shape the direction of your team and organization. You’re thinking about the move from being a top-tier individual contributor to a leadership role (think Staff or Principal Engineer). But what does that really mean? ...

Presenters Steve Pereira Andrew Davis Source GOTO podcast Flow Engineering: Bridging the Gap in a Rapidly Changing Tech Landscape 🚀💡👨‍💻🤖🦾🌐🛠️👾🎯✨💾📡 This segment from a recent tech conference presentation explores the core principles of flow engineering and its increasing relevance in a world rapidly transforming with AI-powered tools. The speakers, described as “DevOps natives,” emphasize the importance of shared understanding, visual collaboration, and building trust within teams – principles that remain crucial even as AI reshapes software development. ...