Tech Internals Conf is a 2-day professional conference for developers of high load systems, for everyone involved in the creation of large-scale complex projects.

In short, Tech Internals Conf is about hardcore software engineering.

It is about technologies. A deep and thorough look into the internals of technological components, predominantly having software engineering focus, of how those components in fact operate and interwork with other components.

It is about technologies that can be used to build systems. Technology for the sake of technology makes little practical sense, and the overall complexities tend to lie in the intersections of different technological components, and not necessarily within isolated ones. Systems build out of components, but the whole is always greater than its parts, and it takes quite a lot more than just knowing the components themselves to build a system.

It is about stories of technologies that were used to build large scale and highload systems. TIC focuses on reflections back onto what has been done with fascinating technological components and systems built out of them. It is about large scale, highly loaded real world systems that we might use daily and take for granted without any consideration paid to the complexities that lie beneath. It is not about what could be done in theory, it is about what has been achieved and the pains and lessons learnt.

We focus on the following topics:

Architecture: The end-to-end vision of products and services, and on a lower level an end-to-end view into the systems that produce and provide those products and services.

#System Architecture & Scalability #Databases, Storage Systems, Big Data #Queues & Data Streams #Software Architecture & Design patterns #Microservices 

Development: What it took to build a system or a component, with a detailed glimpse into internals of some particular technology area or some component.

#Software Engineering #Best Coding Practices & Writing Maintainable Code #Machine Learning & Neural Networks #Video & Video Streaming #Quality Assurance & Testing 

Infrastructure: Underlying hardware and software components behind a system running.

#System Administration #Hardware Performance Optimization #Clouds & Data centers #Networks, Internet, Connectivity #Internet of Things 

Operation: What does it take to run a service? How could one spoil the brilliant product with a faulty operational practice? Or how could one sleep calmly at night while a fleet of systems keeps running flawlessly?

#SRE & DevOps #Security & DevSecOps #Platform Engineering #Observability #Stress testing 

System design: How were some systems or components built, why were design decisions made in a particular way, and what other options were considered and ultimately rejected? Success and failure stories of how some system-level components were designed.

#Component Design and Sub-System Design #Performance Engineering #Low Level Programming #Managing Dependencies in Code 

Where? In Berlin, Germany. 

Timeline

• CFP is open until November 1, 2024. 
• Acceptance notifications will be sent out by November 19, 2024.
• Speakers are expected to arrive in Berlin on February 25, 2025. 
• The conference will take place on February 26 and 27, 2025.

If you have any questions, please contact us at mariam@ontico.pro