nginx.conf Preview 1: NGINX Speakers
nginx.conf 2016 is only two months away! The early bird rate is still available for a limited time, so sign up today.
On Wednesday, September 7th and Thursday, September 8th, you’ll enjoy conference sessions and exhibitor booths. The NGINX booth will be staffed by key NGINXers, including developers from our Moscow office!
On Friday, September 9th, we’ll offer training in two tracks:
- First track: Fundamental installation and configuration of NGINX and NGINX Plus in the morning; Advanced in the afternoon.
- Second track: Introducing the NGINX Microservices Reference Architecture.
In this post, we’ll introduce you to the NGINX speakers giving talks at nginx.conf this year. Speakers from partner companies, customers, and friends of NGINX will be featured in our upcoming posts:
- nginx.conf Preview Post 1: NGINX speakers (this post)
- nginx.conf Preview Post 2: Introductory topics (coming up)
- nginx.conf Preview Post 3: API-related talks (coming up)
- nginx.conf Preview Post 4: Late adds and related information (coming up)
Here are the NGINX speaker highlights – subject to updates, of course;
- Day 1: Wednesday, September 7th – Keynotes from CEO Gus Robertson and Head of Products Owen Garrett, focusing on recent, new, and upcoming features for NGINX and NGINX Plus. Hear NGINX developers – Konstantin Pavlov on load balancing and SSL/TLS, Valentin Bartenev with new information on HTTP/2, and Maxim Dounin discussing dynamic modules. NGINX Co-Founder Andrew Alexeev will have the first in-depth public presentation on NGINX Amplify, now in public beta.
- Day 2: Thursday, September 8th – Pre-Sales Manager Rick Nelson discusses load balancing in a Docker Swarm cluster; A/B testing will be explored with Head of Frontend Development Ivan Poluyanov; and pre-sales engineers Damian Curry and Kunal Pariani will discuss the use of Chef for autoscaling and microservices implementation in a Docker-based environment, respectively.
- Day 3: Friday, September 9th – NGINX trainer extraordinaire will lead NGINX Fundamentals training in the morning and NGINX Advanced in the afternoon. In the other track, NGINX Chief Architect Chris Stetson will offer training in the NGINX Microservices Reference Architecture. In hands-on labs, attendees will learn how to create an NGINX proxy to a microservices application and load balance traffic using the Fabric and Router Mesh models.
The next post in this series will talk about the introductory sessions being offered by NGINX partners, customers, and industry experts at nginx.conf 2016. Also, don’t forget to look for our upcoming blog posts about introductory topics, API-related sessions, and late adds to the conference calendar. Use your early bird discount now!
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