Vaidik Kapoor
Engineering Leader
Self Employed
location_on India
Member since 3 years
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Vaidik Kapoor
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Vaidik is an experienced engineering leader with a focus on building products, infrastructure and high-performance organizations. He has a deep interest in DevOps, SRE, cloud-native technologies, software architecture and technology leadership as a craft. He helps startups in India rethink their approach to software delivery, operations, architecture, DevOps and technology leadership. Prior to this, he worked at Blinkit (formerly Grofers) as VP Engineering (DevOps & Security).
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Pragmatic DevOps
45 Mins
Case Study
Executive
"Universal law is for lackeys. Context is for kings." The best practices are the ones that make sense for you. Embracing DevOps culture is not a binary decision. This thinking often leads to inaction. Should we use distributed tracing? Should there be 100% unit test coverage? Should we use Infrastructure-As-Code? We should when the right time comes.
In this session, we will explore what DevOps practices make sense for companies at different stages operating in different industries, DevOps maturity models, and the role of platform engineering. We will also see how a maturity model was deployed at Blinkit to help teams areas of focus for DevOps maturity.
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Continuously deploying a distributed monolith
45 Mins
Case Study
Beginner
Microservices are not easy. We start with hopes of independent scaling, better resource utilisation, independent teams working on individual services. But if not carefully handled, we often end up (sometimes not even realising) with a complex distributed monolith that requires complex and error prone orchestration everyday, eventually slowing us down like an elephant.
This talk is about our journey of infrequent painful deployments of our distributed monolith to almost 10 deployments everyday, our CI/CD strategy that enabled us to get to that state and where we are now in our journey of rearchitecting our microservices.
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Learnings From Two Years of Kubernetes in Production
20 Mins
Talk
Advanced
Almost two years back, we took the decision to leave behind our Ansible based configuration management setup for deploying applications on EC2 and move towards containerisation and orchestration of applications using Kubernetes. We have migrated most of our infrastructure to Kubernetes. It was a big undertaking and had its own challenges — from technical challenges of running a hybrid infrastructure until most of the migration was done to organizational challenges such as training the entire team on a completely new paradigm of operations.
This talk is our experience report of adopting Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies, the challenges that came our way, dealing with complexity of legacy, delivering a great developer platform and the way forward for us.
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Scaling Security
45 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
DevOps helps you speed up delivery while not compromising on quality and service levels. It brings devs and ops together to collaboratively work on organization goals but innovation and stability. However, what happens to security in all this? How do you speed up security in your delivery process without compromising it? How do you scale security? Can we ensure security while not compromise speed?
In this talk, we will talk about some practical lessons we learned while designing security systems and processes at Grofers to ensure scaling of security practices and culture while scaling up our teams, systems and business.
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