XConf India 2024
as the organisers put it
The most anticipated tech conference of the year is here! XConf, an event for technologists by technologists, is coming to Bangalore. Register now!
who it's for
platform engineers, site reliability engineers, data engineers, machine learning engineers, embedded engineers, developer experience leads, compliance engineers
topics
XR headset tooling; AI-to-3D model pipelines; continuous compliance pipelines (Sphinx + rst); containerised embedded workflows (Docker + snapcraft); observability at scale (Prometheus/Grafana/Thanos); canonical logs and trace metrics; on-device LLMs and quantization; retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines; distributed SQL with Raft ranges (CockroachDB); Backstage developer portals and templates; Parquet/Avro data products and governance; Mistral 7B fine-tuning with LoRA
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Is XR the Next Big Thing? Immersion, Collaboration, and More! | Rathlavath Sindhu, Neelarghya Mandal | 29m |
Claims that XR slows after a funding dip but revives when paired with AI, with specific prototypes and tools to prove it: a testing rig called arum testing… | ||
| Continuous Compliance: Agile Practices for Software Compliance | Vignesh Radhakrishnan | 27m |
An accelerator that turns ISO 26262 / Automotive SPICE evidence into code-near artifacts by extracting rst docstrings and PlantUML, running Sphinx + rst… | ||
| Unlock Embedded Excellence: Reliability Secrets Revealed! | Parth Purvesh, Ranjan Sharma | 33m |
Describes a programmatic move to product-first embedded engineering: containerized dev with Docker and packaged releases via snapcraft, CI that runs valgrind… | ||
| 8 technology trends shaping software development | Vanya Seth, Bharani Subramaniam | 51m |
Eight trends with practical tools and numbers: an open‑source Haven team assistance portal ships as a single container to codify prompts across… | ||
| GenAI in Financial Services: How Indian Businesses are Leading the Way | Kiran Jagannath, Satinder Singh | 37m |
AWS says India handles 49% of global real‑time payments and describes moving legacy cores to scale, citing HDFC’s pixel card and Payap wallet running on AWS… | ||
| The Surprising Ways Stargazing Shapes Our World – Astronomy's Tech Impact | Annapurni Subramaniam | 31m |
Astronomy claims concrete tech outcomes: neural networks in 1992–93 are used for spectral classification, CCD development from astronomy becomes the basis of… | ||
| Scaling Observability: From Chaos to Clarity with Open Source Tools | Krishnaswamy Subramanian, Shakir Shakiel | 41m |
Observability traces jump from ~1GB to ~100GB in a month and later to ~1.5TB/day, breaking an Elasticsearch+Jaeger stack tested to 30k spans/s but failing at… | ||
| Navigating Distributed Databases: Challenges & Opportunities | Tejas Baldev, Isaac Wong, Bharani Subramaniam | 24m |
CockroachDB claims Postgres-compatible SQL on a distributed key‑value core, using Raft ranges to give a single-node illusion while allowing multi-primary… | ||
| DevEx on Steroids: 🚀 5 Hacks to SUPERCHARGE Developer Experience | Pramida Tumma, Shantanu Jain | 24m |
Five techniques for scaling DevEx: adopt a user-first mindset, make features self-service (templates, pipelines, approvals only when needed), measure… | ||
| Can AI solve the biggest problem in drug discovery? Time! | Sarang Sanjay Kulkarni | 35m |
Bayer and Thoughtworks build an AI‑powered Preclinical Information Center using Generative AI and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to turn 50 years of… | ||
| Aalap: An AI Assistant Transforming Legal Functions in India | Pratamesh Karankar | 35m |
Aalap is an AI assistant built from scratch for Indian legal workflows, fine tuned on tens of thousands of labeled Q&A and IRAC-style examples, using Mistral… | ||
| Data as a Product: Transforming Analytics for Business Success | Ram G Suri, Neeraj Bholani | 22m |
Claim: treat domain datasets as versioned outputs so four source data products (orders, products, clickstream, product-info) feed aggregated analytics products… | ||
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