{"id":480,"date":"2019-10-21T20:46:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T17:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amorev.ru\/?p=480"},"modified":"2019-10-28T17:40:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T14:40:46","slug":"conference-stachka-innopolis-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amorev.ru\/en\/conference-stachka-innopolis-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Stachka in Kazan, Innopolis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Once upon a time, when I started my path as a web developer, I heard about various conferences such as HighLoad++, RITFest, Stachka, etc. I really wanted to get to these conferences just as a participant and my wish came true and I got to these first 3 conferences as a speaker right away. This time I will talk about my trip to the \"Stachka\" in Innopolis. This post is a trip story rather than a review of a specific conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Departure from Moscow<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Starting my\njourney to Kazan, I was in anticipation of something large-scale. Chat of the\nStachka\u2019s speakers totaled 200 people, which indicated the scale of the event!\nMoreover, the chat was truly lively - it was seen that the speakers were met\nfrom airplanes or trains and transported to hotels. Good coordinated work was\nvisible!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arriving at\nKazan-2, volunteers kindly met me and put me in a taxi to Innopolis. The taxi\ndriver himself did not know that there was such a city, but, fortunately, his\nphone built the right route:) The road to Innopolis took about 40 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Having settled on\nthe campus, first of all, I was glad for the local students because they have\ngreat living conditions. The Innopolis campus in the rooms has its own shower,\ntoilet, kitchen with stove and refrigerator. The size of the room for two\npeople is 2 times larger than a room in the MIPT dorm for four people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the way to the Stachka itself, I took a little walk and explored a part of the city. Everything is very new and outwardly attractive, which cannot but rejoice. Also, on the first day I talked a lot with local students and received only positive feedback about this place: you need to study seriously to stay here, and this at least somehow speaks of the level of education here. The studying itself is entirely in English - I even looked at a couple of definitions of discrete mathematics or mathematical analysis in English and realized that I would have had a hard time here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Queues on the entrance<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

At the entrance to the university itself, the first thing I met was a crowd of people to register. I understand perfectly that registering several thousand people quickly and easily is almost impossible, but the traffic jam at the entrance was notable. It was good for the speakers that there was a separate small queue \u2013 there were \u201conly\u201d 200 speakers. There is a special admiration for the number of speakers \u2014 everyone needs to be met, settled in the hostel, made sure that they woke up and came to the hall. Phenomenally great work, especially with such number of speakers. Personally, I am very pleased with how volunteers and organizers dealt with me. Thank you so much for that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexandr Makarov talking about Opensource<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Traditionally had met with Sasha Makarov (http:\/\/twitter.com\/sam_dark<\/a>), we listened to a talk about remote work. After that we went to fill our stomachs with wonderful food. However, there was a line again, even despite the fact that there were 3 cafeterias, the line still was long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After eating we\nwent to the attraction, which I really wanted to see - an unmanned taxi.\nTouching this personally and taking a ride as a passenger, I realized that the\nfuture is very close. The car rides better than most drivers with whom I have\ndriven. At the same time, right on the screen you can see how the car \"thinking\"\nand constantly builds possible routes to avoid obstacles. Also, all pedestrians\nare visible on the map, even behind glass crossings. It is very entertaining\nand interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Taking pictures\ninside the car was forbidden, but it was possible outside. Therefore, I have\nonly one photo before I got into it as a passenger. But from my own experience\nI say - it really goes by itself - turns the steering wheel, turns on turn\nsignals and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, Stachka\ndid not organize a video recording of the reports, but I decided to take the\ninitiative into my own hands and tried to make a simple recording of the\nreports interesting to me by myself. I began with a report by Sasha Makarov\nabout the features of the development of Opensource. Unfortunately, at that\ntime, I was not given direct access to the recording sound and I had to record\nsound from the phone. It\u2019s not very good, but you can make out what they say.\nThe next report that I recorded was a report by Andrei Aksyonov (Sphinx\ndeveloper) under the name \"write carectly\" (\u201c\u043f\u0438\u0448\u0438 \u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u0430\u201d). That is, recommendations for how to write code\ncorrectly. The report was humorous and the speaker used profanity sometimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The main building Innopolis University<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Andrey\u2019s report\nwas the last one on the first day, and then I went to the race on scooters. I\nwas very interested in the idea itself - a race on scooters and its\nimplementation in the form of a track on the territory of university dorms. As\na result, I took 4th place there and received a T-shirt as a prize \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organizers\narranged afterparty on the first day of the conference and invited Nike Borzov\nto speak. As for the afterparty, I had only positive impressions. They say that\nthere was not enough alcohol, but for me it was not a problem. After the\nconcert, I went to my room to rehearse my report and supplement it, if\nnecessary, with a couple of slides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After I woke up\nand got dressed, I went to the university to listen to smart people and enjoy\nthe atmosphere. Right before my talk was a very interesting talk by Alexey\nMilovidov (Clickhouse developer) about the development of data structures.\nAfter listening to him, I prepared everything for recording my report. Then it\nwas my turn and I began my presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I give myself\nfeedback on my report, then I would say that I read it again too quickly. So\nfast, that 90 slides were clicked in 30 minutes (on the run it took 50\nminutes). Plus, the content turned out to be very fragmented. Let me remind you\nthat I talked about the transition from PHP to GoLang in real projects. So \u2013 firstly,\nI started talking about the general differences of the concepts of the languages\nand the ways of working with them, then I plunged into the details of working\nwith arrays and analysis of the technical features of a particular language\u2026\nAnd then back again to the general details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moreover, these\nsame \"details\" would become a separate report about \"GoLang\npitfalls for beginners,\" but, at the moment, there were not enough\ninformation for a whole report. Perhaps someday, I will gain strength and write\nan article on this subject on Habr. In the section of answers and questions, I\nscrewed up and said that we use the Koa framework on GoLang when it is a JS\nframework. I even, for a second, was overcome by a feeling of shame due to the\nfact that I misspoke that way. But it happens to everyone \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After completing\nthe Q&A session, having talked with my listeners, I went to prepare for the\ntrip back home, as the train was in 4 hours. Throughout our stay in the speaker\nroom, volunteers accompanied us. I managed to talk a lot with one of them -\nArina, a first-year student. Thanks to her, I learned a lot of interesting and\nfascinating things about studying at the university in Innopolis. This prompted\nme, in the foreseeable future, to write a separate post about this, because\nwhat I heard caused me admiration and surprise at the same time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First year student Arina who helped us in the spekers' room<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Get from Innopolis to Kazan, without traffic jams, a little less than an hour. Fortunately, a man appeared who was also driving in the direction of the center and they drove me to the main attraction of any city - to the metro) As far as I know, in Moscow redesign of signs and other things was carried out by Artemy Lebedev's studio. Having descended into the subway in Kazan, I realized that it would be nice if he gets there too. Of course, the complication manifests itself in the form of the need to provide information in three languages \u200b\u200bat once - English, Russian and Tatar, but I am sure that something could have been invented for more obvious navigation for visitors. The main problem is that it is hard to understand which part of the pointer speaks of the left path, which of the right. But, again, I understand that this is a matter of habit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Having reached\n\u201cKremlyovskaya\u201d station, I went outside. And then another surprise awaited me.\nI didn\u2019t have much time in reserve, and the metro, as it turned out, was dug\nfar from the station itself - an amazing solution and, to put it mildly, not\nvery convenient. I can imagine what would happen in Moscow if the closest metro\nstation to the square of three stations would be Krasnoselskaya - after all,\nthis is about the same distance you need to get over from the Kremlyovskaya\nstation to the Kazan-1 station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having plunged\ninto the train, I talked with travelers who were traveling with me from Moscow\nto Kazan and after that I fell asleep. At 7:10 a.m. I arrived at the Kazan\nstation and went home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of the\npost, I would say a few words of gratitude to the organizers of the conference\nitself. The event is really large-scale and to cope with so many people is not\nan easy task. But, it seems to me that the organizers coped with this. And\nthank you very much for that! I am glad that I was part of the Stachka in\nInnopolis, and I am sure that I will be a member of the following conferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pros that I noticed for myself on the trip:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Really\ngood organization of the event<\/li>
  • Interesting\npeople<\/li>
  • Cool\nprogram<\/li>
  • Magnificent\ncity<\/li>
  • A\nstunning platform, or rather a university<\/li>
  • A\ngreat opportunity to ride a taxi without a driver (for this special thanks)<\/li>
  • Cool\nafterparty on Saturday<\/li>
  • Great\nvolunteer work<\/li>
  • The\ndesire to be submitted as a speaker to the Stachka again<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Well, if we talk about the cons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    • Queues\non the first day as long as a whole life<\/li>
    • Registration\nqueues creating traffic jams on the entrance<\/li>
    • Lack\nof centralized video recording<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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