Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure

QCon San Francisco 2025

Session Platform Engineering

Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure

Monday Nov 17 / 02:45PM PST, Ballroom A at Hyatt Regency, San Francisco

Abstract

In this talk, Matthew will describe lessons learned from over 20+ years of building scalable, secure and stable infrastructure platforms for software in financial services (electronic trading, credit card processing etc.), the talk is relevant to anyone building platforms for mission-critical workloads. This talk takes a first principle lens on building platforms that must balance constant innovation and systemic significance.

The audience should expect to take home rich insights into:

  • What to expect when building and sustaining platforms for years
  • Balancing maintaining currency vs client disruptions
  • How to avoid compromises on security, stability and scalability.

Interview

Platform Engineering is vital for building critical systems. This talk will cover key principles and lessons from over 20 years of experience developing platforms for mission-critical software.

This session provides senior developers with essential principles for building stable, secure, and scalable platforms, based on over 20 years of experience.

Attendees will use insights from this session to build and scale platforms effectively.

Topics

Platform Engineering Infrastructure SRE
76% senior dev or higher
1:11 speaker ratio
60+ practitioners

QCon San Francisco 2025 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.

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