Observability is Not Enough: Using Dev Enablement to Shift Right and Fix Faster

Continuous Delivery for Foundational Platforms

Monday Nov 17 / 10:35AM PST

Platform teams frequently inherit systems that were never architected for their current scale, yet are so foundational that downtime can halt the business.

Ian Nowland

CEO @Junction Labs, Author of O'Reilly's Platform Engineering, Previously SVP Core Engineering at Datadog and Leader of AWS Nitro

Microservices Platforms: When Team Topologies Meets Microservices Patterns

Monday Nov 17 / 11:45AM PST

When many teams work on a large, complex application, the microservice architecture potentially enables them to work independently and deliver a continuous stream of changes.

Chris Richardson

Creator of microservices.io, Java Champion, & Core Microservices Thoughtleader

Enhancing Reliability Using Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix

Monday Nov 17 / 01:35PM PST

How does Netflix maintain a seamless viewing experience for millions of users, especially during traffic spikes or when backend datastores are overloaded? Autoscaling can help during traffic spikes, but it costs money, takes a few minutes to kick in, and capacity may not always be available.

Anirudh Mendiratta

Staff Software Engineer, Playback Lifecycle @Netflix, Previously @Amazon Prime Video and @fuboTV

Benjamin Fedorka

Staff Software Engineer, Productivity Engineering @Netflix

Platform Engineering: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of eBay Velocity

Monday Nov 17 / 02:45PM PST

Once a stock market darling and a pioneering hyperscaler in the 1990s and early 2000s, eBay has been in steady decline since the 2010s. A household name with a flat business, eBay has been unable to make substantive strides in its market reach or its engineering outcomes in the last 15 years.

Randy Shoup

SVP Engineering @Thrive Market, Previously @eBay, @Google, @Stitch Fix

Unconference: Modern Platform Engineering and Dev Enablement

Monday Nov 17 / 03:55PM PST