Unconference: Distributed Systems in Production

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Session

Adaptive Systems in Production: What Recommendation Systems Can Teach Us About Agents

Tuesday Nov 17 / 01:35PM PST

As organizations race to build AI agents, many teams are encountering challenges that feel new: evaluation uncertainty, feedback loops, behavioral drift, exploration versus exploitation, and maintaining user trust in systems that continuously adapt.But these challenges are not new.

Speaker image - Mallika Rao

Mallika Rao

Senior Engineering Manager @Zocdoc, Previously @Netflix, @Twitter and @Walmart

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How to Build Online Systems with Object Storage

Tuesday Nov 17 / 02:45PM PST

“Diskless” systems that delegate durability to object storage are everywhere, and for three good reasons:

Speaker image - Almog Gavra

Almog Gavra

Co-Founder @Responsive.dev - Building Object-Native Databases, Previously @Confluent and @LinkedIn

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Orderly Keys, Wild Values: Adaptive Compression for Distributed Key-Value Storage

Tuesday Nov 17 / 10:35AM PST

At Netflix scale - billions of requests per day and petabytes of key-value data - even small inefficiencies in storage and network paths become expensive.

Speaker image - Joseph Lynch

Joseph Lynch

Principal Software Engineer @Netflix Building Highly-Reliable and High-Leverage Infrastructure Across Stateless and Stateful Services

Speaker image - Ayushi Singh

Ayushi Singh

Senior Software Engineer @Netflix Specializing in Large-Scale Distributed Data Systems

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When Your Users Are Agents: Lessons from Running Serverless Postgres

Tuesday Nov 17 / 11:45AM PST

Most systems are designed with human users in mind: predictable session lengths, expected traffic spikes, and query patterns shaped by application code. But what happens to your core infrastructure when some of your most active users are autonomous AI agents?

Speaker image - Gwen Shapira

Gwen Shapira

Co-Founder and CPO @Nile, Previously Engineering Leader @Confluent, PMC Member @Kafka, & Committer Apache Sqoop

Session

Real-World Trade-Offs in Multi-Region Data Replication

Tuesday Nov 17 / 05:05PM PST

Details coming soon.