2025 Schedule

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Architectures You've Always Wondered About

How to Build an Exchange: Sub Millisecond Response Times and 24/7 Uptimes in the Cloud

These days it is possible to achieve fairly good performance on cloud provisioned systems. We discuss the design of a high performance, strongly consistent system which maintains constant service in the face of regular updates to core logic.

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Driving Reliability Through Modern Platform Engineering and Dev Enablement

Continuous Delivery for Foundational Platforms

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 - Junction Labs

Ballroom BC

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Effective Engineering and Practices in Early Stage Startups

From Founding Engineer to CTO to CEO – At the Same Startup

As a college sophomore, Trisha Ballakur founded Pointz, coding day and night to evolve from a dorm-room developer to CTO, securing VC funding while prioritizing the startup over classes.

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Polyglot Platforms: Strategies & Practices to Enable Innovation

Keeping the Mainline Green Across Diverse Language Monorepos

At Uber’s scale, ensuring an always-green mainline while processing hundreds of changes per hour is a massive challenge— especially when those changes span multiple language monorepos supporting dozens of business-critical apps.

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Architectures You've Always Wondered About

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

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-critic

Matthew Liste - American Express

Ballroom A

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Driving Reliability Through Modern Platform Engineering and Dev Enablement

Microservices Platforms: When Team Topologies Meets Microservices Patterns

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.

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Effective Engineering and Practices in Early Stage Startups

From Staff Platform Engineer to a 16z Founder: What I Wish I'd Known

The Technical Leadership Challenge: Every successful engineering team faces the same inflection point: transforming beloved internal tools into a legitimate platform business.

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Polyglot Platforms: Strategies & Practices to Enable Innovation

Rust at the Core - Accelerating Polyglot SDK Development

Developing SDKs for your users in multiple languages can come at a high cost - especially if you need to implement complex logic client side, but traditionally options for sharing logic across those languages have been quite limited.

Spencer Judge - Temporal Technologies

Seacliff ABC

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Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Architecting a Centralized Platform for Data Deletion at Netflix

What does it take to safely delete data at Netflix scale? In large-scale systems, data deletion cuts across infrastructure, reliability, and performance complexities.

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Driving Reliability Through Modern Platform Engineering and Dev Enablement

Enhancing Reliability Using Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix

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.

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Effective Engineering and Practices in Early Stage Startups

Unconference: Early Stage Startups

Seacliff D

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Polyglot Platforms: Strategies & Practices to Enable Innovation

Polyglot Persistence: When One Database Just Isn't Enough

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Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Compiling Workflows into Databases: The Architecture That Shouldn't Work (But Does)

What if everything you know about building distributed systems is backwards?

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Driving Reliability Through Modern Platform Engineering and Dev Enablement

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

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.

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Effective Engineering and Practices in Early Stage Startups

Maximizing Success with Limited Time, Resources, and Energy: Lessons from Startup Engineering

Startups are the harshest environments for engineers. Limited time, resources, and energy force teams to make decisions under pressure — and those decisions can determine whether a company survives or stalls.

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Polyglot Platforms: Strategies & Practices to Enable Innovation

Unconference: Polyglot Platforms

Seacliff D

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Architectures You've Always Wondered About

The Architecture of an Infinite Scroll

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Driving Reliability Through Modern Platform Engineering and Dev Enablement

Unconference: Modern Platform Engineering and Dev Enablement

Seacliff D

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Effective Engineering and Practices in Early Stage Startups

How to Build an Engineering Culture Before You Have an Engineering Team

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Polyglot Platforms: Strategies & Practices to Enable Innovation

Architecting for the Unknown: Designing Resilient GenAI Platforms

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Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Unconference: Architectures You've Always Wondered About

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Driving Reliability Through Modern Platform Engineering and Dev Enablement

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

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Effective Engineering and Practices in Early Stage Startups

The First 100 Days of Code: What to Build, What to Buy, and What to Borrow

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Polyglot Platforms: Strategies & Practices to Enable Innovation

From Monolith to Mosaic: Strategies for a Safe and Successful Polyglot Migration

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Navigating Major Architecture Migrations

Monolith Down: Cleaning Up After the Great Identity Migration Disaster

One does not simply migrate a monolith. Imagine a team working on a monolith-to-microservices migration of a healthcare portal. A foundational first step - migrating to a commercial identity provider - takes 9 months, only to bring the entire portal crashing down on release day.

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The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

Lead Without a Ladder: How I Climbed Into Engineering Leadership

Climbing into senior engineering leadership isn’t always a matter of following fixed rungs—it can be more like scaling a rugged, ever-shifting mountain. You know there might be a path somewhere on the south face but for some reason the North face has more appeal.

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AI Engineering that Delivers: Blueprint to Impact

Dynamic Moments: Weaving LLMs into Deep Personalization at DoorDash

In this talk, we’ll walk through how DoorDash is redefining personalization by tightly integrating cutting-edge large language models (LLMs) with deep learning architectures such as Two-Tower Embeddings (TTE) and Multi-Task Multi-Label (MTML) models.

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Innovations in Front-End

Why Fetch When You Can Sync? Building Local-First Apps on a Sync Engine Architecture

Front-end has long been about reactivity frameworks and client-side state management. However, the alpha in these is receding.

James Arthur - ElectricSQL

Pacific DEKJ

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Navigating Major Architecture Migrations

Migrating from Monolith to Modern SaaS: Untangling 40 Years of Legacy

What does it take to successfully modernize and migrate a mission-critical line of business running on a 40-year-old monolith to a more modern SaaS?

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The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

Beyond Coding: How Senior ICs Grow Influence and Drive Impact

Many engineers reach a point where technical excellence alone isn’t enough to drive meaningful impact or advance their careers. Senior individual contributors must learn to influence without authority, build trust across teams, and navigate challenges like imposter syndrome to truly lead.

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AI Engineering that Delivers: Blueprint to Impact

Deep Research for Enterprise: Unlocking Actionable Intelligence from Complex Enterprise Data with Agentic AI

Deep Research as a consumer product redefined the AI space delivering true impact to many by searching through hundreds of websites, deeply thinking through the content, and generating a comprehensive report.

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Innovations in Front-End

Designing Fast, Delightful UX with LLMs in Mobile Frontends

Delivering AI-powered features in mobile apps is not just about calling an LLM API. It's about crafting fast, reliable, and engaging user experiences.

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Navigating Major Architecture Migrations

Modernizing Relevance at Scale: LinkedIn’s Migration Journey to Serve Billions of Users

How do you deliver relevant and personalized recommendations to nearly a billion professionals—instantly, reliably, and at scale? At LinkedIn, the answer has been a multi-year journey of architectural reinvention.

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The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

A Solopreneur's Journey: From Engineer to Puzzle Master and Storyteller

Solopreneur & Sustainable Business don't often go together, but that's what can happen when you create something "Good Enough" and hang around "Long Enough". Joe, a true Unicorn in the volatile games business, has survived for 16+ years by creating 19 games in his Clutter Franchise.

Joe Cassavaugh - Puzzles By Joe

Seacliff ABC

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AI Engineering that Delivers: Blueprint to Impact

Engineering at AI Speed: Lessons from the First Agentically Accelerated Software Project

Claude Code is the first developer tool built specifically to maximize AI development velocity.

Adam Wolff - Anthropic

Ballroom BC

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Innovations in Front-End

Unconference: Innovations in Front-End

Seacliff D

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Navigating Major Architecture Migrations

Migrating Uber Eats Feeds to Webview

Uber Eats has many surfaces developed using native-first design. Historically these were built on the Android and iOS stacks. To accelerate development and enable rapid iteration and experimentation, while preserving the native-first design, a webview-powered stack was developed.

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The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

Unconference: The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

Seacliff D

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AI Engineering that Delivers: Blueprint to Impact

Automating the Web With MCP: Infra That Doesn’t Break

AI agents are only as strong as the infrastructure beneath them. In this talk, we’ll walk through the architecture behind Browserbase’s model context protocol (MCP), built to support stateful browser automation at scale.

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Innovations in Front-End

Rethinking User Interactions in JavaScript

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Navigating Major Architecture Migrations

Unconference: Navigating Major Architecture Migrations

Seacliff D

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The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

Leading Technical Vision for Long-Term Success

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AI Engineering that Delivers: Blueprint to Impact

From Reinforcement Learning Enhanced Image to AI Collection Generation: How Pinterest Cracked the Code on Content Discovery

his talk presents Pinterest's journey in deploying AI at massive scale, from using Reinforcement Learning to create images to building 

Faye Zhang - Pinterest

Ballroom BC

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Innovations in Front-End

From VR to Flat Screens: Bridging the Input and Immersion Gap

Expanding the market of your VR game to other platforms may seem like an easy way to increase your revenues but the journey is all but simple. When what makes your game unique is the presence and immersion it provides, reproducing the experience on a flat screen is a daunting task.

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Navigating Major Architecture Migrations

Accelerating Netflix Data: A Cross-Team Journey from Offline to Online

At Netflix, certain use cases demand the rapid transfer of massive datasets—such as 50 TB—from offline to online systems. Doing this efficiently, without disrupting applications interacting with our online systems, presents a significant challenge.

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The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

The Evolving Leader: Cultivating Emotional Intelligence and Influence

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AI Engineering that Delivers: Blueprint to Impact

Unconference: AI Engineering that Delivers

Seacliff D

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Innovations in Front-End

Building and Scaling UI Systems for Internal Tools at Meta

Meta’s internal tools empower the company to operate efficiently, enabling the creation of unique, tailored solutions that fit evolving business needs.

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Architecting for Efficiency: Performance, Cost, and Maintainability

One Platform to Serve Them All: Autoscaling Multi-Model LLM Serving

AI teams are moving to self-hosted inference away from hosted LLMs as fine-tuning drives model performance. The catch is scale, hundreds of variants create long-tail traffic, cold starts, and duplicated stacks.

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The Stories Behind the Incidents

The Incident that Shaped Our Engineering Culture

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Empowering Teams with AI: Productivity and the Future of Software Development

Choosing Your AI Copilot: Maximizing Developer Productivity

The AI coding agent landscape evolves weekly. This talk compares today’s frontrunners, shows where each shines, and shares prompts, policies, and “rules templates” that turn code suggestions into production-quality output.

Sepehr Khosravi - Coinbase

Seacliff ABC

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High-Performance Languages in Modern Development

The High Performance Talk You Did Not Expect To Hear about Rust

Abstract: Rust makes things faster but it slows down engineers, right? This was our team’s assumption when we decided to rewrite our code from Kotlin into Rust. But, we were wrong in completely unexpected ways.

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Architecting for Efficiency: Performance, Cost, and Maintainability

How Netflix Shapes our Fleet for Efficiency and Reliability

Netflix runs on a complex multi-layer cloud architecture made up of thousands of services, caches, and databases. As hardware options, workload patterns, cost dynamics and the Netflix products evolve, the cost-optimal hardware and configuration for running our services is constantly changing.

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The Stories Behind the Incidents

War Stories from the Front Lines of Production

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Empowering Teams with AI: Productivity and the Future of Software Development

Accelerating LLM-Driven Developer Productivity at Zoox

Over the past year, Zoox has invested in integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into internal developer workflows through a company-wide initiative called Zoox Intelligence (ZI).

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High-Performance Languages in Modern Development

Instrumentation at Scale: Having Your Performance Cake and Eating It Too

In high-performance code, a single misplaced counter increment can cost more than the operation it’s measuring. That creates a paradox: instrument too much and you slow the system down; instrument too little and you miss the insights you need to continuously deliver.

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Architecting for Efficiency: Performance, Cost, and Maintainability

Realtime and Batch Processing of GPU Workloads

SS&C Technologies runs 47 trillion dollars of assets on our global private cloud. We have the primitives for infrastructure as well as platforms as a service like Kubernetes, Kafka, NiFi, Databases, etc.

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The Stories Behind the Incidents

Rebuilding A System After a Security Breach

Details coming soon.

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Empowering Teams with AI: Productivity and the Future of Software Development

Powering the Future: Building Your GenAI Infrastructure Stack

Behind every productivity leap is a rock-solid platform. Go under the hood with Intuit’s GenOS team to see how vector stores, prompt management, RAG pipelines, and agent orchestration come together to serve ~100 million users.

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High-Performance Languages in Modern Development

When Every Bit Counts: How Valkey Rebuilt Its Hashtable for Modern Hardware

Ever wondered what happens when a bunch of performance-obsessed developers decide their blazing-fast database isn't quite blazing-fast enough?

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Architecting for Efficiency: Performance, Cost, and Maintainability

From ms to µs: OSS Valkey Architecture Patterns for Modern AI

As AI applications demand faster and more intelligent data access, traditional caching strategies are hitting performance and reliability limits. 

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The Stories Behind the Incidents

Week-Long Outage: Lifelong Lessons

Routine database upgrades should be straightforward, especially with familiar, well-established technology. We were confident heading into our Elasticsearch upgrade, equipped with a solid plan and excited to see performance gains like we had seen from past upgrades.

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Empowering Teams with AI: Productivity and the Future of Software Development

AI-Driven Productivity: From Idea to Impact

In this session you'll learn how product leaders turn GenAI enthusiasm into an enterprise-ready blueprint for real productivity gains.

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High-Performance Languages in Modern Development

Modern Systems Programming for the Next Decade

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Architecting for Efficiency: Performance, Cost, and Maintainability

Write-Ahead Intent Log: A Foundation for Efficient CDC at Scale

As companies grow, so does the complexity of keeping distributed systems in sync. At DoorDash, we tackled this challenge while building a high-throughput, domain-oriented data platform for capturing changes across hundreds of services.

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The Stories Behind the Incidents

Postmortem of a Downtime: What Was Learned from A Big Mistake

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Empowering Teams with AI: Productivity and the Future of Software Development

Trustworthy Productivity: Securing AI-Accelerated Development

As AI accelerates delivery, new attack surfaces and compliance risks emerge. This session distills best practices for threat-modeling AI pipelines, guarding sensitive data, detecting prompt-injection, and validating AI-generated code before it merges.

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High-Performance Languages in Modern Development

Building High-Concurrency Systems for the Cloud

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