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Monday, October 2nd, 2023

07:15AM PDT

Continental Breakfast - Pacific Level

09:00AM PDT

Conference Introduction and Keynote:

From Mainframes to Microservices - the Journey of Building and Running Software

Suhail Patel - Monzo

Grand Ballroom

10:10AM PDT

Coffee Break

10:35AM PDT

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

AWS Lambda Under the Hood

Mike Danilov - AWS

Ballroom BC

Track:
Modern Data Engineering & Architectures

LIquid: A Large-Scale Relational Graph Database

Scott Meyer - LinkedIn

Ballroom A

Track:
Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML

Pulumi Adventures: How Python Empowered My Infrastructure Beyond YAML

Adora Nwodo - Pulumi

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Staff+ Engineering Skills

An Incident Story: Tips for How Staff+ Engineers Can Impact Incidents

Erin Doyle - Lob

Seacliff ABC

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

Rethinking SaaS Entitlement Management with Feature Flags

Brian Rinaldi - LaunchDarkly

Bill Tarr - AWS

Pacific LM

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

Coding With Cody: How AI Is Revolutionizing Software Development

Ado Kukic - Sourcegraph

Marina

No Video Available
11:25AM PDT

Coffee Break & Lightning Talk "4 Tools & 2 Cases For GenAI" by Martin Dulák (Pacific floor)

11:45AM PDT

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Relational Data at the Edge

Justin Kwan - Apple

Vignesh Ravichandran - Cloudflare

Ballroom BC

Track:
Modern Data Engineering & Architectures

PRQL: A Simple, Powerful, Pipelined SQL Replacement

Aljaž Mur Eržen - EdgeDB

Seacliff ABC

Track:
Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML

Framework Defined Infrastructure (FdI) – an Evolution of Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Malte Ubl - Vercel

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Staff+ Engineering Skills

Things Every Staff+ Engineer Should Know

Joy Ebertz - Split

Ballroom A

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

The 10 REST Commandments

Vedran Cindrić - Treblle

Pacific LM

No Video Available
01:35PM PDT

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

NIST 800-207A: Implementing Zero Trust Architecture

Zack Butcher - Tetrate

Ballroom BC

Track:
Modern Data Engineering & Architectures

Streaming Databases: Embracing the Convergence of Stream Processing and Databases

Yingjun Wu - RisingWave Labs

Ballroom A

Track:
Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML

What if Infrastructure as Code Never Existed?

Adam Jacob - System Initiative

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Staff+ Engineering Skills

Managing Staff+ Engineers: Opportunities and Challenges

Adam Schirmacher - Gusto

Seacliff ABC

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

Build and Deploy Retrieval Augmented Generative Pipelines with Haystack

Thomas Stadelmann - Deepset

Tuana Celik - Deepset

Pacific LM

02:25PM PDT

Coffee Break

02:45PM PDT

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Managing 238M Memberships at Netflix

Surabhi Diwan - Netflix

Ballroom BC

Track:
Modern Data Engineering & Architectures

Redesigning OLTP for a New Order of Magnitude

Joran Greef - TigerBeetle

Ballroom A

Track:
Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML

Unconference: Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML

Seacliff D

No Video Available

Track:
Staff+ Engineering Skills

Panel: Staff+ Engineering Skills

Erin Doyle - Lob

Adam Schirmacher - Gusto

Joy Ebertz - Split

Caleb Hyde - Expel

Pacific DEKJ

No Video Available

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

Beyond the Hype: The Impact of GenAI on Software Engineering Teams Productivity

João Batista Neto - StackSpot

Pacific LM

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

Exciting Web Ahead with WebGL/WebGPU—Let’s Build a 3D App w/ Three.js

Farhad Ghayour - McKinsey & Company

Marina

No Video Available
03:35PM PDT

Coffee Break & Snacks - Pacific Level

03:55PM PDT

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Unconference: Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Seacliff D

No Video Available

Track:
Modern Data Engineering & Architectures

Incremental Data Processing with Apache Hudi

Saketh Chintapalli - Uber

Bhavani Sudha Saktheeswaran - Onehouse

Ballroom A

Track:
Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML

CI/CD Beyond YAML

Conor Barber - Airbyte

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Staff+ Engineering Skills

Risk and Failure on the Path to Staff Engineer

Caleb Hyde - Expel

Ballroom BC

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

Delegate Engineering Toil to the Robots

Dylan Etkin - Sleuth

Pacific LM

No Video Available

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

Building a DevOps Culture with Site24x7: Collaboration and Accountability

Daniel Ceasar Paul Jalathyan - Zoho

Marina

No Video Available
04:45PM PDT

Coffee Break

05:05PM PDT

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Unpacking how Ads Ranking Works @Pinterest

Aayush Mudgal - Pinterest

Ballroom BC

Track:
Modern Data Engineering & Architectures

Sleeping at Scale - Delivering 10k Timers per Second per Node with Rust, Tokio, Kafka, and Scylla

Lily Mara - OneSignal

Hunter Laine - OneSignal

Ballroom A

Track:
Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML

Kubernetes without YAML

David Flanagan - Rawkode Academy

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Staff+ Engineering Skills

Unconference: Staff+ Engineering

Seacliff D

No Video Available

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

Building Organizational Resilience by Creating Generative Organizations

Rishi Markenday - McKinsey & Company

Pacific LM

No Video Available

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

A More Useful Programming Model

Taylor Khan - Temporal

Marina

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023

08:00AM PDT

Continental Breakfast - Pacific Level

09:00AM PDT

Conference Introduction and Keynote:

Generative AI: Shaping a New Future for Fraud Prevention

Neha Narkhede - Oscilar

Grand Ballroom

10:10AM PDT

Coffee Break

10:35AM PDT

Track:
Modern ML: GenAI, Trust, & Path2Prod

Chronon - Airbnb’s End-to-End Feature Platform

Nikhil Simha - Airbnb

Seacliff ABC

Track:
Designing for Resilience

Disaster Recovery Across a Million Pieces

Michelle Brush - Google

Ballroom BC

No Video Available

Track:
Platform Engineering Done Well

Building a Successful Platform: Acceleration, Autonomy & Accountability

Smruti Patel - Apollo Graph

Ballroom A

Track:
JVM Trends: Charting the Future of Productivity & Performance

How Netflix Really Uses Java

Paul Bakker - Netflix

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track III

How Databricks Solved Their Hybrid Cloud Connectivity Challenges

Alan Shreve - Ngrok

Pacific LM

No Video Available
11:25AM PDT

Coffee Break

11:45AM PDT

Track:
Modern ML: GenAI, Trust, & Path2Prod

Defensible Moats: Unlocking Enterprise Value with Large Language Models

Nischal HP - Scoutbee

Seacliff ABC

Track:
Designing for Resilience

Designing Fault-Tolerant Software with Control System Transparency

Jon Moore - Stripe

Ballroom BC

Track:
Platform Engineering Done Well

Understanding Platforms: What They Are, Why They Work, When to Use Them, How to Build Them

Hazel Weakly

Ballroom A

Track:
JVM Trends: Charting the Future of Productivity & Performance

The Journey to a Million Ops / Sec / Node in Venice

Alex Dubrouski - LinkedIn

Gaojie Liu - LinkedIn

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track III

Service Mesh for Less

Louis Ryan - Solo

Alex Ly - Solo

Pacific LM

01:35PM PDT

Track:
Modern ML: GenAI, Trust, & Path2Prod

Modern Compute Stack for Scaling Large AI/ML/LLM Workloads

Jules Damji - Anyscale

Ballroom A

Track:
Designing for Resilience

How Do We Talk to Each Other? How Surfacing Communication Patterns in Organizations Can Help You Understand and Improve Your Resilience

Nora Jones - Jeli.io

Ballroom BC

Track:
Platform Engineering Done Well

Unconference: Platform Engineering Done Well

Seacliff D

No Video Available

Track:
JVM Trends: Charting the Future of Productivity & Performance

Harnessing Exotic Hardware: Charting the Future of JVM Performance

Monica Beckwith - Microsoft

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track III

Optimizing a Query - An Optimization Tale

Oren Eini - RavenDB

Pacific LM

No Video Available
02:25PM PDT

Coffee Break

02:45PM PDT

Track:
Modern ML: GenAI, Trust, & Path2Prod

Generative Search: Practical Advice for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

Sam Partee - Redis

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Designing for Resilience

How Netflix Ensures Highly-Reliable Online Stateful Systems

Joseph Lynch - Netflix

Ballroom BC

Track:
Platform Engineering Done Well

Building Better Platforms with Empathy: Case Studies and Counter-Examples

David Stenglein - Missing Mass, LLC

Ballroom A

Track:
JVM Trends: Charting the Future of Productivity & Performance

Unconference: JVM Trends

Seacliff D

No Video Available

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track III

Streaming Events? You Should be Storing Them

Yves Lorphelin - Event Store

Matt Macchia - Event Store

Pacific LM

No Video Available
03:35PM PDT

Coffee Break & Snacks - Pacific Level

03:55PM PDT

Track:
Modern ML: GenAI, Trust, & Path2Prod

Unconference: Modern ML

Seacliff D

No Video Available

Track:
Designing for Resilience

Orchestrating Resilience: Building Modern Asynchronous Systems

Sai Pragna Etikyala - Twilio

Ballroom BC

Track:
Platform Engineering Done Well

Effective Performance Engineering at Twitter-Scale

Yao Yue - IOP Systems

Ballroom A

Track:
JVM Trends: Charting the Future of Productivity & Performance

Optimizing JVM for the Cloud: Strategies for Success

Tobi Ajila - IBM

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track III

TiDB: Inside the Journey to Build a Cloud-Native, Distributed SQL Database

Li Shen - PingCAP

Pacific LM

No Video Available
04:45PM PDT

Coffee Break

05:05PM PDT

Track:
Modern ML: GenAI, Trust, & Path2Prod

Building Guardrails for Enterprise AI Applications W/ LLMs

Shreya Rajpal - Guardrails AI

Ballroom BC

Track:
Designing for Resilience

Unconference: Designing for Resilience

Seacliff D

No Video Available

Track:
Platform Engineering Done Well

How to Get Tech-Debt on the Roadmap

Ben Hartshorne - Honeycomb

Ballroom A

Track:
JVM Trends: Charting the Future of Productivity & Performance

The Keys to Developer Productivity: Collaborate and Innovate

Heather VanCura - Oracle

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track III

How the Largest Latin American Bank Reduced Software Delivery Lead Time on a Team with 16,000 Engineers

Manuela Leoni - StackSpot

Pacific LM

Wednesday, October 4th, 2023

09:00AM PDT

Conference Introduction and Keynote:

Use Engineering Strategy to Reduce Friction and Improve Developer Experience

Will Larson - Carta

Grand Ballroom

10:10AM PDT

Coffee Break

10:35AM PDT

Track:
Architecting for the Cloud

Lessons from Leading the Serverless First Journey at CapitalOne

George Mao - Capital One

Ballroom BC

Track:
Emerging Trends in the Frontend

Streamlining Cloud Development with Deno

Ryan Dahl - Deno

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Lessons in Building Organization Resilience

Building a Culture of Continuous Experimentation

Sarah Aslanifar - Equal Experts

Ballroom A

Track:
Deep Tech: Pushing the Boundaries of Hardware+Software

Rethinking Connectivity at the Edge: Scaling Fleets of Low-Powered Devices Using NATS.io

Jeremy Saenz - Synadia Communications

Seacliff ABC

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track IV

Designing AI Agents with System Thinking

Logan Grasby - Cloudflare

Pacific LM

No Video Available
11:25AM PDT

Coffee Break & Lightning Talk "Developer Portal: Your Gateway to Success" by Satinath Mondal (Pacific floor)

11:45AM PDT

Track:
Architecting for the Cloud

Million Dollar Lines of Code: An Engineering Perspective on Cloud Cost Optimization

Erik Peterson - CloudZero

Ballroom BC

Track:
Emerging Trends in the Frontend

Hydration and Lazy-Loading Are Incompatible

Miško Hevery - Builder.io

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Lessons in Building Organization Resilience

Multiplying Engineering Productivity in Face of Constant Change

Shweta Saraf - Netflix

Ballroom A

Track:
Deep Tech: Pushing the Boundaries of Hardware+Software

Building Robust and Scalable Intelligent Writing Assistants: Challenges and Opportunities Leveraging GenAI

Vipul Raheja - Grammarly

Seacliff ABC

No Video Available

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track IV

Can’t Apps and Databases All Just Get Along?

Joshua Hight - Stytch

Pacific LM

No Video Available
01:35PM PDT

Track:
Architecting for the Cloud

Durable Execution for Control Planes: Building Temporal Cloud on Temporal

Sergey Bykov - Temporal

Ballroom BC

Track:
Emerging Trends in the Frontend

Server Driven UI - Streamlining Mobile Development and Release

Thomas Chao - Snowflake

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Lessons in Building Organization Resilience

The Incident Lifecycle: How a Culture of Resilience Can Help You Accomplish Your Goals

Vanessa Huerta Granda - Enova

Ballroom A

Track:
Deep Tech: Pushing the Boundaries of Hardware+Software

Building a Rack-Scale Computer with P4 at the Core: Challenges, Solutions, and Practices in Engineering Systems on Programmable Network Processors

Ryan Goodfellow - Oxide Computer Company

Seacliff ABC

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track IV

Introduction to Real-Time Training and Scoring in AI/ML

Wes Wagner - RedPanda

Pacific LM

No Video Available
02:25PM PDT

Coffee Break

02:45PM PDT

Track:
Architecting for the Cloud

Understanding Architectures for Multi-Region Data Residency

Alex Strachan - Rippling

Ballroom BC

Track:
Emerging Trends in the Frontend

Combating AI-Generated Fake Images with JavaScript Libraries

Kate Sills

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Lessons in Building Organization Resilience

Generative AI and Organizational Resilience

Alex Cruikshank - West Monroe

Ballroom A

Track:
Deep Tech: Pushing the Boundaries of Hardware+Software

Automating Bare Metal to Improve Your Quality of Life

Julia Kreger - Red Hat

Seacliff ABC

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track IV

Simple Platform Engineering and Simply High Cardinality Observability

Piyush Verma - Last9.io

Pacific LM

No Video Available
03:35PM PDT

Coffee Break & Snacks - Pacific Level

03:55PM PDT

Track:
Architecting for the Cloud

Architecting for High Availability in the Cloud with Cellular Architecture

Chris Price - Momento

Ballroom BC

Track:
Emerging Trends in the Frontend

JavaScript: Empowered by Rust

Chris Biscardi - Rustadventure.dev

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Lessons in Building Organization Resilience

Building Organizational Resilience Through Documentation and InnerSource Practices

David Grizzanti - The New York Times

Ballroom A

Track:
Deep Tech: Pushing the Boundaries of Hardware+Software

Fast, Scalable, Secure: WebAssembly and the Future of Isolation

Tal Garfinkel - UC San Diego

Seacliff ABC

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track IV

LLMs + Knowledge Graphs = Better Together

Mark Quinsland - Neo4j

Pacific LM

No Video Available

Thursday, October 5th, 2023

09:00AM PDT

Workshop

09:00AM PDT - 04:00PM PDT (7 hours)

Domain-Driven Analysis: Quickly Getting to Grips with a New Domain

Indu Alagarsamy - The New York Times

Marina

09:00AM PDT

Workshop

09:00AM PDT - 12:00PM PDT (3 hours)

Organizing for Fast Flow: A Practitioner's View on Implementing Team Topologies

Wes Reisz - Thoughtworks

Anthony Ikeda

Seacliff D

Workshop

09:00AM PDT - 12:00PM PDT (3 hours)

Building Resilient, Scalable Java Applications with Distributed Databases: A Hands-on Workshop

Amit Chauhan - YugabyteDB

Seacliff C

01:00PM PDT

Workshop

01:00PM PDT - 04:00PM PDT (3 hours)

Architecting Scalable APIs with Spring Boot and Open Source Distributed Databases

Amit Chauhan - YugabyteDB

Seacliff C

Workshop

01:00PM PDT - 04:00PM PDT (3 hours)

Lead Like Lasso – Creating Connection and Belonging in the Tech Space

Dimple Dhabalia - Roots in the Clouds

Seacliff D

Friday, October 6th, 2023

09:00AM PDT

Workshop

09:00AM PDT - 04:00PM PDT (7 hours)

Delivering on the Promise of DevOps Through Internal Engineering Platforms

Nic Cheneweth - Thoughtworks

Sean Alvarez

Seacliff C

Workshop

09:00AM PDT - 04:00PM PDT (7 hours)

Building and Productionizing LLM-Powered Applications

Adam Breindel - Anyscale

Kamil Kaczmarek - Anyscale

Seacliff AB

09:00AM PDT

Workshop

09:00AM PDT - 12:00PM PDT (3 hours)

Building Paved Roads to Production

Andrew Fong - Prodvana

Seacliff D

Workshop

09:00AM PDT - 12:00PM PDT (3 hours)

Microservices Orchestration: Designing Resilient Systems for the Future

Olivier Poupeney - Orkes

Marina

01:00PM PDT

Workshop

01:00PM PDT - 04:00PM PDT (3 hours)

Developing an AppSec Program for Fast Moving Teams

Laura Bell Main - SafeStack

Seacliff D

Workshop

01:00PM PDT - 04:00PM PDT (3 hours)

From Zero to Hero: A Journey Into Prometheus Monitoring

Prathamesh Sonpatki - Last9.io

Marina