Speaker: Frank Yu

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Senior Engineering Manager @Coinbase, previously Principal Engineer and Director @FairX

Frank is an engineering leader at Coinbase, focusing on distributed low latency trading platforms. Prior to Coinbase, he served as Principal Engineer and later Director of Software Engineering at FairX, leading the design and build of what would become the Coinbase Derivatives Exchange post acquisition. Frank has spent over a decade making tradeoffs on mission critical systems with submillisecond response times and loves chatting about complexity, testing, and performance.

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Session

Leveraging Determinism

Determinism is a very powerful concept when paired with fast business logic. We discuss both intuitive and not-so-obvious architecture choices that can be made to dramatically scale and simplify systems with these properties.

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Date

Monday Oct 24 / 05:25PM PDT ( 50 minutes )

Location

Ballroom A

Topics

Backends Latency Architecture Scale Engineering Computer Science Systems

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Session

Panel: Building Modern Backends

Join today’s speakers in an open panel conversation about modern backends and the languages used to build them. Our panelists today come from backgrounds focused on high performance, legacy modernization, and low latency. The speakers span a variety of software languages and industries.

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Date

Monday Oct 24 / 02:55PM PDT ( 50 minutes )

Location

Ballroom BC

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