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Speaker: Ramya Krishnamoorthy
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Principal Engineer Building High Performance Serverless Caching at Momento With 18+ Years of Software Experience, Previously Foundational Engineer for Streaming Media Services @AWS and Senior Engineer for Financial Trading Systems @Bloomberg
Ramya is an Engineering Leader at Momento where she works on the next generation of serverless low latency data services like caching and message buses. Previously at AWS, she led the Container Observability team for ECS and launched AWS Elemental MediaPackage, a cloud video packaging and content origination service used to stream events like the Super Bowl and Thursday Night Football to millions of viewers. She worked on critical low latency financial trading and derivatives pricing platforms at Bloomberg. Ramya brings close to two decades of distributed systems experience in multiple domains to the table and has seen the evolution of applications from monoliths to microservices across languages and frameworks. In her first startup gig @Momento, she appreciates the deeper interactions with customers to understand how technology solves their problems. Outside of work, she likes to catch up with the latest in science fiction and fantasy books or try out new recipes.
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Session
Myth Busters: Is Rust a Slam Dunk?
We built a high-scale caching service with rigorous latency, cost, and availability requirements in Kotlin. Then, we rewrote our services in Rust. Was it worth it?