Agents

Session Modern APIs

Stop Fighting the Remodel: API Design for Models That Outgrew Their Boundaries

Monday Nov 16 / 05:05PM PST

Every domain model has a breaking point. At Netflix, ours arrived all at once—Ads, Games, Live events, and entirely new kinds of content. Each pulled the core entities in different, sometimes contradictory directions.

Speaker image - Aarti Gupta

Aarti Gupta

Staff Engineer @Netflix

Session Distributed Systems

When Your Users Are Agents: Lessons from a Distributed Postgres Platform

Tuesday Nov 17 / 11:45AM PST

Distributed systems are built around assumptions about workload behavior: connections have reasonable lifetimes, retries eventually stop, traffic spikes have recognizable causes, and application code produces somewhat predictable query patterns.

Speaker image - Gwen Shapira

Gwen Shapira

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