Architecture
Live Resharding Without Regret: Lessons from Building Valkey's Atomic Slot Migration
Monday Nov 16 / 10:35AM PST
Sharding is easy. Resharding under heavy load is notoriously difficult. How do you move gigabytes of state across live database nodes without dropping keys, blocking the main event loop, or breaking client abstractions?
Jacob Murphy
Open Source Maintainer @Valkey & Software Engineer @Google Cloud's Memorystore Team
How to Build a Real-Time Voice Agent
Monday Nov 16 / 01:35PM PST
A voice agent looks like a chatbot with a microphone.
Rishabh Bhargava
Director of ML @Together AI
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.
Aarti Gupta
Staff Engineer @Netflix
Nobody Knows Everything (and That's OK): Building Alignment in Complex, Rapidly Changing Environments
Tuesday Nov 17 / 10:35AM PST
Successful Staff+ engineers build alignment across organizational and technical boundaries, including domains where they aren't the deepest expert.
Kaye Mason
Senior Staff Software Engineer @Meta, Previously @Google and @EA, 20+ Years in Real-Time Rendering, Spatial Computing, and Developer Platforms
Progressive Failure Modes of Modern AI Serving Systems
Tuesday Nov 17 / 03:55PM PST
Details coming soon.
Legacy as Leverage: How Brownfield Work Builds Technical Judgment
Wednesday Nov 18 / 11:45AM PST
Legacy systems are often treated as a necessary evil: work to be endured before moving on to more “real, strategic” projects.
Shine Garg
Founder of Uncharted Path Breakthrough, Former Staff Software Engineer, 15+ Years Building and Scaling Backend, Data, Machine Learning, and Platform Systems