Architecture
Designing AI Platforms for Reliability: Tools for Certainty, Agents for Discovery
Monday Nov 17 / 10:35AM PST
Modern AI platforms don’t have to choose between deterministic precision and probabilistic exploration—they need both.
Aaron Erickson
Senior Manager and Founder of the DGX Cloud Applied AI Lab @NVIDIA, Previously Engineer @ThoughtWorks, VP of Engineering @New Relic, CEO and Co-Founder @Orgspace
How to Build an Exchange: Sub Millisecond Response Times and 24/7 Uptimes in the Cloud
Monday Nov 17 / 10:35AM PST
These days it is possible to achieve fairly good performance on cloud provisioned systems. We discuss the design of a high performance, strongly consistent system which maintains constant service in the face of regular updates to core logic.
Frank Yu
Director of Engineering @Coinbase, Previously Principal Engineer and Director @FairX
Continuous Delivery for Foundational Platforms
Monday Nov 17 / 10:35AM PST
Platform teams frequently inherit systems that were never architected for their current scale, yet are so foundational that downtime can halt the business.
Ian Nowland
CEO @Junction Labs, Author of O'Reilly's Platform Engineering, Previously SVP Core Engineering at Datadog and Leader of AWS Nitro
Compiling Workflows into Databases: The Architecture That Shouldn't Work (But Does)
Monday Nov 17 / 11:45AM PST
What if everything you know about building distributed systems is backwards?
Jeremy Edberg
CEO of DBOS, Creator of Chaos Engineering, Tech Editor for 'AWS for Dummies'; Previously Founding Reliability Engineer @Netflix, and First Engineer @Reddit
Qian Li
Co-founder, Architect @DBOS, Stanford CS Ph.D., Co-organizer of South Bay Systems
Parting the Clouds: The Rise of Disaggregated Systems
Monday Nov 17 / 01:35PM PST
Cloud systems are undergoing an architectural shift. Traditional shared-nothing designs struggle to deliver the elasticity, availability, and operational simplicity that the cloud demands.
Murat Demirbas
Principal Research Scientist @MongoDB Research, Previously Principal Applied Scientist @AWS and a Professor of Computer Science at the University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Maximizing Success with Limited Time, Resources, and Energy: Lessons from Startup Engineering
Monday Nov 17 / 01:35PM PST
Startups are the harshest environments for engineers. Limited time, resources, and energy force teams to make decisions under pressure — and those decisions can determine whether a company survives or stalls.
David Gudeman
Co-Founder and CTO @Velocity AI
Secure Software Supply Chain: Risk Prediction at the Speed of Development
Monday Nov 17 / 01:35PM PST
The Platform That Sees Risk Before Code Does
Bishwajeet Paul
Architect, Platform Engineering @JPMorgan Chase - Specializing in Solving Complex Challenges for the Developer Community
Architecting a Centralized Platform for Data Deletion at Netflix
Monday Nov 17 / 03:55PM PST
What does it take to safely delete data at Netflix scale? In large-scale systems, data deletion cuts across infrastructure, reliability, and performance complexities.
Vidhya Arvind
Tech Lead & a Founding Architect for the Data Abstraction Platform @Netflix, Previously @Box and @Verizon
Shawn Liu
Senior Software Engineer @Netflix, Building Reliable and Extensible Systems for Consumer Data Lifecycle at Scale
Monolith Down: Cleaning Up After the Great Identity Migration Disaster
Tuesday Nov 18 / 10:35AM PST
One does not simply migrate a monolith. Imagine a team working on a monolith-to-microservices migration of a healthcare portal. A foundational first step - migrating to a commercial identity provider - takes 9 months, only to bring the entire portal crashing down on release day.
Sonya Natanzon
VP of Engineering @Heartflow, Decomplexifier, Software Architect, Healthcare and Life Sciences Specialist, and International speaker
Modernizing Relevance at Scale: LinkedIn’s Migration Journey to Serve Billions of Users
Tuesday Nov 18 / 11:45AM PST
How do you deliver relevant and personalized recommendations to nearly a billion professionals—instantly, reliably, and at scale? At LinkedIn, the answer has been a multi-year journey of architectural reinvention.
Nishant Lakshmikanth
Engineering Manager @LinkedIn, Leading Infrastructure for "People You May Know" and "People Follows", Previously @AWS and @Cisco