Developer Experience
Enhancing Reliability Using Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix
Monday Nov 17 / 05:05PM PST
How does Netflix maintain a seamless viewing experience for millions of users, especially during traffic spikes or when backend datastores are overloaded? Autoscaling can help during traffic spikes, but it costs money, takes a few minutes to kick in, and capacity may not always be available.
Anirudh Mendiratta
Staff Software Engineer, Playback Lifecycle @Netflix, Previously @Amazon Prime Video and @fuboTV
Benjamin Fedorka
Staff Software Engineer, Productivity Engineering @Netflix
Accelerating LLM-Driven Developer Productivity at Zoox
Wednesday Nov 19 / 11:45AM PST
Over the past year, Zoox has invested in integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into internal developer workflows through a company-wide initiative called Zoox Intelligence (ZI).
Amit Navindgi
Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience @ Zoox, Leading Applied AI Initiatives
Trustworthy Productivity: Securing AI-Accelerated Development
Wednesday Nov 19 / 03:55PM PST
Autonomous agents operate in a continuous loop: perceive context → reason → execute tools → observe. Each edge creates distinct attack surfaces. This talk maps vulnerabilities—memory poisoning in context ingestion, goal hijacking during reasoning, blind execution at the action stage.
Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan
Senior Software Engineer @AWS Agentic AI, Previously Core Team @AWS SAM, AWS Cloudwatch, Core Developer @Openstack