Distributed Systems
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 Online Systems with Object Storage
Tuesday Nov 17 / 11:45AM PST
“Diskless” systems that delegate durability to object storage are everywhere, and for three good reasons:
Almog Gavra
Co-Founder @Responsive.dev - Building Object-Native Databases, Previously @Confluent and @LinkedIn
When Your Users Are Agents: Lessons from a Distributed Postgres Platform
Tuesday Nov 17 / 03:55PM 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.
Gwen Shapira
Co-Founder and CPO @Nile, Previously Engineering Leader @Confluent, PMC Member @Kafka, & Committer Apache Sqoop