Platform Engineering
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
Building a Data Platform with AI
Tuesday Nov 17 / 11:45AM PST
Data platform sits at the intersection of infrastructure, governance, operations, and user experience.
Mouli Mukherjee
Engineering Manager @OpenAI
Progressive Failure Modes of Modern AI Serving Systems
Tuesday Nov 17 / 03:55PM PST
Details coming soon.
Platform Engineering for Agents
Wednesday Nov 18 / 10:35AM PST
Agentic tools amplify what’s already in the codebase. The agent works through your code, your architecture decisions, and the documentation around them. It follows what it can read and guesses at the rest.
Mark Khuzam
Senior Software Engineer @Netflix, Previously Led the Consumer Web Platform Team @OpenTable
Platform Engineering’s Second Act: From Vending Machine to Passport Control
Wednesday Nov 18 / 02:45PM PST
Three years ago on the QCon SF stage, I made the case for “Acceleration, Autonomy, and Accountability” as the pillars of a successful platform. Those pillars haven't moved. AI has just rewritten what each one requires, and the platform team's job along with it.
Smruti Patel
SVP of Engineering @apollographql
Alex Mann
Senior Engineering Manager @apollographql
Building a Migration Platform: Moving 100+ Netflix RDBMS Workloads to Aurora PostgreSQL
Wednesday Nov 18 / 03:55PM PST
In late 2024, Netflix made a bet: consolidate the vast majority of our relational database use cases onto a single engine: Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.
Ammar Khaku
Distributed Systems Engineer @Netflix with an Affinity for Online Data Stores
Kshitij Gupta
Software Engineer @Netflix, Building Databases and Distributed Systems