Track Host: Todd Montgomery
He / him / his
Ex Researcher @Nasa, Engineering Fellow @ Adaptive Financial Consulting and a High Performance Distributed Systems Whisperer
Todd Montgomery is a networking hacker who has researched, designed, and built numerous protocols, messaging-oriented middleware systems, and real-time data systems, done research for NASA, contributed to the IETF and IEEE, and co-founded two startups. He currently works as an Engineering Fellow at Adaptive Financial Consulting and is active in several open source projects, including Agrona, Aeron, ReactiveSocket, and the FIX Simple Binary Encoding (SBE).
Find Todd Montgomery at:
Track
Building Modern Backends
Session
24/7 State Replication
Systems that operate non-stop, 24/7 are standard in many consumer-facing industries. Often, but definitely not always, these systems do not have aggressive SLAs nor high availability needs to the degree that some financial systems demand. But that is changing.
Date
Monday Oct 24 / 11:50AM PDT ( 50 minutes )
Location
Bayview
Topics
Backends Systems Financial Systems Designing Systems Replicated State Machines SLAs Computer ScienceShare
Session
Panel: Building Performant Microservice Architectures
Microservices improve cognitive load, velocity, isolation, and scalability. They also introduce complexity, increased reliance on the network, observability challenges, and, often, request latency.
Date
Tuesday Oct 25 / 05:25PM PDT ( 50 minutes )
Location
Ballroom A