Navigating Major Architecture Migrations

QCon San Francisco 2025

Track

Navigating Major Architecture Migrations

Tuesday 18 November · 6 sessions, 50 minutes each

About the track

Architectural migrations are some of the most complex, high-stakes moves engineering teams undertake—often necessary, rarely easy, and always full of trade-offs. 
    
This track explores real-world stories of organizations making bold shifts in their systems—changing foundational technologies, rethinking architectural paradigms, and evolving long-standing infrastructure.
    
You'll hear hard-won lessons, unexpected hurdles, and practical guidance from those who've made (or are still making) these transitions. Whether you're planning your own migration or simply curious about how others are doing it, this track will help you make sense of the chaos and chart a clearer path forward.

Sessions in this track

Tuesday 18 November. 6 sessions per track, chosen and introduced by the Track Host.

10:35 Seacliff ABC Session Architecture Monolith Down: Cleaning Up After the Great Identity Migration Disaster Sonya Natanzon Engineering Leader and Independent Architect 11:45 Ballroom A Session AI/ML Modernizing Relevance at Scale: LinkedIn’s Migration Journey to Serve Billions of Users Nishant Lakshmikanth Engineering Manager @LinkedIn, Leading Infrastructure for "People You May Know" and "People Follows", Previously @AWS and @Cisco 13:35 Seacliff D Unconference Unconference: Navigating Major Architecture Migrations 14:45 Ballroom A Session Databases Stripe’s Docdb: How Zero-Downtime Data Movement Powers Trillion-Dollar Payment Processing Jimmy Morzaria Staff Software Engineer @Stripe, Previously Software Engineer on Amazon QLDB and Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka 15:55 Seacliff ABC Session Migration Migrating Uber Eats Feeds to Webview Nick DiStefano Sr Staff Engineer @Uber, Previously iOS Lead @Tumblr 17:05 Ballroom A Session Architecture Accelerating Netflix Data: A Cross-Team Journey from Offline to Online Rajasekhar Ummadisetty, Ken Kurzweil
76% senior dev or higher
1:11 speaker ratio
60+ practitioners

QCon San Francisco 2025 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.

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