Polyglot Platforms: Strategies & Practices to Enable Innovation

Our modern software ecosystems require a diverse set of technology choices and programming languages, but that can be challenging for central platform teams to support. This track will examine how companies can strategically enable a "polyglot" approach to overcome limitations and foster innovation. Discover how embracing a variety of tools and methodologies enables teams to build more robust, scalable, and boundary-pushing solutions.


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Designing AI Platforms for Reliability: Tools for Certainty, Agents for Discovery

Monday Nov 17 / 10:35AM PST

Modern AI platforms don’t have to choose between deterministic precision and probabilistic exploration—they need both.

Speaker image - Aaron Erickson

Aaron Erickson

Senior Manager and Founder of the DGX Cloud Applied AI Lab @NVIDIA, Previously Engineer @ThoughtWorks, VP of Engineering @New Relic, CEO and Co-Founder @Orgspace

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Confidently Automating Changes Across a Diverse Fleet

Monday Nov 17 / 11:45AM PST

Maintaining up-to-date and secure software across a polyglot fleet is a challenge for any engineering organization. Manual migrations and urgent updates disrupt productivity and require coordination across many teams.

Speaker image - Casey Bleifer

Casey Bleifer

Senior Software Engineer @Netflix

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Driving Innovation with a Polyglot Platform

Monday Nov 17 / 01:35PM PST

Details coming soon.

Speaker image - Bishwajeet Paul

Bishwajeet Paul

Architect, Platform Engineering @JPMorgan Chase - Specializing in Solving Complex Challenges for the Developer Community

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Keeping the Mainline Green Across Diverse Language Monorepos

Monday Nov 17 / 02:45PM PST

At Uber’s scale, ensuring an always-green mainline while processing hundreds of changes per hour is a massive challenge— especially when those changes span multiple language monorepos supporting dozens of business-critical apps.

Speaker image - Dhruva Juloori

Dhruva Juloori

Senior Software Engineer @Uber, Core Contributor to SubmitQueue (Uber's CI System at Scale), Expert in Machine Learning, Distributed Systems, and Developer Productivity

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Rust at the Core - Accelerating Polyglot SDK Development

Monday Nov 17 / 03:55PM PST

Developing SDKs for your users in multiple languages can come at a high cost - especially if you need to implement complex logic client side, but traditionally options for sharing logic across those languages have been quite limited.

Speaker image - Spencer Judge

Spencer Judge

Engineering Manager @Temporal Technologies, previously Senior Software Engineer @Transparent Systems, Senior Software Engineer @ Tableau Software

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From Monolith to Mosaic: Strategies for a Safe and Successful Polyglot Migration

Monday Nov 17 / 05:05PM PST

Details coming soon.

Speaker image - Adrian Cockcroft

Adrian Cockcroft

Technology Advisor and Consultant @OrionX.net, Previously VP Open Source and Sustainability @Amazon, Cloud Architect @Netflix, Distinguished Engineer @eBay

Track Host

Eric Wendelin

Leads Application Development Platform Engineering @Netflix, Previously @AWS and @Apple

Eric Wendelin leads Application Development Platform engineering at Netflix, where he builds command-line tools, back-end analytics, web applications, and GenAI agents to improve developer productivity for all language ecosystems.

Previously, Eric led ML Engineering teams at AWS, Gradle, and Apple. He lives in Phoenix with his partner and 11-year old daughter, and enjoys chess and Colorado Avalanche hockey.

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