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About the track
Systems you’ve heard about but never fully understood. Deep dives into real architectures, trade-offs, and the decisions that shaped them.
Sessions in this track
Monday 16 November. 6 sessions per track, chosen and introduced by the Track Host.
10:35 Ballroom BC Session Distributed Systems Live Resharding Without Regret: Lessons from Building Valkey's Atomic Slot Migration Jacob Murphy Open Source Maintainer @Valkey & Software Engineer @Google Cloud's Memorystore Team 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? 11:45 Ballroom BC Session AI/ML How to Build a Real-Time Voice Agent Rishabh Bhargava Director of ML @Together AI A voice agent looks like a chatbot with a microphone. 13:35 Ballroom BC Session Architecting Nubank's Global Financial Infrastructure Instant payment frameworks are transforming global finance, but few institutions have faced the infrastructure scale required by Brazil's Pix network. 14:45 Ballroom BC Session Inside the Disaggregated Architecture Serving LLM Inference Nancy Zheng VP of Engineering of AI Inference @Cerebras Every LLM request is really two very different jobs. Reading your prompt (prefill) is compute-intensive, while generating the response token by token (decode) is dominated by memory bandwidth. For years, the industry ran both phases on the same hardware and accepted the compromise. 15:55 Ballroom BC Session Architecting Real-Time Timeline Engines for 100 Million Active Users Details coming soon. 17:05 Seacliff D Unconference Unconference: Architectures You've Always Wondered About
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