Architectures You've Always Wondered About showcases real-world examples of companies pushing the limits of modern software systems. In these practitioner-focused talks, we discuss complex problems faced by some of the most well known companies in software. The challenges range from delivery speed to massive scale and from dizzying complexity to simple ingenuity. 

The track features:

• AWS: AWS Lambda is synonymous with serverless compute. This talk discusses the architecture of AWS Lambda from one of their system principals.
• Cloudflare: Roughly 20% of all internet traffic runs through cloud-flare content and delivery infrastructure. In this talk, we’ll look at how Cloudflare thinks about edge compute and some of their strategies for dealing with relational data.
• NIST: 800-207A is all about Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) and the principles it's laid out on. In this presentation, we hear from one of the founding engineers of Tetrate and member of the original core Istio team discussing practical implementation details of ZTA.
• Netflix: With 220 million memberships, Netflix manages a large-scale distributed system. In this talk, Netflix shares how they manage their system, architecture bets, technology choices, and operational semantics in their membership platform.
• Pinterest: Dive into the dynamic world of social media advertising and see how Pinterest builds their Ad Serving/Ranking infrastructure and hear about the journey from linear regression to deep learning models. 

In this track, you learn what it takes to operate modern, high scale systems from the engineers and leaders building them. This is a practitioner track where you will take away architectural patterns/anti-patterns, challenges, and hard-earned lessons from some of the world’s most recognizable software shops. 

The Architectures You’ve Always Wondered About track at QCon is one of the marque tracks at the conference. It’s one you don't want to miss!