Architectures You've Always Wondered About

This track will explore the real-world examples of innovative companies pushing the limits with modern software systems. Speakers will share their stories of how they have scaled their systems to handle massive amounts of traffic, data, and complexity.

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Session architecture

Beyond Platform Thinking at RB Global – Build Things No One Expects, in a Place No One Expects It

Monday Apr 8 / 10:35AM BST

Ever wondered what is it really like to move from a poorly integrated COTS legacy architecture to a well factored API driven cloud native platform and event driven architecture, globally deployed in AWS EKS with modern observability and daily software releases?

Speaker image - Ranbir Chawla
Ranbir Chawla

SVP of Engineering @RB Global, Previously SME @Thoughtworks Digital Platform Strategy Team, 30+ Years in Software Engineering and Entrepreneurship

Session

0 → 1, shipping Threads in 5 months

Monday Apr 8 / 11:45AM BST

In Jan 2023, we received word that we’d need to build a microblogging service to compete with Twitter in a couple of months. This is the (technical) story of the small team that was assembled to take on that challenge, and that shipped a new social network in July.

Speaker image - Zahan Malkani
Zahan Malkani

Software Engineer @Meta

Session Data Architecture

Architecting for Data Products

Monday Apr 8 / 01:35PM BST

Data Mesh principles have brought data products to the forefront of data architecture discussions. However, due to the variety of applications and the vast technology landscape, it is hard to bring those principles into practice.

Speaker image - Danilo Sato
Danilo Sato

Global Head of Technology - Data & AI @Thoughtworks, Author of DevOps in Practice, CD4ML, and DataIQ UK’s 100 Most Influential People in Data in 2022–2023

Session platforms

How We Created a High-Scale Notification System at Duolingo That Delivered Millions of Messages Within Seconds During a Super Bowl Commercial Break

Monday Apr 8 / 02:45PM BST

Building a notification system may seem trivial, but what about building one that could reach million of users within a few seconds? What about doing that right after your advertisement airs?

Speaker image - Vitor Pellegrino
Vitor Pellegrino

Site Reliability Engineering @Duolingo

Speaker image - Zhen Zhou
Zhen Zhou

Software Engineer at @Duolingo, Previous Theoretical Computer Science Enthusiast @CMU

Session

Everything Is a Plugin: How the Backstage Architecture Helps Platform Teams at Spotify and Beyond Spread Ownership and Deliver Value

Monday Apr 8 / 03:55PM BST

Back in 2014, platform engineers at Spotify identified a problem: the number of internal tools was growing rapidly, and as a result engineers around the company were struggling to find the tools and information they needed to work efficiently.

Speaker image - Pia Nilsson
Pia Nilsson

Director of Engineering @Spotify

Speaker image - Mike Lewis
Mike Lewis

Staff Engineer @Spotify

Session

Unconference: Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Monday Apr 8 / 05:05PM BST

An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. Attendees come together, bringing their challenges and relying on the experience and know-how of their peers for solutions.

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Monday Apr 8 / 10:35AM BST

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Track Host

Cassandra Shum

Vice President of Field Engineering @RelationalAI, Previously @Thoughtworks

Enterprise Architect | Technologist | Former Member of Tech Advisory Boards at ThoughtWorks | Speaker | Ex-Thoughtworks

Based in New York, Cassie is the VP of Field Engineering of RelationalAI and leads a team to bring a cloud-native knowledge graph data management system to power the next generation of intelligent data applications.  She was the Head and Technical Director for Architecture and Development in North America. As a software engineer and architect, she had spent the last 12+ years at Thoughtworks focusing on building highly scalable and resilient architectures including event driven systems and microservices on cloud based technologies. She had been focused on a wide range of technologies with an emphasis on cloud, mobile and software delivery excellence. She was a member of the ThoughtWorks Technology Advisory Board and contributed to the creation of the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar.


Cassie had also been involved in growing not only organizations in the delivery practices and technical strategy, but also the next generation of technologists. Some of her passions include advocating for women in technology and public speaking. She is also involved in promoting more female speakers in technology.

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