Speaker
Abstract
In this talk, Matthew will describe lessons learned from over 20+ years of building cloud-based scalable, secure and stable infrastructure platforms for mission critical software in financial services (electronic trading, credit card processing etc.). This talk takes an IT Executive lens on building platforms that must balance constant innovation and systemic significance.
The audience should expect to take home rich insights into:
- what to expect when building and sustaining platforms for years
- balancing maintaining currency vs client disruptions
- no compromises on security and stability.
Topics
Platform Engineering
SRE
infrastructure
cloud
76%
senior dev or higher
1:11
speaker ratio
60+
practitioners
QCon London 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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