Scaling the Unknown: How monday.com Built Performance Guardrails for AI and Custom Apps

QCon London 2026

Sponsored session

Scaling the Unknown: How monday.com Built Performance Guardrails for AI and Custom Apps

Monday Mar 16 / 10:35AM GMT, Westminster (4th Fl.) at The QEII Centre, London

Abstract

At monday.com, we’ve learned that performance bottlenecks are never solved—only relocated. This became critical as AI and user-built apps introduced unpredictable traffic that traditional benchmarks couldn't handle.

We shifted from manual tuning to performance-oriented platform design, deploying adaptive guardrails in just three months. These constraints protect system stability while allowing for rapid, custom innovation.

This session breaks down how to build resilient, extensible platforms. Learn which assumptions failed, which guardrails work, and how to keep APIs fast when you no longer control the client.

Sponsored session

Session Sponsored By

Work OS is a no-code, low-code framework. We have built a product suite on top of our Work OS to address the needs of specific industries and use cases — including monday Work Management, Dev, and Sales CRM. Building blocks like items, columns, views, automations, integrations and widgets allow customers to create custom software applications and workflows to fit their evolving needs.

76% senior dev or higher
1:11 speaker ratio
60+ practitioners

QCon London 2026 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.

Share

From the same track

Monday 16 March

10:35 Westminster (4th Fl.) Sponsored Scaling the Unknown: How monday.com Built Performance Guardrails for AI and Custom Apps Eviathar Moussaffi, Chen Salomon 11:45 Westminster (4th Fl.) Sponsored From Pilot to Impact: How AI Is Transforming Large‑Scale Engineering Yaping (Luna) Luo Global Head of Developer Experience (DevEx) & System Engineering @ING 13:35 Mountbatten (6th Fl.) Sponsored From Prompt to Production: How Spotify Builds Internal Tools in Days with AI and Platform Engineering Stuart Clark, Mike Lewis 14:45 Westminster (4th Fl.) Sponsored Maximising an Agentic AI Ecosystem: Trust, Control and Scale Jonathan Griffiths Field CTO @Dynatrace 15:55 Westminster (4th Fl.) Sponsored Beyond Observability: Implementing Runtime Guardrails for Production AI Agents May Walter Co-Founder and CTO @Hud 17:05 Westminster (4th Fl.) Sponsored Context Engineering: Building the Knowledge Engine AI Agents Need Brandon Waselnuk Developer Relations @Unblocked