2024 Schedule
Monday, April 8th, 2024
Continental Breakfast on 3rd & 5th Fl.
Conference Introduction and Keynote:
The Home Computer That Roared: How the BBC Micro Shaped Our World
Break
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Beyond Platform Thinking at RB Global – Build Things No One Expects, in a Place No One Expects It
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?
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Engineering Leadership for All
Help: I Didn’t Realize I Was a Manager Now!
The highest performing companies in every industry, like Apple, adhere to the principle of Experts leading Experts. As Apple says "it's easier to train an expert to manage well than to train a manager to be an expert".
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Cloud-Native Engineering
Efficient Serverless Development: Latest Patterns and Practices on AWS
Ready to dive into the world of serverless with AWS? In this talk, we're going to cut through the jargon and get straight to what serverless really means and why it's a game-changer for developers like us.
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What's Next in GenAI and Large Language Models (LLMs)
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Patterns and Best Practices
The rise of LLMs that coherently use language has led to an appetite to ground the generation of these models in facts and private collections of data.
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Performance Engineering Unleashed: Powering Efficiency and Innovation
A Walk Along the Complexity-Performance Curve
Software performance and complexity are related. It’s common for refactoring to introduce unanticipated regressions, and for performance optimisations to attract scrutiny in code review; how much performance improvement is worth a perceived loss of readability?
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Sponsored Solution Track I
What is your Developer Experience Utopia?
This session will look at some of the common challenges faced by Developers that interrupt the development flow, slow things down and increase the cognitive load while trying to innovate.
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
0 → 1, shipping Threads in 5 months
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.
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Engineering Leadership for All
Navigators: Decentralizing Decisions and Empowering ICs at Carta
As organizations grow, maintaining communication channels between individual contributors (ICs), managers, and executives is vital. At Carta, we have harnessed the power of this small group of senior engineers to bridge the gap between innovation and executive decision-making.
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Cloud-Native Engineering
Efficient DevSecOps Workflows With a Little Help From AI
From idea to the first line of code to production deployments - DevSecOps workflows help develop software faster. Everyone has reached a different level of adoption, and some processes may feel inefficient, or blocking progress and innovation.
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What's Next in GenAI and Large Language Models (LLMs)
Navigating LLM Deployment: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
Self-hosted Language Models are going to power the next generation of applications in critical industries like financial services, healthcare, and defence.
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Performance Engineering Unleashed: Powering Efficiency and Innovation
Opening the Box: Diagnosing Operating-System Task-Scheduler Behavior on Highly Multicore Machines
An operating system task scheduler is responsible for placing tasks on cores and for selecting which task is allowed to run, at what time. As such, the scheduler is a critical component of any operating system and has a major impact on application performance.
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Sponsored Solution Track I
You Capture only 1% of Business Data. Unlock the rest with EventStoreDB
Your application is only capturing 1% of your business operational data and you have absolutely no idea what miracles you are capable of when you capture the rest with EventStoreDB and Event Sourcing.
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Architecting for Data Products
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.
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Engineering Leadership for All
The Art, Science and Psychology of Decision Making
An exploration into the science behind decision-making, and tips and tricks to improve your ability to make sound personal and professional choices.
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Cloud-Native Engineering
Unconference: Cloud-Native Engineering
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.
Rutherford (4th Fl.)
Track:
What's Next in GenAI and Large Language Models (LLMs)
Reach Next-Level Autonomy with LLM-Based AI Agents
Generative AI has emerged rapidly since the release of ChatGPT, yet the industry is still at its very early stage with unclear prospects and potential.
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Performance Engineering Unleashed: Powering Efficiency and Innovation
Pitfalls of Unified Memory Models in GPUs
Modern GPUs offer support for so-called unified memory, providing a universal address space for both CPUs and GPUs.
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Sponsored Solution Track I
Driving Business Success: Exploring ING's Tech Strategy for Customer Value Creation
In this presentation, Rocío López (CIO ING Spain & Portugal) will relate how technology has become the pioneering driver to improve the business. In an era where differentiation is key, the use of technology has been a major enabler for creating value.
Break
Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
How We Created a High-Scale Notification System at Duolingo That Delivered Millions of Messages Within Seconds During a Super Bowl Commercial Break
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?
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Engineering Leadership for All
Small Actions, Big Impact: Catalyzing Change in Groups
In the dynamic landscape of software engineering, the power to effect change does not lie in grand and colorful strategies but in the cumulative influence of small, strategic actions within teams and organizations.
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Cloud-Native Engineering
Building SaaS From Scratch Using Cloud-Native Patterns: A Deep Dive Into a Cloud Startup
A robust and extensible Cloud platform is the foundation on which to build and distribute powerful Software as a Service (SaaS). It provides a common layer upon which you can quickly iterate to deliver specialized services to meet the needs of your end users.
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What's Next in GenAI and Large Language Models (LLMs)
LLM and Generative AI for Sensitive Data - Navigating Security, Responsibility, and Pitfalls in Highly Regulated Industries
As large language models (LLM) become more prevalent in highly regulated industries, dealing with sensitive data and ensuring the security and ethical design of machine learning (ML) models is paramount.
Track:
Performance Engineering Unleashed: Powering Efficiency and Innovation
Unconference: Performance Engineering Unleashed
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.
Rutherford (4th Fl.)
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Sponsored Solution Track I
Clean Code is the Base for a Well-Functioning Dev Team
There has never been a more exciting time to be a developer, with the continuous improvement of the development environment.
Break
Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Everything Is a Plugin: How the Backstage Architecture Helps Platform Teams at Spotify and Beyond Spread Ownership and Deliver Value
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.
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Engineering Leadership for All
Connecting the Dots: Engineering Leadership (Limited Space - Registration Required)
Join some leading experts in engineering leadership to share your challenges, hear from others who have similar challenges, and collaborate together on ways to take what you’ve learned at QCon back to work. (Limited Space - Registration Required)
Rutherford (4th Fl.)
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Cloud-Native Engineering
Borderless Cloud: Designing, Implementing, and Securing Apps Across Multiple Clouds
There are different reasons why your team might want to leverage the multi-cloud architecture. It could be a result of the desire to enhance redundancy and optimize costs, to ensure regulatory compliance, or to capitalize on the diverse services offered by different cloud providers.
Track:
What's Next in GenAI and Large Language Models (LLMs)
The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized: How Open-Source Beats Economies of Scale, Even for LLMs
With the latest advancements in Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models (LLMs), and big companies like OpenAI dominating the space, many people wonder: Are we heading further into a black box era with larger and larger models, obscured behind APIs controlled by big t
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Performance Engineering Unleashed: Powering Efficiency and Innovation
Practical Benchmarking: How To Detect Performance Changes in Noisy Results
Finding statistically significant changes in performance results has always been challenging but now that most of our code runs on hardware and infrastructure we don't own, we need methods and tools for detecting performance changes in noisy data.
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Sponsored Solution Track I
Best Practices for Data Platforms with Finanz Informatik and Hazelcast
Do you think that offering fast and reliable services is absolutely crucial for end user satisfaction? Does your organization have the challenge of building services that perform well even when components inevitably fail?
Neil Stevenson - Hazelcast
Philipp Blanke - Finanz Informatik
Nico Krieg - Finanz Informatik
Westminster (4th Fl.)
Break
Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Unconference: Architectures You've Always Wondered About
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.
Rutherford (4th Fl.)
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Engineering Leadership for All
Data, Drugs, and Disruption: Leading High-Performance Company in Drug Development
Ever wonder how to find inspiration and leadership drive to transform your cutting-edge engineering idea into a viable technology powered business?
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Cloud-Native Engineering
Stateful Cloud Services at Neon: Navigating Design Decisions and Trade-Offs
Cloud-native engineering talks frequently focus on implementing and operating the stateless parts of applications.
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What's Next in GenAI and Large Language Models (LLMs)
How Green is Green: LLMs to Understand Climate Disclosure at Scale
Assessment of the validity of climate finance claims requires a system that can handle significant variation in language, format, and structure present in climate and financial reporting documentation, and knowledge of the domain-specific language of climate science and finance.
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Performance Engineering Unleashed: Powering Efficiency and Innovation
Panel: What Does the Future of Computing Look Like
The future of computing promises to be revolutionary. This panel dives into cutting-edge advancements that will redefine how we interact with technology. We'll explore groundbreaking concepts and discuss their potential to transform our world.
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Sponsored Solution Track I
Autonomous AI, Your New QA Engineer
Software engineering leaders face a shortage of experienced testers, especially people with the skills required to programmatically create tests. Developers are drowning in Test/QA tasks rather than writing application code.
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024
Continental Breakfast on 3rd & 5th Fl.
Break
Track:
Architecture for the Age of AI
When AIOps Meets MLOps: What Does It Take To Deploy ML Models at Scale
In this talk, we introduce the concept of AIOps referring to using AI and data-driven tooling to provision, manage and scale distributed IT infra. We particularly focus on how AIOps can be leveraged to help train and deploy machine learning models and pipelines at scale.
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Innovations in Data Engineering
Powering User Experiences with Streaming Dataflow
Streaming dataflow provides a unique solution to scaling OLTP applications by allowing for an efficient cache implementation that does not diverge from the relational model of the underlying data store.
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Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability
Are You Done Yet? Mastering Long-Running Processes in Modern Architectures
Navigating the challenges of long-running processes is an important skill to survive modern architecture. The complexities arise from the growing distribution of systems and the need to address issues related to remote communication and the unavailability of peers.
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Efficient Programming Languages
What Can You Learn From the Fastest Code in the World?
One of the challenges in the cloud is handling the vast amount of data that has to be sent and received. Doing this in software reduces the need for specialist hardware and increases flexibility.That's why superfast data planes exist.
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How Do Teams Really Work?
Making Change Stick: Lessons Learned From Helping Teams Improve at the Co-Op
The Co-op has a wide range of software teams, working closely with its variety of businesses (from food to funerals) to build and improve services for use by over 65,000 colleagues, 5 million members, and many more customers.
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Sponsored Solution Track II
Why You’re Doing Service Catalogs Wrong
Service catalogs promise a lot of things: powerful automations, insights into your technology estate. But over the last few years, many of us have learned that setting up and maintaining a service catalog is **really hard**.
Track:
Architecture for the Age of AI
Mind Your Language Models: An Approach to Architecting Intelligent Systems
As large language models (LLMs) emerge from the realm of proof-of-concept (POC) and into mainstream production, the demand for effective architectural strategies intensifies.
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Innovations in Data Engineering
The Harsh Reality of Building a Realtime ML Feature Platform
In a world where AI and ML are rapidly evolving, the need for efficient Realtime Feature Platforms has never been greater. But the journey to create one is far from straightforward.
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Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability
gRPC Migration Automation at LinkedIn
LinkedIn is in the process of migrating from Rest.li, an internally developed open source framework for building RESTful APIs to gRPC for better framework capabilities, runtime efficiency, and developer productivity.
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Efficient Programming Languages
Not Just Memory Safety: How Rust Helps Maintain Efficient Software
Rust's claim to fame is its memory safety without compromising on performance, eliminating whole classes of security vulnerabilities and bringing systems programming to the new generation.
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How Do Teams Really Work?
The Journey of ClearBank From Start-Up To Scale-Up
Join me on the journey of ClearBank’s transition from a start-up to a scale-up, focusing on the impact on culture and decision-making, and how this affected our engineering teams.
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Sponsored Solution Track II
Driving Down the Cost of Observability
Ten years ago, observability barely existed. Now, observability costs can equal 10%–30% of operational budgets. Inefficient observability has become a blocker to a scaled DevOps strategy.
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Architecture for the Age of AI
Connecting the Dots: Applying Generative AI (Limited Space - Registration Required)
Details coming soon.
Rutherford (4th Fl.)
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Innovations in Data Engineering
High Performance Time-Series Database Design With QuestDB
In this talk we will explore the world of time series and unique set of problems time series present to the developers. We will discuss the engineering principles behind QuestDB's design, focusing on high performance.
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Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability
Sidecar-Less or Sidecars for Your Applications in Istio Service Mesh?
Sidecar-less functionality has emerged as an alternative approach in service mesh architectures, addressing concerns related to costs and complexity associated with sidecars.
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Efficient Programming Languages
Unleashing the Kernel With eBPF
eBPF is a kernel technology that is enabling a new generation of high-performance, low-overhead tools for networking, security and observability.
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How Do Teams Really Work?
Being a Bad Influence – The Dangerous Dichotomies of People Management
Humans are complicated unpredictable creatures. As managers and leaders we need to be consistent, yet flexible. Strong, yet vulnerable. Caring, yet authoritative. We need to be so many things that it's often hard to be ourselves - but don’t forget to also be authentic!
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Sponsored Solution Track II
FinOps & Cost Optimization: Considerations on Implementing an Effective Strategy
In this session, we delve into the concepts of FinOps and Cost Optimization, providing important considerations to aid in the successful implementation of a robust Cost Optimization strategy.
Break
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Architecture for the Age of AI
Flawed ML Security: Mitigating Security Vulnerabilities in Data & Machine Learning Infrastructure with MLSecOps
The operation and maintenance of large scale production machine learning systems has uncovered new challenges which require fundamentally different approaches to that of traditional software.
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Innovations in Data Engineering
Improving Developer Experience Using Automated Data CI/CD Pipelines
Validating your code against actual production data can be challenging. We have all been at least once on the receiving end of a "test1" email subject because somebody somewhere did a test with the production database.
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Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability
Modernizing in Healthcare – From On-Prem to the Cloud
Change is hard. Changing an industry as complex as Healthcare is doubly hard. With conflicting interests, complicated synchronization practices, diverse api integration requirements and an aging, overly complex application, our path from on-prem to cloud-native was not simple.
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Efficient Programming Languages
Unconference: Efficient Programming Languages
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.
Rutherford (4th Fl.)
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How Do Teams Really Work?
Bits, Bots, and Banter: A Deep Dive into How Tech Teams Work in a DevOps World
Working in a DevOps world, we've all witnessed many recommendations for how teams work. We have books, blogs, tech trade articles, and even entire pieces of software dedicated to helping teams work together more effectively. We're expected to take a blue-sky approach with the given advice.
Break
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Architecture for the Age of AI
Large Language Models for Code: Exploring the Landscape, Opportunities, and Challenges
In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development, Large Language Models (LLMs) for code have emerged as a groundbreaking tool for code completion, synthesis and analysis.
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Innovations in Data Engineering
Rockset - Building a Modern Analytics Database on Top of RocksDB
RocksDB, a key-value store built on the foundation of Log-Structured Merge-Tree data structures and originally open-sourced by Facebook, has played a significant role in shaping data systems over the past decades.
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Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability
Unconference: Connecting Systems
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.
Rutherford (4th Fl.)
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Efficient Programming Languages
Zero Waste, Radical Magic, and Italian Graft – Quarkus Efficiency Secrets
What makes a platform efficient? Is it how quickly code executes, or is it how quickly developers can use it to solve problems? Quarkus makes both people and hardware more efficient. That’s cool, but how does it work?
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How Do Teams Really Work?
A Tale of Team Topologies at m3ter
The path to success is frequently a winding one, and as a series A tech startup, m3ter is no exception.
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Sponsored Solution Track II
Specs Generation, Bring Intelligence in your API Management Strategy
In an era where access to data is In today's tech realm, maintaining a solid API setup is crucial. Yet, with the array of technologies and standards like OpenAPI and AsyncAPI out there, things can quickly get messy. Wrangling all your documentation into one coherent package?
Break
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Architecture for the Age of AI
Lessons Learned From Building LinkedIn’s AI Data Platform
Taking AI from lab to business is notoriously difficult. It is not just about picking which model flavor of the day to use. More important is making every step of the process reliable and productive.
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Innovations in Data Engineering
Unconference: Innovations in Data Engineering
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.
Rutherford (4th Fl.)
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Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability
Production Comes First - An Outside-In Approach to Building Microservices
The software world is moving towards multiple interconnected applications that service our customer needs, but this makes development so much harder. Now we need to think about how were interact we other systems that we don't necessarily own.
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Efficient Programming Languages
Turbocharged Development: The Speed and Efficiency of WebAssembly
The **software carbon intensity (SCI)** of an application is the sum of its operational emissions and embodied hardware emissions. Serverless, or functions as a service (FaaS), provides a path towards reducing operational emissions by running event-driven applications only as needed.
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How Do Teams Really Work?
Thriving Through Change: Leading Through Uncertainty
Navigating change and building resilient teams is a complex challenge that many organizations face. Times of change can lead to uncertainty, disagreement, and a breakdown in trust.
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
Continental Breakfast on 3rd & 5th Fl.
Conference Introduction and Keynote:
Applying AI to the SDLC: New Ideas and Gotchas! - Leveraging AI to Improve Software Engineering
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Architecture Through Different Lenses
Thinking Like an Architect
Are architects supposed to be the smartest people on the team, making all the important decisions for developers to fill in the blanks? Certainly not. Rather, architects make everyone else smarter, for example by sharing decision models or revealing blind spots.
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Platforms, People & Process; Delivering Great Developer Experiences
When DevOps Runs Its Course - We Need Platform as a Runtime
In this talk, Aviran will describe how http://Wix.com is pushing this trend even further to build its own Platform as a Runtime (PaaR) infrastructure that allows developers to develop faster, better with higher quality.
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Emerging Trends in the Frontend and Mobile Development
The Latest in the World of Web Engineering (Featuring AI)
In this talk, we explore web engineering in relation to AI, AI engineering, Intelligent Answering Engines, an update on CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and personal health and productivity.
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Securing Modern Software
A Zero Trust Future for Applications: Practical Implementation and Pitfalls
If you are building applications which are critical for your organization's revenue than you would be looking at a zero trust future for most of the applications.
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The Tech of FinTech
Unveiling the Tech Underpinning FinTech's Revolution
Building and hyperscaling in a fintech is not only possible, but more straightforward than you may think. Based on lessons from various companies, including Revolut and LMAX, we share examples and the dark sides of rapid-scaling.It's going to be an opinionated story with a pinch of fun.
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Sponsored Solution Track III
Simplifying Streaming Data Transforms with WebAssembly
The majority of stream processing work is spent on mundane transformation tasks like scrubbing, normalisation, and filtering. Yet to perform these relatively simple tasks involves standing up multiple distributed systems that add complexity and take time to learn.
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Architecture Through Different Lenses
Think, Architect, and Sustain Your Serverless Applications As [Set] Pieces!
Over the decades, we have seen several architectural principles and patterns that helped enterprises build monolithic applications that stood the test of time. The emergence of microservices made us rethink how we built these business applications.
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Platforms, People & Process; Delivering Great Developer Experiences
Building Your First Platform Team in a Fast Growing Startup
Platform Engineering is all about improving developer experience. It’s about accelerating and empowering developers to deliver more product value faster over time. Which makes it the perfect investment for a fast growing startup! But where do you start? And what tradeoffs do you need to make?
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Emerging Trends in the Frontend and Mobile Development
Unleashing the Potential of VR: Building Immersive Experiences with Familiar Tools
Join us as we delve into the exciting world of wearable devices, the next frontier in personal computing. At Meta, we're harnessing this potential through innovative software like Workrooms, a VR application that transcends the boundaries of traditional collaboration.
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Securing Modern Software
Trends in InfoSec: Data Minimisation, Autoclassification, and Ethical AI
Laws are changing around the world to require frequent disposal of high-risk information, to reduce the impact of (inevitable) breaches. As such, ‘records management’ is now cyber discipline, but one that has not previously been well enabled by technology.
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The Tech of FinTech
Uncomplex: Modern Hardware for Better Software
While it's easy to launch a technology startup, it's harder than ever to grow it to delight clients profitably. Cloud providers and their developer advocates have popularised expensive architectures to solve problems that were relevant 10 years ago.
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Sponsored Solution Track III
GraphRAG - Connecting the Dots for Information Discovery
The classic RAG application extends an LLM with private information, able to fetch answers to questions that are contained in a single chunk of text. What if the answer requires connecting the dots across multiple chunks that may not be directly similar to the question?
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Architecture Through Different Lenses
Evolving Trainline Architecture for Scale, Reliability and Productivity
Trainline has been enabling customers to buy train tickets online for over 15 years.
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Platforms, People & Process; Delivering Great Developer Experiences
A Platform Engineering Journey: Copy and Paste Deployments to Full GitOps
Jemma Hussein Allen's career has evolved from a web developer at a small media company to a platform engineering leader at a large multinational organisation. The journey hasn't always been smooth, but there was certainly much to learn.
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Emerging Trends in the Frontend and Mobile Development
Lessons Learned in the Financial Market About Performance and Observability in Frontend Projects
Navigate the intricate balance between performance and observability in frontend projects within the financial market. Discover hard-earned lessons, unraveling the challenges of maintaining equilibrium in this delicate dance.
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Securing Modern Software
Beyond the Breach: Proactive Defense in the Age of Advanced Threats
This talk will cover some of the most advanced attacks that are in the public domain, mostly attributed in public by commercial organizations. This talk will give a whirlwind tour of some of the high end of threat activity to set out a context of changing cybersecurity landscape.
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The Tech of FinTech
Responsible AI for FinTech
The latest wave of hype/interest in AI has accelerated public misgivings and regulatory scrutiny. Businesses, especially in already-regulated industries, are scrambling to assess compliance and find viable ways to continue profitable use of data and AI.
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Sponsored Solution Track III
Elevating Developer Experiences with AI-Powered API Testing & Documentation
In the modern era, APIs have exploded in their popularity, powering absolutely everything we interact with on a daily basis (whether we know it or not). Maintaining their coherence and functionality has become, to say the least, a difficult task for developers and engineering leaders.
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Architecture Through Different Lenses
How to Architect Software for a Greener Future
Few industries have moved fast enough to support the energy transition, and that includes the tech sector. How will software development and operations have to change to meet the sustainability and green needs of the planet?
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Platforms, People & Process; Delivering Great Developer Experiences
The Time Is Now: Delight Your Developers with User-Centric Platforms & Practices
In this talk, we delve into the transformative power of adopting a user-centric approach that is required across all stages of platform development: from understanding user needs and building the platform, to fostering adoption, offering support, and prioritising future enhancements. This holistic approach brings higher improvements in developer experience and productivity, both to the product developement teams and to the teams that build the platforms.
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Emerging Trends in the Frontend and Mobile Development
Server-Driven UI for Mobile and Beyond
Server-Driven UI is a broad term that covers many kinds of technologies.
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Securing Modern Software
Poetry4Shellz – Avoiding Limerick Based Exploitation and Safely Using AI in Your Apps
LLM based AI has introduced huge shifts in the technology landscape in a very short amount of time, a consequence of which has been the immense pressure on organizations of all types to adopt and/or develop any and all things AI.
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The Tech of FinTech
Why a Hedge Fund Built Its Own Database
Why did an alternative asset manager build its own database? Can you over-normalise your data? What real-world features of data create challenges? In this talk we will look at some of the unique aspects of ArcticDB and how goes about solving some of these challenges.
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Sponsored Solution Track III
An Introduction to Event APIs
Learn how asynchronous communication can revolutionize business, positively impact scalability and real-time decision-making, and grasp synchronous-asynchronous federation technologies for seamless integration.
Break
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Architecture Through Different Lenses
Data Mesh Architecture Applied to Complex Organizations
Large financial enterprises often grapple with the challenges of complex data landscapes, ranging from managing petabytes of data produced, increasing regulatory compliance requirements and meeting the needs of different consumers.
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Platforms, People & Process; Delivering Great Developer Experiences
Curating a Developer Experience - A Hands-on Guide for Platform Engineers
The DevOps and SRE community is awash with discussions about product-focused platform teams. Teams manage their platforms, pipelines and tooling as a product. Helping development teams go fast by reducing time to market and operational complexity.
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Emerging Trends in the Frontend and Mobile Development
Adaptable Innovation: How Microsoft Leverages React Native for Strategic Advantage
Discover how React Native's strategic flexibility plays a key role at Microsoft, powering not just mobile apps but also desktop, Xbox, and AR/VR applications.
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Securing Modern Software
From Anti-Patterns to Best Practices: A Practical Guide to DevSecOps Automation and Security
In the modern DevSecOps landscape, teams often struggle to achieve more with fewer resources, leading to the development of counterproductive habits. These habits can significantly hinder the ability to establish effective security programs.
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The Tech of FinTech
Lessons & Best Practices from Leading the Serverless First Journey at CapitalOne
Going serverless? Worried about challenges with performance, cost, and scale? At CapitalOne, we embraced a serverless first mentality across thousands of applications live today. This talk covers our journey into serverless.
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Sponsored Solution Track III
Building InfluxDB 3.0 using Modular Open Source Components
In this talk, we will describe the design of InfluxDB 3.0's new high performance time series database engine using Apache Arrow, DataFusion, Parquet and Rust.