Mountbatten (6th Fl.)
WASM Components are a FaaS' Best Friend
Tuesday Apr 8 / 05:05PM BST
Why would you build your own Function as a Service platform and what does a FaaS architecture look like? Building something that can scale to zero, work with your existing systems, stay secure, and handle different workloads isn’t easy.
Laurent Doguin
Director Developer Relations & Strategy @couchbase, Previously Developer Advocate @Clever Cloud and @Nuxeo
How WebAssembly Components Enable Safe and Portable Software Extensions
Tuesday Apr 8 / 02:45PM BST
Application extensions are an essential part of any software ecosystem. While Rust is a great language, its lack of a standard ABI means that the whole source code has to be available to the compiler.
Alex Radovici
Operating Systems & Compilers PhD, Author of "Getting Started with Secure Embedded Systems" and Core Contributor of Tock OS
Latency: The Race to Zero...Are We There Yet?
Wednesday Apr 9 / 11:45AM BST
Low and predictable latency have been an edge in financial trading. Aeron has been pushing the limit on what is possible for IPC, on-premise, and in the cloud messaging. Can we do better?
Amir Langer
Principal Software Engineer @Adaptive Financial Consulting
How to Build a Database Without a Server
Wednesday Apr 9 / 10:35AM BST
Modern data analytics workflows rely on scaling out to huge numbers of users and compute nodes. Managing database installations to handle this scale can be unsustainably complex and expensive.
Alex Seaton
Staff Engineer @ArcticDB, Previously Working on Quant Trading Systems @Man Group
The Ideal Micro-Frontends Platform
Wednesday Apr 9 / 03:55PM BST
Micro-frontends can help organizations scale frontend development, but without the right foundations, they often lead to unnecessary complexity and performance issues. How can you implement them effectively while avoiding common pitfalls?
Luca Mezzalira
Principal Serverless Specialist Solutions Architect @AWS, Author of “Building Micro-Frontends”, International Speaker
Transforming Primary Care: A Case Study in Evolving From Start-Up To Scale-Up
Monday Apr 7 / 01:35PM BST
As our company developed through startup and scale up phases, our systems grew larger and more complex. Our usage increased dramatically and our requirements ballooned.
Leander Vanderbijl
Senior Engineer @Livi, Previously Principal Engineer @Informa, 13 Years Developing, Managing, and Integrating Diverse Online Systems and Applications
The Data Backbone of LLM Systems
Wednesday Apr 9 / 02:45PM BST
Any LLM application has four dimensions you must carefully engineer: the code, data, models and prompts. Each dimension influences the other. That's why you must learn how to track and manage each. The trick is that every dimension has particularities requiring unique strategies and tooling.
Paul Iusztin
Senior ML/AI Engineer, MLOps, Founder @Decoding ML
Empower Your Developers: How Open Source Dependencies Risk Management Can Unlock Innovation
Tuesday Apr 8 / 11:45AM BST
As security practitioners, we face the challenge of driving innovation whilst needing to balance security risks.
Celine Pypaert
Vulnerability Manager @Johnson Matthey, Women in CyberSecurity UK Volunteer, Book Contributor, Ex-Microsoft
The Efficiency Paradox and How to Save Yourself and the World
Monday Apr 7 / 05:05PM BST
Inefficiency is ruining our planet and our lives. Efficiency is ruining our happiness, and weirdly, it’s also ruining our efficiency. Heeeeelppp!? What’s a techie to do?
Holly Cummins
Full Stack Engineer, Building Quarkus @Red Hat, Former Lead Consultant
What I Wish I Knew When I Started with Green IT
Monday Apr 7 / 10:35AM BST
The path to sustainable technology involves complex technical and organizational decisions that aren't immediately obvious from industry best practices. This talk shares seven key lessons drawn from implementing Green IT at scale in a scaleup environment and in a public bank institution.
Ludi AKUE
CTO Digital @Bpifrance & Creator of PromptSage Your Custom GPT To Master Prompting Intuitions