architecture
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
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
From Confusion to Clarity: Advanced Observability Strategies for Media Workflows at Netflix
Wednesday Apr 9 / 11:45AM BST
Managing media workflows at the Netflix scale is both thrilling and daunting. With millions of workflow executions across hundreds of types and over 500 million CPU hours consumed quarterly, costs can skyrocket, and encoding issues can disrupt the streaming experience.
Sujana Sooreddy
Software Engineer @Netflix - Building High Scale Observability Solutions
Naveen Mareddy
Staff Engineer @Netflix, 20+ years in Software Engineering, Creator of MediaInfra Meetup, Speaker, Mentor
Platforms for Secure API Connectivity With Architecture as Code
Wednesday Apr 9 / 03:55PM BST
As microservices and complex platforms become the standard, ensuring secure connectivity while maintaining a smooth developer experience is a significant challenge. Traditional security models often introduce friction, slowing down innovation and deployment.
Jim Gough
Distinguished Engineer, API Platform Lead Architect @Morgan Stanley, Co-Author of Optimizing Java
Kraken's Serverless Architecture for Keeping the Grid Green
Monday Apr 7 / 02:45PM BST
The green energy transition is real, and happening, but it needs technology to make it successful. Everything from renewable energy generation onto the grid, to how consumers use energy, needs technology to be effective and keep up with today's demands.
Kevin Bowman
Platform Engineering @KrakenTech (Octopus Energy), Previously @SkyBet and Others, Passionate About Removing Friction From Getting Stuff Successfully Into Production
Architecture in the Lead: Scaling Today, Shaping Tomorrow
Monday Apr 7 / 10:35AM BST
The BBC’s websites and apps handled well over 100 million visitors in 2024, with 40 million people arriving on UK Election night alone. That’s a lot of scale for an architecture to handle, but it’s just the beginning.
Matthew Clark
Head Of Architecture for the @BBC's Digital Products, 25+ Years Developing Online Software
Ian Arundale
Lead Architect for the @BBC's Digital Products, 20+ Years in Software Engineering
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
Platform Engineering as a Practice of Technical Leadership
Tuesday Apr 8 / 10:35AM BST
In this talk, we’ll explore DevOps as a foundational model for technical leadership that directly supports organizational sustainability.
Lesley Cordero
Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead @nytimes, Focused on Observability, Shared Platforms, and Building Excellent Teams, Previously Engineer for EdTech
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
Local First – How To Build Software Which Still Works After the Acquihire
Monday Apr 7 / 01:35PM BST
Much of the software we use derives its value from being networked, sometimes that's about being able to use software on many devices, often it's about being able to collaborate with other people.
Alex Good
Software Engineer @Ink & Switch, Core Contributor on the Automerge CRDT Library