architecture
How To Run on Three Clouds at Once, and When Not To
Monday Mar 16 / 10:35AM GMT
If you've made a bank transfer recently, there's a good chance that Form3 handled it. When we have a wobble, people notice.
Ross McFarlane
Technical Architect @Form3, Real-Time Payments Plumber, Technical Diplomat, Drawer of Diagrams
Kevin Holditch
Engineering Leader and Distributed Systems Practitioner @Form3
Tools That Enable the Next 1B Developers
Wednesday Mar 18 / 10:35AM GMT
The developer population is growing by orders of magnitude. The new AI tooling is turning domain experts and operators into builders. Unfortunately, the tools and the platforms they are building on weren't designed for them.
Ivan Zarea
Director of Platform Engineering @Netlify
Architecting AI Driven Game Creation: From Research to Production Scale Systems
Wednesday Mar 18 / 02:45PM GMT
I spent the last two years as an architect of the next mobile gaming platform at meta, with the ambition that anyone can create, share, and play AI-generated mobile games. What I learned is that the hard part is no longer the generation — it's everything that happens after.
Danielle An
Principal Engineer / GenAI Architect @Meta, Ph.D. with 15 years of professional experience in film, MR and gaming
From DVDs to Global Streaming: How Netflix’s Commerce Architecture Actually Evolved
Monday Mar 16 / 10:35AM GMT
Netflix didn’t start as a global streaming platform. It began as a US-centric DVD-by-mail business, with a commerce system designed for one country, one currency, and relatively simple payment flows.As Netflix expanded internationally, those early assumptions began to break.
Kasia Trapszo
Principal Engineer @Netflix, Leading Architecture for the Commerce Platform
The Rise of the Streamhouse: Idea, Trade-Offs, and Evolution
Tuesday Mar 17 / 03:55PM GMT
Over the last decade, streaming architectures have largely been built around topic-centric primitives—logs, streams, and event pipelines—then stitched together with databases, caches, OLAP engines, and (increasingly) new serving systems.
Giannis Polyzos
Principal Streaming Architect @Ververica
Anton Borisov
Principal Data Architect @Fresha
The Influence Toolkit
Monday Mar 16 / 02:45PM GMT
Senior IC roles are often said to be about influence – but what do we mean by influence? And what are the tools that a senior IC can employ to influence individuals and teams within a large organisation?
Henry Wilson
Senior Architect @BBC
Building an AI Gateway Without Frameworks: One Platform, Many Agents
Tuesday Mar 17 / 03:55PM GMT
Early AI integrations often start small: wrap an inference API, add a prompt, ship a feature. At Zoox, that approach grew into Cortex, a production AI gateway supporting multiple model providers, multiple modalities, and agentic workflows with dozens of tools, serving over 100 internal clients.
Amit Navindgi
Staff Software Engineer @Zoox
Jatin Aneja
Leading Developer Experience @Zoox, Previously Director of Site Reliability Engineering @AppLovin
Introducing Tansu.io -- Rethinking Kafka for Lean Operations
Tuesday Mar 17 / 01:35PM GMT
What if Kafka brokers were ephemeral, stateless and leaderless with durability delegated to a pluggable storage layer?
Peter Morgan
Founder @tansu.io
How to Find Resilience Bugs in Systems that Don't Exist
Wednesday Mar 18 / 10:35AM GMT
Building correct distributed systems takes thinking outside the box, and the fastest way to do that is to think inside a different box. One different box is "formal methods", the discipline of mathematically verifying software and systems.
Hillel Wayne
Author of "Logic for Programmers" and "Learn TLA+"
From Fan-Out to Fast: Sub-100ms API Design in Distributed Systems
Monday Mar 16 / 10:35AM GMT
A “simple” API request rarely stays simple. In distributed systems, one call quickly turns into fan-out across gateways, services, caches, and databases — and your p99 becomes the sum of every hop and every flaky dependency.
Saranya Vedagiri
Senior Staff Engineer @eBay