Platform Engineering
Uncorking Queueing Bottlenecks with OpenTelemetry
Monday Mar 16 / 11:45AM GMT
Queues are an essential component in a scalable distributed system, but going beyond the simple implementation creates an explosion of complexity to manage.
Julian Wreford
Team Lead of Operability Team @Gearset, Software Engineer Turned Accidental SRE
Oli Lane
Engineering Team Lead @Gearset, Focusing on Engineering Culture, Observability, and Platform Reliability
Team Topologies as the 'Infrastructure for Agency' with AI
Tuesday Mar 17 / 10:35AM GMT
The book Team Topologies Second Edition (2025) demonstrates convincingly that organizing business and technology for fast flow of value via empowered teams produces outsized results for enterprises worldwide.
Matthew Skelton
CEO & Principal @Conflux, Co-Author of "Team Topologies", Leader in Modern Organizational Dynamics for Fast Flow
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
APIs for Agents: Rethinking API Programs in the MCP Era
Monday Mar 16 / 01:35PM GMT
As API programs mature, a familiar gap emerges: some teams operate with strong standards, reusable platforms, and clear governance, while others rely on informal guidance and best-effort consistency.
Jim Gough
Distinguished Engineer, API Platform Lead Architect @Morgan Stanley, Co-Author of Optimizing Java
Andreea Niculcea
Vice President @Morgan Stanley
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
Rewriting All of Spotify's Code Base, All the Time
Tuesday Mar 17 / 11:45AM GMT
We don't need LLMs to write new code. We need them to clean up the mess we already made.In mature organizations, we have to maintain and migrate the existing codebase. Engineers are constantly balancing new feature development with endless software upkeep.
Jo Kelly-Fenton
Engineer @Spotify
Aleksandar Mitic
Software Engineer @Spotify
Why Governance Matters: The Key to Reducing Risk Without Slowing Down
Tuesday Mar 17 / 10:35AM GMT
When you hear “governance,” you might think of red tape, bureaucracy, or someone telling you what you can’t do. But real governance is about alignment and reducing technical risk. And that matters more than ever.
Sarah Wells
Independent Consultant and Author