Platform Engineering
Wrangling Telemetry at Scale: A Guide to Self-Hosted Observability
Tuesday Mar 17 / 03:55PM GMT
Observability is supposed to help you tame complexity, but your Observability stack can quickly become just as complex as the systems it's meant to watch. For most teams, the answer is to pay someone else to deal with it.
Colin Douch
Site Reliability Engineer @DuckDuckGo
Orienting, Understanding, Playing, Thriving: Debugging your Organisation
Tuesday Mar 17 / 10:35AM GMT
Debugging is both an art and a science. But more than that, it's an activity undertaken with deep intention: to understand and improve your systems. In the purely technical realm, we have an extraordinary range of tooling and techniques that can help us tackle this problem.
Hazel Weakly
Fellow @Nivenly Foundation; Director, Haskell Foundation; Experienced Leader Focusing on Organizational Change, Developer Experience, and Resilience Engineering
Modernising Retail at Scale: Architecting a Cloud‑to‑Edge Platform for a Global Enterprise
Monday Mar 16 / 05:05PM GMT
Modern retail depends on a technology platform that operates consistently across digital and physical channels - from customer experiences to colleague tools and the supply chain that supports them.
Jayesh Bhayani
Sr Director Technology @Tesco PLC, Board Member at Tesco Technology and Services Europe, Board Audit Committee Member of Tesco Mobile
One-to-Many Products, One-to-Many Countries: Scaling Nubank to 127 Million Customers
Monday Mar 16 / 02:45PM GMT
Cloud-native tooling and platform engineering promise everything we need to run software at scale: public clouds, infrastructure as code, developer tooling, and well-understood deployment and scaling models that abstract away complexity.
Laís Oliveira
Principal Engineer and Platform Engineering Architecture @Nubank
Uncorking Queueing Bottlenecks with OpenTelemetry
Monday Mar 16 / 11:45AM GMT
Queues are the backbone of scalable, asynchronous systems, but they can easily create a tangled web of complexity. When things slow down, the bottleneck could be anywhere, from producer lag to consumer exhaustion, and standard metrics often fail to show the full picture.
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
Teaching Engineers, Trusting AI: How Education Enabled Autonomous Code Review
Wednesday Mar 18 / 02:45PM GMT
At Duolingo, we realized that successful AI adoption would require deliberate learning — not just access to tools. Over the past year, we scaled AI usage across 300+ engineers through intentional dogfooding programs, live training, office hours, and AI observability dashboards.
Sarah Deitke
Software Engineer @Duolingo
Move Fast, Don’t Break Trust: Shipping Constantly with Humans and Beyond
Monday Mar 16 / 03:55PM GMT
Moving fast only works if your systems are engineered with trust and verification in mind. In this talk, we showcase how teams can scale to the point where shipping hundreds of changes a day becomes boring, routine, and safe.
Suhail Patel
Senior Staff Engineer @Monzo Leading the Platform and Data Functions, Previously @Citymapper
Your Multicloud Strategy Is a Product Problem - Treat It Like One
Monday Mar 16 / 11:45AM GMT
You can't really "opt out" of multicloud anymore. Between cloud concentration risk, SaaS sprawl, and increasing regulatory expectations, most enterprises end up operating across multiple clouds whether they planned to or not. The hard part isn't having two or three providers.
Luis Henrique Albinati Junior
Executive Director, Product Strategy @JP Morgan Chase, Previously @Microsoft, @Oracle, and @Red Hat
Surabhi Mahajan
Executive Director @JP Morgan Chase
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