Platform Engineering
Fixing the AI Infra Scale Problem by Stuffing 1M Sandboxes in a Single Server
Monday Mar 16 / 03:55PM GMT
The past year has seen an absolute explosion in the use of AI and agents in particular, a trend that is guaranteed to accelerate going forward.
Felipe Huici
CEO and Co-Founder @Unikraft, Founder and Maintainer of the Linux Foundation Unikraft Open Source Project
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
Jatin Aneja
Leading Developer Experience @Zoox, Previously Director of Site Reliability Engineering @AppLovin
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