Scalability
Past Presentations
Modern Banking in 1500 Microservices
Monzo runs over 1,500 microservices in production and that number continues to grow. Each has a single responsibility and well defined interfaces. It takes many, many distinct pieces of functionality to run a modern banking backend. This talk will explain how we build, operate, observe and...
Should We Really Run It if We Build It?
"Build it, run it" is the war-cry of the startup and scaleup industry. Is it really that simple? Are there hidden costs like engineer burnout and a lasting impact on a young culture? And do B2B and B2C companies have different prerogatives?
Lessons From DAZN: Scaling Your Project with Micro-Frontends
Micro-frontends are a new architectural trend in the development of frontend applications. This architectural style can provide several benefits to your projects and organization, offering a level of decoupling never seen before in single-page applications or universal architectures. That said,...
Designing a Real-Time Global Sportsbook (From Scratch!)
Have you ever found yourself working on an established product and secretly wishing you could start it all again from scratch? Given the chance to pick from modern languages, platforms and technologies, how would you design your dream architecture? 12 months ago we were given this...
Speeding Up ML Development with MLFlow
Machine Learning is more approachable than ever before and the number of companies applying Machine Learning to build AI powered applications and products has dramatically increased in recent years. On this journey of adopting Machine Learning, many companies learn successful Machine...
Scaling Facebook Live Videos to a Billion Users
Facebook Live is a live streaming platform available to all Facebook users (1 billion daily active people) from Facebook apps as well as an API. It enables citizen journalism, makes it easy to share everyday moments with your friends and allows celebrities to interact with their fans directly....
Interviews
Scaling Facebook Live Videos to a Billion Users
QCon: What is your role at Facebook today, and what are the types of problems you’re focused on?
I’m currently working on the backend for Facebook Live, Facebook Video, and Facebook Messenger. Most recently. I’ve been spending a lot of time on scaling the Facebook Live stack. Facebook Live let’s anybody broadcast across the world using just the camera in their pocket. What this means (in real terms) is the backend has to be...
Read Full InterviewScaling Instagram Infrastructure
QCon: What are the main problems you are focused on today?
Lisa: I am a software engineer on the Instagram Infrastructure Team. Our team’s main purpose is to keep the scalability of our systems up. While doing that, we identify both short term and long term fixes around scale. Additionally, we work closely with many other teams on the product side to help them to identify bottlenecks and...
Read Full InterviewLessons From DAZN: Scaling Your Project with Micro-Frontends
What work are you doing today?
I'm VP of Architecture at a company called DAZN. It's similar to Netflix but for live sports mainly and video-on-demand. It's a platform dedicated to sports. We are available in nine countries and we have a ton of devices that we are targeting between consoles, TVs, set top boxes, web browsers and mobile. I had the...
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