Scalability

Past Presentations

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....

Sachin Kulkarni Engineering Director @Facebook focused on Live, Videos, and Messenger
High Performance Managed Languages

Common wisdom dictates that native languages are the only means of building high-performance applications. How do managed runtimes such as those available to .NET, Java, and even JavaScript, yes even JavaScript compare? Many applications requiring high-performance are now developed for managed...

Martin Thompson High Performance & Low Latency Specialist
Spotify's Reliable Event Delivery System

Spotify’s event delivery system is one of the foundational pieces of Spotify’s data infrastructure. It has a key requirement to reliably deliver complete data with a predictable latency and make it available to Spotify developers via well-defined interface. Delivered data is than used to...

Igor Maravic Software Engineer @Spotify
Monitoring Serverless Architectures

Serverless architectures are attracting more and more interest from the IT professionals and companies hoping to lower the costs of creating and operating distributed systems without constant worrying about availability, scalability and capacity management. Despite all the attractive properties...

Rafal Gancarz Lead Consultant @OpenCredo
Realtime & Personalized Notifications @Twitter

Twitter Notifications Infrastructure enables hundreds of millions of users to stay informed about what’s going on in their Twitter world. Our systems process large volumes of data (aka the Twitter firehose) and deliver realtime and personalized notifications to all kinds of users, ranging from...

Gary Lam Tech Lead Notifications, Staff Software Engineer @ Twitter
Saurabh Pathak Leads Notifications Team @Twitter
Deep Learning @Google Scale: Smart Reply in Inbox

Anjuli will describe the algorithmic, scaling and deployment considerations involved in an extremely prominent application of cutting-edge deep learning in a user-facing product: the Smart Reply feature of Google Inbox.

Anjuli Kannan Software Engineer @GoogleBrain

Interviews

Sachin Kulkarni Engineering Director @Facebook focused on Live, Videos, and Messenger

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 Interview
Lisa Guo Software Engineer @Instagram

Scaling 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 Interview
Luca Mezzalira Principal Solutions Architect @AWS

Lessons 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...

Read Full Interview

Less than

0

weeks until QCon London 2022

Registration is £1990.00 (£0 off) for the 3-day conference if you register before Jan 1st
SAVE YOUR SEAT

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.