This track will explore the real-world examples of innovative companies pushing the limits with modern software systems. Speakers will share their stories of how they have scaled their systems to handle massive amounts of traffic, data, and complexity.
From this track
Beyond Platform Thinking at RB Global – Build Things No One Expects, in a Place No One Expects It
Monday Apr 8 / 10:35AM BST
Ever wondered what is it really like to move from a poorly integrated COTS legacy architecture to a well factored API driven cloud native platform and event driven architecture, globally deployed in AWS EKS with modern observability and daily software releases?
Ranbir Chawla
SVP of Engineering @RB Global, Previously SME @Thoughtworks Digital Platform Strategy Team, 30+ Years in Software Engineering and Entrepreneurship
0 → 1, shipping Threads in 5 months
Monday Apr 8 / 11:45AM BST
In Jan 2023, we received word that we’d need to build a microblogging service to compete with Twitter in a couple of months. This is the (technical) story of the small team that was assembled to take on that challenge, and that shipped a new social network in July.
Zahan Malkani
Software Engineer @Meta
Architecting for Data Products
Monday Apr 8 / 01:35PM BST
Data Mesh principles have brought data products to the forefront of data architecture discussions. However, due to the variety of applications and the vast technology landscape, it is hard to bring those principles into practice.
Danilo Sato
Global Head of Technology - Data & AI @Thoughtworks, Author of DevOps in Practice, CD4ML, and DataIQ UK’s 100 Most Influential People in Data in 2022–2023
How We Created a High-Scale Notification System at Duolingo That Delivered Millions of Messages Within Seconds During a Super Bowl Commercial Break
Monday Apr 8 / 02:45PM BST
Building a notification system may seem trivial, but what about building one that could reach million of users within a few seconds? What about doing that right after your advertisement airs?
Vitor Pellegrino
Site Reliability Engineering @Duolingo
Zhen Zhou
Software Engineer at @Duolingo, Previous Theoretical Computer Science Enthusiast @CMU
Everything Is a Plugin: How the Backstage Architecture Helps Platform Teams at Spotify and Beyond Spread Ownership and Deliver Value
Monday Apr 8 / 03:55PM BST
Back in 2014, platform engineers at Spotify identified a problem: the number of internal tools was growing rapidly, and as a result engineers around the company were struggling to find the tools and information they needed to work efficiently.
Pia Nilsson
Director of Engineering @Spotify
Mike Lewis
Staff Engineer @Spotify
Unconference: Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Monday Apr 8 / 05:05PM BST
An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. Attendees come together, bringing their challenges and relying on the experience and know-how of their peers for solutions.
