Building a Control Plane for Production AI

Introducing Tansu.io -- Rethinking Kafka for Lean Operations

Tuesday Mar 17 / 10:35AM GMT

What if Kafka brokers were ephemeral, stateless and leaderless with durability delegated to a pluggable storage layer?

Peter Morgan

Founder @tansu.io

From S3 to GPU in One Copy: Rethinking Data Loading for ML Training

Tuesday Mar 17 / 01:35PM GMT

ML training pipelines treat data as static. Teams spend weeks preprocessing datasets into WebDataset or TFRecords, and when they want to experiment with curriculum learning or data mixing, they reprocess everything from scratch.

Onur Satici

Staff Engineer @SpiralDB

The Rise of the Streamhouse: Idea, Trade-Offs, and Evolution

Tuesday Mar 17 / 11:45AM GMT

Over the last decade, streaming architectures have largely been built around topic-centric primitives—logs, streams, and event pipelines—then stitched together with databases, caches, OLAP engines, and (increasingly) new serving systems.

Giannis Polyzos

Principal Streaming Architect @Ververica

Anton Borisov

Principal Data Architect @Fresha

Ontology‐Driven Observability: Building the E2E Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale

Tuesday Mar 17 / 02:45PM GMT

As Netflix scales hundreds of client platforms, microservices, and infrastructure components, correlating user experience with system performance has become a hard data problem, not just an observability one.

Prasanna Vijayanathan

Engineer @Netflix

Renzo Sanchez-Silva

Engineer @Netflix

Unconference: Modern Data Engineering

Tuesday Mar 17 / 05:05PM GMT