Speaker: Saranya Vedagiri
Senior Staff Engineer @eBay
Saranya Vedagiri is a Senior Staff Engineer at eBay, where she designs and operates large-scale distributed systems with a focus on reliability and low-latency performance. Her work spans API design, service-to-service communication, caching strategies, and resilience patterns that keep critical flows fast under real production traffic. Saranya is passionate about performance as a product feature, engineering culture, and mentoring teams to build systems that stay predictably fast as they scale.
Session
From Fan-Out to Fast: Sub-100ms API Design in Distributed Systems
A “simple” API request rarely stays simple. In distributed systems, one call quickly turns into fan-out across gateways, services, caches, and databases — and your p99 becomes the sum of every hop and every flaky dependency.