architecture
Evolving Wise Architecture to Power a Global Account
Monday Mar 16 / 01:35PM GMT
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Andrei Tognolo
Staff Engineer @Wise, 19+ Years in Software Engineering, Previously Senior Consultant @ThoughtWorks
Team Topologies as the 'Infrastructure for Agency' with AI
Tuesday Mar 17 / 05:05PM GMT
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Matthew Skelton
CEO & Principal @Conflux, Co-Author of "Team Topologies", Leader in Modern Organizational Dynamics for Fast Flow
From DVDs to Global Streaming: How Netflix’s Commerce Architecture Actually Evolved
Monday Mar 16 / 10:35AM GMT
Netflix didn’t start as a global streaming platform. It began as a US-centric DVD-by-mail business, with a commerce system designed for one country, one currency, and relatively simple payment flows.As Netflix expanded internationally, those early assumptions began to break.
Kasia Trapszo
Principal Engineer @Netflix, Leading Architecture for the Commerce Platform
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
The Influence Toolkit
Monday Mar 16 / 02:45PM GMT
Senior IC roles are often said to be about influence – but what do we mean by influence? And what are the tools that a senior IC can employ to influence individuals and teams within a large organisation?
Henry Wilson
Senior Architect @BBC
Building an AI Gateway Without Frameworks: One Platform, Many Agents
Tuesday Mar 17 / 03:55PM GMT
Early AI integrations often start small: wrap an inference API, add a prompt, ship a feature. At Zoox, that approach grew into Cortex, a production AI gateway supporting multiple model providers, multiple modalities, and agentic workflows with dozens of tools, serving over 100 internal clients.
Amit Navindgi
Staff Software Engineer @Zoox
How to Find Resilience Bugs in Systems that Don't Exist
Wednesday Mar 18 / 10:35AM GMT
Building correct distributed systems takes thinking outside the box, and the fastest way to do that is to think inside a different box. One different box is "formal methods", the discipline of mathematically verifying software and systems.
Hillel Wayne
Author of "Logic for Programmers" and "Learn TLA+", Thought Leader in the Space of Empirical Software Engineering
From Fan-Out to Fast: Sub-100ms API Design in Distributed Systems
Monday Mar 16 / 10:35AM GMT
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.
Saranya Vedagiri
Senior Staff Engineer @eBay
Beyond Context Windows: Building Cognitive Memory for AI Agents
Tuesday Mar 17 / 11:45AM GMT
AI agents are rapidly changing how users interact with software, yet most agentic systems today operate with little to no intelligent memory, relying instead on brittle context-window heuristics or short-term state.
Karthik Ramgopal
Distinguished Engineer & Tech Lead of the Product Engineering Team @LinkedIn, 15+ Years of Experience in Full-Stack Software Development
Building on Bedrock: A Security Philosophy from Bootloader to Runtime
Tuesday Mar 17 / 11:45AM GMT
In Minecraft, every world is built from blocks. At the very bottom lies bedrock: an unbreakable foundation that everything else rests on. Above it sit layers of stone, dirt, sand, and other materials.
Alex Zenla
Founder & CTO @Edera