Platform Engineering
How to Build a Database Without a Server
Wednesday Apr 9 / 10:35AM BST
Modern data analytics workflows rely on scaling out to huge numbers of users and compute nodes. Managing database installations to handle this scale can be unsustainably complex and expensive.
Alex Seaton
Staff Engineer @ArcticDB, Previously Working on Quant Trading Systems @Man Group
Unleashing Kubernetes for Secure Bare-Metal Workloads
Wednesday Apr 9 / 11:45AM BST
Kubernetes is great for general cloud-native workloads but struggles with low latency and high-performance computing (HPC) due to its abstraction overhead, lack of optimized scheduling, and network inefficiencies.
Ruslan Kharitonov
Head of Compute @Citadel, Founder @Efacity, Previously Technology Fellow and Global Head of Network and Storage Software Engineering @GoldmanSachs, 25+ Years in Software and System Engineering
From Confusion to Clarity: Advanced Observability Strategies for Media Workflows at Netflix
Wednesday Apr 9 / 11:45AM BST
Managing media workflows at the Netflix scale is both thrilling and daunting. With millions of workflow executions across hundreds of types and over 500 million CPU hours consumed quarterly, costs can skyrocket, and encoding issues can disrupt the streaming experience.
Sujana Sooreddy
Software Engineer @Netflix - Building High Scale Observability Solutions
Naveen Mareddy
Staff Engineer @Netflix, 20+ years in Software Engineering, Creator of MediaInfra Meetup, Speaker, Mentor
Kraken's Serverless Architecture for Scale, Security, and Sustainability
Monday Apr 7 / 02:45PM BST
The green energy transition is real, and happening, but it needs technology to make it successful. Everything from renewable energy generation onto the grid, to how consumers use energy, needs technology to be effective and keep up with today's demands.
Kevin Bowman
Platform Engineering @KrakenTech (Octopus Energy), Previously @SkyBet and Others, Passionate About Removing Friction From Getting Stuff Successfully Into Production
Mobile Server-Driven UI at Scale
Wednesday Apr 9 / 01:35PM BST
Delivering changes to mobile applications is always painful: dealing with store reviews, users that don't update their apps and multiple concurrent versions being used at the same time.
Rafael Ring
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Mobile Platform Team @Nubank, 10+ Years Working Full Stack
Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure
Tuesday Apr 8 / 11:45AM BST
In this talk, Matthew will describe lessons learned from over 20+ years of building cloud-based scalable, secure and stable infrastructure platforms for mission critical software in financial services (electronic trading, credit card processing etc.).
Matthew Liste
Head of Infrastructure @American Express, Over 30 Years Experience in Building Critical Platforms, Previously @JPMorgan Chase and @Goldman Sachs
Achieve Optimal Efficiency for your Developer Experience Teams
Monday Apr 7 / 11:45AM BST
Developer Experience teams are quite popular these days as organisations understand the value of optimising for developers productivity.
Fabien Deshayes
Engineering Manager - Platform & Developer Experience @Monzo, Previously @Spotify
Building a Global Scale Data Platform with Cloud-Native Tools
Wednesday Apr 9 / 01:35PM BST
As businesses increasingly operate in hybrid and multi-cloud environments, managing data across these complex setups presents unique challenges and opportunities. This presentation provides a comprehensive guide to building a global-scale data platform using cloud-native tools.
George Hantzaras
Engineering Director, Core Platforms @MongoDB, Open Source Ambassador, Published Author