Presentation: The Free-Lunch Guide to Idea Circularity
Holly Cummins discusses why "nothing is new under the sun" in tech. She maps historical architectural tradeoffs to modern cloud, microservices, and AI…
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Presentation: Parting the Clouds: The Rise of Disaggregated Systems
Murat Demirbas discusses the shift toward disaggregated cloud database architectures driven by cloud economics. He explains how decoupling compute fro…
Presentation: Getting Rid of LeetCode Interviews in the World of AI
Daniel Doubrovkine explains why traditional LeetCode whiteboard interviews fail to evaluate senior engineering talent. He discusses his own experience…
Presentation: Clean Architecture for Serverless: Business Logic You Can Take Anywhere
Elena van Engelen discusses how to eliminate serverless vendor lock-in without sacrificing native cloud capabilities. She explains how to structure Fa…
Presentation: Autonomous Data Products for the Autonomous Era: Rethinking Data Architecture for GenAI
Jörg Schad explains how to tame the complex "data management hairball" to build scalable, safe architectures for AI. He shares how autonomous data pro…
Presentation: Compiling Workflows into Databases: The Architecture That Shouldn't Work (But Does)
Jeremy Edberg & Qian Li discuss why external orchestrators decrease reliability and how to use your existing database for durable execution. They shar…
Presentation: From Copy-Paste to Composition: Building Agents Like Real Software
Jake Mannix discusses moving AI agents past chaotic "1970s BASIC" architectures. He shares how implementing an intermediate protocol layer allows engi…
Presentation: The Rust High Performance Talk You Did Not Expect
Ruth Linehan explains how migrating high-performance caching services from Kotlin to Rust shattered internal preconceptions around delivery velocity a…
Presentation: Lessons Learned in Migrating to Micro-Frontends
Luca Mezzalira shares proven learnings from guiding hundreds of teams through the migration from monolithic web applications to distributed frontend a…
Presentation: Enhancing Reliability Using Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix
The speakers discuss Netflix’s architecture for surviving extreme traffic spikes. They explain the mechanics of prioritized load shedding embedded in …
Presentation: The Infrastructure Challenge Behind Production AI
The panelists explain the realities of running AI systems reliably at scale. While building models is solved, maintaining production databases under c…
Presentation: Million PDFs: Building a Modern Document Infrastructure with Rust and Typst
Erik Steiger discusses the operational pain of legacy PDF generation in regulated banking and manufacturing. He explains how transitioning from resour…
Presentation: Rust at the Core - Accelerating Polyglot SDK Development
Spencer Judge discusses the architectural pattern of building a shared core in Rust with language-specific layers on top. Drawing from his work on Tem…
Presentation: Challenging Google Analytics: Building a Scalable, Cost-Effective User Tracking Service
Alina Krasavina explains how Delivery Hero successfully deprecated Google Analytics and migrated to an internal user tracking platform. She discusses …
Presentation: Write-Ahead Intent Log: A Foundation for Efficient CDC at Scale
Vinay Chella and Akshat Goel discuss the challenges of running traditional CDC across heterogeneous databases during peak order traffic. They explain …
Presentation: Automating the Web With MCP: Infra That Doesn’t Break
Paul Klein discusses the distributed systems challenges of scaling cloud-hosted browser infra for AI agents. He explains how to manage bursty, statefu…
Presentation: Beyond Prompting: Context Engineering and Memory Management for AI Systems at Scale
Adi Polak discusses the architecture required to transition from stateless prompts to state-aware, context-rich AI agents. Drawing on 15 years in dist…
Presentation: Mitigating Geopolitical Risks with Local-First Software and atproto
Martin Kleppmann discusses the urgent need for technological sovereignty in modern infrastructure. Exploring the shifting landscape of global tech dep…
Presentation: Architecting a Centralized Platform for Data Deletion at Netflix
The speakers discuss the architectural challenges of executing safe data deletion across distributed datastores. Balancing durability, availability & …
Article: Architectural Change Cases: A Practical Tool for Evolutionary Architectures
Architectural change cases extend architecture decision record (ADR) thinking by evaluating how decisions may evolve over time. Change cases expose hi…
Presentation: Theme Systems at Scale: How To Build Highly Customizable Software
Shopify Staff Engineer Guilherme Carreiro discusses building and scaling highly customizable platforms. Using Shopify’s Liquid theme system as a case …
Presentation: Designing AI Platforms for Reliability: Tools for Certainty, Agents for Discovery
Aaron Erickson discusses the evolution of AI workflows, shifting from "vibe checking" to building reliable, multi-agent frameworks. He explains how to…
Presentation: Realtime and Batch Processing of GPU Workloads
Joseph Stein discusses engineering an enterprise AI-as-a-Service platform within a private cloud data center. He explains how to maximize underutilize…
Presentation: From Legacy to Sovereignty: Driving the Future of Insurance through Platform Engineering
Sergiu Petean discusses the strategic journey of evolving DevOps into platform engineering within heavily regulated enterprise environments. He explai…
Presentation: The AI Gateway: Scaling Centralized Inference Across Decentralized Teams
Meryem Arik discusses why modern engineering teams face "inference chaos" and how AI model gateways provide a critical control layer. She explains the…
Presentation: Product Thinking for Cloud Native Engineers
Stéphane Di Cesare and Cat Morris share how engineers can move from being a "cost center" to a value driver using product discovery. They explain the …
Presentation: Using AI as a Thinking Partner for Large-Scale Engineering Systems
Julie Qiu explains how AI serves as a "thinking partner" for engineering leaders. She discusses five distinct roles - Archaeologist, Experimenter, Cri…
Presentation: What I Learned Building Multi-Agent Systems From Scratch
Paulo Arruda discusses Shopify’s evolution in AI adoption, moving from simple chat tools to a sophisticated swarm of specialized agents. He explains t…
Presentation: Evolution of a Backend for a Streaming Application
Daniele Frasca explains the architectural evolution of Joyn, a German streaming giant. He discusses moving from fragile single-node setups to resilien…
Presentation: The Human Scalability Problem: Why Your Teams Don’t Scale Like Your Code
Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg discusses the "human bottlenecks" of hyper-growth. While systems scale, human cooperation often breaks down due to comm…