Track Overview
Distributed Systems for Developers
Computer science in practice. An applied track that fuses together the human side of computer science with the technical choices that are made along the way
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Essential Complexity in Systems Architecture
Wednesday Nov 11 / 12:00PM EST
Simplicity is a virtue - simple systems should be easier to understand, easier to work on, easier to operate, and thus, more reliable. Everyone agrees on this in principle, to the extent that the ideal of promoting simplicity now appears in industry job ladder descriptions. But what...
Laura Nolan
Senior Staff Engineer @Slack, Contributor to Seeking SRE, & SRECon Steering Committee
Greenwater, Washington: An Availability Story
Wednesday Nov 11 / 12:50PM EST
System availability is a personal experience. If you’re having a bad time, it’s not much comfort if everybody else is doing fine. Unfortunately, the traditional ways - and even many of the modern ways - of thinking about availability don’t take this into consideration, and...
Marc Brooker
Senior Principal Engineer @AWS
Change Data Capture for Distributed Databases @Netflix
Wednesday Nov 11 / 01:40PM EST
At Netflix, we have hundreds of microservices that rely on hybrid backends ranging from RDS or NoSQL to ElasticSearch or Iceberg. This necessitates hybrid backends for distributed high throughput applications since no single database can handle all the access patterns. A classic example of this...
Raghuram Onti Srinivasan
Senior Software Engineer @Netflix
Tharanga Gamaethige
Senior Software Engineer - Core Data Platform Team @Netflix
Distributed Systems Panel
Wednesday Nov 11 / 02:30PM EST
Speakers from this track
Laura Nolan
Senior Staff Engineer @Slack, Contributor to Seeking SRE, & SRECon Steering Committee
Laura Nolan's background is in Site Reliability Engineering, software engineering, distributed systems, and computer science. She wrote the 'Managing Critical State' chapter in the O'Reilly 'Site Reliability Engineering' book, as well as contributing to the more recent...
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Marc Brooker
Senior Principal Engineer @AWS
Marc Brooker is a Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services, currently focussed on database services. He’s been at AWS for 12 years, and has worked on EC2, EBS, Lambda, and IoT. He’s interested in distributed systems, databases, serverless, and economics. Marc has a PhD in EE...
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Raghuram Onti Srinivasan
Senior Software Engineer @Netflix
Raghuram is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix where he works on Data Integrations Platform enabling Change Data Capture and Google Suite integrations. He has contributed a Distributed locking mechanism to Dynomite, an open-source in-memory distributed datastore. He has previously worked on...
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Tharanga Gamaethige
Senior Software Engineer - Core Data Platform Team @Netflix
Tharanga is a Senior Software Engineer of the Core Data Platform team at Netflix where he works on building fault-tolerant and scalable storage systems to bring joy to Netflix viewers. He mainly works in EVCache, Netflix's distributed caching system where he contributes to open source...
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Cindy Sridharan
Distributed Systems Engineer
Track Host
Cindy Sridharan
Distributed Systems Engineer
Cindy Sridharan is a distributed systems engineer. She's the author of a book on Distributed Systems Observability with O'Reilly and the co-author of an upcoming book on distributed systems engineering in the cloud. She runs the Prometheus user group in San Francisco, has been a reviewer of...
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Wes Reisz
Platform Architect @VMware & Creator/Co-host of #TheInfoQPodcast, previous VP of Technology @Section
Wesley Reisz is Platform Architect at VMware and former VP of Technology at Section (an Edge Compute Platform). Wes also chairs the San Francisco edition of QCon.Before VMware, Wes served as the product owner for all of the English speaking QCon conferences worldwide, was a...
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