Track
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Architectures You've Always Wondered About is a QCon staple, and our marque architecture case study track. In it some of the most successful companies in our industry will share their hard-learned architectural lessons on scalability, reliability, throughput, and performance. For this edition of the track, we’re putting the emphasis on real-world case studies for modern cloud architectures.
From this track
BBC Online: Architecting for Scale with the Cloud and Serverless
Tuesday May 18 / 07:00AM PDT
During the 2020 US Presidential Election, BBC Online served video, audio, and text to over 140 million users. Events like this require the BBC’s sites and apps to be at their very best – fast, reliable, and relevant at massive scale. It’s been achieved with a modern,...
Matthew Clark
Head Of Architecture for the @BBC's Digital Products
Optimizing Your Web Performance: Separating the Signals from the Noise
Tuesday May 18 / 08:00AM PDT
Everyone agrees on the theory of optimizing web performance but how does it work in practice? In this talk I will be sharing the journey Trainline has been on leading up to Google introducing Core Web Vitals as a ranking signal this month. It will include how as a team we learned to separate out...
Carl Anderson
Director of Engineering @trainline
Building and Scaling a Control Plane for 1000s of Kafka Clusters
Tuesday May 18 / 09:00AM PDT
At Confluent Cloud we deploy, manage, maintain and scale 1000s of Kafka, Kafka Connect and KSQL clusters. In order to create a cloud-native experience for our users, we've built a control plane that provides both self-serve functionality for our users and automation for Confluent engineers....
Gwen Shapira
Software Engineer @Confluent, PMC Member @Kafka, & Committer Apache Sqoop
Vivek Sharma
Senior Engineer @Confluent
Panel: Event Driven Architectures of Scale
Tuesday May 18 / 10:00AM PDT
Event-driven architectures (EDA) have been around for decades but are back in vogue, driven in part by the shift to the cloud and multicore architectures, data-driven applications, and related trends such as microservices and distributed computing. Our expert panel will explore what...
Wes Reisz
Platform Architect @VMware & Creator/Co-host of #TheInfoQPodcast, previous VP of Technology @Section
Matthew Clark
Head Of Architecture for the @BBC's Digital Products
Gwen Shapira
Software Engineer @Confluent, PMC Member @Kafka, & Committer Apache Sqoop
Ian Thomas
Senior Principal Engineer at Flutter Entertainment
Track Host
Charles Humble
Independent Technology Consultant & Technology Communicator
Charles Humble works as an independent technology consultant and technology communicator. He is managing editor for Cloud Native consultancy Container Solutions, and a co-host of the InfoQ podcast. He was editor-in-chief at InfoQ.com from March 2014 to April 2020, and before that CTO for...
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