Architecture

Session Architecture

Amazon DynamoDB: Evolution of a Hyper-Scale Cloud Database Service

Wednesday Nov 30 / 09:20AM PST

Amazon DynamoDB is a cloud database service that provides consistent performance at any scale. Hundreds of thousands of customers rely on DynamoDB for its fundamental properties: consistent performance, availability, durability, and a fully managed serverless experience.

Speaker image - Akshat Vig

Akshat Vig

Principal Engineer NoSQL databases @awscloud

Session Green Tech

Tesla's Virtual Power Plant

Thursday Dec 1 / 11:20AM PST

The Tesla Energy Platform uses software to give control to customers and utilities when unexpected events happen, such as grid outages, severe weather events, or energy demand peaks.

Speaker image - Hector Veiga Ortiz

Hector Veiga Ortiz

Staff Distributed Systems Engineer @Tesla Energy Cloud Platform

Speaker image - Natalie DellaMaria

Natalie DellaMaria

Senior Distributed Systems Engineer @Tesla Energy Cloud Platform

Session Microservices

Dark Energy, Dark Matter and the Microservices Patterns?!

Monday Dec 5 / 09:00AM PST

Dark matter and dark energy are mysterious concepts from astrophysics that are used to explain observations of distant stars and galaxies.

Speaker image - Chris Richardson

Chris Richardson

Creator of microservices.io, Java Champion, & Core Microservices Thoughtleader

Session Microservices

Overcomplicated Architecture: Scaling Bottleneck

Monday Dec 5 / 11:20AM PST

As a digital scale-up continues to gain momentum and grow rapidly, one of the key determining factors of success is how quickly they can evolve their product. The business desires to push features to production as fast as possible and prove value to its customers.

Speaker image - Cassandra Shum

Cassandra Shum

Technologist | Architect | Ex-Thoughtworks

Session Microservices

Orchestration vs Choreography, A Guide To Composing Your Monolith

Monday Dec 5 / 10:10AM PST

Microservices promise rapid evolution, operational independence, and technological freedom but come with imperceptible drag factors. Left unchecked, this drag leads to distributed balls of mud – hard to operate, evolve and maintain.

Speaker image - Ian Thomas

Ian Thomas

VP, Web Architecture @GenesisGlobalX

Session Architecture

Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s Exabyte-Scale Blob Storage System

Wednesday Nov 30 / 02:00PM PST

Magic Pocket is used to store all of Dropbox’s data.

Speaker image - Facundo Agriel

Facundo Agriel

Software Engineer / Tech Lead @Dropbox, previously @Amazon

Session Architecture

From Zero to A Hundred Billion: Building Scalable Real Time Event Processing At DoorDash

Wednesday Nov 30 / 12:50PM PST

At DoorDash, real time events are an important data source to gain insight into our business but building a system capable of handling billions of real time events is challenging.

Speaker image - Allen Wang

Allen Wang

Software Engineer @DoorDash

Session Architecture

Honeycomb: How We Used Serverless to Speed Up Our Servers

Wednesday Nov 30 / 10:30AM PST

Honeycomb is the state of the art in observability: customers send us lots of data and then compose complex, ad-hoc queries. Most are simple, some are not. Some are REALLY not; this load is both complex, spontaneous, and urgent.

Speaker image - Jessica Kerr

Jessica Kerr

Principal Developer Evangelist @honeycombio

Session Security

Privacy-First Re-Architecture

Monday Dec 5 / 12:30PM PST

The tech industry grew organically the last few decades. We built new innovations on top of old. We evolved systems and technologies to meet new challenges. Decisions of the past became assumptions of today.

Speaker image - Nimisha Asthagiri

Nimisha Asthagiri

Principal Consultant @Thoughtworks

Session Machine Learning

Real-Time Machine Learning: Architecture and Challenges

Wednesday Dec 7 / 12:30PM PST

Fresh data beats stale data for machine learning applications. This talk discusses the value of fresh data as well as different types of architecture and challenges of online prediction.  

Speaker image - Chip Huyen

Chip Huyen

Co-founder @Claypot AI