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.

Akshat Vig
Principal Engineer NoSQL databases @awscloud
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.

Hector Veiga Ortiz
Staff Distributed Systems Engineer @Tesla Energy Cloud Platform

Natalie DellaMaria
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer @Tesla Energy Cloud Platform
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.

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

Cassandra Shum
Technologist | Architect | Ex-Thoughtworks
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.

Ian Thomas
VP, Web Architecture @GenesisGlobalX
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.

Facundo Agriel
Software Engineer / Tech Lead @Dropbox, previously @Amazon
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.

Allen Wang
Software Engineer @DoorDash
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.

Jessica Kerr
Principal Developer Evangelist @honeycombio
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.

Nimisha Asthagiri
Principal Consultant @Thoughtworks
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.

Chip Huyen
Co-founder @Claypot AI