Track Overview
Architectures You've Always Wondered about
Behind every successful tech company, there is an architecture that enables it to function, innovate and scale. What best practices, patterns, and decisions have these companies employed on their road to success? What mistakes did they make along the way and what lessons did they learn? You will hear from companies that have scaled exponentially, handled billions of transactions and millions of users, revised processes and approaches, and ideated platforms that empower companies like yours. In this track, we hope to inspire you through their stories.
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Architectural Overhaul: Ad Serving @Spotify Scale
In a hyper growth product company continuous evolution of systems is inevitable as technology improves everyday, product and business needs evolve regularly and change in scale impacts operating costs. At Spotify the ads systems have undergone several changes fundamentally over the years. The...
Kinshuk Mishra
Ad Serving Engineering Director @Spotify
Scaling Facebook Live Videos to a Billion Users
Facebook Live is a live streaming platform available to all Facebook users (1 billion daily active people) from Facebook apps as well as an API. It enables citizen journalism, makes it easy to share everyday moments with your friends and allows celebrities to interact with their fans directly....
Sachin Kulkarni
Engineering Director @Facebook focused on Live, Videos, and Messenger
Low Latency Trading Architecture at LMAX Exchange
Building a financial exchange like the one that LMAX Exchange operates presents a unique challenge. Our customers trade over $2 trillion a year through our platform, while demanding low and predictable latency with ever increasing volumes of transactions. In this talk we will present an overview...
Sam Adams
Head of Software Engineering @LMAX Exchange
The Distributed Pit of Success @Deliveroo
In just two years Deliveroo has expanded from central London to hundreds of cities in twelve countries, and the engineering team has grown at a similar rate. To allow us to continue innovating rapidly we need to be able to scale the team horizontally. But building distributed systems is hard, and...
Greg Beech
Lead Engineer @Deliveroo
Scaling Instagram Infrastructure
Instagram is a social network mobile app that allows people to share the world's moments as they happen. It serves 300 millions users on a daily basis throughout the world. In this talk, we will give an overview on the infrastructure that supports its users on this large scale. Topics will...
Lisa Guo
Software Engineer @Instagram
Architectures Open Space
Speakers from this track
Kinshuk Mishra
Ad Serving Engineering Director @Spotify
Kinshuk is Director of Engineering at Spotify responsible for Ads Engineering. His team at Spotify is responsible for all the Ads Infrastructure, Multi-platform Ad products, and Ad Optimizations. He is a technology leader who enjoys working on scaling engineering practices, software products and...
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Sachin Kulkarni
Engineering Director @Facebook focused on Live, Videos, and Messenger
Sachin is the Director of Engineering for the infrastructure teams that build Facebook Live, Facebook Videos and Messenger. He ran the team that built the backend for Facebook Live from scratch in 3 months and scaled it to 1 billion daily active people. He oversaw the rearchitecture for the...
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Sam Adams
Head of Software Engineering @LMAX Exchange
Sam is currently the Head of Software Engineering at LMAX Exchange. He has had an eclectic career to date: variously modelling the metabolism of drugs and food additives, creating tools to manage and mine scientific data, and now building a high performance exchange at one of the UK's fastest...
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Greg Beech
Lead Engineer @Deliveroo
Greg is a Lead Engineer at Deliveroo, currently responsible for rebuilding the live operations tooling. Prior to that he led the i18n/l10n and rollout of Deliveroo across the world and helped set up Deliveroo for Business. Before that, Greg was a Principal Engineer at blinkbox where he worked on...
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Lisa Guo
Software Engineer @Instagram
Lisa is a software engineer on Instagram infrastructure for the past 2.5 years. She has worked on various aspects on the backend, mostly recently focusing on efficiency aspect of the platform. Prior to Instagram, she worked on several Software Defined Networking projects at Facebook...
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Track Host
Sid Anand
Hacker at Large, Co-chair @QCon & Data Council, PMC & Committer @ApacheAirflow
Sid Anand recently served as PayPal's Chief Data Engineer, focusing on ways to realize the value of data. Prior to joining PayPal, he held several positions including Agari's Data Architect, a Technical Lead in Search & Data Analytics @ LinkedIn, Netflix’s Cloud Data Architect,...
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