Track Overview

Architectures You've Always Wondered About

The big names and bigger architectures... the hugely recognizable shops, including Facebook, Uber, Ocado, Expedia, Demonware (think Call of Duty), and Hudson Bay Company. These are their practices and proofs, look for topics like next-gen architecture mixed with applied use cases found in some of today's large-scale systems. Talks in the track range from:

Self-driving cars (from an engineer who moved from Microservices to autonomous vehicles)
Ocado discussing their use of GCP/AWS/on-prem
Lambda architectures used in online presences from Saks Fifth Avenue and Gilt
Discussion on pub-sub vs actor model in event-driven architectures including architectural aspects and lessons from Call of Duty
Reasons and lessons behind network routing software at Facebook

The talks in the Architectures You've Always Wondered About track represent a look inside some of the big challenges today at large-scale web properties and give us a glimpse of how they solve them.

From this track

SESSION + Live Q&A Architecture

Microservices: API Re-platforming @Expedia

Expedia Affiliate Network is one of the business unit's that make up Expedia. Their APIs power the global travel industry and generate more than $5 billion a year in sales. They are currently in the process of rolling out a completely new API moving from an on-prem monolith to a cloud-based...

Mariano Albera

VP/CTO, Expedia Affiliate Network

SESSION + Live Q&A Cloud Computing

Logistics as a Service: Building the Ocado Smart Platform

Selling groceries online at a profit is considered by many to be the Holy Grail of retail. The Ocado Smart Platform is the result of 15 years of learning through the application of technology to this domain, from control protocols for an army of 1000 warehouse robots, through optimising...

Paul Sweetman

Head of Software Architecture @Ocado

Alex Harvey

Head of Robotics and Autonomous Systems @Ocado

SESSION + Live Q&A Event Driven Architecture

Actors or Not: Async Event Architectures

With more and more companies adopting microservices and service-oriented architectures, it becomes clear that the HTTP/RPC synchronous communication (while great) is not always the best option for every use case. In this presentation, I discuss two approaches to an asynchronous event-based...

Yaroslav Tkachenko

Sr Software Engineer @Demonware building Activision's Call of Duty

SESSION + Live Q&A Autonomous Vehicles

Inside a Self-Driving Uber

Over the course of three years, Uber’s self-driving vehicles have driven over 2 million miles and have completed over 50,000 passenger trips in Pittsburgh and Phoenix. Many of you might be curious as to how we built a fleet of self-driving vehicles capable of driving autonomously in varying...

Matt Ranney

Sr. Staff Engineer @UberATG

SESSION + Live Q&A Architecture

Lambda Architectures: a Snapshot, a Stream, & a Bunch of Deltas

We all got so excited about breaking apart our monoliths and liberating our microservices. At HBC Tech, our work on luxury e-commerce experiences across gilt.com, saks.com, lordandtaylor.com, thebay.com and saksoff5th.com shows us that unconstrained, organic...

Adrian Trenaman

SVP Engineering @HBC, Gilt & Committer Apache Karaf

UNCONFERENCE + Live Q&A

Architectures Open Space