Track Overview

Leading Edge Backend Languages

Code the future! How cutting-edge programming languages and their more-established forerunners can help solve today and tomorrow’s server-side technical problems.


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SESSION + Live Q&A Machine Learning

[CANCELLED] [Cancelled] Maze Runner: Navigate Reinforcement Learning w/ Java

Lost and alone, our abandoned Java robot is forced to find its way through a series of rooms that all look the same. How can we help it? What algorithms can we use?   Reinforcement learning can help us, using one easy* algorithm and a lot of repetition. This talk will focus on getting the...

Katharine Beaumont

Software developer

SESSION + Live Q&A Real Time

C++ for Real Time Communications in the Cloud

Using C++ in real time communication platforms introduces new set of challenges in optimizing for performance. This talk will cover what we have learned over the years from running a complete C++ stack in our backend service - starting from selecting the right data structures from STLs to...

Thiya Ramalingam

Head of Platforms, Product Integrations, Private Cloud and Partnerships @Zoom

SESSION + Live Q&A Rust

Rust 2018: An Epoch Release!

This year is going to see the most important release since Rust 1.0. In this talk, Steve will talk about where Rust is now, what new features are coming down the pipeline, how it's all being managed, and how this affects Rust's development in the future - and why this is all very exciting!

Stephen Klabnik

Rust Core Team

SESSION + Live Q&A Rust

From Rocks to Rust: Our C to Rust Paradigm Shift

A leader in cloud native communications software, Metaswitch has recently chosen Rust as its preferred language. Fine and dandy on the face of it, but what has that actually been like for a developer working ‘on the coal face’? I studied the history of geology prior to working for...

Esther Momcilovic

Software Engineer at Metaswitch Networks

SESSION + Live Q&A OCaml

Fast, Flexible and Functional Programming With OCaml

OCaml is a fast, natively compiled programming language with imperative, object-oriented and functional features. It is over two decades old now, and is often used in niche but safety-critical areas such as formal verification (in Coq, Compcert). In recent years however, it has emerged as a...

Anil Madhavapeddy

University Lecturer @Cambridge_CL (Cambridge Computer Laboratory)

Gemma Gordon

Operations Director at OCaml Labs, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

UNCONFERENCE + Live Q&A Open Space

Languages Open Space

SESSION + Live Q&A

Building a Reliable Cloud Based Bank in Java

How does a start-up build a mobile only bank in the cloud that is reliable, scalable, and has a rapidly growing number of features using Java? This talk will focus on the server side implementation of Starling Bank and will show how, even though Java is over two decades old, it can still be used...

Jason Maude

Lead Engineer @StarlingBank


Speakers from this track

Katharine Beaumont

Software developer

  Katharine is a software developer who has embarked on postgraduate studies in Machine Learning and AI. Having worked on medical software, Big Data and complex event processing, web development and machine learning, she has given a number of conference talks on her experiences in the...

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Thiya Ramalingam

Head of Platforms, Product Integrations, Private Cloud and Partnerships @Zoom

Thiya heads the platform engineering  and leads  engineering and infrastructure at Zoom. Previously, with Saba Software, Thiya was a senior director of engineering where he led the engineering for collaboration, social, talent and data science platforms. Prior to Saba, Thiya held...

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Stephen Klabnik

Rust Core Team

Steve is on the core team of Rust, leads the documentation team, and is an author of "The Rust Programming Language." Klabnik is a frequent speaker at conferences and is a prolific open source contributor, previously working on projects such as Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

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Esther Momcilovic

Software Engineer at Metaswitch Networks

After a past life as a PhD historian, Esther now works as a software engineer at Metaswitch, a leading cloud native communications software company. She works on Metaswitch’s mobile messaging technology, and has recently been focussing on containers, microservices, new languages like Rust, and...

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Anil Madhavapeddy

University Lecturer @Cambridge_CL (Cambridge Computer Laboratory)

Anil Madhavapeddy is a University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, based in the Systems Research Group. He was on the original team that developed the Xen hypervisor, and has worked on unikernels, functional programming and ubiquitous computing topics. Prior to obtaining his PhD, Anil had...

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Gemma Gordon

Operations Director at OCaml Labs, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

Gemma Gordon is Operations Director for the OCaml Labs group based in the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, and the CEO of OCaml Labs Consultancy. She manages core projects of the group together with organising community events in the field of functional programming and open source.

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Jason Maude

Lead Engineer @StarlingBank

Jason Maude is a coder, coach, debater, and public speaker. He has over a decade of experience working in the financial sector, primarily in creating and delivering software. He is passionate about creating teams and explaining complex technical concepts to those who are convinced that they won't...

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Track Host

Jon Rowland

Director of Engineering @Metaswitch

Jon Rowland is a Director of Engineering at Metaswitch, working at the leading edge of cloud native communications software. He has nearly two decades of experience delivering high-scale, highly-available software solutions, and has recently been helping to shape Metaswitch’s technical strategy...

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