Track Overview
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Have you ever wondered how well-known tech companies can seamlessly deliver an exceptional user experience while supporting millions of users and billions of transactions?
In QCon's marquee Architectures track, we learn what it takes to operate at a large scale from well-known names in our industry. You will take away hard-earned architectural lessons on these next-gen architectures, patterns and anti-patterns, best practices, challenges, and exciting war stories.
Hear from over 60+ innovative senior software engineers across multiple domains at QCon London (April 4-6) as they share their real-world implementation of emerging trends and practices to help you adopt the right patterns and practices.
From this track
How Starling Built Their Own Card Processor
Monday Apr 4 / 10:35AM BST
Rob Donovan and Ioana Creanga talk about what happens behind the scenes when you pay with your card, and how Starling built their own card processor, integrating more traditional hardware with cloud-deployed micro-services.
Rob Donovan
Tech Lead @StarlingBank
Ioana Creanga
Engineer Lead for the Payments Processing Group @StarlingBank
Unconference: Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Monday Apr 4 / 11:50AM BST
Details coming soon
How SeatGeek Successfully Handle High Demand Ticket On-Sales
Monday Apr 4 / 01:40PM BST
High-demand online ticket on-sales are a core part of SeatGeek’s business and pose a challenge to delivering a seamless user experience. SeatGeek's ability to handle large amounts of online traffic made the company the preferred ticketing solution for significant teams at the English...
Anderson Parra
Senior Software Engineer @SeatGeek
Vitor Pellegrino
Director of Engineering @SeatGeek
Shopify’s Architecture to Handle the World’s Biggest Flash Sales
Monday Apr 4 / 02:55PM BST
How do you enable millions of entrepreneurs to run their businesses on your platform? And how do you deal with product launches that suddenly bring millions of requests per minute from one moment to the next?This talk will walk through how Shopify works under the hood using the customer journey...
Bart de Water
Manager @Shopify Payments Team
Scribe: The 15-Year Evolution of Meta’s Data Transport Service
Monday Apr 4 / 04:10PM BST
Meta's hardware infrastructure comprises millions of machines, all of which generate data. The overall traffic generated reaches several petabytes every hour, while its processing typically takes place somewhere other than where it was originally generated. The task of collecting,...
Manos Karpathiotakis
Software Engineer @Meta
Vlassios Rizopoulos
Production Engineer @Meta
Large Scale Architectures Panel
Monday Apr 4 / 05:25PM BST
Join Eder Ignatowicz of Red Hat as he explores architectural issues with a panel of experts from some of the world's largest architectures.
Sarah Wells
Former Tech Director for Engineering Enablement @FT (Financial Times)
Vitor Pellegrino
Director of Engineering @SeatGeek
Anderson Parra
Senior Software Engineer @SeatGeek
Bart de Water
Manager @Shopify Payments Team
Speakers from this track
Rob Donovan
Tech Lead @StarlingBank
Rob is tech lead for the card payments engineering team at Starling Bank. Before Starling he held various engineering roles in electronic trading, financial research and cloud infrastructure. Outside work, Rob enjoys playing the guitar and other musical activities, including the odd jam with...
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Ioana Creanga
Engineer Lead for the Payments Processing Group @StarlingBank
Ioana is currently an Engineer Lead for the Payments Processing Group at Starling Bank. She worked in several teams as a software engineer at Starling before she was given the task to build out a team which would develop a certified Mastercard card processor. She now helps the payment...
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Anderson Parra
Senior Software Engineer @SeatGeek
Ander is a software engineer with many years of experience in large distributed systems that support high-traffic and huge volumes of data. He has created solutions using Java, Scala, JavaScript, Ruby, Python and Golang for companies in Brazil, Ireland, Germany, UK, and US. He has a master's...
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Vitor Pellegrino
Director of Engineering @SeatGeek
Vitor Pellegrino is a Director of Engineering at SeatGeek. He leads the Cloud Platform team, which is the group responsible for developing the platform that powers all SeatGeek's systems. He has been working as a software developer for over 15 years with companies in Brazil, Germany and...
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Bart de Water
Manager @Shopify Payments Team
Bart works as a manager on the Shopify Payments team from Montréal, Canada. Over the last couple of years, Bart has helped scale Shopify’s in house payment offering to more merchants in more markets and with support for more payment methods. Before moving to the cold lands of poutine and...
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Manos Karpathiotakis
Software Engineer @Meta
Manos is a software engineer at Meta, where he has worked on Scribe - Meta's data transport service - for the past four years.He obtained a PhD from EPFL, focusing on efficient ways to query heterogeneous data through the use of techniques such as runtime code generation and GPGPU data...
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Vlassios Rizopoulos
Production Engineer @Meta
Vlassios is a production engineer at Meta, where he is working on Scribe - Meta's data transport service.He has a passion in managing large data focused infrastructures and for more than 15 years, he has been focusing on both for analytical and transactional systems.Prior to Meta he help a...
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Sarah Wells
Former Tech Director for Engineering Enablement @FT (Financial Times)
Sarah is a technology leader, consultant and conference speaker with a focus on microservices, engineering enablement, observability and devops. She has over 20 years experience as a developer, principal engineer and tech director across product, platform, SRE and devops teams.Sarah spent...
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Track Host
Eder Ignatowicz
Java Champion, Tech Lead, and Principal Software Engineer @RedHat
Eder is a Principal Software Engineer and Tech Lead for Red Hat Business Automation, leading several tooling efforts, including the Kogito initiative. Java Champion since 2017 and a recognised community contributor and speaker in large conferences across the globe, including Red Hat Summit and...
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