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Latency: The Race to Zero...Are We There Yet?
Amir Langer explains the critical role of predictable low latency in fintech, sharing lessons from the past and modern techniques like kernel bypass and Aeron to push systems toward zero latency.
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Panel: Taking Architecture out of the Echo Chamber
Andrew Harmel-Law leads a panel of experts to discuss the future of architecture. They share how to decentralize decision-making, communicate risk to stakeholders, and evolve technical career paths.
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Are We Ready for the Next Cyber Security Crisis Like Log4shell?
Soroosh Khodami shares a "horror story" on supply chain attacks. He explains how one Maven or npm command can gift hackers a reverse shell and shares critical strategies like SBOMs to defend teams.
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Security and Architecture: to Betray One is to Destroy Both
Shana Dacres-Lawrence discusses the "betrayals" between security and architecture. She explains how delivery pressure and assumed trust lead to failures and shares five strategies for a lasting union.
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So You’ve Decided to Do a Technical Migration
Sophie Koonin explains how Monzo navigated a two-year migration from Flow to TypeScript. She shares strategies for gaining stakeholder buy-in, using automation, and managing incremental rollouts.
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Platforms for Secure API Connectivity with Architecture as Code
Jim Gough explains how "Architecture as Code" and the CALM model bridge the gap between developers and infrastructure, sharing patterns to automate security reviews and accelerate API deployment.
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The Ideal Micro-Frontends Platform
Luca Mezzalira discusses the evolution of micro-frontends, explaining how to scale engineering teams through technical decentralization, business subdomain boundaries, and organizational autonomy.
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WASM Components are a FaaS' Best Friend
Laurent Doguin explains why WebAssembly (Wasm) components are the future of FaaS. He discusses the Wasm Component Model, security isolation, and building distributed systems with CNCF wasmCloud.
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Fast Eventual Consistency: inside Corrosion, the Distributed System Powering Fly.io
Somtochi Onyekwere discusses Corrosion, Fly.io's eventual consistent service discovery tool. She explains how the networking team leverages SQLite and CRDTs to replicate data across 800+ nodes.
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From Confusion to Clarity: Advanced Observability Strategies for Media Workflows at Netflix
Naveen Mareddy and Sujana Sooreddy explain how Netflix monitors massive media encoding workflows. They discuss scaling to 1M+ trace spans and using Flink to unlock real-time business insights.
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Scaling Cloud and Distributed Applications: Lessons and Strategies from chase.com, #1 Banking Portal in the US
Durai Arasan shares how Chase.com achieved a 71% latency reduction. He explains strategies for efficient scaling, multi-region resilience, and automated "repaving" to secure large-scale systems.
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Architecting Planet Scale, Modern Apps in the Cloud
George Mao discusses the five stages of maturity for building a planet-scale, global, and highly available architecture using fully serverless, cloud-native services (GCP/AWS).