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Write-Ahead Intent Log: a Foundation for Efficient CDC at Scale
Vinay Chella and Akshat Goel explain why they outgrew traditional CDC at scale. They share how they built Write-Ahead Intent Log (WAIL) using a proxy layer to decouple data replication.
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Mitigating Geopolitical Risks with Local-First Software and atproto
Martin Kleppmann explains how de facto standards, multi-cloud strategies, the AT Protocol, and local-first software can mitigate geopolitical risks and eliminate vendor lock-in.
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Architecting a Centralized Platform for Data Deletion at Netflix
Netflix Engineers Vidhya Arvind and Shawn Liu discuss the pillars of safe, large-scale data deletion. They explain strategies to eliminate data ghosts and manage tombstone resource contention.
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Theme Systems at Scale: How to Build Highly Customizable Software
Shopify Staff Engineer Guilherme Carreiro explains how to scale highly customizable software platforms. He shares architectural strategies for balancing deep design flexibility with peak performance.
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Evolution of a Backend for a Streaming Application
Daniele Frasca shares how to scale streaming apps for millions of users using serverless patterns. Learn to eliminate single points of failure, improve data consistency, and master multi-region.
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Stripe’s Docdb: How Zero-Downtime Data Movement Powers Trillion-Dollar Payment Processing
Jimmy Morzaria explains how Stripe scales its MongoDB infrastructure to process $1.4 trillion in payments. He shares the engineering behind their zero-downtime data movement platform and DocDB.
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How to Build an Exchange: Sub Millisecond Response Times and 24/7 Uptimes in the Cloud
Frank Yu explains how Coinbase builds ultra-high-performance exchanges. He discusses using single-threaded, deterministic core logic and Raft consensus to achieve sub-millisecond P99s in the cloud.
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Event-Driven Patterns for Cloud-Native Banking - What Works, What Hurts?
Chris Tacey-Green explains how to build resilient event-driven architectures in regulated banking, covering transactional integrity, idempotency patterns, and strategies to avoid "poisonous" messages.
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Platform Engineering: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of eBay Velocity
Randy Shoup shares how eBay doubled engineering productivity but failed to pivot the business. He explains the technical wins of the Velocity Initiative and the cultural hurdles that remained.
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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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