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Clean Architecture for Serverless: Business Logic You Can Take Anywhere
Elena van Engelen explains how to build cloud-agnostic serverless applications. She shares how Spring Cloud Function, Clean Architecture, and Gradle decouple business logic from AWS and Azure.
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Compiling Workflows into Databases: the Architecture That Shouldn't Work (But Does)
Jeremy Edberg & Qian Li explain how to replace complex external orchestrators with DBOS Transact, an open-source library that implements durable workflow execution directly inside your database.
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The Rust High Performance Talk You Did Not Expect
Ruth Linehan discusses Momento’s 3-year migration from Kotlin to Rust, explaining how the borrow checker speeds up delivery velocity and why Rust lowers overall engineering costs in production.
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Lessons Learned in Migrating to Micro-Frontends
Luca Mezzalira discusses a practical roadmap for migrating to micro-frontends, explaining how to optimize for team autonomy, identify domain boundaries, and leverage edge-compute routing.
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Enhancing Reliability Using Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix
Anirudh Mendiratta and Benjamin Fedorka explain how Netflix handles massive traffic storms using service-level prioritized load shedding and client-side attempt budgets to protect critical path APIs.
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The Infrastructure Challenge behind Production AI
The panelists share how core data systems and cloud platforms handle machine-driven workloads, exploring infrastructure design patterns and failure points as AI becomes a permanent fixture.
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Challenging Google Analytics: Building a Scalable, Cost-Effective User Tracking Service
Alina Krasavina discusses how Delivery Hero built an in-house tracking platform to replace Google Analytics. She explains their architecture, load testing, and how they cut storage costs by 75%.
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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.