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Using AI as a Thinking Partner for Large-Scale Engineering Systems
Google senior staff engineer Julie Qiu shares how she uses AI as a thinking partner to navigate large-scale systems, moving beyond code generation to architecting complex, multi-language ecosystems.
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The Human Scalability Problem: Why Your Teams Don’t Scale Like Your Code
Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg explains why scaling engineering teams often slows down delivery. She shares how to solve human latency by building trust and psychological safety across silos.
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Building Embedding Models for Large-Scale Real-World Applications
Sahil Dua explains the architecture and training of embedding models. He shares practical tips for distilling large models and scaling RAG applications for real-time production environments.
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Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons from Growing Engineering Organizations
Thiago Ghisi discusses his journey scaling engineering orgs to 100+ people. He shares a 3-level impact framework and explains how to evolve from a "solver" to a "driver" of organizational growth.
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Beyond the Warehouse: Why BigQuery Alone Won’t Solve Your Data Problems
Sarah Usher explains why relying solely on a data warehouse fails at scale. She shares a 3-layer data lifecycle (Raw, Curated, Use Case) to help engineering leaders build flexible, decoupled systems.
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Theme Systems at Scale: How to Build Highly Customizable Software
Guilherme Carreiro explains how Shopify scales a customizable theme system to 60M requests per minute. Learn about Liquid DSL constraints, native extensions, and bridging technical/non-technical gaps.
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Reliable Data Flows and Scalable Platforms: Tackling Key Data Challenges
Matthias Niehoff discusses bridging the gap between application and data engineering. Learn to apply software engineering best practices, embrace boring technologies, and simplify architecture.
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Scaling the BBC Design System: Tooling, Community, Governance and Gardening
Sophie Beaumont discusses how her team built a web design system that scales to serve 4.8 billion requests a month.
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Slack's AI-Powered, Hybrid Approach for Large-Scale Migration from Enzyme to React Testing Library
Sergii Gorbachov discusses how Slack saved thousands of hours by using a hybrid AST/LLM approach to automate complex code migration, sharing a transferable model for other companies.
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Platform Engineering Patterns for Scalable Software Delivery
Discover how to build a successful Internal Developer Platform (IDP). The panelists share key patterns and lessons learned for scaling platform engineering.
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Changing the Model: Why and How We Re-Architected Slack
Ian Hoffman discusses Slack's architectural evolution, from workspace-centric to a unified grid, highlighting key learnings.
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How GitHub Copilot Serves 400 Million Completion Requests a Day
David Cheney explains the architecture powering GitHub Copilot, detailing how they achieve sub-200ms response times for millions of daily requests.
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