Sangeeta: Over the past few years, architectural patterns and practices like microservices, serverless and DevOps have revolutionized the way we work in the software industry. They have enabled organizations to move rapidly and handle ever-increasing scalability challenges in their systems. While there is no question as to the benefits of these concepts, there is a real danger of engineers spending more energies in the process of delivering functionality and keeping the lights on as opposed to generating value for their businesses. Having experience first hand the benefits of simplifying some of these processes and the pitfalls of not doing so (in the form of burnout, lost productivity and bugs), I have one mission for my team - to ensure that Netflix engineers spend the bulk of their energies on building the best-in-class online streaming experience for our customers. I'm always interested in newer and better ways of working towards that mission, which is what I hope to share with attendees.

Sangeeta: My biggest hope is to spark ideas and encourage attendees to challenge status quo in their organizations in a quest to find ways to improve their velocity while maintaining reliability. A few specifics they can expect to learn: