Platform Engineering
Using Traffic Modeling to Load-Balance Netflix Traffic at Global Scale
Tuesday Jun 13 / 10:35AM EDT
Netflix Infrastructure supports personalized UI and Streaming experience across 230M+ members around the world.
Niosha Behnam
Staff Software Engineer @Netflix
Sergey Fedorov
Director of Engineering @Netflix
Perils, Pitfalls and Pratfalls of Platform Engineering
Thursday Jun 15 / 04:10PM EDT
Platform engineering isn’t supposed to be just another name for SRE, DevOps, infrastructure, or backend software engineering teams; but if you aren’t careful, that’s what you’ll get.
Charity Majors
CTO @Honeycombio, Previously engineer & manager @Facebook @Parse & @Linden Lab
Introducing the Hendrix ML Platform: An Evolution of Spotify’s ML Infrastructure
Wednesday Jun 14 / 10:35AM EDT
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and machine learning technology has led to exponential growth in the open-source ML ecosystem.
Divita Vohra
Senior Product Manager @Spotify
Mike Seid
Tech Lead for the ML Platform @Spotify
PostgresML: Leveraging Postgres as a Vector Database for AI
Thursday Jun 15 / 10:35AM EDT
With the growing importance of AI and machine learning in modern applications, data scientists and developers are constantly exploring new and efficient ways to store and analyze large amounts of data.
Montana Low
Machine Learning w/ PostgresML
Platform and Features MLEs, a Scalable and Product-Centric Approach for High Performing Data Products
Wednesday Jun 14 / 04:10PM EDT
In this talk, we would go through the lessons learnt in the last couple of years around organising a Data Science Team and the Machine Learning Engineering efforts at Bumble Inc.
Massimo Belloni
Data Science Manager @Bumble
Scaling Organizations with Platform Engineering
Thursday Jun 15 / 02:55PM EDT
Engineering organizations are often incentivized to prioritize short-term growth over long-term needs, leading to socio-technical consequences such as tech debt, organization siloes, and attrition.
Lesley Cordero
Staff Engineer @nytimes
Hard Problems in Frontend Platforms
Thursday Jun 15 / 01:40PM EDT
Imagine you are tasked with building a platform to support a distributed system where your code executes in a remote environments.
Katie Sylor-Miller
Frontend Architect @Etsy
Demystifying Kubernetes Platforms with Backstage
Thursday Jun 15 / 10:35AM EDT
Developer platforms can help developers move faster, be more productive, and focus on delivering value.
Matt Clarke
Senior Infrastructure Engineer @ Spotify