Platform Engineering
Producing the World's Cheapest Tokens: A How-to Guide
Wednesday Nov 19 / 10:35AM PST
AI inference is expensive, but it doesn’t have to be. In this talk, we’ll break down how to systematically drive down the cost per token across different types of AI workloads.
Meryem Arik
Co-Founder and CEO @Doubleword (Previously TitanML), Recognized as a Technology Leader in Forbes 30 Under 30, Recovering Physicist
The High Performance Talk You Did Not Expect To Hear about Rust
Wednesday Nov 19 / 10:35AM PST
Rust makes things faster but it slows down engineers, right? This was our team’s assumption when we decided to rewrite our code from Kotlin into Rust. But, we were wrong in completely unexpected ways.
Ruth Linehan
Software Engineer @Momento, Previously APIs/Webhooks @GitHub and @Puppet
Accelerating LLM-Driven Developer Productivity at Zoox
Wednesday Nov 19 / 11:45AM PST
Over the past year, Zoox has invested in integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into internal developer workflows through a company-wide initiative called Zoox Intelligence (ZI).
Amit Navindgi
Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience @ Zoox, Leading Applied AI Initiatives
How Netflix Shapes our Fleet for Efficiency and Reliability
Wednesday Nov 19 / 11:45AM PST
Netflix runs on a complex multi-layer cloud architecture made up of thousands of services, caches, and databases. As hardware options, workload patterns, cost dynamics and the Netflix products evolve, the cost-optimal hardware and configuration for running our services is constantly changing.
Joseph Lynch
Principal Software Engineer @Netflix Building Highly-Reliable and High-Leverage Infrastructure Across Stateless and Stateful Services
Argha C
Staff Software Engineer @Netflix - Leading Netflix's Cloud Scalability Efforts for Live
Realtime and Batch Processing of GPU Workloads
Wednesday Nov 19 / 01:35PM PST
SS&C Technologies runs 47 trillion dollars of assets on our global private cloud. We have the primitives for infrastructure as well as platforms as a service like Kubernetes, Kafka, NiFi, Databases, etc.
Joseph Stein
Principal Architect of Research & Development @SS&C Technologies, Previous Apache Kafka Committer and PMC Member
From ms to µs: OSS Valkey Architecture Patterns for Modern AI
Wednesday Nov 19 / 02:45PM PST
As AI applications demand faster and more intelligent data access, traditional caching strategies are hitting performance and reliability limits.
Dumanshu Goyal
Uber Technical Lead @Airbnb Powering $11B Transactions, Formerly @Google and @AWS
Write-Ahead Intent Log: A Foundation for Efficient CDC at Scale
Wednesday Nov 19 / 03:55PM PST
As companies grow, so does the complexity of keeping distributed systems in sync. At DoorDash, we tackled this challenge while building a high-throughput, domain-oriented data platform for capturing changes across hundreds of services.
Vinay Chella
Engineering Leader @DoorDash - Specializing in Distributed Systems, Streaming & Storage Platforms, Apache Cassandra Committer, Previously Engineering Leader @Netflix
Akshat Goel
Staff Software Engineer, Core Infra at @DoorDash, Previously Senior Software Engineer @Amazon