Architectures You've Always Wondered About

AYAWA is a mainstay of QCon conferences, bringing together eclectic talks from companies pushing the boundaries of what's possible with software. This year, we're considering the full spectrum of meanings implied by "architecture", not just web-scale distributed systems. From the cloud to the client, we'll be deep diving into the engineering behind architectures that power our physical world, our technological world, our entertainment world and our future world!

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Session

How to Build an Exchange: Sub Millisecond Response Times and 24/7 Uptimes in the Cloud

Monday Nov 17 / 10:35AM PST

These days it is possible to achieve fairly good performance on cloud provisioned systems. We discuss the design of a high performance, strongly consistent system which maintains constant service in the face of regular updates to core logic.

Speaker image - Frank Yu

Frank Yu

Director of Engineering @Coinbase, Previously Principal Engineer and Director @FairX

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Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure

Monday Nov 17 / 11:45AM PST

In this talk, Matthew will describe lessons learned from over 20+ years of building scalable, secure and stable infrastructure platforms for software in financial services (electronic trading, credit card processing etc.), the talk is relevant to anyone building platforms for mission-critic

Speaker image - Matthew Liste

Matthew Liste

Head of Infrastructure @American Express, Previously @JPMorgan Chase and @Goldman Sachs

Session

From Zero to Billions: Architecting for Hyper-Scale

Monday Nov 17 / 01:35PM PST

Details coming soon.

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The Architecture of Privacy: Building a Secure and Compliant System by Design

Monday Nov 17 / 02:45PM PST

Details coming soon.

Session

The Architecture of an Infinite Scroll

Monday Nov 17 / 03:55PM PST

Details coming soon.

Session

Unconference: Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Monday Nov 17 / 05:05PM PST

Date

Monday Nov 17 / 10:35AM PST

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Track Host

Khawaja Shams

Co-Founder & CEO @Momento, previously @NASA and @Amazon

Khawaja is a passionate QCon advocate. He earned the NASA Early Career Medal for his contributions to the Mars Rovers, from the cameras to the image processing pipeline. At Amazon Web Services, he ran DynamoDB and was subsequently the VP of Engineering for AWS Elemental. Now, as CEO and Co-founder of Momento, he's leading a team that's building serverless platforms to empower developers with caching and pub-sub.

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