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Building a Supercluster: What We Learned When We Hit Cloud Provider Limits
Tuesday Nov 18 / 10:35AM PST
We hit the ceiling of what major cloud providers could offer—hard limits, quota caps, and regional restrictions that no amount of budget could fix. So, we built our own supercluster.
Prabhat Sharma
Founder @OpenObserve
Vibes Won't Cut It: Agentic Engineering in Production
Tuesday Nov 18 / 11:45AM PST
If you think AI agents code like junior engineers that's because you set it up to code like a junior engineer. AI is a tool, not a magic wand, and like any tool you need to take time to learn and sharpen it.
Chris Kelly
Product @ Augment | Developer productivity & AI
Building Agentic Workflows with MCP (AI Engineering that Delivers)
Tuesday Nov 18 / 01:35PM PST
Agentic thinking is transforming software development—shifting us from linear scripts to dynamic, self-directed workflows.
Sterling Chin
Developer Advocate @Postman
A Day in the Life of a Senior Engineer: Navigating Context with AI
Tuesday Nov 18 / 02:45PM PST
In this talk, Vinay Perneti, VP Engineering at Augment Code, will interview Anand Sankaran, Senior Principal Software Development Engineer at Workday, about using AI coding assistants in enterprise-scale codebases.
Vinay Perneti
VP Engineering @Augment Code
Anand Kumar Sankaran
Sr. Principal Software Development Engineer - Distributed Systems @ Workday
Uncovering the Coding Personalities of Leading LLMs
Tuesday Nov 18 / 03:55PM PST
The rapid integration of LLMs into the SDLC has marked a paradigm shift in how we create code.
Anirban Chatterjee
Senior Director, Product & Solutions Marketing @Sonar
Make Mechanical Advantage YOUR Advantage: How to Modernize and Futureproof Your Code with OpenRewrite
Tuesday Nov 18 / 05:05PM PST
Modernizing large codebases is tough—outdated frameworks, security fixes, and deprecated APIs drain engineering time and slow innovation. In this session, we’ll explore how to apply “Mechanical Advantage” in software: small, precise changes that deliver big results.
Mark Heckler
Senior Director of Field Engineering @Moderne
