Track Overview
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Architectures You've Always Wondered About is a QCon staple. This edition will emphasize real-world case studies for modern cloud architectures. Learn from leaders in our industry as they share their hard-learned architectural lessons for scalability, reliability, throughput, and performance.
From this track
A Distributed Systems Approach to Decarbonizing the Grid
Monday Nov 1 / 12:10PM EDT
The electrical grid is the cornerstone of all our plans to decarbonize our energy system and prevent the worst effects of climate change. What role can software play in how we manage it? Why is the grid like a distributed system, and what can we learn from the technologies we developed to manage...
Astrid Atkinson
CEO and co-founder @CamusEnergy
Solving Data Quality Issues to Diagnose Health Symptoms with AI
Monday Nov 1 / 01:10PM EDT
Millions of people Google every day “why am I tired” and there is no clear answer to this question. Nutritional deficiencies or hormonal imbalances are more common every year in our society.User input is unreliable and is always changing, dealing with these data to diagnose a...
Lola Priego
Founder & CEO of Base
Jose del Pozo
Senior Software Engineer at Base
Federated GraphQL to Solve Service Sprawl at Major League Baseball
Monday Nov 1 / 02:10PM EDT
Major League Baseball serves billions of page views per year. Those page views take coordinating many internal and external services that traditionally have been disparate and opaque to the deveopers maintaining the web layer. In order to increase reliability, maintainability and scalability of...
Olessya Medvedeva
Software Engineer at Major League Baseball
Matt Oliver
Senior Engineering Manager at Major League Baseball
Event-Based Architectures: The Hard Parts
Monday Nov 1 / 03:10PM EDT
To build more responsive applications, we've seen a huge shift in the past decade to event-based architectures. While they are the right tool for the job, these architectures are not without their own unique challenges. Are parallel batch systems still necessary? What techniques do you use...
Raymond Roestenburg
Technical Lead at Akka Platform Team @lightbend
Sergey Bykov
SDE @temporalio
Speakers from this track
Astrid Atkinson
CEO and co-founder @CamusEnergy
Astrid is the CEO and co-founder of Camus Energy, a company dedicated to decarbonizing the grid using a software-centric approach and deep experience in distributed systems. She previously led software and systems teams at Google, where she was an early leader in the Site Reliability Engineering...
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Lola Priego
Founder & CEO of Base
Lola is the Founder and CEO of Base, the first health tracker that uses a data science app paired with at-home testing to help people feel better. Prior to founding Base, Lola was a software engineer at Amazon, Facebook and Instagram where she was focused on improving network performance. She...
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Jose del Pozo
Senior Software Engineer at Base
Jose is a Senior Software Engineer working at Base, the first health tracker that uses a data science app paired with at-home testing to help people feel better. Before Base, Jose worked at idealista, the real state company leader in the south of Europe, and Ontruck, a digital freight platform.
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Olessya Medvedeva
Software Engineer at Major League Baseball
Olessya Medvedeva is Software Engineer at Major League Baseball. As a member of Web Architecture team, she took part in conceptualizing and building Federated GraphQL powering MLB’s personalization initiative.
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Matt Oliver
Senior Engineering Manager at Major League Baseball
Matt Oliver is the Senior Engineering Manager for Major League Baseball’s Web Architecture team; responsible for implementing and monitoring MLB.com’s web footprint.
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Raymond Roestenburg
Technical Lead at Akka Platform Team @lightbend
Ray Roestenburg is a member of the Akka team at Lightbend, where he works on Akka Platform and Akka Serverless, specializing in event-based systems, highly scalable distributed systems, and data streaming. Ray has been building systems on the JVM for 25 years. He is the author of Akka in Action.
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Sergey Bykov
SDE @temporalio
Sergey Bykov is one of the engineering leaders of Temporal Technologies that is helping everyone, from enterprises to hobbyists, to build invincible applications. Prior to joining Temporal Sergey was one of the founders of the Orleans project at Microsoft Research and led its development for...
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Track Host
Colin Breck
Sr. Staff Software Engineer @Tesla
Colin Breck leads the cloud platforms organization for Tesla Energy developing real-time services for power generation, battery storage, vehicle charging, and grid services. Colin detailed the Tesla Virtual Power Plant at QCon London in 2020. Colin is interested in the intersection of...
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