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Presentation: Building GenAI Platform at DoorDash

Siddharth Kodwani, Swaroop Chitlur — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Swaroop Chitlur and Sidd Kodwani share DoorDash’s journey building an internal GenAI platform. They discuss core architectural bets, transitioning from vendor-first setups to open-weights models, navigating LLM and agent gateways, and balancing accuracy, latency, and cost for over 5,000 internal users.

By Siddharth Kodwani, Swaroop Chitlur

Presentation: Managing Asynchronous APIs at Scale

Ian Cooper — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Ian Cooper discusses managing asynchronous APIs in event-driven architectures at scale. He explains the "ABCs" of messaging (Address, Binding, Contract) and shares how to tackle discovery, governance, and provisioning using AsyncAPI, CloudEvents, schema registries, and automated CI/CD infrastructure pipelines based on real-world engineering practices at Just Eat Takeaway.

By Ian Cooper

Presentation: Beyond Observability: Evolving Production Operations in the Age of AI

Michael Hausenblas, Sujana Sooreddy, Noam Levi, Renato Losio — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The panelists discuss how production operations are evolving with AI, turning operational data into actionable insights for incident response. They explain how automation and new architectural practices help engineering teams build more understandable systems, while exploring how AI reshapes software delivery and changes the historically deterministic nature of production applications.

By Michael Hausenblas, Sujana Sooreddy, Noam Levi, Renato Losio

Presentation: From Staff Platform Engineer to a16z Founder: What I Wish I'd Known

Gonzalo Maldonado — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:14:00 GMT

Gonzalo Maldonado explains how technical leaders can translate engineering skills into startup success using their "VC Abstraction Layer Knowledge" (VALK). They share hard-won lessons on finding product-market fit, structuring pitches like technical docs, avoiding co-founder drama, and evaluating internal platforms as commercial ventures in a post-ZIRP environment.

By Gonzalo Maldonado

Presentation: Adaptive Recommenders in the Real World: Inference, Evals, and System Design

Mallika Rao — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Mallika Rao explains that the true complexity of adaptive recommendation systems lies outside model architecture. She discusses how real-time feedback loops, retrieval freshness, multi-stage orchestration, and end-to-end latency budgeting enable systems to continuously learn and evolve in production under real-world operational constraints like latency, cost, and observability.

By Mallika Rao

Presentation: Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet

Christine Lemmer-Webber, David Thompson — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Christine Lemmer-Webber and David Thompson explain how Spritely's architecture solves core decentralization challenges. They share insights on capability-based access control with Goblins, actor-model communication via OCapN, and petname systems. Discover how Spritely leverages Scheme, WebAssembly (Hoot), and local-first CRDTs to build secure, peer-to-peer applications without central servers.

By Christine Lemmer-Webber, David Thompson