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Presentation: Event-Driven Patterns for Cloud-Native Banking - What Works, What Hurts?

Chris Tacey-Green — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:20:00 GMT

Chris Tacey-Green discusses the shift from synchronous commands to asynchronous events within highly regulated environments. He explains the critical role of Inbox and Outbox patterns in preventing data loss, the nuances of event versioning, and how to maintain decoupling between domains. He shares "battle-tested" principles for implementing fault tolerance and managing eventual consistency.

By Chris Tacey-Green

Presentation: Platform Engineering: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of eBay Velocity

Randy Shoup — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:17:00 GMT

Randy Shoup discusses the "Velocity Initiative," a transformation that doubled engineering productivity and modernized eBay’s DORA metrics. He shares the technical playbook used to scale 4,500 services while explaining why even elite engineering execution can’t save a company hampered by waterfall planning, risk aversion, and a "pathological" culture of fear.

By Randy Shoup

Presentation: Latency: the Race to Zero...Are We There Yet?

Amir Langer — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:28:00 GMT

Amir Langer discusses the evolution of latency reduction, from the Pony Express to modern hardware. He explains how separation of concerns - decoupling business logic from I/O - and tools like Aeron and the Disruptor achieve single-digit microsecond speeds. He shares insights into replicated state machines, consensus protocols like Raft, and the future of low-latency sequencer architectures.

By Amir Langer