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Presentation: Building a Future-Proof Observability Platform to Empower Engineers

Dan Gomez Blanco, Wayne Bell — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:14:00 GMT

Wayne Bell and Dan Gomez Blanco discuss the architectural and cultural shift required to scale observability at Skyscanner. They share how moving to OpenTelemetry decoupled instrumentation from vendors, and explain why treating a platform as a product - with engineers as customers - is the key to reducing incident rates and eliminating technical debt across 800+ microservices.

By Dan Gomez Blanco, Wayne Bell

Presentation: Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI Content are Taking over the Internet

Shuman Ghosemajumder — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:55:00 GMT

Shuman Ghosemajumder explains how generative AI has transformed from a creative curiosity into a high-scale tool for disinformation and fraud. He shares insights on "Disinformation Automation," the fallacy of CAPTCHA in an AI world, and why engineering leaders must adopt zero-trust "cyber fusion" strategies to defend against automated attacks that mimic human behavior with chilling accuracy.

By Shuman Ghosemajumder

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

Frank Yu — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:29:00 GMT

Frank Yu shares Coinbase’s engineering philosophy for building resilient, fair, and fast financial exchanges. He explains the power of a single-threaded architecture combined with the Raft consensus algorithm to maintain 24/7 availability. He discusses how determinism enables zero-downtime rolling deployments and the ability to replay production logs for perfect bug reproduction.

By Frank Yu

Presentation: Panel: Building a Culture that Works

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:10:00 GMT

The panelists share insights on evolving company culture. They discuss leveraging feedback loops, lending social capital, and the friction between legacy bureaucracy and agile engineering. The panel explains how to maintain cohesion in remote teams and use interviews to uncover the true "unmanicured" culture of a firm.

By Nicky Wrightson, Suhail Patel, Lesley Cordero, Matthew Card, Natan Žabkar Nordberg

Presentation: Dynamic Moments: Weaving LLMs into Deep Personalization at DoorDash

Sudeep Das, Pradeep Muthukrishnan — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:35:00 GMT

Sudeep Das and Pradeep Muthukrishnan explain the shift from static merchandising to dynamic, moment-aware personalization at DoorDash. They share how LLMs generate natural-language "consumer profiles" and content blueprints, while traditional deep learning handles last-mile ranking. This hybrid approach allows the platform to adapt to short-lived user intent and massive catalog abundance.

By Sudeep Das, Pradeep Muthukrishnan

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: Speed at Scale: Optimizing the Largest CX Platform out There

Matheus Albuquerque — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:20:00 GMT

Matheus Albuquerque shares strategies for optimizing a massive CX platform, moving from React 15 and Webpack 1 to modern standards. He discusses using AST-based codemods for large-scale migrations, implementing differential serving with module/nomodule, and leveraging Preact to shrink footprints. He explains how to balance cutting-edge performance with strict legacy browser constraints.

By Matheus Albuquerque