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How to Build an Exchange: Sub Millisecond Response Times and 24/7 Uptimes in the Cloud
Frank Yu explains how Coinbase builds ultra-high-performance exchanges. He discusses using single-threaded, deterministic core logic and Raft consensus to achieve sub-millisecond P99s in the cloud.
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Event-Driven Patterns for Cloud-Native Banking - What Works, What Hurts?
Chris Tacey-Green explains how to build resilient event-driven architectures in regulated banking, covering transactional integrity, idempotency patterns, and strategies to avoid "poisonous" messages.
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Platform Engineering: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of eBay Velocity
Randy Shoup shares how eBay doubled engineering productivity but failed to pivot the business. He explains the technical wins of the Velocity Initiative and the cultural hurdles that remained.
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Latency: the Race to Zero...Are We There Yet?
Amir Langer explains the critical role of predictable low latency in fintech, sharing lessons from the past and modern techniques like kernel bypass and Aeron to push systems toward zero latency.
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Panel: Taking Architecture out of the Echo Chamber
Andrew Harmel-Law leads a panel of experts to discuss the future of architecture. They share how to decentralize decision-making, communicate risk to stakeholders, and evolve technical career paths.
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Are We Ready for the Next Cyber Security Crisis Like Log4shell?
Soroosh Khodami shares a "horror story" on supply chain attacks. He explains how one Maven or npm command can gift hackers a reverse shell and shares critical strategies like SBOMs to defend teams.
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Security and Architecture: to Betray One is to Destroy Both
Shana Dacres-Lawrence discusses the "betrayals" between security and architecture. She explains how delivery pressure and assumed trust lead to failures and shares five strategies for a lasting union.
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So You’ve Decided to Do a Technical Migration
Sophie Koonin explains how Monzo navigated a two-year migration from Flow to TypeScript. She shares strategies for gaining stakeholder buy-in, using automation, and managing incremental rollouts.
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Platforms for Secure API Connectivity with Architecture as Code
Jim Gough explains how "Architecture as Code" and the CALM model bridge the gap between developers and infrastructure, sharing patterns to automate security reviews and accelerate API deployment.
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The Ideal Micro-Frontends Platform
Luca Mezzalira discusses the evolution of micro-frontends, explaining how to scale engineering teams through technical decentralization, business subdomain boundaries, and organizational autonomy.
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WASM Components are a FaaS' Best Friend
Laurent Doguin explains why WebAssembly (Wasm) components are the future of FaaS. He discusses the Wasm Component Model, security isolation, and building distributed systems with CNCF wasmCloud.
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Fast Eventual Consistency: inside Corrosion, the Distributed System Powering Fly.io
Somtochi Onyekwere discusses Corrosion, Fly.io's eventual consistent service discovery tool. She explains how the networking team leverages SQLite and CRDTs to replicate data across 800+ nodes.
