
The speakers discuss Netflix’s architecture for surviving extreme traffic spikes. They explain the mechanics of prioritized load shedding embedded in their Envoy sidecar proxy, allowing user-initiated requests to steal capacity from…


Instacart redesigned its personalized marketing system using a configuration-driven multi-tenant architecture on Storefront Pro. The system replaces retailer-specific implementations with a shared execution engine, enabling scalable…

When you’re running MongoDB in production, backups are non-negotiable. But not all backup strategies are equal. The gap between a good backup strategy and a bad one only becomes visible at the worst possible moment: when you actually need…

A company shifted from project- to product-thinking after their platform outgrew single-team use. The limitations that they felt with their platform were one-off deliveries, lack of product vision, and weak feedback loops. They have moved…