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Latency 2024 - Scaling From Zero To Hero: Cloudflare Workers As Your Only Backend By Dylan Johnston
Mar 2024

Latency 2024 - Scaling From Zero To Hero: Cloudflare Workers As Your Only Backend By Dylan Johnston

Dylan Johnston presents Scaling from Zero to Hero: Cloudflare Workers as your only backend Serverless has been around for a long time, but only recently has multi-client realtime communication with websockets become not only feasible, but easy and cost effective. In this talk we'll explore how to leverage Cloudflare's edge compute infrastructure like Workers, Durable Objects, and Hibernatable Web Sockets API that make it easier than ever to build rich real-time applications like chat-rooms or multiplayer games that will cost you nothing until you've scaled to tens of thousands of monthly active users. No more paying for idle I/O time! Dylan will share his experience building a real-time multiplayer party game with Cloudflare Workers as its only backend. With some Rust and Web Assembly thrown in for good measure.

Latency 2024 - Architecting Cloud Native Applications For Low Latency Performance By Chiedu Eluehike
Mar 2024

Latency 2024 - Architecting Cloud Native Applications For Low Latency Performance By Chiedu Eluehike

Chiedu Eluehike presents Shaving Milliseconds: Architecting Cloud Native Applications for Low Latency Performance In our fast paced digital world, every millisecond counts. Today users accessing applications expect immediate responses and businesses rely on speed and real time insights on their data to drive quality decision making. In this talk you'd be exposed to various Architecture Patterns to implement when designing your application for speed, as well as Network Technology and Protocol choices to consider when building and maintaining your application.

Latency 2024 - Isolated Tenancy != Footgun By Ed Newsom
Mar 2024

Latency 2024 - Isolated Tenancy != Footgun By Ed Newsom

Ed Newsom presents Isolated tenancy != Footgun How do you earn your customers' trust so they will give you access to their precious data? Implementing isolated tenancy does not need to kill your SaaS product. When you're developing a product you need to satisfy both the customers' need for data security and your aims of speed to market and stability. This talk is about where we landed when building a SaaS product for multiple customers who really do care about their data. We will cover implementing a cloud-native, serverless, event-driven solution built on DevOps principles, that uses the right level of isolated tenant architecture to earn customers' trust while still allowing us to rapidly deliver features.

Latency 2024 - Platform Eng: Building The Future Brick By Brick By Stephen Tulp And Trent Steenholdt
Mar 2024

Latency 2024 - Platform Eng: Building The Future Brick By Brick By Stephen Tulp And Trent Steenholdt

Stephen Tulp and Trent Steenholdt presents Building the Future Brick by Brick In a world where cloud computing resembles a sprawling Lego city, platform engineering emerges as an essential foundation to promote golden paths and reusable building blocks . Join us as we explore how Lego metaphors can illuminate the intricacies of platform engineering. From sturdy baseplates to specialized bricks, we’ll uncover the secrets behind creating a robust platform that empowers developers and accelerates software delivery.

Latency 2024 - Meet Cedar: Adding Generation Authz For Your Cloud Native Applications By Derek Bingham
Mar 2024

Latency 2024 - Meet Cedar: Adding Generation Authz For Your Cloud Native Applications By Derek Bingham

Derek Bingham presents Meet Cedar: Adding generation Authz for your cloud native applications Authorisation is one of the foundational needs when building your applications and services. The ability to correctly and reliably grant or deny access to your application resources is critical. Yet this is still one of the hardest things we have to do as developers. In this session I am going to cover the open source project 'Cedar' that helps you solve this problem by helping you build next generation authorisation into your applications. I am going to provide a quick overview of authorisation and its nuances, before looking at Cedar. Using a simple Demo application I will show how you can begin to use Cedar to help simplify authorisation for your applications.

Latency 2023 - Building With Generative AI: A 'BedtimeStory' By Brian Foody
Sept 2023

Latency 2023 - Building With Generative AI: A 'BedtimeStory' By Brian Foody

The past six months have been a whirlwind of progress in the AI space. It can be hard to orient yourself, let alone stay abreast of developments. Our response has been to "Build something, build anything". Three months ago we set out to build a "hello world" for generative AI: a bedtime story generator intended to make sense of fast-moving technology. The team were pleasantly surprised to find customers which not only love it, but are happy to pay for it. In this talk we will cover the generative AI domain, our product and our build before discussing how we as engineers can leverage out skillset to bring products to market in this fascinating space.

Latency 2023 - Unlocking Your APIs With GraphQL By Dylan Johnston
Sept 2023

Latency 2023 - Unlocking Your APIs With GraphQL By Dylan Johnston

API design is hard, and it's even harder when trying to design an API for a core service used by many other teams. Traditional REST API's quickly multiply in both query parameters and endpoints, trying to present the data in a way that each of the different teams require, potentially massively multiplying development work. GraphQL can help unlock the value of your API by helping to uncouple the consumers and owners of data by giving each consumers the freedom to request exactly the data they need. We'll explore how Dylan is using GraphQL for its next generation of APIs and helping teams operate across service boundaries and the lessons learned from advocating for, and adopting GraphQL.

Latency 2023 - Monolith To Mesh: Canva’s Journey To A Decentralised Warehouse Platform, Jonathan Neo
Sept 2023

Latency 2023 - Monolith To Mesh: Canva’s Journey To A Decentralised Warehouse Platform, Jonathan Neo

The talk covers Canva's journey of rapidly scaling its data engineering platform by transitioning from a centralized data engineering team to a platform team with decentralized data specialists embedded in domain teams. This shift enabled Canva to evolve from having 30 data specialists in 2020 to over 250 in 2023. The talk provides insights into the key design decisions taken and the lessons learned from this transition towards a decentralized data warehouse platform.

Measure What Matters - The Trojan Horse
Sept 2021

Measure What Matters - The Trojan Horse

Only amateurs go with their gut. There was that time Decca Records told the Beatles that guitar bands were on the way out. Or when Ronald Wayne sold 10% of Apple for $800. When your building high end software projects at the speed of tech, you need a specialist partner to keep you on course. Our team of master developers, designers and tech trailblazers can help you clear the decks, build software of substance, and deliver high priority outcomes at speed. What’s the Trojan horse being led into your business? Let’s use data to make sure you never have to find out. Go with the data.

Measure What Matters - New Coke
Sept 2021

Measure What Matters - New Coke

Only amateurs go with their gut. There was that time Decca Records told the Beatles that guitar bands were on the way out. Or when Ronald Wayne sold 10% of Apple for $800. When your building high end software projects at the speed of tech, you need a specialist partner to keep you on course. Our team of master developers, designers and tech trailblazers can help you clear the decks, build software of substance, and deliver high priority outcomes at speed. What’s the Trojan horse being led into your business? Let’s use data to make sure you never have to find out. Go with the data.

Mechanical Rock - Measure What Matters
Sept 2021

Mechanical Rock - Measure What Matters

Only amateurs go with their gut. There was that time Decca Records told the Beatles that guitar bands were on the way out. Or when Ronald Wayne sold 10% of Apple for $800. When your building high end software projects at the speed of tech, you need a specialist partner to keep you on course. Our team of master developers, designers and tech trailblazers can help you clear the decks, build software of substance, and deliver high priority outcomes at speed. What’s the Trojan horse being led into your business? Let’s use data to make sure you never have to find out. Go with the data.