Scale
Presentations
Secrets at Planet-Scale: Engineering the Internal Google KMS
We propose to discuss Google’s internal key management system for cryptographic key material which is a critical part of Google's overall strategy for user data protection. The talk will cover the design choices and strategies that Google chose in order to build a highly reliable,...
Architectures That Scale Deep - Regaining Control in Deep Systems
We often hear about architectural "scale" as if it's one-dimension and linear. In fact, it is neither, and that's breaking our tools and processes. Where modern, microservice-based architectures are concerned, "large-scale systems" aren't simply larger versions of...
Past Presentations
Scaling Slack
Slack is a communication and collaboration platform for teams. Our millions of users spend 10+ hrs connected to the service on a typical working day. They expect reliability, low latency, and extraordinarily rich client experiences across a wide variety of devices and network conditions. In the...
With Great Scalability Comes Great Responsibility
This is a story of how I took down one of our vendor’s services with an innocent serverless application. I wanted to retrieve data from one of our monitoring platforms to analyze SPS Commerce’s software performance. Initially, I wrote a script to collect the data using python multiprocessing....