World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 10, 2026 • Session details

20 billion requests a week: Upgrading Twilio's API gateway at scale

Ainhoa Arruabarrena Ortiz, Mario Román Dono, Marius Obert

How do you safely upgrade a legacy API gateway handling 20 billion weekly requests? Discover Twilio's five-year modernization strategy that conquered extreme technical debt with zero major disruptions.

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3:46 min

Managing technical debt while iterating on API infrastructure

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Executing massive cloud network migrations while maintaining live systems

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Designing a resilient API gateway architecture

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Refactoring a complex legacy monolith into microservices

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Addressing runtime migration specifics and future open source framework ambitions

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