World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

Building Systems that Last

Amazon S3 scaled to 300 microservices with zero downtime. Building evolvable systems requires cell-based architecture. Discover how to leverage efficient languages like Rust to survive extreme cloud scale.

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Common pitfalls in scaling modern data systems

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Architecting for structural flexibility across all system layers

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