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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

Software Engineering Social Connection: Yubo’s lean approach to scaling an 80M-user infrastructure

Mikael Robert

How did a five-person team scale infrastructure for 84 million users? Discover Yubo's lean GitOps strategy for conquering technical debt and slashing observability costs.

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Operating global infrastructure with tiny engineering teams

Operating a massive social platform directly with just five individuals highlights how strict operational constraints force valuable automation patterns.

#2 about 1 min

Overcoming operational debt in unmanaged giant clusters

Moving beyond unmanaged single-cluster environments and unstructured hardware establishes the foundation for scalable declarative system management.

#3 about 2 min

Embedding data engineering to solve database scalability

Integrating data engineers directly alongside infrastructure early in feature development prevents production bottlenecks by anticipating specific indexing complexities.

#4 about 1 min

Automating delivery workflows via centralized gitops patterns

Adopting central repositories synchronized via automated deployment controllers prevents manual configuration drift across growing deployment states.

#5 about 4 min

Empowering developer autonomy with custom resource definitions

Masking intricate backend mechanisms behind custom orchestration boundaries securely empowers engineers to manage application delivery without bottlenecking infrastructure experts.

#6 about 1 min

Standardizing continuous integration pipelines across diverse languages

Orchestrating code compilation builds via unified declarative template configurations accelerates safe feature turnover for autonomous development squads.

#7 about 2 min

Distributing feature data asynchronously using change data capture

Allowing controlled datastore duplication via asynchronous streaming event feeds protects central data foundations from aggressive real-time querying bursts.

#8 about 1 min

Normalizing machine learning deployments via standard operational pipelines

Managing distinct inference algorithms through unified deployment lifecycles standardizes rollout methodologies alongside normal web framework release streams.

#9 about 1 min

Launching independent architectures rapidly utilizing global modular templates

Encoding comprehensive infrastructure layouts within unified configuration properties enables identical application verticals to physically materialize instantly.

#10 about 2 min

Combining saas and open-source observability for extreme scale

Blending highly visual premium interfaces with massive open-source data layers balances deep metric analysis against staggering scaling costs.

#11 about 4 min

Controlling observability costs through intelligent granular telemetry routing

Downsampling specific analytics for premium interfaces while retaining unabridged raw trace payloads natively solves financial forecasting realities without limiting resolution speed.

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