World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

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

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.

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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.

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Launching independent architectures rapidly utilizing global modular templates

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

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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.

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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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Managing high-traffic infrastructure without chasing technology hype

Josip Stuhli

Josip Stuhli · Coffee With Developers

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Extreme engineering culture for massive web data operations

Ariel Shulman

Ariel Shulman +1 · WWC Europe 2026

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Solving complex platform architecture challenges at an enterprise scale

Maria Apazoglou · Coffee With Developers

3:00 min

Refactoring a complex legacy monolith into microservices

Andrew Holway · LIVE

2:36 min

Modern application stacks and real-time data requirements

Tim Faulkes · LIVE

4:56 min

Boosting developer productivity via consolidated converged database architectures

Wei Hu

Wei Hu · WWC 2023

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