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Meet-Up: Hot Takes. Cold Beers. How to evolve high-scale backend systems without breaking production

Wednesday 8 July 17:30 – 21:00 HIDE General 4

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Most backend systems don't fail all at once. They slow down. They accumulate debt. A JOIN here, a replicated data store there, an on-call runbook that quietly doubles in length every quarter — until one day, you're staring down 400 million daily requests on a single endpoint, or watching a production incident drag three engineering teams into a six-hour recovery spiral. ​This evening is for engineers who've been there — or can see it coming. ​Join us the night before WeAreDevelopers for cold drinks, Berlin sausages, and two of the most honest production stories you'll hear all week. No ideal-world architecture diagrams. No vendor pitches. Just the real decisions, real trade-offs, and real results from the GetYourGuide engineers who had to fix things while the plane was still flying. ​Come for the hot takes. Stay for the cold drinks. ​Agenda: ​17:30 to 18:30 Networking — cold beers, sausages, good conversations ​18:45 Welcome from GetYourGuide Engineering ​19:00 🔥 Talk 1 — Re-designing reviews read path for high scale and performance ​19:45 Break ​20:00 🔥 Talk 2 — Untangling a Distributed Monolith ​21:00 End Sonnenburger Straße 73, 10437 Berlin Time: 08.07.2026 | 10:00 am – 04:00 pm More Information: https://luma.com/9uqf50zw