Highload fwdays'24 conference
2024-06-15
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as the organisers put it
Highload fwdays'24 - The conference is dedicated to the development of high-load systems
who it's for
platform engineers, backend developers, site reliability engineers, devops engineers, database administrators, security engineers, machine learning engineers, observability engineers
topics
AKF scaling cube and knobs; autoscaling tradeoffs and lag; service SLOs and error budgets; Cloudflare Shield Advanced defenses; Redis sensor registry patterns; MongoDB time-series sharding; ksqlDB real-time anomaly detection; Kafka with transactional outbox; Postgres autovacuum and MVCC issues; PGVector vector search and embeddings; high-throughput HTTP tuning (3M req/s); Next.js + FastAPI + S3 architecture
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| What Is a Highload System? Are All Highload Systems Similar and Do They Share the Same Problems? | Hlib Smoliakov, Olena Syrota, Maks Bahinskyi, Pavlo Mashlyakovskiy, Dmytro Dziubenko | 44m |
Panelists define what qualifies as a Highload system and debate whether Highload systems share the same characteristics and problems. They compare real-world… | ||
| How to Choose the Right Type of Scaling | Olena Syrota | 43m |
An IoT system that uses Redis, MongoDB, and ksqlDB stream processing is growing and needs better performance and scalability. The talk analyzes different… | ||
| What It Really Means for Your System to Be Available | Daniil Mazepin | 49m |
Defines availability in concrete SLO terms rather than slogans: shows how 99.9% availability becomes a 1% error budget on a rolling 30‑day window and how using… | ||
| Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users | Kevin Goedecke | 35m |
Launch-to-scale timeline and hard numbers: 250,000 monthly active users, over 2 million files uploaded and peaks above 2 million LLM tokens per minute… | ||
| DDoS Protection at Global Scale — Real Cases and Lessons Learned | Ihor Ivaniuk | 52m |
Examines tools and best practices for global DDoS protection using AWS technologies: AWS Shield, AWS WAF, automated traffic filtering, botnet/proxy detection… | ||
| $10K per Minute of Downtime: Architecture, Queues, Streaming and Fintech | Maks Bahinskyi | 54m |
High-load fintech architecture focused on avoiding costly downtime by using queues and streaming to handle large real-time data volumes with low latency… | ||
| How to Serve Thousands of Databases from One Microservice Without Losing Your Mind | Kyrylo Melnychuk | 44m |
The talk examines designing a B2B microservice architecture to serve millions of tenant companies and millions of records, comparing many small per-tenant… | ||
| Black Monday: The Story of 5.5 Hours of Downtime | Dmytro Dziubenko | 44m |
A postmortem of a major production outage that caused 5.5 hours of downtime, analyzing causes, team response, and mitigation steps to prevent recurrence… | ||
| NATO Hackathon Winner: AI-Powered Drug Search | Taras Kloba | 46m |
A NATO hackathon winner built a five-day mobile/web app that maps 700,000 drug brand names to 34,000 active ingredients using a DrugBank dump. The app uses… | ||
| Reaching 3_000_000 HTTP Requests Per Second | Pavlo Mashlyakovskiy | 50m |
Shows results from TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks and discusses language-agnostic techniques to optimize a web application and its environment to reach… | ||
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