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Conference founded around 2012–13 with three concrete rules: focus on scale engineering, for engineers by engineers, and open community. Hard lessons: expect repeated failures, use incident reviews and forced amnesia exercises to decide when to simplify, and remove excess services after real outages (a noted cascading failure led to consolidating ancillary services). AI shift changes the core app into an agentic system — managing a 2000-model catalog forces new work on scale, novel observability (including evals), model choice/tuning, data integration, security and compliance.
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- 0:00Origins of AtScale
- 4:12Lessons in hyperscale
- 12:30Importance of incident reviews
- 14:19Systems challenges in AI
- 20:22Future of the community
