Schedule

Thursday, 5th March 2020

TIME	EVENT	DESCRIPTION
8:00 AM	Registration	Tea and coffee will be served
9:15 AM	Opening	A quick welcome and introduction to the conference before we get going
9:30 AM	Jessica Tai	How to Tame Your Microservices: Evolving Airbnb’s Architecture
10:15 AM	Break	A quick changeover & pee-break
10:25 AM	Aslam Khan	Scaling Down
11:10 AM	Break	Mid-morning tea & coffee break
11:30 AM	Carla Souza	Asynchronous Computing @ FB: Driving efficiency & developer productivity at Facebook scale
12:15 PM	Lunch	A picnic lunch provided by Moyo and some time to chill in the Botanical Gardens
1:45 PM	Juan Urrego	Scaling Your Data: Data Democratisation and DataOps
2:30 PM	Break	A quick changeover & pee-break
2:45 PM	Rayna Leibbrandt Tsimitakopoulos	DirectAxis journey to Event-driven Microservices
3:30 PM	Break	Afternoon tea & coffee break
3:50 PM	Bruce Merry	Networking challenges in the MeerKAT radio telescope

Thursday evening, 5th March

TIME	EVENT	DESCRIPTION
5:30 - 10:00 PM	Party	Join us for pizza and drinks at Foresters Arms. This will be a chance to socialise and network with the speakers, organisers, and fellow conference attendees.

Friday, 6th March 2020

TIME	EVENT	DESCRIPTION
8:30 AM	Arrival	Tea and coffee will be served
9:15 AM	Andrew Newdigate	Dealing with Metrics at Scale at GitLab
10:00 AM	Break	A quick changeover & pee-break
10:10 AM	Tanaka Mutakwa	Scaling People: Levelling up software engineers
10:55 AM	Break	Mid-morning tea & coffee break
11:25 AM	Corver Roos	Scaling teams with event driven architecture
12:15 PM	Lunch	A picnic lunch provided by Moyo and some time to chill in the Botanical Gardens
1:30 PM	Josh Yudaken	Scale: the benefits of not having any
2:15 PM	Break	A quick changeover & pee-break
2:25 PM	Paco Mendes and Alberto Venturini	Refactoring Massive Codebases
3:10 PM	Break	Afternoon tea & coffee break
3:30 PM	Lyndsay Prewer	Embracing collaborative chaos - running Game Days on large platforms
4:15 PM	Break	A quick changeover & pee-break
4:25 PM	Dan Wells	The EskomSePush Journey

Friday evening, 6th March

TIME	EVENT	DESCRIPTION
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Drinks	Join us for post-conference drinks at moyo, Kirstenbosch. This will be a chance to socialise and network with the speakers, organisers, and fellow conference attendees.