The Joy of Building Large Scale Systems • Suhail Patel • YOW! 2023

This presentation was recorded at YOW! Australia 2023. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Suhail Patel - Senior Staff Engineer at Monzo @SuhailPatelUK RESOURCES https://twitter.com/suhailpatel https://hachyderm.io/@suhailpatel https://linkedin.com/in/suhailpatel https://suhailpatel.com ABSTRACT My passion is building software that extracts the most out of the hardware we have available. Many of the systems (databases, caches, queues, telemetry systems etc.) that we've grown up with and rely on are grounded on quite poor assumptions for the hardware of today. I want to challenge the latency numbers that have been ingrained into us, by emphasising the capabilities of modern hardware and how much compute power we have at our fingertips. This talk aims to revive the art and practice of building systems from core principles. I want the audience to come away with a renewed enthusiasm to spend their innovation tokens on building software, with a focus of how this can be done in practice within your teams and organisations. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:57 Wait, but why? 06:10 Latency numbers 06:35 B-Trees 10:37 Hardware 13:00 CPUs 15:47 Networks 18:48 Free lunch? 22:10 Thread per core 27:52 Systems programing languages 29:43 Date parsing 33:21 New tricks 38:47 eBPF 42:55 Wait, but why? 44:44 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://yowcon.com/sydney-2023/sessions/3027 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Mary & Tom Poppendieck • Lean Software Development • https://amzn.to/3CxlMUq Ron Kohavi, Ya Xu, Diane Tang • Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments • https://amzn.to/3qIsTaa Simon Brown • Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2 • https://leanpub.com/visualising-software-architecture David Farley • Modern Software Engineering • https://amzn.to/3GI468M Dave Farley & Jez Humble • Continuous Delivery • https://amzn.to/3ocIHwd Woods, Erder & Pureur • Continuous Architecture in Practice • https://amzn.to/2QWAmkl George Fairbanks • Just Enough Software Architecture • https://amzn.to/3uZzVo0 https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #LargeScaleSystems #Rustlang #Zig #Ziglang #eBPF #Systems #Latency #YOWcon Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1