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InfoQ: Architecture & Scale Talks
Conference talks from practitioners on microservices, resilience and large-scale systems.
By InfoQ · InfoQ · Added 2026-08-11
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What actually works at scale—and what doesn't. Engineers from Netflix, Spotify & Stripe share real lessons from production. 500+ conference talks from QCon, QCon AI, & InfoQ Dev Summit, the most trusted practitioner conferences for 20+ years. Topics we cover: - System design & distributed architecture - AI/ML in…
A talk or video. Watch it with a pause button handy: it is easiest to follow once you know the basic vocabulary.
- Who it suits
- You are comfortable with distributed-systems trade-offs and want depth.
- From
- InfoQ: see more from them
- Design areas it touches
- Scaling and performanceArchitecture and microservicesReliability and resilience
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Before
Before you open it, spend two minutes sketching how you would build this yourself. Write down the biggest risk you can see.
While you read
- Which number or limit forced their main decision?
- What did they try first, and why did it stop working?
- What did they choose not to build?
After
- What would break first if traffic grew tenfold?
- What did they trade away to get what they wanted?
- Explain the design in three sentences, without looking.
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