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Andreea Niculcea, Vice President at Morgan Stanley, on building and operating API platforms at scale:
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Asking 100+ teams to each initiate a redeployment every time your platform opinion changes does not scale.
The alternative is a platform that knows what is deployed and can push the update itself.
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Saranya Vedagiri, Senior Staff Engineer at eBay, on building and sustaining low-latency systems at scale:
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Metrics tell you when something went wrong. Tracing tells you why.
Without distributed traces built before an incident, you have no thread to pull when Redis fails and the DB looks fine.
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Jim Gough, Distinguished Engineer & API Platform Lead Architect at Morgan Stanley, on building and operating API platforms at scale:
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An LLM coding tool can generate an MCP server from an OpenAPI spec in minutes.
The governance and access control questions that come with that do not generate themselves.
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Julian Wreford, Team Lead, Operability at Gearset, on distributed tracing and observability for queue-based systems:
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The OTel collector attaches Kubernetes pod names, image versions, and IP addresses to every trace automatically, with no changes needed in application code.
That enrichment makes correlation queries much easier.
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Saranya Vedagiri, Senior Staff Engineer at eBay, on building and sustaining low-latency systems at scale:
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Stale-while-revalidate is fine for email.
Checkout reading a price from cache needs fresh data from the database. Cache invalidation strategy should match who is reading and how much delay they can accept.
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Ian Cooper, Senior Principal Engineer at Just Eat Takeaway, on managing asynchronous APIs and schema evolution at scale:
SNS on AWS gives you about 10 message attributes. Add Cloud Events headers and you have used most of them.
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That constraint is why structured binding became common in AWS environments, even when binary would otherwise be preferred.
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Agent evaluation and governance often span disconnected tools and generic benchmarks.
Mehrnoosh Sameki, Principal PM Manager @Microsoft, on two open-source projects connecting evaluation and runtime controls: buff.ly/dfEnxTY
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ASSERT turns natural-language requirements into executable evaluations.
ACS attaches policies to runtime intervention points such as inputs, tool calls, and outputs.
Mehrnoosh is speaking at QCon AI New York, Dec 15-16.
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Jim Gough, Distinguished Engineer & API Platform Lead Architect at Morgan Stanley, on building and operating API platforms at scale:
At production scale, the speed at which you can respond to a security patch matters.
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At Morgan Stanley, rolling a patch across 400+ API gateways takes under an hour with no consumer downtime.
That speed comes directly from security and policy being built into the deployment process rather than managed as a separate governance step.
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When you need to respond to a new vulnerability, you respond.
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