The program
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09:00 45 min · Main Stage
Fifteen Years of the Same Monolith
Greta Lindqvist · Platform & Infra
Alderwood never split the monolith, and it is the most profitable system the company has. A keynote about the decisions that kept it habitable — module boundaries enforced in CI, a test suite treated as a product, and a standing refusal to adopt anything before the second team asks for it.
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10:15 30 min · Room 2A
Onboarding an Engineer in a Day
Dana Kowalski · Developer Experience
Substrate measured the gap between a new hire's start date and their first merged change, then spent a quarter closing it. Most of the win was not tooling: it was deleting the seventeen documents that disagreed with each other about how to run the app locally.
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10:15 30 min · Room 2B
Fine-Tuning Was the Wrong Answer Three Times
Kenji Watanabe · AI Engineering
Three projects where fine-tuning was the obvious move and the wrong one, with the numbers that showed it. Retrieval beat it, then prompt structure beat it, then a smaller model with a better evaluation set beat it. The fourth project fine-tuned, and this is how we knew that one was different.
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11:15 30 min · Room 2A
Release Trains That Nobody Has to Drive
Yusuf Demir · Platform & Infra
Tidewater ships daily from a shared trunk with no release manager and no cut meeting. The talk walks through the automation that replaced both, what happens when the train has to stop, and why the rollback path gets exercised on purpose every week.
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11:15 30 min · Room 2B
Santiago Ferreira · Developer Experience
What actually breaks in a monorepo at forty teams: ownership, review latency, and a CI graph nobody can hold in their head. Vantage Foundry's answers to each, including the one policy — no cross-team import without a declared interface — that did more than all the tooling combined.
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