“Death to Data Transfer Fees” and “Optimizing Music Discovery”

Hello and welcome everybody!

This time we can offer you the audience no less than two very interesting presentations! Approx. 30 minutes duration on each plus Q&A and discussions.

We start with "Welcome and news" at 17:00. Main talks will start around 17:15.

16:30: Doors open. Food and networking

17:15: Presentations start

Death to Data Transfer Fees: A Real-World EKS Cost Hack
Managing Kubernetes workloads across multiple AZs in EKS often leads to hidden costs, especially in cross-AZ data transfer. In this session, Akshay Jain, Lead DevOps & Cloud Engineer at NEP Group, Inc., shares how he dramatically improved performance and slashed data transfer fees. Beyond that, Akshay will dive into additional EKS cost-saving strategies like migrating to ARM-based Graviton2 instances and more.

Optimizing Music Discovery: How Data and AI Shape Modern Search
Focused on the challenges of maintaining a 300+ million catalog, Altán Cabal, Engineering Manager at Block (TIDAL), explores the art and science behind relevance tuning, personalization and LLMs to improve music streaming search at TIDAL.

SPONSOR:
Venue and food sponsored by
Bekk Consulting - https://www.bekk.no/
THANK YOU!!! 🙏