Job Queues at Netflix: Behind the Scenes

## Arrival info:

• There are two ways to enter the Willard Office Building -- Pennsylvania (across from the Willard Hotel) or F st side (across from Hamilton). We recommend F St entrance.
• Parking garage is beside the entrance on the F St side.

## Description

Modern distributed systems rely on background task queues like RQ, Celery, Temporal, and Akka to handle complex, data-driven workflows. But while these tools manage parallelism and dependencies, they often fall short on clarity, order, and immutability.
In this session, you'll learn practical patterns to tame complexity, debug with confidence, and design systems that are easy to reason about. Ideal for beginner to intermediate engineers, with Python examples and concepts that apply across Java, Node, and Go.

## Bio

Mike Chase is a seasoned software engineer with a background in distributed systems, infrastructure, and Python platforms. With hands-on expertise in task queue frameworks like Celery, Temporal, and Redis-Queu, he specializes in designing systems that are both high-performing and easy to reason about. Mike is also a dynamic speaker and educator, known for making complex backend patterns accessible to developers across Python, Java, Node, and Go ecosystems