Backend Unpacked | Brno
We've built a lot of backends at STRV, and this autumn we're unpacking a few things we've learned along the way. Four talks, four engineers, each speaking from their own experience. Come hang with us in Vlněna and bring your opinions.
The lineup:
Jan Zabloudil – Where Did the Money Go? Cutting AWS Costs
When you first set up your infrastructure on AWS, everything looks affordable. As the product grows and traffic increases, cloud costs follow faster than expected. Soon, looking at your AWS bill starts giving you headaches.
In this talk, we'll show how we approach AWS cost optimization at STRV, which AWS services and strategies can help keep costs under control and where AWS pricing can quietly work against you if you're not paying attention.
Filip Cerny & Filip Ohanka – AI Changed Our Industry. Here's How We Changed.
AI changed how we scope, review and hand off work far more than it changed how fast we write code.
We'll walk through a real delivery that would have taken far more effort the "old" way. You'll see what we let AI own, and where humans stayed in charge: reading and validating what ships, owning the architecture and deciding what "correct" even means.
The gain came from spending our attention where it actually matters, without skipping review. We'll be honest about the trade-offs: where quality did slip, and what we'd do differently.
Lukas Docekal – Keep SAP Out of Your Backend
SAP runs a large part of the world's enterprise operations, and if you build a product around it, it will try to become your architecture. This talk takes the opposite approach: treating the ERP as a foreign system you translate from instead of one you extend.
We'll talk about how we built a backend that sits between SAP and our mobile and web apps, and kept SAP from turning into a dependency the whole domain model bends around. None of this is SAP-specific; it applies to any system of record you don't control.
How the night runs
Doors open at 6PM.
Talks kick off at 6:30 p.m. sharp.
Food and drinks included throughout.
After the talks: drinks, snacks and plenty of time to keep asking questions. Bring the ones you'd normally keep to yourself.
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