Name: Disney Tech Bytes – Episode 1: Modern API Development & Monitoring at Scale
Start: 2024-12-03T18:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-12-03T20:30:00.000Z
Location: Circle Square

Kicking off a series of events, we’re excited to host the first Disney Tech Bytes meetup at our Manchester office! This series will explore how Disney leverages cutting-edge technology to create immersive, magical customer experiences globally in the streaming space.
Join us to learn how Disney monitors services globally and understand how we use advanced Scala techniques to ensure API compatibility across 1000’s of microservices.

**Details**:
**Date 📆** 3rd December 2024
**Arrival time**🕕 6:00 pm
**Start time & finish time** 6:30 - 8:30 pm
**Location** 🏢 4th Floor, No. 2 Circle Square, Symphony Park Manchester

**Host Speakers & Talks 🎤**
Monitoring at Scale
**\- Kirsty Lewis**, Lead SRE Engineer at Disney
**\- Laura Bria**, Lead SRE Engineer at Disney

Our journey to streamline API development though a spec-first approach: from OpenAPI to Smithy
**\- Olivier Melois**, Principal Software Engineer at Disney

**About Olivier's Talk**
We have 1000's of distributed services that together enable our subscribers to stream our content. Olivier will talk about our ongoing journey to improve service interaction and API development here at Disney, simplifying the organisational complexity that comes with a large distributed system. He'll talk about how we got to where we are: passing through OpenApi, and now leveraging the [AWS Smithy IDL](https://smithy.io/2.0/index.html) with our open source [Smithy4s library](https://disneystreaming.github.io/smithy4s/) to generate performant code for our services.

Olivier is a Principal Engineer at Disney, he's been working with Scala for over decade now. He's an open-source contributor and maintainer, and puts an incredible amount of work into saving himself (and others) the hassle of repetitive tasks. Olivier tends to focus on solving the complex software problems we're facing at Disney, providing tooling and simplifying concepts to enhance the productivity of others.

**About Kirsty & Laura's Talk**
In the "Monitoring at Scale" presentation, the Disney SRE team will explore strategies for effectively monitoring a global platform, addressing the challenges posed by its scale and high traffic volumes. Key topics include best practices for writing effective alerts to reduce noise while prioritising issues, and the critical role of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) in making data-driven decisions to maintain and improve system reliability.

Kirsty is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer with over 10 years of experience focused on ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of complex systems.

Laura is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of experience enhancing reliability of services across sectors such as streaming, comparison shopping engines, multi-brand online retailers, and automotive industry.

**About the evening**
🍕🥤Complimentary food and drinks provided!
📩 Limited spaces are available. If you would like to bring guests, please make sure they are registered!

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