The archive / 2024-present

infra.nyc past events

An open record of the systems problems, technical talks, and people behind infra.nyc gatherings.

09 Sep 2026New York City

Blacksmith / Citadel / Traversal

The talks / 03

Scheduling

Saving room for the chonkers: wide job scheduling challenges

Andrew Werner · Member of Technical Staff, Blacksmith

Andrew Werner speaking at the infra.nyc systems meet-up

Databases

Postgres scaling: partition first, shard later

Chelsea Dole · Postgres Platform Lead, Citadel

Chelsea Dole speaking at the infra.nyc systems meet-up

AI infrastructure

Running enterprise AI agents where SaaS can't go

Maxime Petazzoni · Head of Engineering, Traversal

Maxime Petazzoni speaking at the infra.nyc systems meet-up

From the room

Infra.nyc members and speakers together after the Blacksmith systems meet-up

Attendees talking at the Blacksmith systems meet-up in New York

Attendees seated for talks at the Blacksmith systems meet-up

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04 Jun 2026New York City

Modal / EngFlow / Git AI / turbopuffer

The talks / 04

Agent networking

A thinner, sharper agent networking stack with eBPF

Amit Prasad · Member of Technical Staff, Modal

Build systems

Optimizing Bazel build graphs with agents

Helen Altshuler · CEO & Co-Founder, EngFlow

Developer tools

Intercepting every git call without git hooks or wrappers

Aidan Cunniffe · CEO & Co-Founder, Git AI

Databases

How to ship a database every day

Tarun Pothulapati · Engineer, turbopuffer

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29 Apr 2026New York City

Antimetal / WorkOS / Niteshift

The talks / 03

Systems modeling

Building a unified representation of large software systems

Shreyas Iyer · CTO & Co-Founder, Antimetal

Authorization

Agent authorization using OAuth and MCP

Ryan Cooke · Engineering, WorkOS

Agent infrastructure

Docker-in-Docker in cloud sandboxes for background coding agents

Sajid Mehmood · CEO & Co-Founder, Niteshift

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24 Feb 2026New York City

General Intuition / Cleric / Spiral

The talks / 03

Video infrastructure

Optimizing YouTube-scale video ingestion for humans and machines

Ken Colton · CEO & CTO, Medal

AI agents

Patterns for AI agent learning

Shahram Anver · CEO & Co-Founder, Cleric

GPU computing

Fusing decompression on GPUs into matrix multiplication

Will Manning · CEO & Co-Founder, Spiral

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15 Dec 2025New York City

Databricks / Datadog / Kernel / Artemis

The talks / 04

LLM serving

Scaling multi-tenant LLM serving

Kevin Stumpf · Co-Founder & CTO, Tecton

Performance

Agentic optimization for CPU hotspots and ML models

Jai Menon · Engineering Manager, Datadog

MicroVMs

Reaching sub-150ms boot with microVMs

Catherine Jue · Co-Founder & CEO, Kernel

AI infrastructure

Claude as a natural-language infrastructure layer

Dan Shiebler · Co-Founder & CTO, Artemis

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18 Sep 2025New York City

MongoDB

The fireside / 01

Fireside chat

Fireside chat on the strategies and technologies shaping the future of AI

Dev Ittycheria · CEO, MongoDB

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16 Sep 2025San Francisco

Cleric / Smithery / OpenAI

The talks / 03

AI evaluation

Evals pyramid for agentic systems

Dan Siwiec · Founding Engineer, Cleric

Agent tools

Tool calls are the new clicks

Henry Mao · CEO & Co-Founder, Smithery

AI evaluation

Evals for AI SRE

Jeremy Lewi · Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI

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14 May 2025New York City

Junction / ASAPP / Vantage

The talks / 03

Discovery protocols

The wildcard discovery protocol

Ben Linsay · Co-Founder & CTO, Junction

Platform infrastructure

The configuration advantage: from chaos to control

Priya Sawant · GM & VP Platform and Infrastructure, ASAPP

MCP

Challenges and lessons from shipping an MCP server for Vantage

Steve McColl · VP Engineering, Vantage

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30 Apr 2025San Francisco

responsive.dev / Metronome / Orkes

The talks / 03

Storage systems

LAD theorem for storage systems

Apurva Mehta · CEO & Co-Founder, responsive.dev; SlateDB collaborator, responsive.dev

Streaming

Running Kafka exactly-once semantics at record scale by offloading state

Cosmo Wolfe · Head of Technology, Metronome

MCP

Running MCP servers at scale for enterprises

Viren Baraiya · CTO & Co-Founder; Conductor OSS creator, Orkes

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25 Mar 2025New York City

Datadog / MongoDB / Sentry

The talks / 03

Data processing

DataFusion x Ray out-performing Spark

Sesh Nalla · Head of Observability Data Platform, Datadog

Memory management

The curious case of OOM kills

Steph Wang · Staff Software Engineer, MongoDB

Vector search

Embeddings similarity search in production

Josh Ferge · Senior Software Engineer, Sentry

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19 Feb 2025New York City

Gitpod

The talks / 02

Development environments

Orchestrating development environments on Kubernetes doesn't work

Alejandro de Brito Fontes · Member of Technical Staff, Gitpod

Coding agents

SWE agents you don't need to babysit

Christian Weichel · CTO & Co-Founder, Gitpod

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13 Feb 2025San Francisco

Deductive.ai / Firetiger / Honeycomb.io

The talks / 03

AI SRE

Building AI-powered SRE agents

Sameer Agarwal · CTO & Co-Founder, Deductive.ai

Observability

Streaming OpenTelemetry signals into Iceberg

Achille Roussel · CTO & Co-Founder, Firetiger

Observability

Physics of computing will kill your pillars

Charity Majors · CTO & Co-Founder, Honeycomb.io

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28 Jan 2025New York City

Jamsocket / Alchemy / Ocuroot

The talks / 03

Sandboxes

Code sandboxes with process migration

Paul Butler · CEO & Co-Founder, Jamsocket

Cloud infrastructure

Moving off the cloud

Pascal Bovet · Infrastructure, Alchemy

SDK design

SDKs: how flexible is too flexible?

Tom Elliot · CEO & Co-Founder, Ocuroot

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17 Dec 2024Brooklyn

Traversal / Opral / Push.ai

The talks / 03

AI agents

Finding the right UX for AI agents doing root cause analysis

Anish Agarwal · CEO & Co-Founder, Traversal

Version control

Git for everything

Samuel Stroschein · CEO & Co-Founder, Opral

AI infrastructure

Critical data infrastructure for enterprise AI apps

Zach Mandell · CEO & Co-Founder, Push.ai

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07 Nov 2024San Francisco

Convex / PlanetScale / Databricks

The talks / 03

Distributed systems

Stop giving up consistency guarantees so easily

James Cowling · CTO & Co-Founder, Convex

Databases

Avoiding the CPU overhead of serialization

Richard Crowley · Infrastructure, PlanetScale

Multi-cloud

Managing multi-cloud systems at scale

Andrew Fong · Storage Platforms, Databricks

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29 Oct 2024Brooklyn

Data Ex Machina / rwx / Antithesis

The talks / 03

Instrumentation

Safely reading memory in dynamic probes

Andrew Werner · Co-Founder, Data Ex Machina

Serverless

Serverless cold start acceleration

Dan Manges · CEO & Co-Founder, rwx

Databases

Optimizing scatter-gather DB queries

Richard Hart · Product Owner, Antithesis

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