Designing for Scale, Reliability, and Resiliency: Real-World Lessons

Designing for Scale, Reliability, and Resiliency: Real-World Lessons from Building High-Throughput Systems

LOCATION ADDRESS (Hybrid, in person or by zoom, you choose)
Valley Research Park
319 North Bernardo Avenue
Mountain View, CA CA 93043
If you want to join remotely, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The zoom link:
https://acm-org.zoom.us/
Join via YouTube:
https://youtube.com/live/

AGENDA
6:30 Door opens, food and networking (we invite honor system contributions)
7:00 SFBayACM upcoming events, introduce the speaker
7:15 speaker presentation starts
8:15 – 8:30 finish, depending on Q&A

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Talk Description:
As modern software systems grow in complexity and scale, the demand for architectures that are not just fast—but also reliable, resilient, observable, and auditable—has never been greater. In this talk, we’ll dive into practical strategies and real-world patterns for designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
Topics include:

• Traffic segmentation and routing strategies across multi-cluster environments
• Patterns for achieving high availability and failover across global infrastructure
• Monitoring and observability at scale: what to measure, how to alert
• Auditing for compliance, trust, and debugging
• Common failure modes and how to build for graceful degradation
• Real examples from mission-critical production systems

Attendees will walk away with architectural insights, tools, and mental models to apply to their own systems, whether working in startups or enterprises.

Speaker Bio:
I’m a Senior Software Engineer at DoorDash and previously led platform initiatives at Conviva, where I built scalable, fault-tolerant systems handling tens of millions of sessions daily for customers like Disney, HBO, and Sky. My work has spanned everything from routing frameworks and disaster recovery to monitoring pipelines and SLA enforcement. I’m passionate about making infrastructure reliable and maintainable, and I enjoy sharing lessons learned from real-world systems.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karanluniya

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