System Design Deep Dive: Building For Web-Scale and 99.999% Uptime

Understanding system design is critical for anyone breaking into the tech world, but what exactly is it, and what are companies looking for in candidates?

Hear key insights from our guest speaker Mark Gilbert, former VP of Product Management at Twilio, on how to web-scale your business, increase production and improve your leadership role – for both current and aspiring software engineer managers.

What we’ll be discussing…

• How Twilio created a web-scale business with 99.999% uptime
• Architecting systems that scale from prototype to production
• Improving and scaling systems already in production
• Essential personal skills and traits to be successful
• Live Q&A!

Mark Gilbert is a product leader with over 20 years of experience across fast-growing startups and established technology companies. Most recently he was Twilio’s VP of Product Management and has held senior leadership roles at Microsoft and Hearsay Systems. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Zocks Communications, a venture-backed startup currently in stealth mode.

Steven Yi is Vice President of Marketing and Growth at Educative. He is a developer-focused growth marketing leader with hands-on expertise as a former software architect across multiple platforms, devices, and cloud, including leading the global marketing launch of Microsoft Azure.

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