Real-world depth
We focus on distributed systems in practice: consistency, consensus, CAP tradeoffs, observability, data movement, fault tolerance, and performance at scale.
Seattle Systems is a community-run meetup focused on distributed systems - algorithms, architecture, reliability, and the hard problems between. Company-neutral, practitioner-friendly.
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Open, technical, and welcoming to practitioners of all backgrounds.
We focus on distributed systems in practice: consistency, consensus, CAP tradeoffs, observability, data movement, fault tolerance, and performance at scale.
Run by engineers for engineers - bringing together students, VCs, managers, founders, and researchers across the Seattle area.
No sales decks. Speakers share designs, incidents, and lessons learned so we can all build more resilient systems.
Distributed systems are where theory meets production. We dig into the trade-offs behind real services: latency budgets, backpressure, replication strategies, and failure modes - the details that decide whether systems bend or break.
Talks are free. RSVP required when seats are limited.
📍 Location: SURF Incubator, Seattle, WA
Delve into Stripe's custom-built document database, DocDB, and its data movement platform, which enables scalable and reliable payment processing.
Talks are free. RSVP required when seats are limited.
📍 Location: SURF Incubator, Seattle, WA
From Minimal RPCs to Global Datastores, featuring building Protosocket and evolving DynamoDB's Global Tables for multi-region scale.
📍 Location: Amazon - Doppler
Join us for the upcoming Seattle Systems talk on Scaling, Caching & Reactivity in Distributed Systems. For the first time, we have got two awesome engineers lined up to talk about distributed syste...
📍 Location: Here Today Brewery, Seattle, WA
Drinks are on us, snacks are stacked, and the space is set for good conversation. Grab a pint, swap some ideas, and keep the energy rolling.
📍 Location: SURF Incubator, 999 3rd Ave Suite 700, Seattle, WA
Take a peek at the inner workings of Aurora DSQL with Marc Brooker. Explore using physical time to execute transactions with minimal coordination.
📍 Location: Terry Ave, Seattle, WA
This is the very first in-person meetup for Seattle Systems, and you’re invited. We’re gathering the curious, the nerdy, the builders, the system-thinkers, the “I’m not sure what this is yet but I’...
Thanks to our amazing sponsors for supporting the events with venues and food.
