Data Engineering

Monster Scale Summit 2026

Monster Scale Summit is a virtual conference focused on extreme scale engineering for data-intensive applications. The event brings together top engineers and thought leaders to share the latest trends and best practices, featuring 60+ sessions available on demand. Topics include scalable data architectures, AI/ML, distributed systems, and lessons from leade…

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20Speakers
0Sponsors
10Sessions
13Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at Monster, in alphabetical order.

Adarsha Das
Architect - AI Platforms at Meesho · Meesho
Andrei Manakov
Sharechat
Avi Kivity
Co-Founder & CTO at ScyllaDB · ScyllaDB
Brendan Cox
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Sprig · Sprig
Camille Fournier
Author at O'Reilly · O'Reilly
Dor Laor
Co-Founder & CEO at ScyllaDB · ScyllaDB
Ethan Donowitz
Senior Software Engineer at Discord · Discord
Felipe Cardeneti Mendes
ScyllaDB
Gopalakrishnan Subramanian
ScyllaDB
Guilherme Nogueira
ScyllaDB
Joy Gao
ClickHouse
Martin Kleppmann
Author at O'Reilly at University of Cambridge · University of Cambridge
Peter French
Senior Software Engineer at Discord · Discord
Premkumar Patturaj
Senior Engineering Manager at Freshworks · Freshworks
Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez)
Creator at Reddis · Reddis
Sanchay Javeria
Software Engineer at Pinterest · Pinterest
Thea Aarrestad
Senior Research Fellow at ETH Zurich and Particle Physicist at CERN · ETH Zurich / CERN
Vigneshkumar AK
Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Freshworks · Freshworks
Yichen Wei
Engineer Manager at Hulu · Hulu
Zachary Mullins
Senior Software Engineer at Pinterest · Pinterest

Agenda

Selected from 10 sessions.

  • Wed 1:05 pm - 1:25 pm

    Building a Database Replication Platform at Scale

    How hard is database replication anyways? Most databases offer built-in replication for fault tolerance today... that is until you need to replicate data across different database …

  • Wed 1:05 pm - 1:25 pm

    Cost Efficiency at Scale: Lessons from Running Dozens of ScyllaDB Clusters

    At ShareChat, we operate dozens of ScyllaDB clusters powering multiple products. This talk shares how we built a data-driven cost optimization process - from capacity analysis prin…

  • Wed 1:05 pm - 1:25 pm

    Inside Real-World DynamoDB Migrations

    Learn how teams are addressing DynamoDB challenges (cost, cloud lock-in, technical limitations) by moving to ScyllaDB. We'll walk through some real-world case examples, then share …

  • Wed 11:30 am - 12:05 pm

    Solving the Hardest Problem in DBaaS: Elasticity at Scale

    Databases as a service require many features like security and self-service APIs, but elasticity remains the most challenging to implement. ScyllaDB's co-founder will present the n…

  • Wed 12:05 pm - 12:35 pm

    How Discord Automates Database Operations at Scale

    Operating a distributed database is no small feat. Clusters often contain tens (or even hundreds!) of nodes, potentially distributed across availability zones or regions. Cluster-w…

  • Wed 12:40 pm - 1:00 pm

    Scaling Freshworks’ AI Data Platform with ScyllaDB

    Innovation never sleeps at Freshworks. Freshworks has been rebuilding its AI data platform to support 10X growth, 95% lower tail latency, and lower operating cost by moving multipl…

  • Wed 12:40 pm - 1:00 pm

    The Data Architecture Behind Pinterest’s Ad Reporting and Budget Optimization Services

    At Pinterest, we use Apache Flink, Spark, and Druid to power various use cases like real-time metrics reporting for ads from external advertisers and real-time ad budget calculatio…

  • Wed 12:40 pm - 1:00 pm

    The Engineering Behind ScyllaDB’s Efficiency

    Learn how ScyllaDB’s technical differentiators impact performance as we scale ScyllaDB X Cloud from 100K to 1M OPS. We’ll cover ScyllaDB’s shard-per-core architecture, tablets elas…

  • Wed 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm

    From Zettabytes to a Few Precious Events: Nanosecond AI at the Large Hadron Collider

    Deep beneath the Swiss-French border, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN smashes protons together at nearly the speed of light to probe the fundamental building blocks of the …

Company intelligence

An audience of 13 companies, parsed from the program.

Thirteen companies in attendance.

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Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
13Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

10% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite210%
  • Manager / Lead420%
  • Engineer · IC525%
  • Research / Science15%
  • Other roles840%

Of 20 speakers · classified by free-text title

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Tiers were not disclosed for this event.