BPP: Scaling EDA: Observability Challenges in Highly Distributed Systems

Talk summary

Join BPP's Director of Engineering and Head of Architecture and SRE to explore their strategic move into Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) within AWS, focusing on the unique challenges encountered in Observability and our approaches to tackling them. After a year of implementing EDA, we'll share insights gained and the complexities we've navigated.

Speaker profile

Nainesh Mehta | Director of Engineering

Nainesh is a deeply experienced technology leader, with former experience at TicketMaster, Moonpig and News UK. He now focuses on building and scaling a world-class engineering and architecture function as the Director of Engineering at BPP.

Alex Hunter | Head of Architecture and SRE

Alex, as Head of Architecture and SRE at BPP, leverages his 18 years of experience in architecture and software engineering across multiple sectors. He is passionate about modern cloud technologies and evolutionary architecture, focusing on keeping things simple.

More about BPP

BPP has been a top provider of professional education for over 47 years. They are now entering a new phase of growth and evolution in the Product and Technology organisation. Driven by a modern technology stack and best-in-class principles. In the architecture they are building a service-based architecture on AWS, alongside RDS, REdis and Dynamo. In software they use Next.JS, React, Typescipt, Node, Python & GraphQL.