The Distributed Systems Summit

Where distributed systems comes to life

Portland, OR, October 15-17, 2025 • 8,930 registered across 12 countries

About The Distributed Systems Summit?

Convening the community around distributed engineering or infrastructure at scale. Learn from the people building serverless at the biggest names in tech.

Hear from the people who built production platforms
Grow your connections and find collaborators
Hands-on workshops on incident response or the tools your team uses
Vision into the future of cloud

Featured Sessions

From Monolith to Microservices: A Battle-Tested Path

by Alex Rodriguez

How we managed our Kubernetes cluster to support millions of requests per day. Real-world insights and pitfalls.

Database Sharding at Scale

by Sam Garcia

A live walkthrough into our approach to operating platforms at global scale.

API Gateway Design Patterns

by Alex Patel

Meet Our Presenters

Learn from industry pioneers and hands-on engineers.

Sarah Chen

Microsoft Azure

Pat O'Brien

Lyft

River Brooks

GitHub

Morgan Stewart

Fastly

See full speaker list →

Get Your Ticket

Tickets are selling fast. Early-bird rates end on 2026-06-12.

Individual Ticket

$349

All talks and workshops. Conference materials. Attendee dinner access.

Full Experience

$799

Everything in Standard, plus hands-on workshops. Priority networking. VIP seating.

Group Discount

$2,499

Five attendees. All access. Private team photo session. billing.

Sponsors & Partners

Made possible by the forward-thinking teams leading the next generation.