Lily Mara
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- QCon
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 17, 2025 | QCon San Francisco 2025 | QCon | speaker | Accelerating Performance by Incrementally Integrating Rust Into Existing Codebase as Discord Inc In order to improve the performance of existing applications and services, we can identify the most performance-critical pieces and reimplement them in Rust as…Show lessIn order to improve the performance of existing applications and services, we can identify the most performance-critical pieces and reimplement them in Rust as opposed to completely rewriting the applications from scratch. | |
| Oct 2, 2023 | QCon San Francisco 2023 | QCon | speaker | Sleeping at Scale - Delivering 10k Timers per Second per Node with Rust, Tokio, Kafka, and Scylla as Discord Inc As a part of OneSignal’s no-code Journeys system, we knew that we would need a way to store billions of timers. | |
| Jun 13, 2023 | QCon New York 2023 | QCon | speaker | How to Build a Reliable Kafka Data Processing Pipeline, Focusing on Contention, Uptime and Latency as OneSignal Shifting workloads from synchronous to asynchronous can simplify the operational cost of high-throughput HTTP services. But understanding the evolution of…Show lessShifting workloads from synchronous to asynchronous can simplify the operational cost of high-throughput HTTP services. But understanding the evolution of performance metrics in the world of complex, high-concurrency, asynchronous distributed systems can be quite challenging. | |
| Apr 4, 2022 | QCon London 2022 | QCon | speaker | Blazing Fast, Minimal Change - Speed Up Your Code by Refactoring to Rust as OneSignal | |
| Apr 4, 2022 | QCon London 2022 | QCon | speaker | What's Next for Rust and WebAssembly as OneSignal |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanessa Huerta Granda | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Suhail Patel | 3 | — | 2023 |
| Joseph Lynch | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Luca Mezzalira | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Michelle Brush | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Pratik Patel | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Yao Yue | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Alan Shreve | 2 | — | 2023 |
| David Grizzanti | 2 | — | 2023 |
| Emily Webber | 2 | — | 2023 |
| Monica Beckwith | 2 | — | 2023 |
| Peter Lawrey | 2 | — | 2023 |
| Piyush Verma | 2 | — | 2023 |
| Sarah Aslanifar | 2 | — | 2023 |
| Sergey Bykov | 2 | — | 2023 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.