Scaling and Rearchitecting Confluence Cloud - A Sneak Peek Under the Hood

Dive into a 48-minute conference talk that provides a deep insight into the evolution of Confluence's architecture. Explore the journey from a large monolith to microservices, uncovering deployment strategies, operational challenges at scale, and lessons learned from real-life incidents. Discover best practices for building resilient, stable, and predictable services in microservice-based architectures. Learn about microservice sharding techniques, parameter tuning for failure isolation, and strategies for achieving sub-millisecond latencies in highly available multi-region services. Gain knowledge on dependency scaling, task handling, resource awareness, failure injection, deployment pipelines, and end-to-end testing. Understand how Confluence solved data locality issues and scaled to support over 40,000 teams and millions of users. This Devoxx presentation offers valuable insights for software architects and engineers working on large-scale content collaboration platforms.