SBTB 2019: Adelbert Chang, Everything old is new: today's infrastructure as yesterday's Internet

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference In the age of cloud computing, what was once boring infrastructure has become incredibly exciting. From containers to service discovery to cluster schedulers, both industry and academia have been innovating at an alarming pace. With so many systems rapidly evolving in a domain fraught with trade-offs, it has become difficult to see the proverbial forest for the trees. In this talk we will try to see how we can evaluate this new landscape of systems by exploring classic networking papers and seeing what the design principles of yesterday's Internet have to say about the design decisions of today's infrastructure. Adelbert Chang Target Lead AI Engineer Websitetwitter.com/adelbertchang Adelbert Chang is an engineer at Target where he works on deployment infrastructure for the AI Engineering team. Previously he worked at U.C. Santa Barbara doing research in large-scale graph querying and modeling, and in industry on machine learning systems, rule engines, and developer tools. Recently he has been exploring the intersection of functional programming and system design. He is an active open source contributor, speaker, and writer for projects spanning the areas of functional programming, type systems, graph analysis, tooling, and infrastructure. He received his Computer Science degree through the College of Creative Studies at U.C. Santa Barbara in 2014.