Track: Chaos & Resilience
Failure isn’t a question of if, but when. Embracing a habit of introducing chaos on a regular basis strengthens systems. In this track we’ll hear from experts who have designed systems that became increasingly more resilient and reliable over time. Attendees will learn architectural patterns and approaches that didn’t and did work, with take-aways that can be applied to their own systems. Attendees will hear how chaos engineering, disaster recovery testing and other tools are being used to create incredibly resilient systems.
Tammy Butow is an Australian who relocated to the USA in 2014. She lives in San Francisco and is a Site Reliability Engineering Manager at Dropbox. Tammy leads the Databases & Magic Pocket SRE teams. She enjoys working on large scale infrastructure systems and enjoys chaos engineering, resiliency, automation, durability engineering, Go and Linux. Tammy previously worked in Security Engineering and Product Engineering. She likes to ride bikes, skateboard and snowboard. Tammy is the Co-Founder of Girl Geek Academy, a global movement to teach 1 million women technical skills by 2025.
by Leonid Movsesyan
Engineering Manager @Dropbox
In the modern world, tech companies build their products on extremely reliable servers that never break. They’re stacked in the racks with highly reliable switches with firmware that is rock solid and guaranteed to have no bugs. These switches talk to each other over super low latency networks that have close to zero packet loss rates. And this whole thing is located in the building with infinite and redundant power supply. Just kidding, it’ll all break.
Companies can buy the most...
by Bruce Wong
R&D Leadership at @Twilio
“I don’t always test my resilience, but when I do, it’s at 3 a.m.”
“I don’t always test my resilience, but when I do, it’s in Prod.”
“I don’t always test my resilience, but when I do, its an outage!”
These were the days… the days before Chaos Engineering. More and more practitioners are on their way to discovering the benefits of Chaos Engineering. What started as an odd, bold, and even scary practice has been embraced by many in the pursuit of more nines. This talk...
by John Mileham
VP Architecture @Betterment
Resilience in the face of chaos is a tall order. As a vertically integrated financial institution where rapidly delivered features with complete data consistency and scrupulous correctness are all non-negotiable, Betterment had its work cut out for it. So we moved the goalposts - inward. By eliminating complexity that many teams consider table stakes, we’ve built a distributed software ecosystem that empowers engineers to do their best work with a minimum of high-wire distributed systems...
by Jearvon Dharrie
Senior Software Engineer @Comcast
When talking about resiliency and Elixir, The Open Telecom Platform (OTP) is usually the main topic discussed. In this talk we will discuss other factors that contribute to Elixir's perfect match for fault tolerance and resiliency. Topics that will be discussed are, ease of deploying, operations and monitoring, typespecs, and the BEAM's forgiving nature.
by Nora Jones
Senior Chaos Engineer @Netflix
Chaos Engineering is described as "the discipline of experimenting on a distributed system in order to build confidence in the system's capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production". This is immensely beneficial when executed properly, however all too often the road to cultural acceptance may not match our expectations as SREs, Chaos Engineers, and Productivity engineers.
Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of children's gamebooks where each story is written from a...
Tracks
Monday, 26 June
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Microservices: Patterns & Practices
Practical experiences and lessons with Microservices.
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Java - Propelling the Ecosystem Forward
Lessons from Java 8, prepping for Java 9, and looking ahead at Java 10. Innovators in Java.
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High Velocity Dev Teams
Working Smarter as a team. Improving value delivery of engineers. Lean and Agile principles.
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Modern Browser-Based Apps
Reactive, cross platform, progressive - webapp tech today.
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Innovations in Fintech
Technology, tools and techniques supporting modern financial services.
Tuesday, 27 June
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Case studies from the most relevant names in software.
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Developer Experience: Level up Your Engineering Effectiveness
Trends, tools and projects that we're using to maximally empower your developers.
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Chaos & Resilience
Failures, edge cases and how we're embracing them.
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Stream Processing at Large
Rapidly moving data at scale.
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Building Security Infrastructure
How our industry is being attacked and what you can do about it.
Wednesday, 28 June
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Next Gen APIs: Designs, Protocols, and Evolution
Practical deep-dives into public and internal API design, tooling and techniques for evolving them, and binary and graph-based protocols.
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Immutable Infrastructures: Orchestration, Serverless, and More
What's next in infrastructure. How cloud function like lambda are making their way into production.
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Machine Learning 2.0
Machine Learning 2.0, Deep Learning & Deep Learning Datasets.
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Modern CS in the Real World
Applied, practical, & real-world dive into industry adoption of modern CS.
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Optimizing Yourself
Maximizing your impact as an engineer, as a leader, and as a person.
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Ask Me Anything (AMA)