Abstract
Even in the ethereal world of software, everything has a limit. And, once that limit is reached, very bad things can happen. In this talk, we will explore the problem of saturation: when a software system runs into one of these limits. We'll see a sampling of the many different kinds of system overload, how our systems are always potentially at risk of saturation no matter how well designed they are, and what we can do to prepare for the day when a system in our charge has been pushed beyond what it can normally handle.
Speaker
Lorin Hochstein
Staff Software Engineer @Airbnb, Writes @surfingcomplexity.blog, Previously @Netflix and Member of the Resilience in Software Foundation
Lorin Hochstein is Staff Software Engineer, Reliability at Airbnb. He was previously Senior Staff Software Engineer at Coupang, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, Senior Software Engineer at SendGrid Labs, Lead Architect for Cloud Services at Nimbis Services, Computer Scientist at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Lorin has a B.Eng. in Computer Engineering from McGill University, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Boston University, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
