Reliability
The Freeze Paradox: Why Stopping Deployments Doesn't Stop Failures
Monday Nov 16 / 10:35AM PST
When systems fail at Netflix and in an environment this complex, they sometimes will, the instinctive response is to freeze deployments.
Prachi Jain
Senior Site Reliability Engineer @Netflix, Expert in Building and Managing Scalable, Reliable Services, Previously @Fastly and @Cisco
Sandhya Narayan
Technical Program Manager @Netflix, Expert in Information Security, Compliance, and Risk Management, Previously @Adobe, SAP, @eBay, and the Stanford Research Institute
Live Resharding Without Regret: Lessons from Building Valkey's Atomic Slot Migration
Monday Nov 16 / 10:35AM PST
Sharding is easy. Resharding under heavy load is notoriously difficult. How do you move gigabytes of state across live database nodes without dropping keys, blocking the main event loop, or breaking client abstractions?
Jacob Murphy
Open Source Maintainer @Valkey & Software Engineer @Google Cloud's Memorystore Team
Saturation: How Your Software Will Fail at Scale
Monday Nov 16 / 02:45PM PST
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.
Lorin Hochstein
Staff Software Engineer @Airbnb, Writes @surfingcomplexity.blog, Previously @Netflix and Member of the Resilience in Software Foundation