Track host
About the track
Learn how to design systems that expect failure, adapt to it, and continue operating under stress.
Sessions in this track
Monday 16 November. 6 sessions per track, chosen and introduced by the Track Host.
10:35 Seacliff ABC Session The Freeze Paradox: Why Stopping Deployments Doesn't Stop Failures Prachi Jain, Sandhya Narayan When systems fail at Netflix and in an environment this complex, they sometimes will, the instinctive response is to freeze deployments. 11:45 Seacliff ABC Session Saturation: How Your Software Will Fail at Scale Lorin Hochstein Staff Software Engineer @Airbnb, Writes @surfingcomplexity.blog, Previously @Netflix and Member of the Resilience in Software Foundation 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. 13:35 Seacliff D Unconference Unconference: Resilience Engineering 14:45 Seacliff ABC Session Adapt or Drift: Resilience Engineering When AI Moves the Operating Point Andrew Hatch Engineering Leader and SRE Manager @Cisco ThousandEyes, With 25+ Years Building Software, Operations, SRE, and Platform Teams Across Australia, India, and the United States Resilient systems do not stay resilient by standing still. They survive by adapting. But adaptation comes with risk: under sustained pressure, organizations and systems can slowly drift toward failure while still appearing to operate normally. 15:55 Seacliff ABC Session Engineering Boundaries for Outages You Can't Prevent Em Ruppe Technical Incident Commander @Chime, Previously @SendGrid and @Twilio, and Product and Training @Jeli.io Details coming soon. 17:05 Seacliff ABC Session Turning Unseen Micro-Failures into Systemic Safeguards Details coming soon.
Register
$2,835, Conference (3 days). Current pricing ends September 8th. All pass options.
76%
senior dev or higher
1:11
speaker ratio
60+
practitioners
QCon San Francisco 2026 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.