Resilience Engineering: Everything Fails All the Time

Learn how to design systems that expect failure, adapt to it, and continue operating under stress.

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Saturation: How Your Software Will Fail at Scale

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.

Speaker image - Lorin Hochstein

Lorin Hochstein

Staff Software Engineer @Airbnb, Writes @surfingcomplexity.blog, Previously @Netflix and Member of the Resilience in Software Foundation

Session

Adapt or Drift: Resilience Engineering When AI Moves the Operating Point

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.

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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

Date

Monday Nov 16 / 10:35AM PST

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Track Host

Vanessa Huerta Granda

Resilience Engineering Manager @Enova, Co-Author of the Howie Guide on Post Incident Analysis, Board Member for the Resilience in Software Foundation

Vanessa is an Engineering Manager at Enova leading the Resilience Engineering team focusing on  their Production Incident process, learning from incidents, and leading the on-call rotation of Incident Commanders. She previously worked as a Solutions Engineer at Jeli helping companies make the most of their incidents. In 2021 she co-authored Howie: The Post-Incident Guide, an in-depth explanation for how tech organizations can learn from incidents. 

She has led the Chicago Women in Technology Conference and is an admin of the Learning From Incidents community. She is passionate about continuous improvement, getting teams to talk to each other, and Diversity and Inclusion in Tech.

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