Schedule: Building Resilient Systems sessions

Join Heidi Waterhouse to learn about how it's easy to miss several important parts of the calculation when you make a build versus buy calculation, including maintenance, updating, security, availability, and finding operators. Read more.

Even software, written in high-level cross-platform language with no assembly can fail multiple ways when ported to a different CPU architecture. Ignat Korchagin examines the issues Cloudflare encountered when porting its software stack to ARM64. Read more.

Sweden's Television manages online products that range from providing news to TV series and are used by millions of people. To make sure that it creates content that engages, entertains, and educates, it started its own platform for collecting and analyzing user data. Ismail Elouafiq highlights the architectural choices the company made and the lessons it learned in building its data ecosystem. Read more.

Config changes cause more outages than code changes. Jamie Wilkinson introduces you to the UTM theorem, which shows that your application is a terrible software interpreter, and you should apply the same risk mitigation as for code deployment. This is harder with config languages; an application isn't a full interpreter. You can address this risk with progressive rollouts and config minimization. Read more.

Jenn Strater walks you through the best practices she's learned since transitioning from a software engineer at various product companies to working for a company that focuses on build automation. Read more.