Thursday
Room 1
09:00 - 10:00
(UTC±00)
Talk (60 min)
Progressive Collapse
Often, when things go really wrong, it turns out that a small thing triggered a chain reaction, bringing down our systems and rendering them unusable. This is the progressive collapse - when a small initial problem ends up having an outsized impact.
In this talk, I'll explore the phenomenon of the progressive collapse. I'll explore how it manifests itself in the built environment, drawing on real world examples of structural failures in buildings. Then I'll explore examples of progressive collapse in our digital systems, and show how we can take the lessons from civil engineering and apply them to our own digital systems. As you'll see, there are a number of practical things you can take to stop a chain reaction.
Sam Newman
Sam Newman is an independent consultant who loves solving problems with technology. Focusing primarily in the areas of cloud, microservice architecture and continuous delivery, Sam works with companies big and small all over the world. He is also an experienced conference speaker, and author of the O’Reilly books Monolith To Microservices, Building Microservices, and the forthcoming Building Resilient Distributed Systems.