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Failure Comes in Flavors - Stability Anti-patterns

Presented by Michael Nygard on Sep 15, 2009

Community
Architecture,
Ruby
Topics
Fault Tolerance ,
Design Pattern
Tags
QCon ,
Failure ,
QCon London 2009 ,
Antipatterns
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Summary
Michael Nygard encourages us to have a failure oriented mindset in order to succeed. He presents many anti-pattern examples that lead to systems instability and ultimately lead to failure. He also presents the corresponding stability patterns that should be used instead.

Bio
Michael Nygard is a software architect with over 15 years of experience designing and writing applications for US Government, military, banking, finance and retail industries. He speaks frequently at conferences like QCon, No Fluff Just Stuff and JAOO and he is author of Release It! and co-author of Java Developer's Reference.

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Missing slides by Petr Sobotka Posted Sep 17, 2009 11:12 AM
Re: Missing slides by Petr Sobotka Posted Sep 17, 2009 11:14 AM
MP3 download by Matt Burton Posted Sep 22, 2009 10:59 AM
Must see presentation for any WWW application developer by Eduardo Pérez Ureta Posted Jan 28, 2010 4:45 PM
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    Missing slides

    Sep 17, 2009 11:12 AM by Petr Sobotka

    In aprox. 39th minute the slides disappear ...
    Petr

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    Re: Missing slides

    Sep 17, 2009 11:14 AM by Petr Sobotka

    Sorry, it seems it was a fault on mi side. It works ok.
    Petr

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    MP3 download

    Sep 22, 2009 10:59 AM by Matt Burton

    Will the audio recording of this be made available at some point?

    Thanks,
    Matt

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    Must see presentation for any WWW application developer

    Jan 28, 2010 4:45 PM by Eduardo Pérez Ureta

    Michael Nygard talks about very important things (like performance, security, scalability, best practices, ...) to keep in mind when designing WWW applications.

    Most of his books, like Release It!, are highly recommended.

    Reply

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