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Failure Comes in Flavors - Stability Anti-patterns

Presented by Michael Nygard on Sep 15, 2009 Length 01:00:03
Sections
Development,
Architecture & Design
Topics
Design Pattern ,
Fault Tolerance ,
Ruby ,
Architecture
Tags
Failure ,
Antipatterns ,
QCon ,
QCon London 2009
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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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    In aprox. 39th minute the slides disappear ...
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    by Matt Burton

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

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    Must see presentation for any WWW application developer

    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.

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