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Six Decades of Software Engineering
Mary Poppendieck covers some of the early principles behind great software engineering that are as true today as they were a half century ago, and some mistakes made that do need to be repeated.
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Living without Pre-Production Environments
Nicky Wrightson talks about why Skyscanner has chosen to ditch non-production environments, how they do this, and explains when this approach doesn’t work.
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The More You Know: a Guide to Understanding Your Systems
Tyler Wells shares how Twilio developed a template that enables them to understand their systems better, identify critical metrics to watch, and how to use Chaos Engineering to verify it all.
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Let Devs Be Devs: Abstracting away Compliance and Reliability to Accelerate Modern Cloud Deployments
Rahul Arya shares how they built a platform to abstract away compliance, make reliability with Chaos Engineering completely self-serve, and enable developers to ship code faster.
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Can Chaos Coerce Clarity from Compounding Complexity? Certainly
Matt Simons attempts to catch some Black Swans in a system’s architecture and infrastructure, hidden in increased complexity.
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Identifying Hidden Dependencies
Liz Fong-Jones discusses some of the manual experiments they ran at Honeycomb, the bugs discovered in some automatic replacement tools, and what steps they took for continuously running experiments.
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InfoQ Live Roundtable: Observability Patterns for Distributed Systems
The panelists explore how a sound observability strategy can help mitigate operational costs and avoid common pitfalls in monitoring distributed systems.
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Chaos Engineering: the Path to Reliability
Kolton Andrus shares examples of what works, what doesn’t, and what the future holds in using Chaos Engineering to build reliability in a system.
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How Netflix Scales Its API with GraphQL Federation
Jennifer Shin and Stephen Spalding discuss Netflix’s API unification process using GraphQL Federation.
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Breaking Serverless Things on Purpose: Chaos Engineering in Stateless Environments
Emrah Şamdan discusses the challenges of building a highly resilient serverless app, designing for unpredictable problems, and planning for chaos experiments, using various observability solutions.
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Failing over without Falling over
Adrian Cockcroft shows how to use System Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA), as advocated by Professor Nancy Leveson’s team at MIT, to analyze failover hazards.
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InfoQ Live Roundtable: Microservices - Are They Still Worth It?
The panelists discuss the positive and negative impact of microservices: is there an alternative middle ground, have we learned how to deal with operational complexity?