Presentation: Understanding Progressive Collapse: How To Avoid A Cascading Failure
Sam Newman discusses the concept of progressive collapse in civil engineering and how it applies to distributed systems. Using real-world examples -…
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Podcast: Cloud and DevOps InfoQ Trends Report 2026: AI, Resilience, Platforms, FinOps, and Sovereignty
In this episode of the podcast, members of the InfoQ editorial staff and friends of InfoQ will discuss current trends in the cloud and DevOps domain…
Presentation: Compiling Workflows into Databases: The Architecture That Shouldn't Work (But Does)
Jeremy Edberg & Qian Li discuss why external orchestrators decrease reliability and how to use your existing database for durable execution. They sh…
Article: Removing a Hidden Round Trip from a Multi-Region AWS API
When a series of regional outages forced a rethink of a multi-region AWS API, the team discovered that an obstacle to global failover was hiding in…
Presentation: Enhancing Reliability Using Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix
The speakers discuss Netflix’s architecture for surviving extreme traffic spikes. They explain the mechanics of prioritized load shedding embedded i…
Coinbase Postmortem Reveals How a Localized AWS Failure Triggered a Multi-Hour Trading Outage
Coinbase has published a detailed postmortem of its May 7, 2026, outage, revealing how a localized cooling failure inside an AWS data center escalat…
How a Culture of Data-Driven Conversations Can Support Platform Engineering
To provide SRE as a service, a team built a center of excellence, introducing Federated SREs and roles like production manager and technical tribe l…
Presentation: How Netflix Shapes our Fleet for Efficiency and Reliability
The speakers explain the inherent tension between service efficiency and reliability at Netflix's global scale. They share a mental model for "risk-…