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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Sam Newman discusses the concept of progressive collapse in civil engineering and how it applies to distributed systems. Using real-world examples -…
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…
Jeremy Edberg & Qian Li discuss why external orchestrators decrease reliability and how to use your existing database for durable execution. They sh…
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…
The speakers discuss Netflix’s architecture for surviving extreme traffic spikes. They explain the mechanics of prioritized load shedding embedded i…
Coinbase has published a detailed postmortem of its May 7, 2026, outage, revealing how a localized cooling failure inside an AWS data center escalat…
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…
The speakers explain the inherent tension between service efficiency and reliability at Netflix's global scale. They share a mental model for "risk-…