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Architecting for Failure
If you're not architecting for failure you're heading for failure
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Best Practices Building Resilient Systems
Architecting for Failure covers the challenges (both technical and organizational) of constantly improving service delivery of a growing global company with a 24x7x365 service redundancy requirement. The talk focuses on best practices and lessons learned in building resilient systems. Topics...
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Pablo Jensen
CTO @Sportradar
Architecting the Blockchain for Failure
In this talk I’ll be discussing some of the different approaches taken in the Ethereum blockchain for handling failure. We’ll cover the public Ethereum blockchain and the steps taken to ensure a robust execution environment for this massively decentralised computer. We’ll...
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Conor Svensson
Founder of blk.io, author of web3j
Chaos Engineering: Why the World Needs More Resilient Systems
There are those of us that are motivated to build resilient systems, improve uptime, move fast and keep systems reliable. Then there are those of us who feel overwhelmed by our to-do lists and the features or projects we feel we need to get out the door. The world needs more resilient systems...
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Tammy Butow
Principal Site Reliability Engineer @Gremlin
How Events Are Reshaping Modern Systems
Event-driven architecture and design have been getting a lot of attention in recent years. It’s an old concept that has been around for decades, so why this sudden peak of interest? In this talk, we will explore the nature of events, what it means to be event-driven, and how we can unleash the...
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Jonas Bonér
Founder & CTO @Lightbend / Creator of Akka
Pragmatic Resiliency: Super 6 & Sky Bet Evolution
Sky Sports Super 6 is a free football results prediction game, launched in 2008. It’s extremely popular with over a million entries per week and drives a substantial proportion of our traffic at peak time, putting heavy load on our login/single sign on systems. This talk will focus on the...
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Michael Maibaum
Chief Architect @SkyBet
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Pablo Jensen
CTO @Sportradar
Pablo Jensen is CTO at Sportradar and comes from a background of consultancy, web publishing technology and IT management. His other experiences ranges across diverse technical fields in Thomson Reuters and Technical Advisor for EQT. Sportradar is a global provider of live sports data, game...
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Conor Svensson
Founder of blk.io, author of web3j
Conor is the author of web3j, the Java library for working with the Ethereum blockchain. He's the founder of blk.io who provide the foundations for organisations to build on, and work with blockchain technology. He also very involved in the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, where he’s...
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Tammy Butow
Principal Site Reliability Engineer @Gremlin
Tammy Butow is a Principal SRE at Gremlin where she works on Chaos Engineering, the facilitation of controlled experiments to identify systemic weaknesses. Gremlin helps engineers build resilient systems using their control plane and API. Tammy previously led SRE teams at Dropbox responsible for...
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Jonas Bonér
Founder & CTO @Lightbend / Creator of Akka
Jonas Bonér is Founder and CTO of Lightbend, inventor of the Akka project, initiator and co-author of the Reactive Manifesto, and a Java Champion. Learn more at http://jonasboner.com.
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Michael Maibaum
Chief Architect @SkyBet
Michael Maibaum is chief architect at Sky Betting & Gaming. Michael started out as a geneticist and molecular biologist, moving from wet-lab experiments to bioinformatics, then manufacturing systems, and telecoms in various engineering and architecture roles. He is interested in...
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Peter Morgan
Chief Scientific Officer @Superbet
Peter works as Chief Scientific Officer of Superbet, a leading group of companies that operates and manages the largest chain of sports betting shops in Romania. Since its inception in 2008, Superbet brand has provided premium sports betting services for its customers in a fun, friendly and safe...
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