March 2020 Summaries

Failover Conf, set for April 21, has announced its speaker lineup, featuring talks from engineers and events worldwide, with a focus on reliability and resiliency in application development and team processes. The event, which received over 100 submissions and has over 2,000 registered participants, aims to present a comprehensive and diverse array of talks, prioritizing contributions from impacted events. Notable speakers include Tammy Butow from Gremlin, who will discuss failure and reliability, Jennifer Petoff from Google on SRE practices, and Matt Stratton from Red Hat on reducing organizational trauma. The conference will also cover topics such as Service Level Objectives, serverless applications, and distributed systems reliability, featuring speakers like Jeremy Daly and Julius Zerwick. The event promises to provide valuable technical insights and thought leadership, with a full speaker lineup available at failoverconf.io.

Failover Conf is an online conference dedicated to building resilient systems, scheduled for April 21, with session proposals accepted until March 23. The event emerged as a response to the unexpected cancellations and postponements of in-person gatherings due to unforeseen circumstances, embodying the principle of resilience by providing an alternative platform for knowledge sharing. The conference will feature 30-minute sessions and invites speakers from canceled or postponed events to discuss topics such as multi-cloud failover strategies, circuit breaker patterns, and chaos engineering principles. Gremlin, the conference organizer, offers a free 30-day trial of its automated reliability platform to help users identify and mitigate availability risks.