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Mark McGranaghan, TweetPlatform engineering lead, Heroku
Biography: Mark McGranaghan
Mark is an engineer at Heroku, where he leads the teams responsible for the cloud platform's core distributed infrastructure. His interests include technical design, cloud services, and engineering culture. He graduated from Bowdoin College with an A.B. in Mathematics and Computer Science.Presentation: TweetHigh Availability at Heroku
This presentation discusses high availability at Heroku, incorporating specific examples from our experience designing, developing, and operating highly available cloud services at scale. We emphasize that high availability must be approached comprehensively across a technical organization, and highlight several patterns that we've found critical to our systems work at Heroku.