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Presentation: "Building Resilience: How Outages Shaped Etsy's Systems"

Track: Stayin' Alive - Tales of Resilience, Fault Tolerance & Recovery / Time: Wednesday 16:50 - 17:40 / Location: Whittle Room

Etsy, like many companies, has had to deal with its share of outages and near-misses over the years. Each of these events has contributed to the evolution of our systems and infrastructure, through a process of "no-blame postmortems". Avleen digs into Etsy's postmortem database, presenting some of the most unexpected, confusing, hilarious and face-palming events, to show how we can all learn from our problems to build more resilient systems.

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Avleen Vig, Staff Operations Engineer at Etsy

Avleen Vig

Biography: Avleen Vig

Avleen is a Staff Operations Engineer at Etsy, where he spends much of his time growing the infrastructure for selling knitted gloves and cross-stitch periodic tables. Before joining Etsy he worked at several large tech companies, including EarthLink and Google, as well as a number of small successful startups.

Twitter: @avleen