Resilient Systems
Presentations
The Scientific Method for Testing System Resilience
Do you remember the Scientific Method from elementary school science class? It's time to dust off that knowledge and use it to your advantage to test your IT systems! In this session, you'll be re-introduced to the Scientific Method, and learn how Vanguard's software engineers and IT...
How to Test Your Fault Isolation Boundaries in the Cloud
Will my system keep working when a server fails? When a data center goes offline? When a service dependency is unavailable?Availability calculations for redundant components require that those components are independent and autonomous of each other. But modern day systems are complex, exhibiting...
Resilient Real-Time Data Streaming Across the Edge and Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid cloud architectures are the new black for most companies. A cloud-first strategy is evident for many new enterprise architectures, but some use cases require resiliency across edge sites and multiple cloud regions. Data streaming with the Apache Kafka ecosystem is a perfect technology for...
Practical Resilience - The Core Stuff
This panel will aim to explore, share ideas and provide pragmatic insight around some key areas related to designing, running and maintaining resilient architectures.
Interviews
The Scientific Method for Testing System Resilience
Christina, what is the focus of your work these days?
Right now, my primary focus is the staffing, onboarding and subsequent education of site reliability engineers for Vanguard. So I handle everything from what it means to be a site reliability engineer in the day-to-day, what tools and technologies they'll need to be familiar with and how to best get them up to speed. But also on...
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