Failover Conf - First Conference Talk

On April 21, 2020, I gave my first conference talk as a software engineer! It was at Failover Conf, a virtual conference on building reliable software systems. Failover Conf was created and produced by Gremlin, who wanted to provide a virtual conference for people to present their talks at given the wave of conference cancelations due to COVID-19.

My talk was titled Improving a Distributed System Post-Incident and detailed my experience as a first time responder to a long running incident that occurred at DigitalOcean and shared some lessons that I learned from the incident. The video for my talk can be found here:

Improving a Distributed System Post-Incident

 
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