February 25, 2020

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The ultimate guide to complicated systems

The ultimate guide to complicated systems

Building and maintaining distributed systems is hard. Industry tools and recommended practices are evolving at an ever-increasing velocity. New platform choices reduce infrastructure management and add operational complexity obscuring the value of operation skills. Often, bureaucratic decisions drive practices and tool choices.
Talk Title The ultimate guide to complicated systems
Speakers Jennifer Davis (Microsoft)
Conference O’Reilly Velocity Conference
Conf Tag Build systems that drive business
Location Berlin, Germany
Date November 5-7, 2019
URL Talk Page
Slides Talk Slides
Video Talk Video

Building and maintaining distributed systems is hard. Industry tools and recommended practices are evolving at an ever-increasing velocity. New platform choices reduce infrastructure management and add operational complexity obscuring the value of operation skills. Often, bureaucratic decisions drive practices and tool choices. Jennifer Davis explores cultivating your path enabling technical and strategic direction with sustainable engineering practices.

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