Distributed systems: What can go wrong will go wrong

Forget Conway’s law. In distributed systems, Murphy’s law rules: Everything that can go wrong will go wrong. Anne Currie discusses common failure modes, how to approach diagnosing highly complex issues, and what we can learn from detectives like Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Miss Marple.

Talk objectives:

• Explore failure modes in distributed systems and some approaches to diagnose them in your systems.