Staying Alive: Patterns for Failure Management From the Bottom of the Ocean




Technical diving involves working with systems that interact in complicated ways in a high pressure environment where failures are unavoidable but also highly dangerous. This talk uses the framework of technical SCUBA and rebreather diving to talk about patterns for failure management and how they can be applied in an engineering context. It examines the ways that complex systems fail and challenges our heroism-based model of success which ignores consistent, uneventful execution. It also looks into different approaches to risk management and why the typical model is not safe. You will walk away with an understanding of how complex systems fail and how to build resiliency to failure in your system and in your team.

Speaker

ronnie-chen

Ronnie Chen

 
Ronnie Chen is an engineering manager at Twitter. Previously, she was a data engineer at Slack and Braintree, and a backend engineer at PayPal. She is a deep sea technical diver and was also the sous ...