San Francisco: Dealing with Application Crashes

Application crashes — which could mean anything from a segfault to non-responsiveness — represent a type of event that many of us plan for as we design and develop our C++ applications. The approach and set of tools you take highly depends on your operating environment and on your software design. In this talk, I'll survey a set of real-world applications and the tools and approaches they use to deal with the unavoidable potential of application crashes.

Abel Mathew is the co-founder and CEO of Backtrace I/O (https://backtrace.io). Prior to Backtrace, Abel was a Head of Engineering at AppNexus, where he led a team of developers to improve ad optimization and reduce platform-wide costs. He spent multiple years as a developer and team lead on AppNexus' Adserver Team where he helped design and implement their low-latency advertising platform. Before AppNexus, Abel was a kernel module and tools developer at IBM and a server room monkey at AMD.

Backtrace is a sponsor (https://www.meetup.com/ACCU-Bay-Area/sponsors) of our meetup group! Thank them for the pizza you see from time to time.