Fault Tolerant Systems: A Chat

Making sure things keep working when some stuff breaks can be an important part of software engineering.

This is a pretty wide area of engineering in general I think, so to keep things manageable we'll just focus on cloud native and adjacent topics, like any of the following

(Apologies to all, Meetup doesn't seem to do nested lists...)

• High Availability
• Durability
• Decorrelation
• Single points of failure
• Fault isolation
• Zones, Regions, Global, Partitions (and per-cloud provider nuances)
• (Indent) Intersections with Individual Services
• (Indent) Inter-Service Dependencies
• Control planes vs data planes
• (Indent) "Static stability" (and its limitations)
• Disaster Recovery
• (Indent) Backups
• (Indent) Restores
• Sociotechnical resilience (e.g. incident response, runbooks, documentation, lottery factor, communication tools, coordination)
• Retries, Idempotency, and Re-entrancy
• Testing
• (Indent) Chaos Engineering
• (Indent) Fault Injection

As always if you need any accommodations (e.g. ASL interpretation) just reach out and I will do my best on them.