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Loom’s nightmare AWS outage and how it could have been prevented

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Loom’s nightmare AWS outage and how it could have been prevented

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Join our webinar to uncover the mystery behind Loom's recent outage! We'll break down the complex factors that led to this unforeseeable event and share research findings on tackling unknowns that could be used when building a platform.

Learn from Dylan Ratcliffe as he explains what went wrong, why it happened, and how you can avoid such headaches with new and effective tools.

In this webinar, participants will gain insights into:

  • The intricate complexities behind the unexpected Loom outage.
  • Research findings on why unknown factors often lead to problems.
  • Practical methods from the same research to prevent outages when building platforms.

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.
A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.

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Speaker:
Dylan Ratcliffe
Founder & CEO at Overmind
Dylan is the Founder & CEO of Overmind, a company that automates pre-mortem checks to ensure your cloud changes don’t cause outages like Loom’s did. He has a background in DevOps and was a Professional Services engineer at Puppet before starting Overmind

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