O'Reilly Tech Talk - Progressive Collapse: How To Avoid Cascading Failure with Sam Newman

​Join us at Zalando's headquarters for an evening of conversation, learning, and networking with fellow technology leaders.

​Small things going wrong can quickly snowball. The cascading failure is often a nightmare scenario for any system. An initial problem, which in isolation seems like such a minor problem, can kick off a chain reaction of ever-increasing failures, potentially leading to catastrophic results.

​When a failure of a single component results in the failure of other connected elements, this is known as a progressive collapse. In this talk, technologist and author Sam Newman looks at this phenomenon in more detail, and he'll examine how it has manifested in major disasters. Based on lessons learned from other industries, Sam will share three key techniques that can be used to mitigate against the progressive collapse occurring in your own system.

​This talk will help you understand how to architect your systems in such a way that small failures stay small.

​Tentative agenda:

​16:00-16:30 - Guest arrival, refreshments and networking

​16:30-17:30 - Sam Newman's presentation and Q&A

​17:30-18:30 - Networking, drinks and author signing

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