Jessie Frazelle on A Tale of Two Papers [PWL SF] 08/2019

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Kevin Burke on Baumol’s Cost Disease - On The Performing Arts: The Anatomy of their Economic Problems - http://people.stern.nyu.edu/wbaumol/OnThePerformingArtsTheAnatomyOfTheirEcoProbs.pdf

Kevin's Bio
Kevin Burke (https://twitter.com/derivativeburke) ( https://burke.services ) likes building great experiences. He helped scale Twilio and Shyp, and currently runs a software consultancy. Kevin once accidentally left Waiting for Godot at the intermission.

(Editor's note: we lost a minute or so of video at the start of Kevin's talk due to an issue with the AV system. Sorry Kevin!)

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Main Talk
Jessie Frazelle on A Tale of Two Papers

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Come dive into two papers covering datacenter outages: "Maelstrom: Mitigating Datacenter-level Disasters by Draining Interdependent Traffic Safely and Efficiently" and "What bugs cause production cloud incidents?" You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll leave with the knowledge of knowing that we are all still just one bug away from disaster at any point in time.

* https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~shanlu/paper/hotos19_azure.pdf
* https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi18/presentation/veeraraghavan

Jessie's Bio
Jessie Frazelle, long time bug lover, gets a joy from debugging under pressure. Currently independent consultant. She couldn't decide on one paper so she picked two