Maggie Zhou is a senior engineer on the Infrastructure team at Slack, where she works on scalability and reliability around Slack’s databases. She previously wrote software at Etsy, Google, spent time at the Recurse Center, and co-founded / organized a NYC tech conference, !!Con. She’s passionate about performance and storage systems, and will happily listen to your debugging stories.
Strategies for reducing the fragility of your systems
Have you ever worked on a computer system that was so fragile it was frightening to make changes to? Maybe it was challenging to deploy, difficult to delete code, or changing one piece would cause surprising cascading failures.
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